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.Democracy In India Needs Dissent To Be Celebrated
By Dr. Amal Sethi Earlier this month, Sidharth Varadarajan, one of the leading journalistic voices against the ruling government, was served with an FIR based on a retracted tweet. He was asked to appear 650 km away in the middle of the central lockdown due to coronavirus to answer...
Tories Are Cut Up With Boris For His Inept Handling Of Corona Crisis
By Arun Srivastava Two predecessors of ’Boris Johnson’s had to bow out of the office of prime minister as they could not come up to the expectation of the Britons and also failed to keep their promises made to the people. Theresa May’s premiership was wrecked by Brexit, and...
Delay In Sitharaman’s Second Covid Stimulus Is Killing
By K Raveendran When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced during his national television address that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had been asked to prepare an economic support plan to help people to tide over the crisis, it was obvious that any plan that addressed the core issue would not...
Kashmiri People Afflicted By Twin Plagues
By Prakash Karat Not much is heard about what is happening in Jammu and Kashmir in these times of the pandemic. But even when the people there are seriously concerned about the spread of the coronavirus, the Hindutva rulers are busy designing what is now called the “union territory”...
Now India Should Ease Covid Lockdown And Revive Economy
By Harihar Swarup Forget caution, India should rapidly ease the Covid shutdown to revive the economy. Otherwise it may suffer the worst of both worlds – economic collapse without checking the virus. At the Princeton University webinar last week, economics Nobel laureate Angus Deaton did not mention India by...
Modi Has To Prepare The Country For A Long Haul
By Ashok B Sharma The winter of Corona crisis is far from being over. No green shoots seem to be appearing anywhere across the globe as yet. The Director-General of World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has already pressed the panic button saying that the “worst” of the novel...
Indian Middle Class Set To Lose Its Social And Political Stature
By Arun Srivastava The poor and daily wage labourers are not only the work force to bear the brunt of the coronavirus, the urban middle class which has been the passionate admirer of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah is also on the verge of losing its status and shine...
Diluting Federalism In The Fight Against The Covid-19 Pandemic
By Parth Maniktala While CSR money can be donated to the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund), no such contributions of CSR funds can be made to ‘Chief Minister’s Relief Fund’ or the ‘State Relief Fund. The author argues that this undermines...
Looking For The Coronavirus Vaccine
By Harihar Swarup Scientists and researchers all over the world have been striving hard to find a treatment for dreaded coronavirus disease, which has so far taken a heavy toll on life. Scientists now assure us that soon a breakthrough may be reached. While announcing the extension of nationwide...
Historic Victory Of Narmada Bachao Andolan
By Samar Bagchi A mail came to me in the morning today that Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) has achieved a historic victory of termination of Maheswar dam project on Narmada after a long struggle of 23 years. The news brought to my memory of my visit to the two...
Sonia Bashes BJP’s Communal Playbook At CWC Meeting
By Rahil Nora Chopra At the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, Congress president Sonia Gandhi launched into a tirade against the BJP, saying the BJP was spreading “communal prejudice and hatred.” She said: “Let me also share with you something that should worry each and every one as Indians....
Reading Comrade Lenin To Guide Us During Pandemic
By Krishna Jha It is 150th birth anniversary of Comrade V I Lenin, a man who changed the course of history. For the first time, the tsarist feudal imperialist powers were thrown out by united opposition in Russia. It was a step towards ending the class divide that came...
14 Crore Working Indians Have Lost Jobs In Lockdown
By Satyaki Chakraborty 14 crore working Indians have lost their jobs as of now as a result of the lockdown in the country due to COVID 19.Th national lockdown is scheduled to end on May 3 but it may continue in the third phase in many parts of the...
Attitude To Divorce May Change Post-Covid
By Vandana Shah Divorce, as defined in various Acts, is “the legal dissolution of the marital union between a man and a woman”. Divorce in India is a socio-legal phenomenon. In most countries across the world, you apply for a divorce for whatever reasons, the underlying being incompatibility and...
Facebook-Jio Deal: A Precursor To The Post-Covid World
By Anjan Roy In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a commercial deal between two private companies can have strategic diplomatic significance and can give a clue to the post-corona world. One of the most glamorous technology giants, Facebook, has picked a minority stake of 9% in Reliance Group’s...
Macabre Toss Between Olympics And Hunger Games
By Sushil Kutty We will not let anybody go hungry sounds fine. But right now for the chap sitting watching television in drawing rooms across India, the ones who do not qualify for ration or direct to bank cash transfers, he is not aware which governments – state and...
Govt On The Backfoot Over Sprinklr Deal
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government is sharply divided on the agreement it has signed with controversial US-based company Sprinklr for uploading data on the people under surveillance for covid-19. The seriousness of the issue can be gauged from the fact that the CPI(M)’s main...
The ‘Other’ Pandemic: Domestic Violence During Corona
By Surabhi Karwa R, an unmarried woman, who returned to her hometown, due to lockdown, gets beaten daily at the hands of her abusive father. Another woman, S, a married woman, had to lock herself in a room to save herself from her abusive husband. Yet another woman, K,...
