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.SC Verdict In Maratha Quota Case Is A Timely Wake-Up Call
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court verdict in the keenly-awaited Maratha reservation case is a setback to the unscrupulous plans of political parties to use reservation as a tool for vote bank politics rather than as an instrument to help disadvantaged sections of the society catch up with social...
India Must Widen Food Support Programme
By Gyan Pathak The second wave of Covid-19 has been pushing millions more in India into destitution and extreme poverty. Many families are losing their earning members to the pandemic, many survived alone and have nothing left with them even to feed themselves, and many lost their jobs. We,...
The Politics Behind Portraying Mamata As Guilty
By Arun Srivastava In the evening of May 2, the moment the Election Commission refused to accede to Mamata Banerjee’s request to recount the votes, it became clear that the BJP was ready with its strategy to humiliate Mamata, destabilise her government once she is sworn in as the...
Chronicler Of Dalit Struggle Wins Saraswati Samman
By Harihar Swarup Marathi novelist, poet, critic and short story writer Sharankumar Limbale was selected for the 2020 Saraswati Samman, a prestigious literary recognition conferred annually by the KK Birla Foundation. The 30th edition of the prize, the highest recognition in the field of Indian literature in the country,...
Modi’s Faith In Youth Power Turns Out To Be An Empty Slogan
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at his eloquent best when he talks about the ‘youth power’ of India and how the future is safe and secure in their hands. “The more emphasis we put on India’s youth power and the more opportunities we will give them,...
Asia Runs The Risk Of Financial Turmoil
By Gyan Pathak Asia is now running the risk of a financial turmoil. The hopes of its recovery have been dashed by the second wave of Covid-19 in India. It has even endangered the global economic recovery. The drop in employment for the region has been projected nearly 70...
Mamata’s Determined Venture Into National Politics
By Arun Srivastava Just 48 hours ahead of her being formally sworn in as the chief minister, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee moved one step forward to stake her say in the national politics. For the experts and the political establishment, who till May 1 were sure of Mamata losing...
What’s Troubling Adar Poonawala, Will The Modi Govt Come Clean?
By Sushil Kutty Adar Poonawala is the ‘King of Vaccines’. And in today’s Covid-19 world, he’s bigger than Jeff Bezos and Mukesh Ambani. Poonawala runs the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest producer of vaccines with a production facility in Pune. Now, on the turn of a coin,...
Asol Poriborton Can Wait In West Bengal
By Nantoo Banerjee The most important lesson from the results of the latest West Bengal Assembly election is that the state is not prepared to accept religion-led politics. The state would rather suffer inadequate economic development, lack of industry, large unemployment and extortion than surrender to a political rule...
The Polls-2021 : Mamata Overtakes Modi, Kerala Left Holds
By S.Sethuraman A spectacular victory for Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal must have come as a crushing defeat for the nationally majoritarian BJP, given its targeted capture of this eastern behemoth, in its planned march to “One Nation”. Now, leading TMC for its consecutive third term...
BJP’s Summer Of Discontent
By Amulya Ganguli It’s been a bad week for the BJP and personally for the prime minister. Not only has Narendra Modi been roundly excoriated by the Western media for the Covid crisis in India for failing to first assess and then tackle the situation, his party has faced...
BJP Decimated By Wrong Priorities Of Modi-Shah
By Arun Srivastava While Prime Minister Narendra Modi forfeited his national stature to Mamata Banerjee, the constitutional body, Election Commission of India, smeared its own image by denying to furnish the victory certificate to Mamata from Nandigram. Both these entities have the right to vehemently deny that this observation...
Pinarayi Fashions Historic LDF Victory
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s finest hour. A veritable Left tsunami saw the opposition – the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the BJP-headed National Democratic Alliance (NDA) – being blown off the electoral landscape. The remarkable victory in the teeth of adversity and...
Madhya Pradesh By-Election Result A Warning To BJP
By L.S Herdenia BHOPAL: While the people of Madhya Pradesh are starving for medical oxygen, voters of Damoh provided much-needed oxygen to the Congress by electing its nominee with the margin of more than 17,000 votes. Observers feel that it was not an ordinary victory for the Congress. The...
Fighting The Pandemic: Global Collaboration Only Option
By Harihar Swrup Life is attempting to return to normalcy in the US with 52 per cent of the adult population receiving at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and 35 per cent of adults fully vaccinated on April 23, on the other side of the world, the...
Vaccine Policy Requires Urgent Modification
By Gyan Pathak The much awaited May 1 has finally come, but not with the fulfilment of the hope that was generated by the decision of the Union Government to start vaccination of all citizens above 18 years of age. Only six states could so far start the inoculation...
Drop In Indian Oil Demand Hits Global Market Outlook
By K Raveendran With scenes of people being taken on stretchers from hospital to hospital, gasping for air, only to be turned away, and left dying on the road, outside hospitals and in ambulances, the ravaging second India is suffering the world’s worst surge of the second wave of...
Exit Poll Predictions Make LDF Feel Good
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front Government (LDF) has received a shot in the arm with all the exit polls predicting a victory for the Front in Kerala. Significantly, two of the surveys forecast a clean sweep by the LDF with the Front topping the...
