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.Delhi Sero-Survey On Covid-19 Is Yet Another Expose
By Gyan Pathak The Delhi serological survey results have astonished all, exposed mishandling and failure of COVID-19 containment measures, and provided a proof that our Government agencies have been groping in the dark. We did not have realtime figures of actual number of patients even in the National...
Dharna By BJP Minister Against His Own Government Creates A Row
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Can you imagine a Minister to stage Dharna against his own government? But such a strange and unprecedented incident has happened in Madhya Pradesh. Besides this two senior BJP leaders have raised their voice against the government. One such voice has been...
Coerced Examinations During Pandemic Is Ludicrous
By Mohd Kumail Haider 2020 has been about an international health emergency affecting almost every aspect of our routine lifestyles. Students have been particularly affected. As COVID-19 infections double every few days, states like Punjab, Maharashtra, Odisha, West Bengal and Delhi decided against holding final year examinations....
Case Against Bhushan Puts Focus Back On Contempt Of Court
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has reportedly registered a suo moto contempt of court case against senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan and Twitter India, apparently for a tweet by the activist advocate on a picture showing Chief Justice SA Bobde riding a Harley Davidson bike without helmet...
Congress’s Internal Strife Weakens Non-BJP Opposition
By Sushil Kutty At a time when Covid-19 is chipping away at life and liberty and the nutty coronavirus behaviour is going from ‘bad’ to ‘worse’, infecting tens of thousands across India, the political sideshow – being played out in Congress-ruled Rajasthan and partially enacted in BJP-ruled...
Mamata Launches Cleaning Drive Of Trinamool Officials In A Big Way
By Arun Srivastava While the Bengal BJP unit has been witnessing the worst kind of factional feud, which has stooped low to the extent of trading personal accusations and charges, even allegation of womanising against some leaders, the TMC boss Mamata Banerjee has embarked on the path of...
Eerie Silence Of Opposition Parties On Ram Temple Puja
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The silence of three major political parties — Samajwadi Party, BSP and the Congress —on scheduled puja on August 5 at Ayodhya for the Ram Mandir has baffled political commentators as well as media-persons. When contacted, none of the leaders from these major political...
Civil Society Members Seek Free And Fair Investigation Into Delhi Riots
By Satyaki Chakraborty Seventy-two members of the Civil Society including senior government officials, academics, activists and lawyers have sought free and fair investigation into the riots that took place in North East Delhi from February 23 to 26 this year. In their letter sent to the President...
Plastic Recycling Has Become Normal In Covid Era
By Sunita Narain The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is all-subsuming. The pandemic makes it difficult to think or act on all the issues that made up our world yesterday and will stay in our world of tomorrow. One such issue is plastic — the most ubiquitous...
Scindia, Pilot Revolts Expose Unprecedented Crisis In Congress
By Kalyani Shankar The Congress party is facing an unprecedented power struggle from within, which has cost the Grand Old Party dear. The Congress is almost imploding. It had lost a big state like Madhya Pradesh just a few weeks ago and is in the process of...
Social Distancing Is More Dangerous Than Corona
By Arun Srivastava While evolving the strategy to fight the corona pandemic, the policymakers found the phrase “social distancing” as the most convenient tool to fight the menace. But unfortunately they could not comprehend that it has a dangerous dimension and it would expose society’s fragility. ...
Differently-Abled Migrant Women Workers Grapple With Pandemic
By Vedika Kakar When Anita Ghai, a prominent disability rights advocate, said that the heterogeneity of disability is often ignored in terms of governance and policymaking, she had a point. Despite existing policies, there are loopholes in their implementation. The political economy of disability needs to...
Why Reliance Can Rise Five Times Its Current Valuation
By Matein Khalid DUBAI: Last week witnessed a feeding frenzy from the crème de la crème of Wall Street’s smart money (and some Dubai’s smart money LOL!) to be part of the private market financing of Reliance Jio, the emerging supernova of India’s digital ecosystem. After having...
Retail Power Priced Four Times The Generation Cost
By Nantoo Banerjee India is the cheapest producer of electricity from coal, solar and wind sources in the entire Asia Pacific region. It is the only country in the region where solar power costs almost 14 percent less than that of thermal power. However, in terms of tariffs...
Coming State Assembly Elections Are Crucial In National Politics
By Amulya Ganguli It is not as difficult as it may seem to guess the outcome of some of the elections later this year and during 2021. The predictions are fairly easy if the present trends in the poll-bound states are kept in mind. To take the more...
Stronger Putin Emerges As A Big Challenger To Capitalist West
By Arun Srivastava The political leadership of the capitalist countries and their policymakers are in a state of utter slipup on how Putin got massive mandate and also how to deal with Russia and its economy under him. While slapping sanction the Western world had visualised that...
Blaming BJP Won’t Solve The Internal Crisis Of The Congress
By Sagarneel Sinha Since last year’s debacle of the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections, the party has refused to go for a deep introspection and an overall systematic change from top to bottom. Instead, Rahul Gandhi resigned as the party president —not mainly for owning his responsibility...
Supreme Court Must Revisit Its Position On Two-Child Norm
By Vrinda Agarwal On the occasion of World Population Day recently, we witnessed the all too familiar chorus of demands for a population control law. Unfortunately, most of these demands involve making the two-child norm compulsory such that a wide gamut of individual rights and benefits can be...
