Opinion
Appeal
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.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...
743 Trade Union Members Win Public Office In Mid-Term
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: Led by Minnesota’s Tim Walz, some 743 unionists—and counting—won public office nationwide, from Congress down to county commissioner, the AFL-CIO calculates. Walz, a member of Education Minnesota—the joint AFT-NEA affiliate in the state—and a Mankato High School history teacher, was the Democratic-Farmer-Labor congressman...
The Rage Is All In The Journalist’s Name
By Aditya Aamir You will have to be in a Faraday Cage to get out of earshot of toxic journalism. Better still stop breathing. Let the lifeline flatten out on the box next to the hospital bed. Part of it is because the journalist is becoming the story....
Google Workers’ Global Marches Make History
By B. Sivaraman The pace of events was amazing. On 25 October 2018, the New York Times carried an exposé on how Google top management handled sexual harassment complaints against their top executives. When sexual harassment charges surfaced against Andy Rubin, the creator of the Android mobile software,...
Sons Pitch Plaguing BJP Candidate Selection
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: BJP always accuses Congress of “Parivarvad” but now it is the love of sons by several stalwarts of BJP that is the main hurdle causing delay in finalising tickets in some crucial constituencies. Incidentally they include people who have spent their whole lives in...
Rajasthan BJP Faces Threat From Within
By Rahil Nora Chopra In Rajasthan BJP is facing a bigger problem from their own cadre than from the Congress or opposition parties. The situation is similar to the one prevailing at the time of by-elections when the party workers had opposed chief minister Vasundhra Raje. The...
Asia BIBI: Between Imran Khan And Political Islam
Naeem Ahmed Qazi, a development consultant for national and foreign institutions and primarily an educationist, has reminded Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi of his past when he played cricket with a straight bat. In an acid-tongue opinion piece indicting the new government for surrender to the religious...
India’s Growing Naval Strength In Indian Ocean
By Barun Das Gupta In the first week of this month the Prime Minister broke the news to the nation that India’s first indigenously built nuclear submarine Arihant had successfully completed its first ‘deterrence patrol’. Though the PM did not make such a claim, a section of the...
Modi Govt Wants To Loot Funds From RBI Reserves
By Shameem Faizee After destroying the national economy by shamelessly pursuing the pro-Corporate economic policies, the Narendra Modi government in last year of its power is bent upon conducting loot and loot of the remaining national wealth to save its skin as well as spend the looted...
Demonetisation Is Crippling Informal Economy, Job Market
By Nitya Chakraborty It was two years ago, on that fateful night of November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his “historic” decision of demonetization promising that it would act as a game changer in the Indian economy by driving out black money, weed out fake notes...
Left democrats make steady advance in u.s. Mid-term poll
By John Wojcik A substantial majority of Americans went to the polls on November 6 and pulled the lever for candidates who opposed President Trump and his policies. Even in the elections for the U.S. Senate, where the GOP gained at least three seats, 10 million more people...
Name-Changer Is No Game-Changer
By Aditya Aamir “With public sentiment, all is possible; without it, nothing is,” said Abraham Lincoln. So, is public sentiment with the Hindutva call for a Ram temple in Ayodhya, as it is in Kerala for keeping women of 10-50 age at arm’s length from celibate Swami Ayyappa?...
Sangh Left With Few Options To Milk Ram Temple Politics
By Kalyani Shankar Now that the Supreme Court has made it clear that the Ayodhya title suit is not its priority and even the hearing date will be decided next January, the saffron parties are getting agitated about the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya. “We have other...
