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.Bangladesh Is Trying To Have A Fine Balance Between India And China
By Ashis Biswas Clearly, the current stalemate in bilateral relations between India and Bangladesh may last longer than expected. The recent visit to Dhaka made by Foreign Secretary Mr Harshvardan Shringla, was a good symbolic gesture, but there is little forward movement on two issues. India is...
New Labour Codes: No Protection Against ‘Hire And Fire’ Regime
By Jane Cox and Sanjay Singhvi That trade unions saw red when the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha passed by voice vote the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, and the Code on Social Security, 2020 is understandable. The passage of...
American Democracy’s Survival Is At Stake As Nov 3 Poll Nears
By Al Neal During a Sep. 23 news conference, when asked about the election outcome, Trump said, “We’re going to have to see what happens,” in response to a question about committing to the results. “You know that I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and...
Coalition Politics Of NDA Undergoing A Radical Change
By Harihar Swarup The decision of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) to part company with its long-term ally need not be surprising except on the question of timing. Coalition theorists would describe the post-2014 NDA as a surplus majority coalition — the BJP has had the numbers in...
Farmers’ Grievances Break Two-Decade-Old BJP-Akali Alliance
By Rahil Nora Chopra The 24-year-old alliance which was started in 1996 between the BJP and the Shiromani Akali Dal came to a halt recently after an emergency core committee meeting of the Akali Dal was conducted, in which it was unanimous decided that the party could no...
A Lament That Should Put Every Indian To Shame
By K Raveendran The other day a Madras High Court judge lamented that India, the holy land, has become the land of rapists, where a rape is happening every 15 minutes. Justice Kirubakaran, his name literally meaning merciful, made the observation while hearing a petition relating...
Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh Is Witnessing Bizarre Scenes Of Crime Against Women
By Sushil Kutty Yogi Adityanath is a treed cat. He cannot risk getting off the tree and somebody has gone to fetch an axe! Iron barricades set up around the village perimeter speak of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s helplessness in the face of a combined media and...
Atul Anjaan Urges PM To Hold CM’s Meeting On Crimes Against Women
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: CPI national leader Atul Anjaan has appealed to PM Narendra Modi to convene a meeting of all chief ministers to discuss the important issue of rising crime against women in view of recent cases of rape in Hathras, Balrampur in UP and Bara...
Constitutional Morality Demands That Centre Should Appeal Against Babri Verdict
By Binoy Viswam The judgement of the special CBI court on Babri Masjid demolition case poses serious questions over the concept of justice in present day India. Acquitting all the 32 swayam sevaks including L K Advani and Murali Manohar Joshi, the court explained to the nation...
Juggernaut BJP Reshaping The Coalition Dharma Of NDA
By Sagarneel Sinha After the recent exit of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the alliance led by BJP is left with only a few major regional parties. Last year, it was the Maharashtra based Shiv Sena, ideologically a strong Hindu nationalist...
Ruling Regime Is Moving Towards A De Facto Unitary State
By Prabhat Patnaik Federalism is one of the basic features of the Indian constitution. In the constituent assembly, Professor K T Shah wanted the term “federal”, together with the term “secular”, included in the preamble itself, but Dr Ambedkar rejected it on the grounds that the federal and...
Trump’s New Pick For Supreme Court Bench Coney Barret Is Anti Worker
By Mark Gruenberg In her three years as a federal appellate court judge, Amy Coney Barrett, whom GOP Oval Office occupant Donald Trump has nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, has shown herself to be bad news for workers’ rights, legal analysts report. But what may...
Modi Government Is Enslaving Labour To Appease Big Corporates
By Prakash Karat The three labour laws passed in Parliament at the fag end of the truncated monsoon session constitute a grave assault on the working class of the country. The Industrial Relations Code, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code and the Social Security Code,...
After Ayodhya’s Closure, will BJP play the Mathura Card?
By Amulya Ganguli While the charge of a conspiracy to bring down the Babri masjid on December 6, 1992, has been discounted by the CBI court which considered the issue, its observation that the demolition was the handiwork of anti-socials cannot be a matter of pride for the...
Trump’s Dig At Modi Uncharitable, But Not Off Mark
By K Raveendran Friend Trump has given Modi a left-handed compliment by bracketing India with China and Russia for not being real with the Covid numbers. “We don’t know how many people died of Covid-19 in China, Russia, India… because they do not give straight answers, they...
Farm Bills Will Boost GDP Growth By At Least 2 Per Cent
By Sugato Hazra Those who have read a little economics and also have the capacity to think logically will accept the role of market expansion in betterment of human life. From the classical growth theory of Adam Smith till endogenous growth theory of Paul Romer the constant factor...
Centre-State Confrontation In Kerala Over CBI Inquiry
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the Left Democratic Front (LDF) deciding to strongly oppose the CBI inquiry launched into the State Government’s Life Mission project, the stage is set for a protracted politico-legal battle with the Centre. The confrontationist ambience has been accentuated further by the State...
Women, Children And Migrants Battle Odds To Survive In Covid-19
By Gayatri Sharma In early 2020, women’s groups across the country looked forward to attending the Sixty-Fourth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held in New York. The year 2020 was special for CSW as it marked 25 years since the Beijing Platform for...
