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.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...
Opposition Playing Hindu Card After Successful Bhoomi Pujan At Ayodhya
By Pradeep Kapoor Keeping an eye on next assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh in 2022, the opposition parties too are playing Hindu card relating to the bhoomi pujan of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya which took place on August 5. Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra succeeded in hard...
One Year After Abrogation Of Special Status Of Jammu & Kashmir
By Ashutosh Sharma On August 5, 2019, the central government annulled Jammu and Kashmir’s special status — which granted exclusive land and job rights to permanent residents of the former state. One year later, contrary to the commanding national narrative, Kashmir today has a ruined economy whereas mainstream...
75 Years On, The Shadow Of Nuclear War Looms Large
By Ben Chacko Seventy-five years ago, when the US dropped a bomb named Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the world entered a new and terrifying era. People on the ground — some distance away — reported a brilliant flash of light (fishermen off the...
Maligning Manmohan Singh Will Not Refurbish Congress Image
By Arun Srivastava There is a famous adage in Hindi “wife of the weakest poor is the Bhabhi (sister in law) of entire village). The axiom implies that the poor does not have respect and prestige. It may sound obnoxious, but the situation of the former Prime Minister...
Class Action Suit Gives Indian Consumers A Powerful Tool
By K Raveendran A historic development that has empowered the Indian consumer like never before has gone largely unnoticed amidst the country’s preoccupation with the Covid pandemic and its dire consequences for the economy and the lives of the people. Rules framed under the new Consumer Protection...
In India’s Society And Politics, Tomorrow Is Another Day
By Sushil Kutty A year later or 50 days later or, shall we say, 500 years hence and we’re still squabbling; meaning, we haven’t changed at all in all these centuries. Why, there’s the Ramayana and there’s the Mahabharata to attest to the surety that man, especially the...
Modi Is Talking Of Atmanirbhar But Dismantling Public Sector Units
By Dr Somu The Union cabinet has recently approved the proposal to sell government stake in 23 public sector enterprises (PSEs). Disclosing the decision, finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman said that disinvestment of BPCL, Air India and Railways (partially) would help the government meet its divestment target of...
National Education Policy Will Be Of Little Benefit To Indian Poor
By Arun Srivastava No education policy will prove to be of any worth unless the annual budgetary allocation for improvement of education is substantially increased. Besides the most important issue that needs an explanation from the government is what kind of education it envisages to provide to the...
Universal Basic Income Is The Best Option To Help The Poor In Covid Era
By Bert Schouwenburg The economic shutdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing job losses have rekindled enthusiasm for the introduction of a universal basic income (UBI), a concept that manages to divide opinion not only between left and right, but within left and right circles too....
