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.Farmers’ Resentment Has Put Nitish Kumar In Tight Spot
By Ashok B Sharma Farmers’ issue has come to the fore in recent Bihar assembly election. The Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had repealed the State Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) Act way back in 2006. The farmers in the state are not benefitted by this move, rather they...
Taliban Terrorism Is Back In Afghanistan Hitting Kabul Govt
By Sankar Ray Afghanistan’s Taliban militants have resumed their terrorising posture embarked, thereby frustrating the proponents of a sustainable milieu for peace. At the moment, they have exacerbated violence and intimidation to capture Kandahar, the capital for the hard-line movement nearly a quarter-century ago. Hundreds of insurgents,...
Divided States Of America (And India): Democracy At Crossroads
By Annie Domini The United States of America is going through the quadrennial process of electing the 46th president, or re-electing the incumbent despot Donald Trump, heavily challenged by the mild Democrat Joseph Biden. At the time of writing this column, Biden has secured more votes than any...
Modi Has Finally Surrendered India’s Defence Security By Signing BECA
By Prakash Karat The signing of the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) for geo-spatial cooperation at the 2+2 meeting of the United States and Indian defence and foreign ministers in New Delhi must have been a moment of deep satisfaction for the US establishment and the Pentagon....
Defenders Of Human Rights Must Defend The Rule Of Law For All
By Indira Jaising The arrest of Arnab Goswami, Editor-in-Chief of Republic TV, on the basis of a complaint made in May of abetment of suicide in which ‘A’ summary report was filed, exposes the political use of the power of the police all over the country and in...
ED Stumped As Covid Plays The Spoilsport
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The best-laid plans of men and mice go wrong. The plans of Enforcement Directorate, which is on an investigation spree in ‘communist-ruled’ Kerala, have also gone awry, thanks to the dreaded corona virus. The ED had summoned Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s Additional...
Nitish Kumar’s “Last Election” Announcement Was A Surprise
By Rahil Nora Chopra Nitish Kumar who has been the chief minister of Bihar for 14 years and 6 months has announced his retirement at a rally in Dhamdaha in Purnia and also announced that all is well that ends well. The day before poll in his...
Even If Biden Wins, The Left Must Keep Up Pressure From Below
By Joe Sims It is generally said that an assessment of a politician’s stance on this or that issue shouldn’t rest on positions they took a decade or two ago. According to this view, the past is not a prelude to the present or predictive of a...
Sustaining Post-Covid Economic Recovery Is A Challenging Task
By Anjan Roy The Indian economy will fare badly this financial year is a given. That it could quickly turn around is also not a surprise either. But then, sustaining an incipient recovery would be the biggest challenge. And this would basically be a financial sector marvel....
Protecting Employment And Creation Of Additional Jobs Matter Most
By Prakash Karat The spectre of unemployment is stalking the country. After the pandemic broke out and the hasty lockdown, millions lost their jobs in industry, small businesses, service sector and, above all, in informal sector. Even prior to the Covid-lockdown, unemployment had grown tremendously. Demonetisation and...
Right Wing Politics Is Similar In Both America And India
By Binoy Viswam From America to India, the basic character of the ultra-right-wing politics is one and the same. From the rooftop they preach democracy. In the heart of heart, they nourish absolute contempt for democracy and its fundamental values. The presidential election scenario in the US...
U.S. House Progressive Bloc Expands Despite Trump’s Hateful Rhetoric
By Chauncey K. Robinson Despite aggressive moves by Donald Trump and the GOP to divide working people with messages of hate and fear, election night delivered a number of victories that consolidated and expanded the progressive wave that started with the 2018 midterm elections. It is being led...
Right To Dissent Of An Individual Has To Be Protected By The State
By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr In India, political philosophy and theory are not popular. So issues like the rationale of the State or the irreducible status of the individual on moral and existential grounds have never been debated as they should be. Most political scientists in...
India’s Civil Service Needs Now To Reinvent Itself
By Moin Qazi When India attained independence, Sardar Vallabhai Patel was the first to envision civil services as the ‘steel frame’ of Independent India. Despite reservations of several colleagues, his resolve to retain the cadre was strong. While speaking to the first batch of civil servants at the...
New US Presidency And Implications For Oil Market
By K Raveendran Oil markets are keenly watching the outcome of the US presidential elections, with a Biden victory and Trump comeback both having different short term and long term implications for the commodity and as such a bearing on the fortunes of major consumer countries such as...
Mumbai Police’s Foolish Action Has Gone To Arnab’s Advantage
By Sushil Kutty Only the night before Arnab Goswami in his primetime show had raised a stink over #ParamBirSingh and a news report doing the rounds that said Goswami was allegedly a ‘hawala operator’ and which was published by a prominent newspaper. Goswami while attacking the newspaper and...
Tejashwi Has Transformed The Discourse In Bihar Poll Campaign
By Arun Srivastava Some seasoned intelligence personnel and senior media men close to the prime minister Narendra Modi have been burning mid night lamp to unfasten the mystery of the pro mahagathbandhan tornedo that started sweeping across Bihar just seven days ahead of the election. Ever since...
CPI-M May Not Gain By Allying With Congress In Bengal Assembly Poll
By Sagarneel Sinha The recently concluded central committee meeting of the CPI-M has given its nod for a formal alliance for the first time with Congress in Bengal, once a communist stronghold where the CPI-M led Left Front ruled for 34 years continuously. During the last 2016 assembly...
