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.Covid-19 ‘Headache’ And Spectre Of Hunger
By Sushil Kutty ‘Headache’ is a brand new Covid-19 symptom discovered with “chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and new loss of taste or smell,” says the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These are in addition to fever, cough, and difficulty breathing. The...
Significance Of Panchayats In The Time Of Covid-19
By Dr. Mahi Pal The COVID-19 has taken a shape of pandemic. It is being fought like a war. Entire Indian society and economy has been put under serious stress on account of this. There is problem everywhere including both rural and urban areas with regard to it. Abrupt...
Does Government Have An Exit Plan Out Of Corona Lockdown?
By Kalyani Shankar It has been more than a month since the strict national lockdown has been in place and there are all indications that exit strategy is likely to be a staggered one, as it will take a long time to come back to normal. Health Minister Harsh...
West Bengal Governor Busy Fishing In Saffron Waters
By Sankar Ray The West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar’s tweets, read alongside his stand on the inter-ministerial central teams (IMCTs)visiting Bengal to assess COVID19 situation complaining that the IMCTs were not given access to facilities or officials in the state for the purpose of assessment, are a dead giveaway....
Freedom Of The Press Is Not Licence To Preach Communal Hatred
By Barun Das Gupta When the entire country was under a total lockdown due to the corona virus endemic, something happened in the Gadchinchale village in the Palghar district of Maharashtra that soon became a casus belli for the Hindutvavadis. It blew into a first class political battle between...
Stranded In Kota, Bihar Students Resort To Hunger Strike
By Arun Srivastava After nearly 1,400 students from Haryana and Assam left Kota for their home towns by buses on Friday and over 2,000 from in Rajasthan are scheduled to leave in the evening, the students from Bihar enrolled with the coaching institutes have turned desperate to come back...
Complaints Mount Against UP Quarantine Centres
By Pradeep Kapoor Despite claims of high level monitoring, there have been several complaints against alleged mismanagement of quarantine centres in Uttar Pradesh. What could be more shocking than a letter from Agra Mayor, Naveen Jain, to CM Yogi Adityanath to save his city from becoming Wuhan of India?...
May Day This Year Has Special Importance To Indian Labour
By Satyaki Chakrborty May 1, 2020 is being observed by the trade unions throughput the world in deadful global scenario when the workers in the capitalist and developing countries are losing jobs posing a big threat to their livelihood. The dimension of the impact of the lockdown on the...
Political Crisis Unfolds In Brazil As Bolsonaro Faces Investigations
By Steve Sweeney A political crisis is unfolding in Brazil, with far-right President Jair Bolsonaro facing potential impeachment charges after a complaint raised against him by former justice minister Sergio Moro. The former ally of Mr Bolsonaro resigned sensationally on Friday after the president fired federal police chief Mauricio...
Chinese Corporate Predators Are On The Prowl
By Nantoo Banerjee Lockdown, global stock market collapse and negative bottom line of both large and medium enterprises are now engaging cash-rich Chinese predators to be on the prowl to take over ‘good looking’ assets as sinking corporate valuations are turning attractive for aggressive investors. Earlier this month, Industrial...
Union Minister Mukhtar Naqvi’s Tryst With Untruth
By Amulya Ganguli Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi must have realized by now that he had overstated his case by asserting that India is “heaven” for Muslims. The Union minister for minority affairs was evidently fielded by his bosses in the BJP to counter the charge being levelled by the Organization...
Doctors Are Frontline Workers In Fight Against Covid
By Dr. Arun Mitra Smile on the face of the patient is a matter of great satisfaction for a doctor. This gives a feeling of being triumphant over the disease, a feeling which gives confidence and motivation to carry on the work further. But there are failures too. Failures...
The Discoveries Of India And ‘Abroad’
By Sushil Kutty Georgians did not fall over each other to storm restaurants and barbershops Sunday. The move to reopen Georgia to trade and business failed. Eateries, which asked their ‘stay at home’ employees to report for work, had nobody at the tables to wait on. Georgians refused to...
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...
