Opinion
Appeal
The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Big Brother Will Be Watching Officials Even After Retirement
By Amulya Ganguli Yet another example of the Narendra Modi government’s paranoia is the latest amendment of the Central Services (Pensions) Rules which bar all retired officials in intelligence and security services from penning their memoirs. The gag order is unusual in a democracy and can be said to...
Centre Must Give Special Assistance To Jharkhand
By Gyan Pathak Despite improvement in human and economic development, Jharkhand is yet to overcome its legacy of numerous problems even after 20 years of its becoming a state. It is a matter of serious concern that the state is the worst in hunger and the second worst in...
Uddhav Thackeray Will Remain Chief Minister For Full Five Years
By Sushil Kutty Uddhav Thackeray, Chief Minister for 5 years, says Shiv Sena gadfly and Thackeray confidante Sanjay Raut, speaking for Uddhav Thackeray, and possibly for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who, iterates Raut, has a “political message” for the state BJP Opposition but also to the constituents of the...
Narendra Modi and RSS Face A Difficult Choice Between USA And China
By Arun Srivastava Currently a question is making rounds in the global political system; which block India would join? Whether it would be Chinese world order or align with the new order which the US president Joe Biden is trying to evolve. Paradoxically while China is seen moving closer...
Only Solid Left Unity Can Stop France’s Rightward Drift In 2022 Poll
By Cole Stangler The first thing to understand about 2022 Presidential elections in France is that it probably won’t go as expected. The last two contests have made a mockery of pundits: around this time in 2016, center-right former PM Alain Juppé of Les Républicains (LR) was the odds-on...
Dynasty Fever Grips Trinamool Congress In West Bengal After Assembly Poll
By Harihar Swarup With the appointment of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, as Trinamool Congress’s all-India general secretary, yet another regional party in India has formally taken the dynastic route to political leadership. Mr Banerjee, a Member of Parliament, has been the de facto number...
Turmoil Shows Why Modi Was Pushing One-Nation, One-Poll Idea
By K Raveendran Multi-dimensional pressure points that have forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi to change his ways half way through his second tenure shows exactly why he has been promoting the one-nation, one-election idea. Simultaneous elections to parliament and state assemblies would have given him peace of mind in...
Jitin Prasada’s Defection To BJP Will Be No Gain To Saffrons In Uttar Pradesh
By Arun Srivastava We usually come to listen to one simple refrain that Congress is gradually getting deviated from its ideology and it needs a major reform keeping conformity to the changing times. The leaders deserting the party often come out with the allegation that they have not been...
Prashant Kishor Has Begun His 2024 Round With Meeting Sharad Pawar
By Sushil Kutty This most chaotic of democracies deserves kudos for the mobility of politicians – for the ‘aya ram’, and the ‘gaya ram’ joining this party and deserting that party. At the national level this has opened avenues for the likes of Prashant Kishor to think of stitching...
Himanta Biswa Sharma Government Fights The Covid Battle Effectively
By Sagarneel Sinha During the times of the pandemic, the topmost priority of the governments has been to tackle the covid-19 virus. The same applies to the new Assam government led by Himanta Biswa Sharma formed a month ago. Although the BJP returned to power, the chief minister Sarbananda...
Bail Not Jail Is The Norm In Indian Statutes
By Pratyush Nigam and Sri Hari Mangalam Justice Krishna Iyer, in a landmark judgement, State of Rajasthan vs Balchand, 1977 laid down one of the basic rules of legal proceedings, i.e., to provide bail and avoid jail time for the accused. The judgement has laid the foundation for a...
Peru Is Facing A Tough Time After The Presidential Elections
By Denis Rogatyuk Pedro Castillo, a rural teacher and union leader, has won the Peruvian elections with 50.179 per cent and a margin of approximately 60,000 votes (0.4 per cent). Keiko Fujimori, the candidate of the far-right and the daughter of ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori, has cried fraud and commenced...
RSS Is Playing Game In Narendra Modi-Yogi Adityanath Tussle
By Arun Srivastava Two autocrats cannot survive on the same political plane and the RSS was using the political contradictions between the two Hindutva icon of the country is playing to consolidate its own grip on the ideological frame work which was threatened by their personality contradictions, by...
Buddhadeb Dasgupta Was A Visual Poet In Celluloid
By Nitya Chakraborty Buddhadeb Dasgupta, one of the most talented film makers of Bengal who stirred the international film festivals year after year with his films of ‘other kind’ passed away in his South Kolkata flat on June 10 morning during sleep. He was 77, ailing for the...
Critics Of Government Deserve Protection, Not Punishment
By Krishna Jha The charge of sedition, 124 A of the IPC, that has been authorized to punish up to life long incarceration, has been called the Queen of the entire Indian Penal Code. The punishment it envisages is extremely brutal and symbolizes not power, but insecurity. The...
Nuclear Nations Must Bring Down Spending On Armaments To Fight Pandemic
By Dr Arun Mitra A recent report published by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) titled Complicit: 2020 GLOBAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS SPENDING has brought forwards startling facts on the total insensitivity of the governments and the nuclear weapons industry during the Pandemic which has already cost...
Early June Data Shows Unemployment To Rise Further
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unemployment continues rising. The 30-day moving average unemployment rate rose to 13 percent on June 6, 2021 from 11.9 per cent in May as per the CMIE data, indicating worsening of the situation further. Not only that, the labour participation rate fell further to...
Faction Fighting Intensifies In Madhya Pradesh BJP
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Strange and unexpected developments in the ruling BJP have given rise to various speculation including the possibility of change in the leadership of the Madhya Pradesh government. In order to refute such rumours Home Minister and government designated spokesman Dr. Narottam Mishra issued...
