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.Supreme Court: Swing Between Activism And Populism
By K Raveendran The approach of the Supreme Court in two aspects of the same issue of farmers protest against the Centre’ farm laws displays a wide swing between extreme activism and complete indifference. Worse still, the change of attitude seems to the result of even less...
Many Lessons From First Five Days Of Vaccination Drive
By Gyan Pathak The first five days’ experience of world’s largest vaccination drive in India has come with a high price but is of immense value. “Vaccine hesitancy” has emerged as the biggest roadblock while the operation as a whole presents a case of speeding up its...
Bengal’s Scholars Planning Social Boycott Of Visva Bharati VC
By Arun Srivastava Cutting across the ideological line, some intellectuals and academics from West Bengal are contemplating social boycott of the vice chancellor of Viswa Bharati University Bidyut Chakraborty for his devious action to malign the renowned Bengali scholar and Noble laureate Amartya Sen. The academics...
As Trump Era Closes, Washington Cannot Rule In The Old Way
BY Joel Wendland-Liu As Joe Biden assumes office, and a potential new wave of right-wing violence lurks, the U.S. ruling class is in a panic. The House of Representatives quickly (and justifiably) impeached Trump for inciting an insurrection. Major corporate donors, who give millions to both dominant...
A Progressive Ruling On Right To Abort, Yet Fear Of Stigma Lurks
By Aishwarya Ramkumar IN 2009, the Supreme Court affirmed that Article 21 of the Indian Constitution includes a woman’s right to her bodily integrity. This means women have the personal liberty to choose what happens to their body, including the right to conceive, abort, and make other...
Parliament’s Budget Session To Discuss Many Contentious Issues
By Kalyani Shankar The upcoming budget session of Parliament is likely to be a boisterous one with a lot of controversial issues that will be raised by the opposition. Although the Parliamentary Affairs minister Prahlad Joshi has stated that the Modi government is ready to face all the...
The Man Who Has Access To State Secrets And Blurts Them Out
By Sushil Kutty After the heady days of being a near-Neta in a Mumbai suburb, journalist-editor-in-chief-cum-media-baron-cum-ex-jailbird Arnab Goswami is now a subcontinental sensation with the extrasensory perception to predict airstrikes across the border with some degree of perception if not precision. And if he is a close confidante...
Arnab Goswami’s Whatsapp Chats Raise Many Legal And Ethical Issues
PRIVACY OF A CITIZEN ARE ALSO INVOLVED By Monica Dhanraj On June 15, 2020, actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead at his residence in Mumbai. This sad news came at a time when India was reeling under the worst pandemic to have hit the world in...
Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Entry Takes Effect From January 22
By Dr Arun Mitra On 22nd January 2021 the Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will enter into force. With this the nuclear weapons will be delegitimised and declared illegal. Their use, launch, research, transfer of technology in any form will be illegal. This is a great step...
At G-7 Summit In June, Boris Johnson Has To Come Out Of ‘Britain’s Trump’ Stigma
By Arun Srivastava Polemical exercise has started amongst the global fraternity to identify which world leader stands to lose out with Joe Biden in the White House. The list of the leaders appearing in the western media also includes the name of the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi....
Germany’s Christian Democrats Favour A New Coalition With Greens
By Ines Schwerdtner This weekend’s Christian-Democrat conference elected Armin Laschet as new party leader, narrowly defeating his Trump-like rival. With Chancellor Angela Merkel set to step down this fall, the party is seeking a new centrist bloc with the Greens — but still faces a hard-right upsurge within...
India’s Irrational Stock Boom
By Nantoo Banerjee The near persistent stock bull in India over the last four years has busted the myth that the stock market is a barometer of economy. A linkage of India’s economic growth trend with the movement of its stock indices over the last four years...
Though Distant, Rahul Gandhi Remains In The Race For Prime Minister
By Amulya Ganguli Narendra Modi has raced ahead again in the latest popularity ratings, securing 59.22 per cent of the votes among people who would like to see him continue as the prime minister. Not surprisingly, Rahul Gandhi is well behind with 25.62 per cent. Notwithstanding...
India Becoming Most Attractive Destination For Dumping Foreign Goods
By Gyan Pathak The seventh Trade Policy Review of India by WTO reveals that the country has become the most attractive destination as a dumpyard of the world, but not the most attractive destination for investment that the country was aiming at. Additionally, the frequent changes made...
Development Of Supporting Industry Is Key To Atmanirbhar Programme
By Subrata Majumder, Hit by Covid 19, India is in the dichotomy of overdependence on imports for its emerging industries. They are import intensive industries. Rapid growth in electronic industries, including mobile phone manufacturing, telecommunication equipment, automobile and digital economy led India becoming overdependent on imports. China has...
NIA Is Terrorising Farmers To Scuttle The Kisan Parade On January 26
By Arun Srivastava Shaken by the powerful farmers movement against the new farm laws the domineering Narendra Modi government has started using its Brahmashtra, the last weapon, implicating the farmers and their sympathisers in false and fabricated cases through its pet parrot the NIA. Farm unions have said...
Assam To Emerge As Northeast Regions’ Biggest Rubber Producer
By Ashis Biswas With Assam and other states in the Northeast all set to expand rubber cultivation in a major way during the next five years, India should be able to reduce substantially its dependence on imports. Encouraged by a slight decrease in imports between 2018 and 2020,...
Indian Courts Had A Trying Time During Pandemic In 2020
By Neeraj Mishra The wheels of justice stopped turning in 2020 when millions of litigants found the doors of court-rooms locked to them. Though many believe that courts discovered their virtual avatar during the pandemic and resultant lockdown and restrictions on large gatherings, it is debatable if...
