Opinion
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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.Extreme Heat Puts Children At Health Risk In India
By Raju Kumar The impact of natural disasters, climate crises and environmental changes is never experienced equally across society. Children, women and economically vulnerable communities often bear the greatest burden of such crises. For children, rising temperatures are not merely a matter of seasonal discomfort; they directly affect their...
The Ankara Summit Of NATO Exposes Ugly Truths About Western Alliance
By Ben Chacko LONDON: NATO leaders abasing themselves before Donald Trump in Ankara undermine claims that the military spending splurge makes us more independent of Washington. The alliance’s slavish secretary-general Mark Rutte raced today to endorse further US violence that could reignite all-out war with Iran, claiming overnight air...
Modi Govt’s Overcautious Oil Market Reading Hurting Retail Fuel Customers
By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government’s position on fuel prices now looks less like prudent caution and more like an overly defensive reading of a market that has already absorbed much of the Iran-US risk. The more calibrated question, therefore, is not whether New Delhi is right to...
Modi-Shah Are Betting Big On Delimitation Bill To Hijack Parliament
By Arun Srivastava North India’s demographic size and Hindi-Hindu majority have long helped propel RSS’s ideological mission and the electoral dominance of the BJP since 2014, such as unifying the Hindu majority and advancing a unified cultural identity of “Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan”. While the RSS aims to deform the secular and...
School Attendance Problem Has Far Reaching Consequences
By Dr. Gyan Pathak School attendance problems (SAP) are no longer a marginal issue. They have become a challenge affecting classrooms in nearly every country. The problem has far reaching consequences – both on individuals and society, but has never been properly addressed. The just released OECD report titled...
Despite Their Neglect, Kurds Remain A Strategic Ally Of United States
By Manish Rai During the recently partially concluded US-Iran war, Iran and its proxies in Iraq have conducted over 850 missile and drone attacks in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Iran launched thousands of projectiles at Israel and the Gulf states, which received wider international attention. However, the attacks...
Former India Cricket Team Captain Sourav Ganguly Turns 54 On July 8 In Great Style
By T N Ashok Few captains have altered the course of Indian cricket as dramatically as Sourav Ganguly. If Kapil Dev gave India belief by lifting the 1983 World Cup, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni transformed belief into global dominance, it was Ganguly who built the bridge between the two...
N. Kavitha Rameshwar’s Book Shows How A Resurrected Constitutional Safeguard Shaped India
By Shobhit Arora Before The Draft Constitution of 1948 provided that no person could be deprived of their life or personal liberty “except according to procedure established by law,” the interim report of the Advisory Committee on Minorities and Fundamental Rights (1947) stated that “No person shall be deprived...
It Is Now Official: U.S. Will Do Everything To Curb India’s Economic Growth
By Satyaki Chakraborty Amidst Trump-Modi bonhomie and the continuation of India-US trade talks, former Indian intelligence chief Vikram Sood said on Sunday in an interview to a British network that the present U.S. deputy secretary of state Christopher Landau told Indian officials during his visit to India in March...
Systematic Theft Of Donations At Ram Temple By RSS-BJP Men Is Established Fact
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The investigation so far, as on July 7, 2026, into the systematic theft worth rupees tens of millions of donations at Ram Temple of Ayodhya has clearly shown that it was the work of no-other than the people of RSS-BJP, and therefore, it has political...
VBG RAM G Act A Threat To Right To Rural Employment In The Country
By Dr. B.K. Kango On 23 June 2026, the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the BKMU jointly organised nationwide demonstrations in all districts of the country against the abolition of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The objective of these demonstrations was not merely to...
The Film They Couldn’t Bury: How Satluj Reopened Punjab’s Deepest Wounds
By T N Ashok A film delayed for years. A censor battle unlike any other. An OTT release that lasted barely two days. And a story that refuses to disappear. By the time Satluj briefly appeared on ZEE5 this week, it had already become one of the most talked-about...
Trump’s Diatribes Against Communists In His Independence Day Speech Shows His Nervousness
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: A spectre is haunting Donald Trump—the spectre of communism. Over back-to-back holiday weekend speeches marking the country’s 250th anniversary, the president delivered what amounted to a two-part anti-communist sermon, casting Karl Marx, the Communist Party USA, and the country’s fast-growing democratic socialist movement as...
Dalits, Adivasis, And Bengali Muslims Are Vulnerable To Arrest By Indian State
By Ananya Gunjan On June 25, 2026, the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (‘HRMI’) released its data tracking the human rights performance of 212 countries across the world with nearly 141 countries furnishing the requisite data either completely or partially. The countries were scored on three categories of Human Rights...
MS Dhoni At 45: The Ticket Collector Who Became India’s Captain Cool
By T N Ashok There are sporting legends, and then there are sporting phenomena. At 45, Mahendra Singh Dhoni belongs firmly in the second category. Time has dimmed neither his aura nor his popularity. Every time he walks onto a cricket field wearing the unmistakable yellow of the Chennai...
FIFA World Cup Reaches Over 100 Million Viewers In India
By Nantoo Banerjee Despite never qualifying for the FIFA (Federations of International Football Associations) World Cup, India has emerged as one of the largest global markets for the current tournament being co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with matches played across 16 official host cities. In the...
India Remains In Lower Middle Income Group Since 2007, GNI Per Capita Is $2760
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The latest data updated by the World Bank shows that India did not improve in income classification since 2007, and remains in lower middle income group. In 2025, according to the data, India’s GNI per capita was $2760. In 2007, India’s income classification was upgraded...
Mamata Seeks To Reinvent Her TMC Through July 21 Rally In Kolkata
By Arun Srivastava Exactly a year ago of the 2026 Bengal assembly elections, in 2025, a section of the national media had written off Mamata Banerjee and had even predicted that she would be addressing the last Martyrs’ Day rally on July 21, that year, before the polls. They...
