Opinion
Appeal
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.Protecting The Vulnerable At The Time Of Pandemic Is Imperative
By Nilanjan Banik There are two sides to every story. One, that India’s healthcare system is not in great shape, and that there is a dearth of hospital beds, doctors, and paramedic staffs to react to a health emergency like COVID pandemic. But turn to the other side, and...
Mamata Has Sent A Strong Message To BJP By Contesting From Nandigram
By Arun Srivastava Political experts and pollsters are busy deciphering the implication of Mamata Banerjee campaigning at a stretch for five days in her new electoral abode Nandigram. If for some it is the sign of her fighting the battle with her back to the wall, some are also...
Sumitra Mahajan Was A Woman Parliamentarian For The Longest Term
By Harihar Swarup The BJP High Command has, perhaps, been most unkind to former Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahjan. While she was only given Padma Bhushan, lesser mortals were honoured with Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award. She had been an eight term M.P, second woman speaker of...
Return Of Lula Into Active Politics Has Changed Narrative In Brazil
By Hugo Albuquerque On March 23, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finally and definitively won his ongoing legal battle. After years of judicial harassment, culminating in a six-hundred-day prison sentence, the Supreme Court has finally ruled that former judge Sérgio Moro was biased in his ruling and that Lula’s...
Remembering Dr. Norman Bethune – The Father Of Public Health Care
By Dave McKee Canadian media and politicians claim that the country’s public health care system is “what separates us from the Americans.” Social democrats have baptized Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)/New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Tommy Douglas as the “Father of Medicare,” the official name for Canada’s health system. Election...
Time To Provide Reasonable Social Security To All Citizens
By Nantoo Banerjee At a time when the country is getting ready to celebrate 75 years of India’s independence from the British rule in a befitting manner at national and international levels, a very large portion of the citizens are still struggling to protect their life and livelihood in...
New Fiscal To Begin With Stronger Labour Movement
By Gyan Pathak When India will begin its financial year on April 1, the organized labour force under the joint platform of 10 Central trade unions in the country would be tearing up or burning the copies of four new labour codes. We have just witnessed a spate of...
The Western Concern About Indian Democracy Is Not Unwarranted
By Amulya Ganguli It is the series of assaults and harassment of the minorities, starting from the lynching of Muslim cattle traders from around 2015, which appear to have prompted some of the “self-appointed custodians” of human rights, to quote external affairs minister S. Jaishankar, to downgrade India’s status...
For The Indian Communists, All Hopes Of Resurgence Rest On Kerala Result
By Kalyani Shankar The ongoing Assembly elections in five states- Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, West Bengal, and Assam will decide whether the left parties will survive or vanish. Voters of both West Bengal and Kerala are crucial for the future of the Left parties. The communists are ruling only...
Layers Within Layers In Bizarre Political Developments In Maharashtra
By Sushil Kutty Republic TV head honcho and anchor-in-chief Arnab Goswami is not happy with the NIA, the country’s premier investigating agency. One gets the feeling that as far as Goswami is concerned the NIA shouldn’t forget that Vaze is first and foremost complicit in hounding Arnab Goswami and...
High Time For A Re-Look At Reservation Policy
By K Raveendran We sing paeans for a casteless and egalitarian society, at the same time promote caste identity not just for feeling secure socially but to claim economic benefits on all possible grounds, including reservation. And the worst part is that we do not want to acknowledge this...
Kerala Government Hardens Its Stance Against Central Probe Agencies
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: When the going gets tough, the tough get going. That is how a CPI(M) leader characterized the embattled Pinarayi Vijayan Government’s unprecedented decision to launch a judicial inquiry against the central agencies investigating the gold smuggling and other related cases. A Cabinet meeting appointed retired...
Farmers’ Movement Is Taking Up Broader Economic Issues
By Arun Srivastava With the RSS and BJP making all out efforts to reach out to the people for convincing them that the farmers’ movement for abrogation of the three farm laws was against the national interest and was systematically fading out, the farmer leaders are envisioning to expose...
New Wave Of Covid-19 Signals Fresh Hurdles To Economy
By Gyan Pathak The fresh wave of COVID-19 spreading in India with new ‘variants of concern’ is creating new hurdles to the economy of the country which has just been recovering from the impact of the pandemic in 2020. Almost all the states are reporting sharp rise in infection...
Looking Back At Election Campaigns In India Since 1952
By Nitya Chakraborty As the first phase of the polling in Bengal and Assam began on March 27 for the assembly elections, I looked back sitting before the television at the first assembly elections in West Bengal in 1952 in which I actively participated as a campaigner. I was...
Bengal’s Music Culture Turns Pop During Assembly Elections
By Harihar Swarup A filmi song plays intermittently on the para (locality) loudspeaker, breaking the sleepiness of a Sunday afternoon. A catchy tune, it’s been playing for some days on the trot. A lady with a husky voice sings spiritedly, and the words ‘desh ka bachha bachha’ float in...
Narendra Modi Had An Eye On Bengal Poll During Bangladesh Visit
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his two day visit to Bangladesh certainly strengthened India’s bilateral ties with its neighbour but his programme in Bangladesh also took care of his party’s compulsions in the assembly polls in Bengal which began on March 27.His visit to the birthplace...
India Has A Genuine Case For Universal Basic Income
By Moin Qazi The pandemic has caused unprecedented crises and disruptions around the world. It has inflicted the greatest pain on those who were already the most vulnerable, spurring hardship and unease among low-income families and micro-businesses. In the process, it uncovered existing inequities and created new ones. The...
