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.Iilegal Bomb Factory Blasts Keep West Bengal Tense
By Ashis Biswas For the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in Bengal, its poor governance could prove a heavier political encumbrance going into the Assembly elections of 2021, even more than any challenge from the resurgent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) .The massive explosion on January 3at Naihati, North...
Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s Bid To Cash In On Kashmir’s Long Night
By Sankar Ray The Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi inspired the movement for right of Kashmiris for self-determination on 5 January 2020 in a crafty and diplomatic style, moving away from spreading anti-India venom, seen during the regimes of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and mullah-backed President Zia-ul Haq....
Urgent Need To Save Our Knowledge Institutions From Majoritarianism
By Ashish Goel What happened in JNU on the 5th is now a matter to public record with several eyewitness accounts surfacing in the public domain. The questions that must now be asked are who will take responsibility for the calculated dereliction of duty of the police, has...
Trump’s Misadventure May Lead To War Danger In West Asia
By John Wojcik Those who saw recent demonstrations against the theocratic regime ruling Iran as a good sign had their hopes setback yesterday when the funeral for the assassinated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani drew millions into the streets of Tehran, that nation’s capital. A sea of humanity turned...
National Economy Should Take Precedence Over Politics
By Nantoo Banerjee On December 7, 2015, eighteen months the Narendra Modi government first came to power, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu’s global consumer and industrial products industry group posted a report highlighting its expectation about India capturing the fifth position as the world’s most competitive manufacturing nation in 2020....
Harsh Lessons From Top Court’s Judicial Passivism
By Amulya Ganguli At one time, cases of judicial activism had caused disquiet about unwarranted encroachments on executive and legislative turf, provoking much resentment among mandarins and the law-makers. Now it is different in view of the caution exercised by the judiciary on issues like Kashmir...
CAA Thorn Worries Assam Bjp Ahead Of 2021 Polls
By Sagarneel Sinha The Bharatiya Janata Party has been aiming high in West Bengal for the next year’s assembly polls — as the party hopes that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will aid it in registering its first electoral victory in the state by consolidating the Hindu...
Left Must Do More To Meet RSS Challenge
By Arun Srivastava RSS and BJP are not ready to relent and would continue with their repression on the people who stand for Constitutional rights is clearly manifest in the bloody attack on the students of JNU Sunday evening. This was carried out just within 24 hours of...
Bjp General Secretary Talks Of Violence Against Officials
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: All India BJP General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya is talking the language of violence. Two days back, he warned that he would have set Indore on fire but for the fact that top RSS leadership was in the town. His outburst was directed at the...
Democrats Warn Trump Against Escalating War In Middle East
By Mark Gruenberg Many congressional Democrats—along with party presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren—are warning that President Donald Trump’s targeted drone assassination strike in Iraq that killed top Iranian military leader Gen. Qassim Suleimani will trigger Iranian retaliation, a regional war in the Middle East,...
Dynasty Now A Mainstay Across Indian Political Spectrum
By Harihar Swarup Among the political parties the Congress is most maligned for being a dynastic organization. But now almost all political parties have been affected by this menace except the Left parties. Look at Maharashtra: Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s recent expansion of his Council of Ministers exemplifies...
Stir A Manifestation Of Widespread Discontent
By K Raveendran The nationwide protest against the citizenship law, spearheaded by students and youth, has its own irony. BJP has been the beneficiary of such an agitation between 2011 and 2013, which helped the party to be swept to power in 2014. Today, the party and its...
Amit Shah Is Refusing To Recognise Anti-CAA Resurgence
By Arun Srivastava People around the world have been worried of the rising tide of rightwing populism, nationalism and polarisation, but the situation is more alarming in India. The rightist forces are out to eliminate the liberal and democratic forces from the political scenario of the country. ...
Stage Set For General Strike Of Central Trade Unions On January 8
By Satyaki Chakraborty The stage is now finally set for the one day all India general strike on January 8 called by the central trade unions of the country excepting the BJP affiliated BMS to dare the attention of the Government to the ten demands including the hike...
Kerala Governor-Govt Faceoff Over CAA, NRC
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Can a Governor act like a full-time politician? Are there deterrents to stop him from crossing the ‘Lakshman Rekha’? What are the options before a State Government which is at the receiving end of gubernatorial misconduct? These are the questions which springs...
Top RSS Leaders To Hold Strategy Meeting In Indore
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: RSS has chosen Madhya Pradesh for intensive and extensive campaign to explain positive aspects of citizens (amendment) act and NRC. Not only for campaign but Indore has also been selected as the venue to prepare long-term strategy to clear the confusion created...
The Elephant In The Room Is NRC
By Shailesh Gandhi There is considerable turmoil and controversy surrounding the Citizen Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA). Over twenty lives have been lost so far and, in many places, there are stories of pitched battles between police and protestors. I am trying to look at this dispassionately. The...
Modi Regime’s ‘Double Speak’ Is Exposed
By Krishna Jha Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his ‘Man Ki Bat’, the last one for the year, said on a conciliatory note that ‘young’ today does not like lack of governance and instability. It was his way of veiling the fact that police was let loose to...
