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.Farms Laws Will Exacerbate India’s Mass Hunger Problem
By Amritananda Chakravorty Protests led by hundreds of farmer groups at the different borders of Delhi, from Singhu to Ghazipur are going strong. The farmers are battling the might of the Indian State that has almost cut them off from the rest of the city and the country...
Youthful Opposition Takes On Tried And Tested Nationalism
By Sushil Kutty Young climate activist Disha Ravi is in a barred cell somewhere in the labyrinth of the Delhi Police. What do the police want her to confess to? The charges levelled against her speak of sedition, conspiracy and spreading hatred. The question is, what exactly...
Most Sedition Charges Are Brought To Effect Submission
By Gyan Pathak Anyone in India against the ruling establishment is under threat of being booked under sedition and put into jail by the government. The spurt in sedition cases under Narendra Modi’s rule has put a large number of people under intimidation who are now avoiding...
National Character Of Farmers Agitation Rattles Sangh Parivar
By Arun Srivastava Upsurge of the kisan mahasammelans on massive scale in Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab and broadening the base of the farmers’ movement has not only unnerved the RSS leadership but has also sharpened the contradiction between the Sangh and the Modi government. Like Narendra Modi,...
US Congressmen Move New Bill To Put Sanction On Venezuela Govt
By Mision Verdad On January 28, a group of U.S. Congressmen, led by former Green Beret and now Republican Party legislator, Michael Waltz, introduced into the Congress a new bill dedicated to smashing democracy in Venezuela, cumbersomely entitled the “Bipartisan Banning Operations and Leases with Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime...
PSU Privatisation May Not Help Build Atmanirbhar Bharat
By Nantoo Banerjee The government disinvestment in public sector enterprises is welcome if the purpose is to help them run by professional managers on the lines of major multinational corporations and not for financing budget deficits. It will be a serious mistake on the part of the government...
President Biden’s Policy On Latin America Is On Test After Ecuador Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty United States President Joe Biden is facing hiss real test on Latin American policy now as the Ecuador people have given resounding support to the Leftist candidate Andres Arauz at the Presidential elections on February 7 by giving him 32.64 per cent of the...
Baneful Effect Of Fear And Bhakti In India In 2021
By Amulya Ganguli It will be simplistic to believe that fear alone prompted the luminaries in the entertainment and sporting world in India to fall in line with the government’s critical view of the support extended to the farmers by several foreign celebrities. True, few among either...
Rajnath Statement Does Not Give True Picture Of India-China Disengagement
By Barun Das Gupta Defence Minister Rajnath Singh informed the Rajya Sabha last week that after nine rounds of talks with the Chinese side, “we have now been able to reach an agreement on disengagement in the North and South Bank of the Pangong Lake.” The agreement...
Modi Govt And BJP Are Trying To Divide Agitating Farmers On Caste Lines
By Arun Srivastava A fresh round of insinuation campaign against the farmers’ movement has been launched by a group of intellectuals, academics and political activists, the so called conscience keepers. This is being done precisely at the behest of the BJP and RSS with the mission to weaken...
Madhya Pradesh Budget Will Focus On Immediate Woes Of Farmers
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Inclusion of such projects and schemes which may make farmers happy and also help in wooing voters in the forthcoming local elections may be the highlights of the Madhya Pradesh. Budget, Atmanirbhar Madhya Pradesh. Farmers and government employees would be the priority areas...
22 Year Old Climate Activist Is Now Modi Regime’s Latest Target For Sedition
By Sushil Kutty ‘Disha’ in the vernacular is ‘direction’ in English. And climate activist Disha Ravi is in a police lock-up in Delhi for taking the direction Greta Thunberg took. The Indian climate activist is charged with aligning alongside enemies of India – lousy rotten Khalistanis who...
Emaar posts AED2.67b net profit for 2020
Arabian Post Staff Emaar Properties , the master developer of the Burj Khalifa, reported a revenue of AED 19.710 billion (US$ 5.366 billion) and net profit of AED 2.617 billion (US$ 712 million). Overall property sales were worth AED 10.902 billion (US$ 2.968 billion) of which AED 6.321 billion...
Narendra Modi Is Wrong In Quoting Charan Singh’s Views In His Support
By Harihar Swarup Prime Minister Narendra Modi has defended his government’s agricultural reform laws by invoking Chaudhary Charan Singh and pointing to the “dayaniya sthiti (sorry plight)” of marginal farmers. These below-one-hectare cultivators accounted for 51 per cent of India’s total operational holdings in 1970-71, a share that...
When Law And Its Interpretation Do Not Quite Tally
By K Raveendran When we hear about China debarring BBC from airing its world news in the country, we feel sorry for both the broadcaster and indignation at the challenge to the cherished freedom of expression. This is very much the same when the world hears about...
New Farm Laws Will Push India Into Serious Hunger Crisis Once Again
By Dr Arun Mitra Hunger is the biggest curse in life. It is only when one has experienced it one can realise the agony and humiliation hunger can cause to a person. This can be easily gauged by long queues at the free or cheap food stalls...
Rahul Gandhi Has Matured As A Speaker Showing Grit And Confidence
By Sushil Kutty Rahul Gandhi loves stirring up the hornet’s nest. And you can forgive Prime Minister Narendra Modi for thinking that Rahul has a bee in his bonnet. At times Rahul does give the impression he’s all over the place. That’s till Modi loses track and...
BJP’s Call For Double Engine Is Not Getting Responsse In Poll Bound Bengal
By Arun Srivastava Having lost the first electoral bout to weaken the Trinamool Congress and its leader Mamata Banerjee by engineering massive split, the BJP is now planning to implement its second plan to project the election as the war between Narendra Modi’s “development model” and Mamata Banerjee’s ...
