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.Public Healthcare System Has To Be Thoroughly Revamped By The Centre
By Dr. Arun Mitra Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health that private hospitals have been charging exorbitantly from the patients during the COVID Pandemic is a serious warning for the decision makers. If even in such situations as pandemic when there is need for a lot...
Out Of RCEP, India Has To Strive For Free Trade Agreement With U.S.A
By Subrata Majumder RCEP is ready for launching. Fifteen nations (ASEAN 10, China, Japan, S. Korea, Australia and New Zealand) signed the trade deal in Vietnam on 15th November, 2020. India, even though the trade block is Asian based, opted out of the block in 2019. It...
Rishi Sunak Is Ahead In Race To Replace PM Boris Johnson
By Arun Srivastava The modesty of the UK Chancellor of Exchequer Rishi Sunak has been earning him praise across the country for his assertion that he is “definitely not interested” in being the Prime Minister of the country. People appreciate this rare kind of gesture from Sunak. ...
BJP Desperate To Expand Its Support Base In Southern States After Bihar
By Kalyani Shankar After the big win in the Bihar Assembly poll this month, the BJP is focusing on the South where three states – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry are going for polls early next year. Elections are scheduled for West Bengal and Assam also. Will...
Tarun Gogoi’s Death Is A Jolt To Congress Dream Of Ousting BJP From Power
By Sagarneel Sinha During the 2011 assembly elections of Assam, Congress party thundered back to power with a strong majority by winning 78 seats. This was the third consecutive victory of the grand old party in the north-eastern state. The resounding success came at a time when...
LDF Govt Scores Yet Another Self Goal
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A political blunder of the first order. That is the only way to describe the Kerala Police (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 hurriedly passed by the Kerala Government. It was an unkindest cut from a Left Government headed by a party that touts the delights...
Uddhav Thackeray Is Firmly In Saddle Despite Fadnavis And BJP
By Sushil Kutty There’s something royal sounding about Raosaheb Danve. For those who don’t know, he is Minister of State for Consumer Affairs in the Narendra Modi Government and an MP from Maharashtra. He’s one of the many BJP Union ministers who is neither seen nor heard...
Wall Street Puts Big Pressure On Trump To Ensure Smooth Transition
By C.J. Atkins Wall Street is ramping up the pressure on outgoing President Donald Trump to accept his defeat and halt his efforts to overturn the election results and cooperate with the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden. Over 100 top CEOs are telling Trump it’s...
Brazil’s Largest City Sau Paulo May Soon Have A Socialist Mayor
By Hugo Albuquerque On November 15, housing rights activist and rising star of the Brazilian left Guilherme Boulos made it into the runoff elections for the mayorship of São Paulo — the largest city in all the Americas and the financial center of Brazil. A member of the...
RBI Has Failed To Tame Inflation
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s massive population under the low and lower-middle income groups is increasingly under distress as the retail inflation soared to a near six-and-a-half year high in October. The wholesale inflation too rose to eight-month high. The prices of potato rose by 107.7 percent, vegetables 25.2...
Foreign Takeover Of A South India Bank Has Special Significance
By Anjan Roy Takeover of the collapsing Lakshmi Vilas Bank by the Singapore based DBS Bank has come as a big relief, at least for its depositors. The best feature of this take over is that the interests of depositors have been protected. This is important for gaining...
Ruling AIADMK Embraces BJP For 2021 Poll
By S. Sethuraman In a stage-managed grand show, the ruling AIADMK seeking a third term in the forthcoming T N Assembly elections (May 2021) clinched its alliance with BJP even as the Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Chennai was ostensibly to launch the state and central-funded development...
Secular Parties In India Have Every Reason To Shun Owaisi And His AIMIM
By Amulya Ganguli India’s sad pre-partition experience with a predominantly Muslim party has made it difficult for the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader, Asaduddin Owaisi, to find a place in mainstream politics. As an effective speaker, he could have become a part of the opposition at the...
Sonia’s Committees Will Have Little Impact On Rejuvenation Of Congress
By Arun Srivastava Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has constituted a number of committees and put the so called rebels in these committees. Through this move an impression is being created that the dissident leaders, like Kapil Sibal, Shasi Tharoor, P Chidambaram are opposing the leadership for sharing power....
Banks Don’t Change Spots, Do They?
By Papri Sri Raman At first, I was tempted to call this piece, Banks, Babus and Bulls. But then I thought, nothing really changes, and films only confirm this. Especially in India. The recent RBI merger of the old Lakshmi Vilas Bank with Singapore’s DBS Bank brings...
Caste Balance In Bihar Polity Has Undergone Vast Changes In The Last Decades
By Harihar Swarup What does the Bihar election say about the social balance of power? Though most parties attempted to reach out beyond their core social base, there were some predictable patterns. About half the candidates fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) belonged to the forward...
Debate On Making Betting Legal Gathers Steam
By K Raveendran Minister of state for finance Anurag Thakur, who is also a former BCCI chief, has added a sense of urgency to the debate on whether to make betting legal in India by suggesting the other day that such a move would help curb match fixing,...
The Political Soumitra: Ray’s Muse Beyond The Silver Screen
By Annie Domini In a scene from the 1966 film Nayak, the hero Arindam Chatterjee, played by the Bengali matinee idol Uttam Kumar, refuses to alight from his car and address a striking workers’ gathering, despite his trade unionist friend pleading him to say a few words...
