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.Prime Minister’s Independence Day Address Is Most Disappointing
By Prakash Karat The prime minister’s speech on Independence Day was watched with anticipation to see if he would announce any new initiatives to deal with the health crisis caused by the pandemic and the related economic crisis which has resulted in large-scale loss of jobs and livelihoods....
Narendra Modi Is Still Clueless On Tackling Acute Economic Distress
By Binoy Viswam The Independence Day address delivered by the Prime Minister was typical of the Modi style. It was long, rhetorical, and at times dramatic. An 86 minutes long speech can naturally accommodate various sorts of flavour as desired by the speaker. Tall claims were aplenty, along...
South Asian Countries Should Increase Cooperation To Combat Covid-19
By Dr Arun Mitra Increase in the number of the cases of COVID-19 in India is a worrying factor even though it is on the expected lines as predicted by several epidemiologists. While Delhi has shown some downward trend, other states have now been showing rising numbers....
Criminal Laws Reforms Committee To Ensure Security To Individual
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Criminal Laws Reforms Committee is taking a progressive and human approach to assess the current criminal laws for bringing about the much needed reforms to ensure security to individual, community as also to the nation. The Committee constituted by the Union Home...
Vasundhara Raje Is Now Serious To Bid For Chief Minister’s Position
By Rahil Nora Chopra At last the Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan won the confidence motion in the state assembly. It was seen that the fight was between the BJP and Congress but at the end it was the fight between certain personalities in both the parties. At...
Prominent Left Veterans Extend Full Support To Biden-Harris In November Poll
By John Bachtell Alarm over the prospect of a second Trump presidency and desire for substantial change is preparing the ground for an unprecedented voter turnout in November. The virtual Democratic National Convention showcased the vast array of support coalescing around former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen....
Prashant Bhushan Grew Taller After Supreme Court Hearing
By Nitya Chakraborty Senior Supreme Court advocate and activist Prashant Bhushan came out of the Supreme Court on Thursday taller after the hearing on the fixation of his sentence. His principled exposition of the purpose behind his two controversial tweets in the course of this crucial hearing, won...
Rajasthan Crisis Makes Both Gehlot And Vasundhara Stronger
By Sagarneel Sinha Finally, the one month political crisis of Rajasthan, amid the ongoing Corona crisis, came to an end with rebel Sachin Pilot ending his battle against his own party and settling for peace with his detractor chief minister Ashok Gehlot as of now. Due to the...
Indiscriminate Selling Of Public Sector Harms National Interests
By Arun Srivastava We have large number of historical facts to show how the feudal lords and aristocrats for maintaining the façade of their power and aristocracy borrowed money from the traders by pledging their property. But this proved to be illusive and eventually they failed to resurrect...
Alarming Rise In Covid Cases In Kerala In Recent Days
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The dire forecasts made by health experts on the covid situation seem to be coming true. There is no mistaking that Kerala is inexorably marching towards a dreadful denouement. They had predicted that the number of covid cases per day could even top...
For Ensuring Independent Judiciary, Vibrant Bar Is Needed
By Amrita Nair “I speak my mind and therefore I am,” began Ms Indira Jaising. In her address, she drew a parallel between the life in pandemic and a life without the right to freedom of speech and expression. “If there is a cessation of the right to...
Kamala Harris Has A Good Record As An Environmental Activist
By Olivia Rosane Kamala Harris is now the first Black woman and the first person of Indian descent to run for national office for a major political party in the U.S., the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) pointed out. She also has a strong legacy of championing environmental...
Sanders Emerges As Unifier Of Anti-Trump Forces At Demo Convention
By Nitya Chakraborty Leftwing leader of the Democratic Party Bernie Sanders acted as the unifier of anti-Trump forces in the country through his highly emotive address on the opening day of the Democratic Party’s convention, thereby facilitating the path of victory of Joe Biden at the coming Presidential...
Ailing Indian Hospitals Need Urgent Treatment
By Gyan Pathak The Lady with the Lamp, the founder of the nursing profession Florence Nightingale, had said that a hospital should do no harm to the sick. However, it is a commonplace thing in India for a patient to suffer in the hands of doctors, nurses, and...
Continuing Job Losses In Salaried Class Sending Ominous Signal
By Satyaki Chakraborty The latest report of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) that nearly five million salaried employees lost their jobs in July this year due to covid pandemic and the lockdown that followed, is sending an ominous signal about the trend in the country’s economy....
India Needs To Re-Work Its Strategy To Meet Covid Challenge
By Sunita Narain Deaths in the United States because of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic are not so high, asserted President Donald Trump. This, he said, the day his country crossed 160,000 deaths because of the virus. But, however preposterous, Trump was right. If you take, as...
Prashant Bhushan Getting Big Support From Bar And Academics
By Paras Nath Singh Senior advocate of the Supreme Court and activist Prashant Bhushan is getting wide support from the leading figures of the civil society including lawyers and academics for his stand on the Indian judiciary. Senior lawyers of the country have expressed the view that the...
A Facebook Logo In Saffron May Be In Order
By K Raveendran Facebook will do well to consider a change of its theme from blue to saffron, which might help the leading social media company to protect its biggest market, a key consideration that influences the media giant’s policies with regard to independence and commitment to...
