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.Budget 2020-21: Big Disappointment For Left-Governed Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Shocking indifference and callous neglect – this has been Kerala’s lot in the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, February 1,2020. Kerala has every reason to feel aggrieved. None of the demands made in the State’s wish list have...
Labour Needs To Find A Vision To Bridge Leave-Remain Divide
By Arun Srivastava Ahead of the contest to find Jeremy Corbyn’s successor in Britain’s main opposition party, some seniors leaders have come out stressing that electability doesn’t mean Labour becoming ‘more Tory’ and strive to simply find fault with the leftwing policies of Corbyn. These leaders also...
Union Budget 2020-21: FM Sitharaman’s Much Ado About Nothing
By Anjan Roy Never before there has been so much speculation about what the union budget would be, what would be the steeply sliding fiscal deficit figures and what concessions could be introduced in the budget to pull the economy out of its present rut as in the...
Budget For The Railways Falls Short Of Expectations
By Gyan Pathak The budget for Indian Railways does not seem to represent in true sense of the top three themes – aspirational India, economic development and the caring society – of the first Union Budget of the decade that has been envisioned to be ‘laying strong...
Sitharaman’s Budget Full Of Platitudes, Cliches And Modi Praise
By K Raveendran Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has used her budget speech as an employment guarantee scheme, not for the large army of unemployed in the country, but the protection of her own job. Her entire speech sounded like an anachronistic eulogy for Prime Minister Narendra Modi....
United Kingdom Leaving European Union Is The Beginning Of A New Era
By Arun Srivastava United Kingdom leaving European Union in the midnight of January 31, has been the most consequential event in recent British political history. While Boris Johnson’s yes men are proud of their leaders’ achievement and claim that it would usher UK into new and...
S M Krishna’s Autobiography Is A Book To Treasure
By Harihar Swarup The latest to hit the book stands is the former External Affairs Minister S M Krishna’s autobiography. Written in Kannada, the book is full of anecdotes. It will soon be translated into English. He writes: “When I was two, Mahatma Gandhi was travelling from Bengaluru...
Latest Bodo Accord Places BJP One Step Ahead In Assam
By Sagarneel Sinha At a time when the country is witnessing a strong polarisation between left and right ideologies “whether India is marching towards Fascism” — some significant developments are taking place in the Northeast. One is the crucial tripartite Bodo Accord signed by the Centre with...
SC Sends Notice To Centre On Plea Challenging Rti Amendment Act
By ‘The Leaflet’ The Supreme Court on January 31 issued notice to the Central Government on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the constitutional validity of the Right to Information (Amendment) Act, 2019 and its accompanying rules namely the ‘Right to Information (Term of Office, Salaries, Allowances...
Senate ‘Trial’ With No Documents Or Witnesses Is A Travesty
By John Wojcik President Donald Trump’s acquittal was a certainty well before Sen. Lamar Alexander’s decision last night to hang tight with his long-time pal Mitch McConnell and oppose efforts by the Dems to call more witnesses and keep the trial going an extra week. The 51-member...
‘Thalinomics’ Is The New Formula To Prop Up Sagging Economy
By Gyan Pathak The first Economic Survey presented in the first year of the 2020s, the decade which has been termed as the ‘key to India’s growth’ by the President of India in the Parliament of India today, presents a very disturbing picture of the state of...
Shaheen Bagh Everywhere: A Country Reclaiming Its Soul
By Krishna Jha We had our Republic Day this week, the day when our Constitution came into effect for the first time with a democratic governing system completing the transition towards becoming a sovereign republic. For the first time we addressed ourselves as “We the People” of a...
BJP’s Dirty Insinuation Against Shaheen Bagh Protestors
By Arun Srivastava BJP experimenting violence with hatred has been gradually reaching to the flash point. This has not come as surprise. Amit Shah, the Home Minister has been providing it a perfect shape and character in the form of pitting Shaheen Bagh against India. In his election...
Delhi Gears Up For Triangular Fight, But AAP Is Frontrunner
By Rahil Nora Chopra Delhi will witness a triangular fight among Congress, BJP and AAP when it votes to choose a new legislative assembly on 8 February. The Congress, which ruled the city for 15 years till 2013 but drew a blank in the 2015 polls, is also...
In Gaza, Protests Rage Against Trump’s ‘Deal of The century’
By Steve Sweeney Palestinians waged a general strike in the besieged Gaza Strip January 29 as protests continued to rage against the “dismal” Middle East peace plan announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday. His so-called “deal of the century” has been met by global...
PM Modi’s New Strategies To Tide Over Economic Downturn
By Subrata Majumder Budget for 2020-21 will be the toughest for Nirmala Sitharaman, more than any other Finance Minister has faced during the past eight years. With the downturn in economic growth, which has unleashed a cascading impact on revenue growth and widened fiscal deficit, presenting an appropriate...
Man Of His Time: Remembering Trade Unionist George Fernandes
By Anjan Roy George Fernandes was supposed to die in course of the Emergency in 1976. The orders were conveyed and the exception awaited. But an encrypted telegram had apparently landed on the wrong desk and therefore the plan had leaked out. The leak was also deliberate....
Predictive Analytics Is Euphemism For Surveillance State
By Joel Wendland-Liu “Communicative capitalism,” writes the communist philosopher Jodi Dean, refers to a phase of knowledge- and technology-based commodity production in which information on a massive scale is produced, gathered, and sold for profit. What we now call the “information society” or “knowledge economy” sees the large-scale...
