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.Ankhi Das’s Exit From Facebook Is Not Enough For Indian Users
By K Raveendran Ankhi Das, who through her own interpretation of her role as public policy director of Facebook in India gave a tinge of saffron to the social media giant’s blue colour scheme, has finally exited the India operations. She has been with Facebook since 2011, when...
Ankhi Das Stepping Down Is An Eyewash: Facebook Won’t Change Its Ways
By Annie Domini Ankhi Das, whose claim to fame has been publicly supporting Prime Minister Narendra Modi while steering public policy at the social media behemoth, Facebook, unproblematically asserting that “likes can get you votes” on May 17, 2014 (a day after Modi-led NDA won the Lok Sabha...
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Has Declared War Against Indian Ethos
By Krishna Jha While analysing the features of fascism in the Italian context, Antonio Gramsci had pointed out that grounds were prepared even before the dominating forces unveiled themselves. The various democratic structures were slowly taken over. Uniformity was imposed on culture replacing its multiplicity. Efforts were made...
Polling Trends In First Phase Of Bihar Assembly Poll Unnerve BJP
By Arun Srivastava The fear of losing the electoral battle has turned the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi fraught and in his desperation to retrieve the ground he had forgotten his political stature and aura and has stooped low to the level of using unpleasant jibes against the young...
Mayawati’s Understanding With BJP In Uttar Pradesh Has Been Exposed
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The council polls for 10 seats from Uttar Pradesh exposed understands between BSP and BJP. For long, there were rumours about BSP leader Mayawati’s links with the BJP but the approaching by polls have brought about the understanding into open. Shocked by Samajwadi Party’s...
Border Dispute Between Tripura And Mizoram Needs A Permanent Solution
By Sagarneel Sinha The border dispute between Tripura and Mizoram refuses to die down. Early this year the Centre signed a pact with the stakeholders, which also included the two state governments, to permanently settle the 34,000 Bru refugees in Tripura. The Brus, known in Tripura as Reangs,...
NIA Is Acting As Another “Caged Parrot” Like CBI
By Arun Srivastava The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which in recent times has suffered severe crisis of credibility and faith in the eyes of the people has suffered yet another shattering blow with the Maharashtra government withdrawing general consent for operations within its territory. Before Maharashtra four...
Facebook Has A Moral Responsibility To Disallow Hate Speech In Its Platform
By Jithendra Palepu A Wall Street Journal report published in August this year had accused Facebook of political bias in India. The report stated that Facebook India’s public policy head had intervened multiple times concerning the banning of several Bhartiya Janata Party leaders for posting ‘hate speech’ on...
Trump’s Hurry To Install His Nominee Barrett To Supreme Court Signals Ominous
By Al Neal With exactly a week until Election Day 2020, Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, has now been installed, taking the seat previously held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As voters nationwide line up hours in advance to cast a ballot or...
AIADMK Is Facing Major Odds In Fighting Assembly Polls In Tamil Nadu Next Year
By Kalyani Shankar The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu is quietly getting ready to face the Assembly polls scheduled for early next year. With just a few months left, the party is sorting out its internal problems, first by declaring the incumbent chief minister E. Palaniswamy (EPS) as...
Remembering K R Narayanan On His Centenary
By D Raja On the occasion of the birth centenary of President of India late Shri K R Narayanan the country gratefully remembers him. K.R. Narayanan was born on October 27, 1920 in a Dalit family in Uzhavoor, now in Kottayam district of Kerala. Through his education he...
India Must Do More For Helping Bangladesh Economy As A Good Neighbour
By Barun Das Gupta As India’s relations with China have steadily deteriorated and the two countries are just a step away from an armed confrontation, Bangladesh’s relations with China are steadily improving. Today, China is the biggest trading partner of Bangladesh and Bangladesh is China’s second biggest training...
Arnab Goswami Is Misusing Media Freedom To Achieve His Objective
By Sushil Kutty The Maharashtra Government and the Mumbai Police will not have to work hard to compile the list of FIRs filed against Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami. There are 100s of FIRs lodged against him piled high on Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh’s desk. There is...
BJP Is Projecting Now Only Narendra Modi To Voters In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Barely forty eight hours ahead of the first phase of polling for the Bihar assembly, the BJP leadership has brought out significant strategic shift in its campaigning. The party which had earlier announced to face the election under the leadership of Nitish Kumar,...
Ratification Of Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Is A Big Win For Planetary Health
By Dr Arun Mitra It is unfortunate that an event that concerns the very existence of life on earth is hardly under debate and is poorly reported. With Honduras submitting its document of ratification to the UNO on 24th October, the Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has...
Cuban Leadership Striving Hard To Improve Economy Despite U.S. Blockade
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Buffeted for six decades by the U.S. economic blockade and recently having had to cope with restrictions on daily life and work due to COVID- 19, Cuba’s already shaky economy is deteriorating. Government leaders recently outlined remedial steps leading to what they call...
Opposition Alliance Victory In Bihar Poll Can Act As A Game Changer
By Nitya Chakraborty The assembly poll, in Bihar the first phase of which begins on October 28, has assumed unusual significance in the national politics signalling at last some possibility of a big anti-BJP backlash if the outcome on November 10 becomes favourable to the RJD led...
Between A ‘Caged Parrot’ And ‘His Master’s Voice’
By K Raveendran The CBI has been declared unwelcome guests by half a dozen states, the latest being Maharashtra, which recently revoked the general consent for the central agency to investigate cases in its territory without the need to seek the state government’s permission in individual cases. ...
