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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.Why is the National legal Services Authority Being Starved of Resources?
By Yash Agarwal While analysing the Union Budget and the Demand For Grants (DFG) as presented by ministries for a Member of Parliament earlier this year, one startling revelation stood out. The Ministry for Law and Justice had a rather barebones demand placed for approval before Parliament, vis...
Indian Defence Preparedness Has Jolted Chinese Plans At Ladakh Border
By Barun Das Gupta The defensive or offensive capability of an army is determined not merely by the number of troops it has, the type of weaponry it has and the skill of the men in the army, navy and air force and to handle their weaponry...
Doctors Too Have Grievances And The Right To Dissent
By Dr. Arun Mitra Dissent and different views are always strength of democracy and essential for development of any society. Unfortunately there is increasing intolerance to Dissent by those at the helms of affairs. This is not limited to one part of the world or any set of...
Boris Johnson Is Facing The Worst Crisis Of His Tenure As British PM
By Arun Srivastava Majority of the Tory MPs are for removal of Boris Johnson as the prime minister for his handling of the law breaking Brexit bill. While more than 40 Tory MPs have made their intention clear that they would vote against their own government, two former...
Lawyers Must Speak Truth To Power, Says Indira Jaising
By Amrita Nair The motto of the courts, as one sees, is “Satyamev Jayate” that translates as: “The truth shall prevail.” Speaking at a webinar held by The Lawsters on the subject, “The nature of the Legal Profession: Its role, challenges and limitations”, senior lawyer Indira Jaising remarked,...
Tug-Of-War In Germany Between Forces For Peace And Militarists
By Victor Grossman I’ll never forget the day my father’s ancient jalopy got stuck boarding the New York-Jersey City ferry; two wheels on the dock, two on the boat, the motor stalled, my father frantic, my mother scolding, cars behind us honking, and me, just 6, looking...
New Book Explores And Praises Cuban Health Care System For The People
By W. T. Whitney Jr. If they are paying attention, progressives worldwide know that Cuba provides health care that saves lives and prevents disease more effectively than does the United States, its major capitalist enemy. They know that Cuban health workers have been caring for people throughout...
China Has More To Lose In A Land War Along LAC In Ladakh Than India
By Nantoo Banerjee The brewing military tension between India and China may not escalate into a war unless China goes crazy about testing its defence capability on India after a gap of five decades. Time has changed. India’s military and economic strength today is far advanced compared...
Shiv Sena In Maharashtra Must Avoid Its Volatile Past
By Amulya Ganguli The ascent of a member of the Thackeray family to the Maharashtra chief minister’s post had persuaded the Shiv Sena to tone down its customary belligerence. There was to be no more blackening of faces or forcing food into the mouth of a Muslim during...
The Great Illusion About Congress Constitution
By K Raveendran The great Indian rope trick is widely considered as the ultimate act of illusion. There are different versions of the magic, depending on the ingenuity of the presenter. But essentially, the trick comprises a magician converting a rope into a rod on which he or...
Centre’s Agriculture Market Reform Favours Middlemen Not Farmers
By Gyan Pathak COVID-19 has provided great opportunities to the government to implement whatever they want to on the one hand, and a weapon to suppress any organized resistance of the people on the other. Modi government is hell bent on exploiting this situation. The three ordinances relating...
Assam Congress Determined To Forge Broad Alliance To Defeat BJP
By Ashis Biswas In Assam, two new features dominate the pre Assembly election scenario, if present developments are any indication. One, the Indian National Congress (INC) may fight the polls as part of a grand opposition alliance. The state unit is divided over the proposal to go...
Opposition Alliance Formation In Bihar Still Under Cloud
By Arun Srivastava Just a day after parting of his way with his onetime comrade in arms Lalu Yadav, the RJD supremo, the architect of the modern day rural employment scheme, the MGNREGA, which facilitated the prime minister Narendra Modi salvage his image in the wake of...
Public Sector Is Still Playing A Critical Role In Indian Economy
By Satyaki Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to embark on a big-ticket privatization is certainly welcome but India cannot be without public sector, which always played a critical role in bailing out the economy in crisis. “India needed a mix of socialism widely represented by public...
Question Hour Is An Essential Ingredient Of Vibrant Functioning Of Parliament
By Harihar Swarup Long before Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there was PM Atal Behari Vajpayee, whose primary identity was that of an outstanding parliamentarian. Elected to Lok Sabha a remarkable 10 times, hurling speech after thundering speech, taking opposition attacks on the chin, when Vajpayee was PM it...
NIA Continuing Hounding Of Scholar Activists For Relationship With Elgaar Parishad
By Arun Srivastava Police and intelligence agencies acting in a reckless manner driven with sense of vengeance and self-promotion has been an old machination, but the difference between the old and the latest tactics is its ruthlessness and resorting to brutality to finish the accused and his or...
Bizarre Developments Are Taking Place In Television Channels
By Sushil Kutty It’s another Saturday and if we thought it will be weekend as usual, we were wrong. Tension continues to brew. Both at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between wannabe superpower China and regional bulwark India and in Mumbai and Bengaluru, where the fair and...
Slum Dwellers Asked To Be Evicted By Supreme Court Have Nowhere To Go
By Aman Garg and Shivaang Maheshwari The judiciary is the last resort of the distressed, the deprived and the despondent. Naturally, they expect a humanitarian and empathic response from it. But it isn’t always so. On August 31, 2020, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed...
