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.Ruling Party Continues To Push Sectarian Agenda
By Brinda Karat Even as the people of India face terrible hardships, suffering and distress during the lockdown and yet continue to observe instructions given by governments, the central government and the ruling party continue to push a sectarian agenda. The highly irresponsible behavour of the Tablighi Jamaat became...
Lockdown’s Long Shadow: Notes From The Ground
By Ujjaini Chatterji The complete lockdown throughout India began from March 24. Ever since our news was flooded with visuals of migrant workers who had no means to sustain themselves and were stranded helplessly across the nation. These are the workers who migrated from their interior villages of Rajasthan,...
Supreme Court’s Video Conferencing Guidelines: A Welcome Step
By Harsh Chopra The host of guidelines recently issued by the Supreme Court, permitting video conferencing for ensuring robust functioning of the judicial system across the country, is a welcome step. Though issued mainly in the backdrop to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, these guidelines will bolster the...
Battling Coronavirus: Centre Must Not Handicap The States
By Prakash Karat The fight against the Covid-19pandemic in India requires a big effort by the states as they have to bear the main expenditure and mobilise the human resources to combat the disease and its economic and social effects. The states have had to scale up health-care facilities,...
Nine Suggestions To PM Modi On Tackling Corona Crisis
By Sitaram Yechury The people were looking forward to the prime minister’s address to the nation on the last day of the three-week countrywide lockdown. These three weeks have thrown up many experiences that need to be addressed urgently in order, both, to strengthen our fight against the Covid-19...
Meeting The Challenge Of Covid-19: The South Asian Scenario
By Dr Arun Mitra In the first address to the nation on Covid-19 on 19 March 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to the people to bang thaalis, ghantis and sound shankhs as a mark of respect and gratitude for the health workers, including doctors, nurses, paramedical staff, safai...
Now Bihar Minister Admits Covid Lockdown Failed In State
By Arun Srivastava A minister and member of Bihar’s crisis management group, Sanjay Jha has outright accused the Delhi and UP chief ministers Arvind Kejriwal and Yogi Adityanath for the failure of lockdown in Bihar. The reason cited by Jha is, Kejriwal and Yogi did not provide any help...
Challenge Before India: Saving Both Lives And Livelihoods
By Sagarneel Sinha As India has extended its national lockdown till May 3, the country now faces another challenge: saving livelihoods, in addition to saving lives. The cases of novel coronavirus in the country keep increasing with more than 14,000 reported cases and deaths of more than 490 people....
RBI’s Financial Package Is Inadequate, Says Kerala FM
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala is not happy with the financial package announced by Reserve Bank Governor, Shaktikanta Das. The State’s dissatisfaction was voiced by Finance Minister Thomas Isaac in his first interaction with media personnel after the RBI announcement. The RBI, the finance minister said, does not seem...
FIR Against Siddharth Vardarajan: Criminalisation Of Media
By Anchal Bhatheja and Prannv Dhawan After a cursory glance at a catena of recent judicial decisions, it can be surmised that individuals ought not to be criminalised for exercising their fundamental rights within permissible boundaries. But the actions of the executive reek of clear abomination for the ones...
Corona Crisis: Unity Cannot Be Compromised
By Binoy Viswam Lockdown has been further extended till May 3, explained as only possible way out. No one can question the logic behind the move. While announcing the extension the Prime Minister minced no words on the sufferings of the people. Eloquently he went on to congratulate them....
Systemic Targeting Of Indian Muslims In Garb Of ‘Corona Jihad’
By Arun Srivastava Few days back, an English daily published from Mysore carried an editorial which without mincing words called upon the people to commit Muslim genocide. Though it published an apology next day, the fact remains the purpose has been served. A few days later, a TV news...
Fallout Of Media’s Hate Campaign During Covid-19 Coverage
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Hate campaign in social media and communal reporting in various news channels are responsible for the shameful incident that happened in Moradabad, where doctors and para-medical staff were attacked. The medical team including doctors was attacked by the local mob in Nagfani area in Moradabad...
Corona Puts Uddhav Thackeray In A Spot
By Rahil Nora Chopra The COVID-19 lockdown has put the Uddhav Thackeray led Maharashtra government in a tough spot not only for the highest number of coronavirus cases, but Thackeray himself as Chief Minister and Shiv Sena president, is not a member of the legislature. And if he doesn’t...
Sanders Forum Wants Worker-Centered Economy After Covid-19
By Mark Gruenberg Though the nation, and the world, are still in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic and the global recession it’s produced, five progressive leaders, marshalled by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., are thinking ahead on to how to build a new economy that works for workers, not...
The Economics Of Dealing With A Lockdown
By Nilanjan Banik and Anurag Narayan Banerjee Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi while admitting that “jaan” (saving lives) is important has chosen to extend the lockdown until 3 May, 2020. Although social distancing is important, however, lockdown also means livelihood of millions getting affected, and the possibility of many...
Are We Aiming For Mars With May 3 Deadline?
By Sushil Kutty Hard to imagine life without a lockdown in these days of corona! The feeling will remain for as long as we do not get on the back of this killer contagion. Particularly, in the absence of a vaccine. And the vaccine could be as many as...
Tackling Covid-19: America First, Or Corporations First?
By S Sudhakar Reddy Donald Trump, the most abrasive president the US has ever had, is the true representative, nay villain, of corporate capitalism with deep-ridden imperialist culture. He will do anything to defend the profits of corporations and his chair in the White House, including sacrificing the lives...
