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.Aftermath Of IUML Mla’s Disqualification
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The setting aside by the Kerala High Court of the election of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) legislator K M Shaji constitutes a severe setback for the party, which is the second most powerful constituent of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF). The...
Finance Ministry And RBI Must Settle Differences
By Anjan Roy Running battle between the country’s central bank and the union finance ministry is matter which should not ordinarily concern the common man. It should however become a cause for worry if these start hitting the nation’s economy. From the present indications, unfortunately this is what...
Yogi Playing ‘Kamandanl’ And ‘Mandal’ Cards
From Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Finding it very tough to retain the 73 seats it won with help of allies, BJP is playing aggressive ‘kamandal’ and Mandal cards for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. CM Yogi Adityanath, who is considered to be the face of aggressive hindutva, has...
God And Devotee Waiting On Gogoi
By Aditya Aamir Imagine 4 crore people on the edge of the seat. A prayer on their lips. Malayalis! On five continents with most of them concentrated on a sliver of land, Kerala. Four crore mortals and an increasingly vulnerable deity, the celibate Swami Ayyappa, waiting for Justice...
Dress Rehearsal For 2019 As Assembly Polls In Five States Heat Up
By Kalyani Shankar Stage is set for the high stakes elections to five states — Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Telangana — this week. The BJP and the Congress are engaged in an almost direct fight in most of these states. Though the results would be known...
Western Leaders Overlook Real Reasons Of World War I
By Ben Chako Every year, the most diligent promoters of Armistice Day promise something new and different. The broadcasting media, in particular, tell us they will not only be commemorating the scores of millions who perished in 20th-century wars. They will, we are assured, be looking at why...
One Hundred Years Of Armistice Day Observed Last Sunday
By Anjan Roy Europe is currently reliving through the painful memories of its history. More particularly, that part of its recent history in the first half of the twentieth century when two bloody wars had devastated the continent and decimated its population. The trigger for this looking...
BJP, Congress In Desperate Bid To Dissuade Rebels
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Both Congress and BJP have initiated efforts to persuade their rebel candidates to withdraw their nominations. November 14 is the last day for withdrawal. Meanwhile, Congress has issued a document which it has chosen to call it a “Vachan Patra” instead of manifesto....
PM Modi Now Faces A Demonetisation
By Sushil Kutty The second anniversary of the landmark transfer of money passed us last week and we didn’t even check the small change in our pockets. How mean can a people who got crisp new notes for soiled currency be? Modi now acknowledges that it was all...
Sino-Indian Rivalry And Sri Lanka Crisis
By Barun Das Gupta The constitutional coup – his critics say highly unconstitutional – that Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena sought to carry off by sacking Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and appointing Mahinda Rajapaksa in his place has landed him in a soup. Not only did Wickremesinghe challenge...
Is Hot Money Evaporating From Capital Market
By Nantoo Banerjee Officials in the finance ministry may disagree, foreign portfolio investors may not be seeing India an attractive destination, at least for now. Overseas investors pulled out a massive Rs 38,900 crore (over $5 billion) from the capital markets, last month. It was the steepest outflow...
BJP-RSS’s Web Of Deceit Pierced
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Cleverness is an essential part of a politician’s stock-in-trade. But when you try to be too clever, you end up with egg on your face. That exactly is the plight in which BJP state president P. S. Sreedharan Pillai finds himself in. What...
Max Levitas’s Death Is A Big Loss To British Labour Movement
By Marcus Barnett Max Levitas was a towering figure of Britain’s labor movement. A hardened enemy of the Blackshirts in the years before World War II, the Irish-Jewish communist devoted nearly a century to fighting injustice. With the death of Max Levitas, who passed away on Friday, November...
LIC Is Being Used By Modi Regime As A Milch Cow
By N. Sundaramurthy LIC is continuously in the news, not for good reasons. Renowned economists and media analysts are expressing reservations about the LIC’s investments during the last couple of years. These criticisms cannot be dismissed as rubbish and pushed beneath the carpet. The LIC’s finances are under...
Threat Of Defection Brings Mp Parties To Their Knees
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Both the major parties of Madhya Pradesh have gone through the agony of defection by their stalwarts. Two important Congress leaders severed ties from the party following denial of tickets to their sons. They are Satya Vrat Chaturvedi from Chhatarpur and Prem Chand Guddu...
End Arms Race To Rid Of Poverty And Hunger
By Dr. Arun Mitra Year after year India’s ratings in human development index and hunger index are falling. We have fallen even below other South Asian countries. Our position in hunger index is 103 out of 119 countries. In 2017 our ranking was 100. In contrast, China...
In Its Second Innings, Ram Mandir Maybe A Spent Force
By Harihar Swarup Can the Ram Mandir agitation of the 1990s be revived in 2018? Politics of Ram Mandir may just be a spent force. Even Indira Gandhi could not revive “garabi hatao” slogan twice. Come election and the “Build Ram Mandir in Ayodhya”, or Mandir Wohin Banayenge...
Secrets Of ‘Shashisesquipedalianism’
By K Raveendran Shashi Tharoor has just been beaten in his own game by another smart alec, who has outsmarted the sesquipedalian, probably without his even knowing about it. Yes, some people are capable of devouring their victims without them being aware until they are about to...
