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.Chokeholds On Faith With Law Measured
By Aditya Aamir When we are in a room, there will be ideas thrown about, diverse thoughts. Free speech and free thought. But you want conformity. Linear thought. Your view should prevail. The courts should read your mind and rule accordingly. Sabarimala or Ayodhya, it doesn’t matter. Babri...
West Bengal Too Poor To Handle Rohingya Influx
By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the unending economic stagnation and a crippling lack of resources are making it difficult for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to keep her populist commitments to displaced Rohingyas of Myanmar or suspected ‘illegal Bangladeshis’ in Assam. Ever in the forefront of the...
Cut And Thrust Between Rbi And Government
By Anjan Roy The Reserve Bank of India has plunged headlong into a battle with the government over its independence. Last week, the RBI had a meeting of its board of directors where the government and nominee directors have reportedly strongly criticised the central bank’s handling of the...
Coup Against PM Ranil Wickremesinge Lands Sri Lanka In Soup
By Kalyani Shankar The world is shocked about what is happening in Sri Lanka after President Maithripala Sirisena has appointed his predecessor Mahinda Rajapakse as the new Prime Minister after sacking Ranil Wickremesinge last Friday ending in a constitutional crisis. The New York Times described the aftermath...
India Looking For More Investment From Japanese Medium Units
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bilateral summit with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on October 29 has sought to significantly alter te nature of Japanese investment in India by focusing on more job oriented projects by the Japanese Medium & Small Scale units as against...
Asuras And Atheists In God’s Own Country
By Aditya Aamir BJP President Amit Shah Saturday arrived in Kerala, the “maiden passenger” on the “maiden flight” to the “maiden airport” in Kannur, and warned Chief Minister Pinnarayi Vijayan that “perpetrating Emergency-like atrocities” on “ready-to-wait maidens”, mothers and sisters of Kerala will be fought with all...
Ram Can Wait, Says Supreme Court
By Aditya Aamir The media and political build-up was cut short abruptly. Almost laconically, CJI Ranjan Gogoi read out the order. The matter will be listed in January to decide which court and when this matter will be heard. It can be heard in January or February...
Minor Partners May Unsettle Nitish Calculations
By Arun Srivastava The Lok Sabha elections for 2019 in Bihar promise to be a significant political battle between the backward and upper castes. There is simmering discontent in all the caste groups, irrespective of their class character and economic profile that the coalition governments have failed to...
Supreme Court Has To Protect Sanctity Of Institutions
By Amritananda Chakravorty Not a week goes without reports about the deliberate destruction of the autonomy and robustness of the institutions critical for the Indian democracy. Last week was the turn of the Central Bureau of Investigation (‘CBI’), aka ‘caged parrot’. No one was under any illusion about...
India And Power Struggle In Sri Lanka
By Barun Das Gupta The political storm that was brewing in Sri Lanka for quite some months under an apparently tranquil surface has now broken out in full force. In a quick succession of events, President Maithripala Sirisena has dismissed his prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and appointed...
CPI Calls For Nation Wide Stir Of Opposition Parties Against Modi
By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (CPI) at its National Executive Committee meeting held on October 27 and 28 decided to intensify its agitation to expose the Rafale scam and the desperate attempts made by the BJP government led by the Prime Minister Narendra Mod in...
Confusing Data On India’s Mobile Handsets Production
By Nantoo Banerjee Official data are like audited corporate financial accounts that hide more than they reveal. Just as some of the latest top level governments statements that claims 80 percent of the mobile handsets are now manufactured in India and the country “was able to save...
Not Only Wife, But Ceasar Himself Must Be Clean
By K. Raveendran We know how the world views Taj Mahal as a beautiful monument of love. We also know that the world considers Bangalore and Hyderabad as Indian versions of Silicon Valley. But we never knew that there is a world famous stretch of land near an...
Out-Goebbelsing Goebbels
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is not easy to out-Goebbels Goebbels. But the Kerala BJP leaders are tantalizingly close to achieving that feat! If Adolf Hitler’s propaganda chief were alive, he would turn green with envy marveling at the vehemence and eloquence with which the BJP...
‘CBI Vs CBI’ Feud Shows Modi Government’s Incompetence
By Harihar Swarup Sadly, the Central Bureau of Investigation, India’s premier investigative agency, has been described as “Comical Bureau”, “Bureau of Intrigues” and headlines in newspapers, reflecting internal tussle inside the CBI, screamed “CBI vs CBI”. Why this prestigious agency has come to such a pass? Possibly, its...
Socialism’s Global Appeal Is Again On The Rise
By Ian Goodrum “The Opportunity Costs of Socialism,” published on Tuesday by the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors, attempts to smear socialism—worker ownership of production—as a bankrupt ideology. The 72-page paper uses the 200th anniversary of socialist thinker Karl Marx’s birth as a jumping-off point for condemning...
Some Safeguards To Temporary Workers Finally
By B. Sivaraman Apprentices, badlis, casuals, probationers and temps—one thing common to all these five categories of workers, besides contract labourers, is their precarious existence as workers. Not only they have no job security, they are also invariably underpaid, often doing the same work as regular workers...
Supreme Court Sees Through CBI Madness
By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court Friday ordered the Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) to complete his probe against CBI Director Alok Verma in two weeks’ time under the strict eye of Supreme Court-appointed judge AK Patnaik. The top court issued notices to the Centre and the CVC; and...
