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.Modi Fights Falling Ratings And Vaccine Shortage
By Sushil Kutty As Covid-19 courses through India’s veins, the environment has become toxic. If it’s BJP versus Congress at one level, and it’s Modi Government versus Big Tech at another. The rightwing says Twitter is modern-day East India Company while the Delhi Police has the microblogging site in...
Ramdev’s Bogus Claims Ploy To Sell Patanjali Products
By Prabir Purkayastha All publicity is good publicity—so goes the old marketing slogan. Is that why Ramdev courts controversy by laughing at Covid-19 victims gasping for air on his Astha channel? His attack on allopathic medicine as “stupid science” and false claims that “10,000 doctors have died” after two...
BJP Cannot Miss The Writings On The Wall
By Rahil Nora Chopra Results of the recently held assembly elections of five states showed that the people are against BJP or in favour of BJP alliance in the states. Now the people are divided between the slogans of Modi Hatao Desh Bachao or Aayega To Modi Hi. While...
Gujarat Model In Lakshadweep
By Prakash Karat The union territory of Lakshadweep is a group of islands which are home to around 65,000 people. These quiet, peace-loving people are being subjected to a ruthless regime which seeks to deprive them of their way of life, livelihoods, food and cultural rights. The plague on...
Rural India Is Taking The Brunt Of NDA Government’s Gross Failure
By Krishna Jha Down with shock and grief we are today the carriers of our dead. Our rivers are swollen with Covid corpses. Ganges, the most beautiful gift of nature to us, is unsightly with the bodies floating all over not only in the flowing water but also on...
RSS Using CBI To Dissipate Centrist Forces
By Arun Srivastava There is no ambiguity about the nature and character of the legal war that is going on in Calcutta High Court. So far it appeared to be a war of attrition between the CBI and Mamata Banerjee on the arrest of TMC ministers and leaders. But...
Afghanistan Issues: Bangladesh India On Same Page
By Ashis Biswas India is not alone in worrying about the long term impact of the US troops’ pullout from Afghanistan. Dhaka also shares Delhi’s concern. In Bangladesh, the recent arrest of four youths, who were on their way to Afghanistan to enroll/fight as Islamic jihadists, confirms the abiding...
Narendra Modi Govt Abdicates Duty Towards Farmers Union’s Demands
By Dr. Silpa Aziz As the farmers’ protests against the farm laws of 2020 completed six months on May 26, 2021, let us trace the trail of these laws and their basis. The government made a systematic and consistent approach in bringing about these laws. While NITI Aayog’s agri...
Bob Dylan Reminds US Times, They Are A Changin’
By Papri Sri Raman And you better start swimming, Or you will sink like a stone, For the times they are a changin’ …The battle outside ragin’, Will soon shake your window, And rattle your walls. Yes, this can be called a protest song but 80-year-oldlyricist Bob Dylan cannot...
In A Positive Sign For World Peace, Biden To Meet Putin For Summit
By John Wojcik President Joe Biden will hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 16 in Geneva, a face-to-face meeting between the leaders of the two countries with the largest nuclear arsenals. Many who prefer a confrontational approach to U.S. relations with Russia have already been...
Satyajit Ray’s Centennial Year: Three Encounters Of The Close Kind
By Nitya Chakraborty The Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray stepped into his 100th year on May 2, 2021. The maestro died in 1992, at the age of only 71. He left us without finishing many of the proposed film and writing projects which he had undertaken in his last...
Debate Can Wait, But Not Oxygen For A Gasping Lung
By K Raveendran It is certainly not a happy situation as the courts are seen increasingly overstepping the boundaries between the Executive and Judiciary to the extent that there is probably need to redefine the relationship. The debate on whether the courts are right or wrong in what they...
May 26 As A Black Day For Farmers
By Gyan Pathak Farmers’ agitation against three farm laws completes six months on May 26, the day on which Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India seven years ago. It may be just a coincidence, but is politically significant as Black Day for all except Modi and his fan...
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...
