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.Passing Of CAB Is A Denial Of Democracy
By Krishna Jha Can we deny our heritage? Can we denounce Rahim Khankhana, and Ghalib, and then Hasrat Mohani, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Sajjad Zaheer, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and so many who had their own contributions to the nation making in India? Without our plurality, we are left...
Anti-CAB Sentient Gathering Momentum
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party and the party-led Government at the Centre are understandably over the moon. They have every reason to feel elated as they have scored two significant political victories within a week: a creditable victory in the Karnataka assembly by-elections and the...
Modi Govt Needs Easing Present FDI Norms
By Subrata Majumder Dissection of the slow growth of the Indian economy revealed that sagging domestic investment and slump in demand dragged the growth in downtrend. Domestic investors were shy and consumers were hesitant to spend. Growth in construction felt the pinch of wiping of black money and...
Impeachment: It’s Not Just About Trump
By Joe Sims This is truly an extraordinary moment. Now, for only the fourth time in U.S. history, a president faces impeachment. Impeachment is a huge people’s victory. And let’s be clear—it is a victory born of struggle. The American people from many different walks of life...
Agitations Mark First Anniversary Of Kamal Nath Govt
By L.S. Herdenia The completion of one year of Kamal Nath government is being marked by several agitations. They include agitation by farmers, by college and school teachers and an agitation launched by the BJP demanding effective security for women. Farmers all over the state are protesting...
Kashmir Action Faces Tough Supreme Court Challenge
By K Raveendran The noise over Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) has turned public gaze away from the otherwise crucial hearing of the petitions challenging the Presidential orders issued under Article 370 of the Constitution, which revoked the special status of Jammu & Kashmir. The five-member bench comprising...
Bangladesh Closely Following Debate Over Cab
By Ashish Biswas For once, Union Home Minister Mr. Amit Shah’s brief reference in the Lok Sabha to simmering tensions in Assam and the Northeast (NE) over the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) is spot on. Some people in those areas, he reasoned, were genuinely (even if wrongly!) concerned...
BPCL Privatisation Is Going To Be A Major Disaster For Economy
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Modi Government’s decision on the privatisation of the public sector oil company BPCL is going to be a major economic disaster for India making the country poorer by lakhs of crores by handing over this blue chip company to the private sector. Top...
December 12 Poll Is Crucial For Britain’s Future
By Arun Srivastava Britain has not faced a more critical election in decades than the one it faces on Thursday. Though it was envisaged that it would have direct bearing on the issue of Brexit, it is expected to decide and direct the future of Britain and...
Macron Unites all French Workers—Against his Pension “Reforms”
By Dennis Broe PARIS—“Reform” is a word with a varied history. At the beginning of the last century, there were many battles among progressives over whether capitalism as a system could be reformed or whether it needed to be abolished. Sometime in the 1980s, with the rise of...
Law Enforcement Needs To Wake Up To India’s Rape Epidemic
By Kalyani Shankar In William Shakespeare’s famous drama Julius Caesar, Cassius, a nobleman, speaking with his friend, Brutus, confides in the latter that in the best interests of the public, Julius Caesar must be stopped from becoming the monarch of Rome. Cassius tells him “The fault, Dear Brutus,...
Why Fake Encounters, Like Lynchings, Are Popular In India
By Amulya Ganguli As the showering of proverbial petals on the Telangana policemen — who gunned down four, accused of allegedly gang-raping and burning to death a young woman veterinarian in Hyderabad — showed, the summary execution of alleged criminals in circumstances which are outside the legal process...
Cab May Prove To Be BJP’s Waterloo
By Barun Das Gupta Even as Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) in the Lok Sabha on Monday, the entire North-East erupted in anger, indignation and a sense of betrayal. Betrayal, because the Assam Accord of 1985, signed by the then Prime Minister of...
Under Current Sentiment To Decide Jharkhand Election Outcome
By Arun Srivastava Holding of the five phase peaceful assembly election is going to be the most important event for Jharkhand. Already the BJP leadership has started exploiting this as a major administrative gain. The argument is quite simple; the people are happy with the performance of the...
On Immigration, Labour Has Answers The Tories Do Not
By Ben Chako The Conservatives’ points-based immigration system has been the main focus of their weekend campaigning. And the constant reiteration of “Australian-style” by Tory politicians and sympathetic pundits cannot be explained by Australia’s immigration system being well regarded. It has been repeatedly denounced by the UN...
BJP Faces Internal Opposition To PSE Sale To Foreign Buyers
By Nantoo Banerjee It is interesting to note that Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) an economic think-tank affiliated to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has finally come out with its opposition to privatisation and sale of strategic state-owned industrial assets by the government. It has openly expressed its ire and...
Making A Scarecrow Of Our Judicial System
By K Raveendran “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom”. This sentence in the ‘tryst with destiny’ speech of Jawaharlal Nehru has inspired generations of Indians and will continue to do so. But there is something that...
Mamata And Governor Are In No Mood To Stop Feud
By Ashis Biswas One intriguing feature of the highly politicised feud between state Governor Mr Jagdeep Dhankhar and West Bengal Government is that both squabbling parties are confident of winning it, never mind the consequential sufferings for Bengal’s stressed, aggrieved citizens. An added complication is that one side,...
