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.Covid-19 Laying Bare Systematic Vulnerabilities
By Gyan Pathak COVID-19 pandemic is laying bare systematic vulnerabilities and inequalities in just about every economy and society. It is more than just a health crisis, which is driving losses of lives and livelihoods, extreme poverty, inequality, and food security. Apart from this onslaught of ferocious rise in...
Covid Exposes Ineptitude Of Modi Govt, Taming Of Institutions
By Arun Srivastava The oral order of the bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy of Madras High Court holding the Election Commission as “the most irresponsible in not stopping political parties from wanton abuse of the Covid-19 protocol” telling it in no ambiguous term: “You...
So Has India Become The ‘Sick Man Of Asia’?
By Sushil Kutty Last year 2020, an Indian journalist writing for Pakistani newspaper Dawn gave India the sobriquet ‘Sick Man of Asia’, originally the namesake of China, and which was used by the World Street Journal (WSJ), again in 2020, to describe China, which got so pissed off by...
Covid: Modi Govt’s Criminal Abdication Of Responsibility
By Prabir Purkayastha India’s Covid numbers have far outstripped countries like the US and Brazil, which have been the poor performers till now. More worryingly, the number of positives to tests are now more than one out of five, more than four times what it was a few months...
Needed A Comprehensive Plan To Protect Citizen’s Health And Economy
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s economy seems to be going out of control under the pressure of the virulent expansion of Covid-19. What else can explain the rapid fall in industrial production and massive jump of wholesale and retail prices in the last three months? Partial lockdowns are back in...
Coronavirus Waste May Pose Additional Threat
By Gyan Pathak With worst ever surge of COVID-19 in India, 3.55 lakh new cases and 2807 deaths on April 25, reaching the new global highs, is also generating unprecedented high level of coronavirus waste for any country in the world. It may soon pose worst additional threat to...
Indian Navy Shifts Focus To Nuclear Submarines Fleet
By Barun Das Gupta The Indian Navy has recently decided to give top priority to building a fleet of nuclear submarines, armed with nuclear-tipped Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs) and build a fleet of six such attack submarines. At present the only India-made nuclear sub is INS Arihant. Another submarine...
Can Modi Get Out Of The Hole He Has Dug Himself Into?
By Sushil Kutty The second coronavirus wave has overwhelmed India with lakhs of Covid-19 cases per day. There’s no breathing space left with the scarcity of life-saving oxygen. Some people are saying there’s conspiracy afoot to malign the Modi Government. The reality is people are waking up to “what...
Winning Bengal Election Is The Top Priority Of RSS
By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has been ruthless in using Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Hindutva face of the country, to accomplish his mission of transforming India into a Hindu Rashtra. Neither the RSS bosses nor the top BJP leaders would concede to the fact that L...
Time For Oxygen-Surplus Kerala To Set An Example
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has always led from the front, setting a good example for other States to follow. God’s Own Country now has a chance to rush to the rescue of Delhi, which is gasping for life because of severe shortage of oxygen. As many as 50...
A Bigger Crisis Lurking Below The Surface
By Harihar Swarup As a preventive measure against the Covid 19 in India, the Indian government imposed a nationwide 21-day lockdown on March 23, 2020, restricting the movement of its entire population of 1.38 billion. The nationwide lockdown continued until May 3, after which it was extended with conditional...
Supreme Court: Overreach Any Day Preferred To Callousness
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court’s latest move in taking up suo moto cognisance of the dangerous Covid situation, particularly in the crisis related to the availability of life-supporting oxygen in hospitals across the country, has created a storm for procedural breaches. Retiring Chief Justice S A Bobde has...
Modi’s Leadership Creates A Hell For India
By Gyan Pathak Hospitals are overwhelmed across India. Neither there are beds available in hospitals for patients, nor is space available in crematorium or graveyards. Patients and bodies are making long queues to be admitted. There is acute shortage of medicines, oxygen, healthcare personnel and resources to dispose of...
Political Parties Of Assam Prepare For The Verdict
By Sagarneel Sinha The elections in Assam were completed on April 6 and the results will be out on May 2 — as elections are still not over in neighbouring West Bengal. The people of the state — and also the country — are anxiously waiting for the results....
Scary Covid Surge: Time For Action, Not Controversies, Polemics
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the covid situation getting worse, the Kerala Government has imposed stricter restrictions, even as it came down heavily on the Centre’s vaccination policy which it feels is fundamentally flawed and highly discriminatory. The embattled State Government issued stringent guidelines to restrict public movement and...
Global Media Blames Modi For Pandemic Second Wave
By Arun Srivastava It has been an act of careful carelessness. Narendra Modi knew that the second wave of corona would hit the Indian soil hard, but he pretended to be unaware of the impending threat; poor innocent guy. An insight into his conduct would make it clear that...
Centre’s Wrong Policies Have Led To Resurgence Of Inflation
By Prabhat Patnaik The official wholesale price index for March 2021, which was released a few days ago shows it to be7.39 per cent higher than for March2020. Such a high rate of inflation has not been seen in India for over 8years. It was only in October 2012...
Medical Oxygen Stock Needs Faster Replenishment
By Gyan Pathak Despite sufficient stock of oxygen in India, COVID-19 patients in hospitals across the country have been dying because its unavailability. Distribution issues have been preventing its availability at the hospitals. The centre has been monitoring the situation for over a year, but issues still remains unresolved....
