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.PAK-CHINA Intelligence Sharing Stepped Up In Afghanistan
By Sankar Ray A hitherto-unprecedented sharing of intelligence data between Pakistan and China on Afghanistan is underway. It serves basically China which has two objectives: undermining the US interests and stifling of outcry over its persecution of the Uighur minority inside China. The Uighur province where the...
Bolivians Are In Revolt Against Their Illegitimate Coup Regime
By Thomas Field Late last month, Bolivia’s transitional government decided to postpone elections yet again, propelling the country into its most profound political crisis in decades. The most popular party — the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) — has been repeatedly denied its right to govern. The MAS...
Unregulated capitalism drives ‘the business of drugs’
By Brian W Major Much of the world is facing a crisis around the use and abuse of various sorts of substances. Headlines around the world show many deaths each day due to overdoses. In the U.S., approaches to this issue have typically involved prohibition, enforcement, and corrections....
Kashmiri People’s Trust In Governance From Delhi Is Missing In One Year
By Harihar Swarup Different sections of Indians hold sharply divided views about the developments of August 5, 2019, in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). Were these, in fact, as many Indians believe, simply a consummation of a process initiated by the state’s accession to...
Karipur Has Been An Accident Waiting To Happen
By K Raveendran The mishap at Karipur airport at Kozhikode, which saw an Air India Express aircraft, break up into two or more pieces, has been an accident waiting to happen. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation had flagged the table top airport as highly dangerous, but political...
Opposition’s Ambivalence On Ram Mandir Boosts Sangh Parivar Plans
By Arun Srivastava The foundation stone for creation of Hindu Rashtra was laid on August 5 by the prime minister of secular India, Narendra Modi by combining State, religion and politics at Bhumi Pujan for Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. The people of this country having a Constitution...
Kerala Traumatised By Twin Tragedies
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has been traumatised by two major tragedies in successive days. The people of the State woke up on Wednesday to learn about a landslide at Rajamala in Idukki district in which more than 20 people were killed. Many are feared to...
Supreme Court Has To Step Up Its Functioning Capacity To Do Justice
By Pranav Sachdeva A tweet by eminent lawyer Prashant Bhushan has upset our Supreme Court enough to send him a contempt notice. Bhushan’s tweet complained that while the Chief Justice of India (CJI) was posing with a luxury motorcycle without a mask or helmet, he had kept the...
Narendra Modi Makes A Clear Break With Indian Secular Ethos At Ayodhya
By S. Sethuraman In laying the foundation for the Ram Temple in the Lord’s birth-place, Ayodhya, on August 5, 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has brought the State and Religion together, making an historic break with Secularism, as it evolved under India’s Constitution. He proclaimed the temple...
Gotabaya’s Massive Win In Polls In Sri Lanka Will Lead To Authoritarianism
By Barun Das Gupta When Gotabaya Rajapaksa won the presidential election in Sri Lanka exactly a year ago, those watching Sri Lankan politics were sure that his Sri Lanka People’s Party (SLPP) would win the parliamentary elections also in August 2020. They have been proved correct. The elections...
New Education Policy: India’s Great Leap Backward
By Prabhat Patnaik In a document like the New Education Policy, one must distinguish platitudes from new provisions, including within the latter even the dropping of old platitudes. Thus phrases like “education is a public good”, “6 per cent of GDP should be earmarked for education” are just...
RBI To Push Credit To Beleagured Sectors More Aggressively
By Anjan Roy No one needs to state upfront that the Indian economy is not in the pink of health. So for the central bank the task is to make the best of a bad situation. The Reserve Bank of India has attempted doing exactly that in its...
Democracy, Federalism And Constitutional Ethos Are Under Attack
By Krishna Jha It is twelve months since the abrogation of Article 370, and Kashmir situation is still ‘unsustainable’, as it was a year before. In the first six months of the year, from January to June, 32 civilians, 143 militants, and 54 security personnel have been...
Tripura Govt Has To Do More For Fighting Covid Pandemic In The State
By Sagarneel Sinha Since the last week of May, Tripura has been witnessing continuous rise in Covid-19 cases and the number has already crossed the figure of 5700. State has the second highest number of cases in the northeastern region after Assam. Not only this, Tripura also...
Time To Unmask Misoginistic Attitude Of Indian Courts
By Amrita Nair “A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.” – Henrik Ibsen These words...
Congress Wants To Project Meira Kumar As Bihar CM Face
By Rahil Nora Chopra RJD and LJP are demanding to postpone the dates of Bihar Assembly election. The RJD, particularly Lalu Prasad’s family, is divided. Lalu could have made the difference but he is still in jail. On the other hand, the Congress leaders of Bihar are busy convincing...
Combining State, Religion And Politics At Bhoomi Pujan On August 5
By Prakash Karat The Bhoomi Pujan ceremony for the Ram temple at Ayodhya, though organised by the Ram Janmabhoomi Trust, became an official function with the Prime Minister laying the foundation for the temple with the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Governor in attendance. August 5, thus,...
NEP Can’t Rescue Children From The Language Trap
By Gyan Pathak The new Nation Education Policy 2020 cannot rescue our children from the language trap they are in, both as a medium of instruction, and a language to be learned. It is more so because the policy document does not contain anything showing policymakers’ awareness about...
