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.Nepal’s Political Turmoil Has Taken A Bizarre Turn
By Barun Das Gupta Nepal is being ruled by a political party which does not exist legally. Sounds paradoxical but is true. The Nepal Communist Party was born out of the merger of two communist parties – the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) led by the present prime...
Playing Cops And Robbers: The Case Of Sachin Vaze
By Sushil Kutty Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Vaze has put the Maha Vikas Aghadi government of the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena at a disadvantage. NCP Chief Sharad Pawar is very angry at how a loose cannon like Vaze was given a long rope to act on...
Chicago joins list of U.S. Cities denouncing cuba blockade
By Emile Schepers The tactics used have included a failed invasion, violent sabotage, attempted assassinations of Cuban leaders, and an endless and relentless barrage of lies in corporate-controlled media, academia, and other ideology-forming institutions. Cuban socialism, however, has survived all these assaults. Today, the biggest challenge to Cuba is...
Contractual Salary Culture Is Growing In The Government
By Nantoo Banerjee The government and its aided institutions, at both the centre and states, seem to have become the biggest exploiter of new labour laws and practices to recruit employees under short-term contracts against permanent vacancies. In the process, the government and its sponsored employers are saving large...
BJP Plans To Keep The Communal Pot Boiling For Electoral Gains
By Amulya Ganguli If anyone believed that the construction of the Ayodhya temple will enable the Hindus and Muslims to live happily ever after, then he lives in a fool’s paradise. No sooner had the Sangh parivar and the BJP found that their wishes on the Ram temple have...
Foreign Minister Jaishankar Puts A Weak Defence On Human Rights Record
By Gyan Pathak India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar has made a scathing attack on the institutions that have recently downgraded India’s democratic status by describing them ‘hypocrites’. It is, but a very poor defense for the country, and much less the democracy and the human rights that have been...
Kerala Left Democratic Front Is Way Ahead In Assembly Poll Campaign
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Success seldom goes to the timid. It goes to those who dare and act. This is a famous quote attributed to India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Well, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has chosen to dare in the selection of candidates for...
Priyanka Gandhi Starts Cadre Training Program In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor The initiative of AICC general Secretary Priyanka Gandhi to train the party cadre before next assembly polls in 2022 has boosted the morale of party workers. As part of strengthening the party organization, Priyanka Gandhi directed UPCC president Ajai Kumar Lalloo to inaugurate two-day eastern zonal...
Why Same-Sex Marriages Must Be Judged At The Constitutional Altar
By Anant Prakash Mishra It was an evolutionary reposition for constitutional jurisprudence in India when the Supreme Court decriminalised homosexual intercourse between consenting adults in Navtej Singh Johar vs. Union of India. In an exquisitely written judgement, the five-judge constitutional bench engaged in a sundry discussion that ranged from...
Mass Layoffs At The Huffington Post Signal An Ominous Trend
By Luke Savage Given their appalling regularity these days, media layoffs have begun to take on the character of a grim ritual that follows a now all-too-familiar pattern. With great pomp, a big industry player, media baron, or venture capitalist will announce a bold new merger or acquisition, often...
For BJP, It Is A Do Or Die Situation In West Bengal Assembly Elections
By Harihar Swarup As Narendra Modi addressed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s mega rally at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on Sunday afternoon, a Bengali TV channel was showing, on a split screen, chief minister (CM) Mamata Banerjee’s meeting in Siliguri. When Modi raised the pitch on allegations...
Lady Judge Who Destroyed Clichés Of Women’s Equality
By K Raveendran Justice Indu Malhotra, who retired the other day after a distinguished three-year tenure as a Supreme Court judge, produced what many considered as an outrageous verdict on the Sabarimala women’s entry, but subsequent developments on the vexed issue completely bear her out. Despite her unmatched achievement...
Anti-Privatisation Day On March 15 Marks A Milestone In Trade Union Movement
By Gyan Pathak With observance of Anti-privatisation Day on March 15, 2021, the movement against proposed large scale privatization of Public Sector Undertakings in India will enter a new phase, during which the Modi government will have to face stiff organized resistance not only from the workers’ union of...
Covid-19 Vaccination Of The Indian People Is The Emergency Task At The Moment
By Sushil Kutty A total of 24,882 new Covid-19 infections on March 12, the highest this year; active cases cross 2 lakh again. That’s the progress of a pandemic which likes to kill in waves. Yup, fears are Covid-19 will not go far from where we live, whether that’s...
BJP Has No Clue On Film Stars Role In Tamil Nadu Politics
By Papri Sri Raman It is poll time in Tamil Nadu and it is natural that some answers are sought about the land, where people are known to be star-crazy, and this is the State that has elected film stars as leaders for more than half a century. So,...
A Decade Since The Fukushima Power Plant Meltdown
By Dr Ian Fairlie As we mark the tenth anniversary this week of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan where an earthquake and a tsunami led to a meltdown of nuclear reactors, the emission of huge amounts of radiation and a continuing humanitarian disaster,...
Far Right Brazilian President Bolsonaro Facing Big Political Challenge
By Benjamin Fogel The Brazilian Supreme Court overturning former president Lula de Silva’s convictions inits judgment on March 7 has imparted a new dimension to the political battle in this most populated Latin American nation which has been ruled by the far right President Jair Bolsonaro since 2018 when...
American Rescue Act Is A Big Rebuff To Neoliberal Economic Agenda
By Nitya Chakraborty The historic American Rescue Act signed by President Joe Biden on Thursday marks a milestone in the struggle of the people of the United States for a better living standard defying the neo liberal agenda of austerity and robbing the poor while making rich richer. The...
