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.Ayodhya Verdict Strengthens Indian Secularism
By Sagarneel Sinha Since the announcement of the historic verdict regarding the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute in Ayodhya by the constitution bench of 5 judges led by CJI Ranjan Gogoi unanimously, there have been opinions from a section of intellectuals and some politicians that the verdict is based...
Lord Rama: Mythology And Jurisprudence
By Barun Das Gupta The most significant aspect of the Supreme Court verdict on Ram Janambhoomu-Babri Masjid dispute is that for the first time a court of law has given recognition to a mythological figure as a juridical person by tacitly accepting that what is believed to...
Ayyappa Devotees Waiting For ‘Healing’ Touch From Supreme Court
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court approach of applying the principle of ‘the heart, mind and healing’ in its Ayodhya verdict has gladdened the hearts of millions of Ayyappa devotees, who are waiting desperately to hear the court deliver its judgment on a spate of review petitions on...
BJP Asks British Indians To Vote For Tories
By Arun Srivastava Like their Indian patrons and mentors, the UK support group for BJP and followers of Narendra Modi here, are working obstinately to split the British Indian and to accomplish this task. To achieve this the election to the British Parliament appears to be the most...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Arguments in Kashmir petitions have begun: The Supreme Court, after almost 90 days, began to hear the arguments in the petitions challenging the internet shutdown as well as the validity of abrogation of Article 370. In Anuradha Bhasin’s petition, it was argued that internet shutdown and complete blockade of...
Multinational Companies Welcome Coup In Bolivia
By C.J. Atkins Lithium is the key ingredient for the batteries fuelling the world’s electric car and smartphone revolution. Market analysts speculate that by the mid-2020s, lithium supply will be straining to keep up with demand from auto and mobile device manufacturers. It’s being called the “gold...
Corporatising Rail Assets To Facilitate Privatisation
By Nantoo Banerjee Twenty years after the corporatisation of the strategic operational division of the government’s Department of Telecommunication (DoT) as Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) by the then BJP-led government, under Atal Behari Vajpayee, the present government is planning to corporatise a part of another department, the...
Shape Of Economy To Determine Future Political Discourse
By Anjan Roy Now that article 370 is abrogated, Ayodhya dispute settled, triple talaq law is formalised, BJP’s principal promises have all been fulfilled. What next? Once the current rainbow dusts also disappear over all these, BJP will face an existential crisis? Whaat issues will dominate the...
Lula’ Release From Prison Boosts Left Morale In Latin America
By Nitya Chakraborty The sudden release of the former Brazilian President Lula by the Supreme Court on November 8, has imparted a fresh dimension to the current Left-Right battle in Latin America which is undergoing a severe political turmoil in the recent months. The Supreme Court verdict came...
Boris Johnson Caught In His Own Quagmire Of Falsehood
By Arun Srivastava It is a pure case of misuse of power. Police officers using their official status and powers to protect their political masters has been a common practice in a developing country, but the police watchdog using its authority to freeze investigation into Jennifer Arcuri scandal...
CPI(M)’s U-Turn On Arrest Under UAPA
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s stand on the UAPA issue has been vindicated with the party coming round to his view that the State Police was right in slapping the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) on the two CPI(M) workers arrested for their Maoist...
Temple Emotions Overshadow The Wrong-Doings Of 1949 And 1992
By Amulya Ganguli Considering that a review petition is likely to be filed by the Babri Masjid action committee on the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya judgment, the case may continue for some more time. However, this may well turn out to be an exercise in futility since a...
Ayodhya Verdict Creates A New Template
By K Raveendran It was Justice Ranjan’s Gogoi’s moment for a tryst with history and he has set himself up eminently set up for such a glory by heading the bench that has issued the best possible verdict on the Ayodhya Ramjanambhoomi dispute. The Chief Justice had...
Stalemate In Maharashtra Underlies BJP-Shiv Sena Rivalry
By Harihar Swarup BJP and Shiv Sena have a history of difficult relationship. Despite being partners for the major part of three decades, the relationship between the two parties has been under almost constant strain—this is because the ideological affinities that brings them together also pits them against...
Toxic War Between Bengal Governor And Trinamool Congress
By Ashis Biswas A bitter war of words over basic procedural, governance-related issues in public perception, this is what the ongoing, unseemly spat between Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar and the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) looks like. At another level, it enables the BJP-run central government to challenge the...
Reflections On The Berlin Wall 30 Years After Its Fall
By John Wojcik This weekend, there are events in Germany commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the pages of the press, prominent persons—from former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker to current German Chancellor Angela Merkel to former Soviet President...
Supreme Court Giving No Priority To Electoral Bonds Case
By Nitya Chakraborty The Bharatiya Janta Party is taking full advantage of the existing electoral bond scheme of the NDA government in bringing about massive expansion of its finances by cornering more than ninety percent of the funds received under the scheme from the donors belonging mainly to...
Modi Govt Is Eroding Financial Viability Of LIC
By N Sundaramurthy Narendra Modi-led government has decided to list LIC on the Stock Exchange. The media appears to be excited that LIC, the country’s largest financial institution, will become a potential candidate for public listing. It is termed the big-bang reform. What is the big-bang?! In simple...
