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.Centre And State Governments To Blame For Second Covid Wave
By Sagarneel Sinha The second wave of the Covid-19 virus in the country has been very painful. The disturbing pictures of people grappling for oxygen and the darkness of the nights being lit by hundreds of funeral pyres in the over-crowded crematories — also resulting in dumping of bodies...
Man Who Symbolised India’s Conservation Movement
By Harihar Swarup In early 1994, the U.P. government announced the auctioning of 2,500 trees overlooking the Alakhnanda river in the upper reaches of what is now Uttarakhand. Lumberjacks arrived in Raini village to cut trees. A local girl saw them and informed the villagers. Women in large group...
The Single-Most Hated Figure In Lakshadweep
By Sushil Kutty Lakshadweep hates two men, and both happen to be Gujarati. Make that three men – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and third, the most hated of them all, Lakshadweep administrator Praful Khoda Patel, whose one single thought every morning he wakes up, they...
Supreme Court Directive To CBI In Bengal Arrests Case Significant
By Indira Jaising The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with the order of the Calcutta High Court placing four All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders Madan Mitra, Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee and Sovan Chatterjee, accused in the Narada sting case, under house arrest with liberty to continue...
A Legislative Council For Mamata’s West Bengal
By Kalyani Shankar Even as the post-poll violence and vendetta politics continue in West Bengal, one more flashpoint has emerged between the Centre and the state with chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet deciding to revive the Legislative Council last week. Revival of the second chamber is one of Mamata’s...
A Cry That Was Not
By Dr. Arun Mitra The catastrophic damage caused by the COVID pandemic has put every person on physical and mental strain. Several families have lost their members. Losing kith and kin leads to the biggest stress on one’s mind. No person unless totally emotionless can avoid crying with sorrow...
The Wages Of The Doldrums Of The Day
By Sushil Kutty Did you know that most Covid-19 deaths take place in the hours between midnight and dawn, extending up to when a new workday begins with a change of doctors and nurses and other hospital staff? Late in the night hospitals and patients are left to the...
UP Civic Poll Loss Jolts BJP To Start Damage Control
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP is busy with damage control following the drubbing it received in the recently held panchayat polls. There have several meetings of the party’s central leadership with the state leaders to chalk out a strategy to improve the image of the party and the government...
Bangladesh Left Bloc Demands Withdrawal Of Case Against Journalist
By Sankar Ray Bam Ganatantrik Jote (Left Democratic) front comprising Bangladesh Samajtontri Dal, Communist Party of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Samajtontri Dal Marxvadi, United Communist League of Bangladesh, Samajtontri Andolan and Ganatantric Biplabi Dal in a joint statement demanded that the criminal case against the leading Bengali morninger Prothom Alo senior...
Many Diamond Workers Die Of Covid-19 In Surat
By Damayantee Dhar Mitesh Prajapati, a 30-year-old diamond polishing worker in Surat, Gujarat, was the sole earner of his family of four. Post lockdown last year, like many workers in the diamond industry, he could not manage to get a job. For seven months, Prajapati had no job, which...
Arabs And Jews In Israel Unite Against Netanyahu And Occupation
By Karl Engels After an 11-day war that killed more than 240 Palestinians and 12 Israelis, a fragile ceasefire between the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Islamist Hamas militants that rule Gaza took hold early Friday morning. Activists inside Israel—Jewish and Arab alike—hailed the...
Government Is Fast Losing Grip On Economy, Public Health
By Nantoo Banerjee The Union government may disagree but it is not in control of either the economy or the nation’s health. The government is increasingly facing the wrath of the public, opposition parties, NGOs and a large section of the media over its failure to manage the situation....
Opposition Parties Have To Work On Most Viable Strategy To Defeat Modi In 2024 Poll
By Nitya Chakraborty In a vibrant parliamentary democracy like India, the political mood changes very fast and that is what the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is experiencing now after his seven years of undisputed stewardship. The latest survey done by the opinion agency C-Voter shows that the acceptability of...
For Narendra Modi, It’s Back To 2002
By Amulya Ganguli The wheel has turned full circle for Narendra Modi. Just as he was persona non grata in several Western countries, including the US, in the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat riots, he is again facing censure in Europe and America, mainly from the media if not...
Migrant Workers’ Leaving Delhi Is Proof Of Centre’s Failure
By Gyan Pathak India completes 14 months of the first lockdown, announced on March 24, 2020, that had created unprecedented chaos among the migrant workers, millions of them leaving their working places on foot in the absence of any means of transportation, without food to eat, without water to...
Arrest Of Bengal Ministers Has National Implication
By Arun Srivastava Malayalam news channel Asianet has come under Right-wing attacks for ignoring the Bengal post poll violence. The phone call was one of the many similar calls made to media offices in other states. The BJP and Sangh parivar have launched a nationwide campaign to malign and...
Surgical Strike By Congress High Command
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a bold surgical strike from the Congress High Command. It came a bit late in the day. An earlier execution could, perhaps, have prevented the Congress in Kerala from facing a humiliating electoral defeat. But as the saying goes, better late than never....
Stupid Science Rebuke To Baba Ramdev
By Sushil Kutty Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who called ‘allopathy’ “stupid science” and held allopathic practice/medicine responsible for the deaths of thousands of Indians, got a taste of his own medicine the other day! This man, who does belly-squirms every time he’s invited to demonstrate Yoga on TV, got...
