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.Congress: Time For Putting House In Complete Order
By Nitya Chakraborty The truce between the Congress High Command and the rebel Congress leader of Rajasthan Sachin Pilot arrived following a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, is the best news for the beleaguered Grand Old Party at the moment. It is good for the party that Rahul...
Manmohan Singh Supports Government Borrowing To Sustain Economy
By Anjan Roy Former prime minister and finance minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has just now demonstrated what is the difference between an economist and a technically equipped theoretician. Ever cautious in his economic management at the helm of the finance ministry, Dr Singh has now laid out an...
Approaches That Bind Modi And Trump Together
By K Raveendran It is no coincidence that President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have great admiration for each other. It goes much beyond the personal charisma, though Modi will beat Trump hands down in this regard. What binds the two more is probably the...
Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan Is A Part Of Long Historical Battle
By Sagarneel Sinha There has always been a view to identify India as a country which began her journey after she gained independence from the imperialist British forces. This view has always been a dominant one in the circles of a large section of Indian intelligentsia. However,...
Digital Inequality Is Sure To Have Its Impact On Online Examinations
By Parth Maniktala Imagine a university divides its students into two groups: A and B. Students in group A are allocated books, whereas those in Group B are not. Group A students attend classes regularly, while group B students are not allowed to. Finally, the university conducts...
British Govt Is Abandoning The Workers During Pandemic
By Peter Lazenby Workers have been abandoned by the British government, trade union Unite said after a report revealed an expected jobs massacre caused by the Tories’ mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic. One in three companies expect that they will have to make redundancies by the end...
Knee Jerk HDFC Bank Reaction To Trillion-Rupee Outstanding Auto Loan
By Nantoo Banerjee After ICICI Bank and YES Bank, it is now HDFC Bank to feature in the operational misconduct involving the biggest ever outstanding loan under a single function. HDFC Bank, the country’s most valued bank, faces the charge of operational misconduct by its vehicle financing...
Through Bhoomi Pujan, BJP Has Virtually Rewritten Constitution Preamble
By Amulya Ganguli In the absence of Union minister Giriraj Singh, the BJP M.P. from Karnataka, Teshvi Surya, has provided the Big Picture of the BJP’s worldview. Just as Singh regretted that an exchange of Hindu-Muslim populations did not take place in the subcontinent in 1947, Surya has...
Centre Again Needles Mamata By Sending Official Team To Probe Mgnrega Funds
By Arun Srivastava In what could be the launch of yet another showdown between the BJP-led Centre and the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government, the former has decided to send a team to audit the state’s expenditure under the 100 days Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act...
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...
