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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.IPTA Celebrates Its 75 Years With Big Enthusiasm
By Noor Zaheer Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) celebrated its seventy five glorious years which was commemorated in a five day long festival of theatre, music, dance, songs, discussions and deliberations in Patna, from October 27 to October 31. It needs to be elaborated that IPTA was not...
Big Jolt For BJP In Karnataka Bypolls
By Amulya Ganguli Neither the world’s tallest statue of Vallabhbhai Patel in Gujarat, nor the frenetic clamour for a Ram temple in Ayodhya has been of much help to the BJP down south in Karnataka. As the by-election results there show, the preference for the ruling Janata...
Let The ‘Slaughter’ Of Gods Begin
By Aditya Aamir Sujata. Girija. Lalitha. The trio caused an upheaval at the Sabarimala temple Wednesday morning. Blame it on Kerala women and coconut oil, Parachute! One of the ladies did not look her age (52), her hair darker than a tropical forest, her time on earth looking...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Live-in partners can seek maintenance under the Domestic Violence Act – The Supreme Court has held that a woman living in a live-in relationship is entitled to seek maintenance from her partner under the Domestic Violence Act. The Supreme Court was answering a reference from the Jharkhand High Court...
Supreme Court Is On Right Track In Fighting Pollution
By Amritananda Chakravorty The last few weeks have been replete with media reporting alarming levels of air pollution in most major cities of India, especially the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Images of thick smog and children and old people wearing masks in Delhi have been splashed in...
The Real Faces Of New India
By Anjan Roy We are hearing about creating a New India or Naya Bharat. From the Prime Minister to political parties we are hearing about plans and programmes for creating this New India. But a New India is already emerging, independently of governments and agencies, out...
Impeachment Of The BJP Ayyappa
By Aditya Aamir Check posts, cellphone call jammers and facial geometric cameras on the one side. On the other, the BJP caught contemptuously dismissing the Hindu horde as “stupid devotees” to take advantage of their blind faith, fair game. The BJP admission caught on tape! A snatch of...
India’s Reserve Bank Is Not Alone In Its Fight For Autonomy
By Nantoo Banerjee Poor Reserve Bank of India governor Urjit Patel! Only two years ago, soft-spoken Patel appeared to be the government’s ‘perfect’ choice for the job. It was more so after the NDA government found it increasingly difficult to deal with his more combative predecessor, Raghuram Rajan,...
MP Ticket Losers Create Problems For All Parties
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: “First I was asked to resign from the chief minister ship, then I was ousted from the Cabinet and now I am denied party ticket. I have won from Govindpura ten times with huge margin, twice highest in the state; I have been...
BJP-RSS Game Plan Comes A Cropper
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The BJP-RSS’s sinister game-plan to create a martyr on the Sabarimala issue and milk it to gain rich political and electoral rewards ended in fiasco, forcing embarrassed leaders of the saffron brigade to run for cover. The BJP even called a hartal in...
Betting On ‘R’ To Win The Republic
By Aditya Aamir The first rule of finding a solution is to be educated and not emotional about the problem. But it is hard when people are yelling in your face and getting physical. Well, not today or tomorrow, but say in two weeks’ time, when one ‘R’...
Routine Versus Urgent In Gogoi’s Court
By K Raveendran When Congressman Kapil Sibal, claiming to represent the Sunni Waqf Board in the Ayodhya Ramjanmabhoomi title dispute, sought to put pressure on the three-man bench headed by the then chief justice Dipak Mishra last year to delay hearing of the case until after the 2019...
Afghanistan: could peace finally be at hand?
By Conn Hallinan The news that the U.S. recently held face-to-face talks with the Taliban suggests that the longest war in U.S. history may have reached a turning point, although the road to such a peace is long, rocky, and plagued with as many improvised explosive devices as...
Rahul’s Campaign Aims To Dent Modi’s Anti-Corruption Image
By Harihar Swarup The voters’ mood and the poll-surveys in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh reveal that people have been inclining more towards the Congress and Mayawati’s BSP is no factor. The picture in Chhattisgarh is not clear with rebel Congress leader and former Chief Minister, Ajit Jogi,...
Rahul Gandhi Has To Correct His Campaign Focus
By Nitya Chakraborty Congress President Rahul Gandhi is making a strategic mistake in his campaigning and press conferences in the recent days by focusing only on Rafale scam and Anil Ambani. Rahul is absolutely right in targeting the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of Rafale deal...
Mini-Revolt After Release Of First MP BJP List
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Perhaps with remarkable confidence and ruling out any state wide collective revolt, the ruling BJP released its first list of candidates, leaving Congress far behind. The party denied tickets to 38 sitting MLAs, including three ministers. This means the party will have fresh...
UN overwhelmingly rejects U.S. Blockade of Cuba
By Ollie Hopkins The United Nations voted 189-2 to condemn the illegal United States blockade of Cuba on November 1. Only Israel backed the US in opposing the resolution calling for an end to the 60-year-old measure aimed at isolating and suffocating the Cuban Revolution. The two countries...
An Opportunity To Save World Trading System
By K R Sudhaman The Group of 20 (G-20) summit in Argentina in November end could not have come at a more opportune moment as the world’s top 20 nations can sit across the table to resolve the global turmoil arising out of US-China trade war that...
