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.BJP Led By Narendra Modi Battles Hard In State Polls
By S Sethuraman There is a pattern the way the Centre has forced itself thick into State poll battles in 2021 (South and East) with the Modi Government’ and BJP’s determined objectives of not merely wresting West Bengal from Mamata Banerjee’s TMC and retaining Assam, but also becoming a...
India’s ‘World’s Pharmacy’ Tag Is Facing A Threat
By K Raveendran India’s much-touted role as the ‘pharmacy of the world’ is under threat, thanks to a build-up of negative publicity, partly deliberate and partly spontaneous, on the perceived stoppage of the export of covid vaccines to other countries. The build-up started with the reported decision by the...
A Slew Of Setbacks For The Congress Leader Chennithala On Poll-Eve
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: This week witnessed a slew of setbacks for the Leader Of the Opposition, Ramesh Chennithala (LOP) in particular and the Congress-led United Democratic Front(UDF) in general in Kearala on the eve of the assembly polling on April 6. The first jolt came when the Kerala...
India Must Avoid Any Panic Reaction Amidst The Second Covid-19 Wave
By Gyan Pathak The surge in C0VID-19 infections and the resulting deaths in India is frightening enough to make the people apprehensive about fresh lockdowns. Stringent measures and local lockdowns are already being used in many infected areas in several states, and the centre has already given directions for...
Connectivity Has Emerged As A Focus Area Of India And Bangladesh
By Harihar Swarup At the invitation of Prime Seikh Hasina, Minister Narendra Modi visited Bangladesh from 26 to 27 to participate in the 50th –anniversary celebrations of Independence of Bangladesh to attend the beginning of the year-long celebration in March 2020 which had to be deferred due to the...
BJP Led NDA Facing Toughest Test In Third Phase Of Assam Polls On April 6
By Sagarneel Sinha With the completion of two phases of elections covering 86 assembly seats in Assam, the attention is on the 40 seats, mostly in lower Assam, which will go for polls on the last phase on April 6. Although much before the polls, BJP led NDA was...
Modi-Shah’s Double Standards On CAA May Affect BJP In Assam
By Arun Srivastava The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, might have thought his Bangladesh visit at the time of elections in Bengal would instil Matua community in the state. But he is mistaken. Not only the Muslims but even Hindus have come to distrust his observation as well as the...
Bhupesh Baghel Emerges As Prominent Organiser Within Congress
By Rahil Nora Chopra The run up to the three-phase assembly polls in Assam has been dominated by high-pitched campaigns by almost all senior BJP leaders led by Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and JP Nadda. The Congress, on the other hand, is relying on Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra...
Mamata’s Opposition Unity Call Has Big Relevance For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s letter to 14 opposition leaders to unite against the BJP’s attacks against the Constitutional norms and the powers of the non-BJP state governments- just three days before her historic battle in Nandigram assembly constituency against her former protege BJP candidate...
Amit Shah Is Dream Merchant For Sonar Bangla Without Knowing Its Origin
By Arun Srivastava It appears that the BJP’s Chanakya, Amit Shah, has lost his skill and has nothing new to offer except some old decadent and outdated rhetoric. The most potent offer he and his boss Narendra Modi has made to the people of Bengal has been creation of...
After Freedom House, V-Dem, The Turn Of The US State Department
By Sushil Kutty The other day the National Human Rights Commission issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh DGP for police filing false cases against 10 people who asked a band of cops to settle their restaurant Bill! The NHRC wouldn’t have guessed that the United States State Department was...
How Long This Jobless Economic Planning Will Continue In India?
By Krishna Jha On March 28, it was the birthday of Maxim Gorky who had said, “Till a single baby in the world cries of hunger, I can not rest…” In one sentence, he defined a writer, who lives for the cause of humanity and writes without fear. But...
Modi Govt’s Three Farm Laws Constitute An Attack On Adivasis
By Sumedha Pal Protests against the three contentious farm laws, passed by the central government in September 2020, are raging across India and the remotest tribal belts of the country are no exception. For the adivasis, farm laws are inextricably tied up with the failure of the government to...
Biden Wants Corporations And The Rich To Pay For Rebuilding America
By Karl Engels Early last summer, when it was already obvious that the pandemic was making a wreck of the economy, Joe Biden appeared to have a light bulb moment. He seemed to realize that everything had changed, and that, to keep up with history, he better change as...
Modi Govt’s Judo Technique Pays Off In Electoral Bonds
By K Raveendran The Modi government has perfected the art of using a safeguard against something to perpetuate exactly the same act or tendency. So, national unity is cited as the reason for attempts to wreck national unity and national interest is taken to mean the interest of the...
Electoral Bonds: Supreme Court Has Evaded The Real Issue
By Prakash Karat The Supreme Court has declined to stay the issuance of electoral bonds in its current tranche from April 1 to 10. The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), an NGO, had made an urgent plea that the issuance of bonds meant for the four state assembly elections...
Risks Of India Going From Bad To Worse Due To New Covid-19 Wave
By Gyan Pathak Maharashtra was going from bad to worse for the last two months. People were violating the advisories of the government, new corona virus strains were being found, and even double mutation were found which were believed to escape immunity of the recovered or vaccinated. However, when...
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...
