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.Modi Should Have Announced An Economic Relief Package
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘janata curfew’ call has been well-received, although some concerns have been expressed as to whether it has raised a scare about possible shortage of essential goods, leading to price escalations. But the disappointment over his failure to announce any financial component in...
Ex-CJI Ranjan Gogoi’s Impropriety Has Shaken The Country
By Harihar Swarup It is sad that former Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, who retired barely four months back from the Supreme Court, and was nominated to Rajya Sabha by President Ramnath Kovind, was jeered by opposition members as he took oath in the Upper House. Former CJI’s...
When Power Colludes And Doesn’t Separate: Case Of Ranjan Gogoi
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 16th March, 2020, the President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, nominated Rajan Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha. Though seemingly an innocuous notification, the said notification failed to mention that Rajan Gogoi had retired as the Chief Justice of India merely four months back. Those...
Innovation (Or Lack Of It) In The Time Of Covid-19
By Sushil Kutty It is only in America that presidents get routinely pulled up for real and imaginary breach. Take Trump, for instance. He made the mistake of telling somebody in media, “We’re not a shipping clerk.” This, after he was questioned if his administration was coping with the...
Coronabattle: Kerala To Crack Down Hard On Guideline Violators
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has decided to crack down hard on violators of the guidelines and instructions issued by the State Health Department to combat Covid-19 virus. The State has been forced to up the ante in view of the utterly irresponsible defiance of the guidelines by a...
Modi’s Half-Hearted Approach To Fight Against Coronavirus
By Arun Srivastava For crores of his fans, Narendra Modi’s March 19 suggestion to observe Janata Curfew on March 22 from 7 in the morning to 9 in the night is the only panacea to curb the menace of the Coronavirus. He also suggested to ring bells, beat metal...
Theatre Of Chaos In Madhya Pradesh Betrays Congress Infighting
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Post-mortem operation to detect factors which led to the fall of the Kamal Nath government is on. Various factors are being listed, although many people feel that months back Jyotiraditya Scindia had made up his mind to ditch the Congress. Some positive steps could have...
Indian Democracy Under Severe Threat From Ruling BJP-RSS
By Dr Bhalchandra Kango After 2019 elections a new, anti-democratic, practice has been initiated by the ruling BJP-RSS combine in many states. The BJP does not respect the people’s mandate if it goes against its views and agenda. In that situation, it tries all kinds of methods covert and...
What Narendra Modi Left Unsaid In His Covid-19 Address
By Sushil Kutty Thursday, March 19 night, at 8 pm, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation. He uttered the word coronavirus several times but did not elaborate on how his government intended to fight the pandemic in a way that will limit its impact on India which is...
Pakistan Severely Hit By ‘Coronakratch’, But No Lockdown Yet
By Sankar Ray With 456 detected positive, Pakistan is the most severely hit South Asian country by the Coronavirus pandemic. ‘Coronakratch’ — an acronym for the pandemic of ‘Coronavirus, king of all crashes’ — has been coined by Frédéric Lordon, Director (Research) at Centre de Sociologie Européenne (CSE), under...
Have Modi-Shah Buried the Hatchet With Shivraj Singh Chouhan?
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo has not forgiven Shivraj Singh Chouhan, once propped up by L K Advani and Sushma Swaraj for briefly challenging Modi as an alternative OBC face to lead the BJP in 2014. After the Madhya Pradesh assembly election in December 2018,...
Despite US Blockade, Cuba Produces Covid-19 Medicines
By Yaditza del Sol González HAVANA: Although there is no preventive vaccine or specific treatment at this time for the new coronavirus SARS COV-2, which causes COVID-19, the Cuban pharmaceutical industry is guaranteeing production of proven, high efficacy treatment medications, including recombinant human interferon alpha 2b, in addition to...
Trade Unions Fight To Protect Workers From Covid-19
By Ben Chacko Trade unions across the world are leading the battle to protect workers and their families from economic dislocation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Unions are fighting to ensure workers receive sick pay, avoid catastrophic loss of income if employers are closing businesses, and that governments put...
Trinamool Congress Scores A Self-Goal
By Ashis Biswas In its desperation to stop Bikashranjan Bhattacharya, a candidate jointly sponsored by the CPI(M)-led Left Front and the state Congress, from winning a Rajya Sabha seat from Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) ended up scoring a self-goal. Given the combined strength of the opposition in the...
The Difference Between This Pandemic And Earlier Ones
By Anjan Roy Humanity has faced outbreaks of many, many pandemics over historic times. Bubonic plague several centuries back to Spanish influenza just a hundred years back had wiped out large sections of human population. But many of their lessons have not been learnt and those have been lost....
Gogoi Appointment And Coronavirus: Modi Must Explain
By Sushil Kutty The coronavirus is now everywhere. Maybe not yet in the Tahiti islands or ones in the Minicoy in the Lakshadweep archipelago. Definitely not in the island which has been declared a country by the runaway godman from India. Meanwhile, the number of confirmed coronavirus positive cases...
Coronavirus Response: Why Prevention Is Our Only Hope
By Nipun Saxena I have come across many people questioning the Government’s move to contain Coronavirus (Covid-19) and most of these criticisms centrally revolve around the idea that this pandemic has a lesser mortality/fatality rate than other pandemic diseases. Conservative estimates have pegged it between 2% to 3%. The...
Trump’s Coronavirus Response Leaves American Workers Upset
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s dizzying reversals and commands to the country about what to do to combat the coronavirus pandemic leave one of the biggest groups of U.S. workers – the 2.1 million federal government employees – and their unions confused and upset. And guidance, or...
