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.Bangladesh Weighing Impact Of Assam NRC
By Barun Das Gupta The publication of the National Register of Citizens in Assam has caused concern in Bangladesh for obvious reasons. Names of some 40 lakh people did not find place in the NRC and concerns were naturally raised about their future status as citizens. Although...
India’s GDP Is High On Selling, Low On Manufacturing
By Nantoo Banerjee The government is believed to be ready to shortly wheel a new industrial policy. Such an idea is pending with the authorities for quite some time. The latest reform initiative by the government is being pitched as potentially the biggest overhaul of industrial policy in...
Mamata Govt Adopts Brazen Anti-Worker Stand
By B. Sivaraman The three-day strike by the tea workers of West Bengal on 7–9 August 2018 posed several questions: What exactly was the strike by 29 unions intended to achieve and what exactly did it achieve? Rejecting the West Bengal Labour Secretary’s shocking offer of a...
Malayali Greed Has Come Home To Roost
By K. Raveendran Nothing should take precedence over relief and rescue operations in the unprecedented devastation brought by overflowing dams and torrential rains in Kerala, claiming over 300 lives and displacing over 2 lakh people from their homes. Over 1,500 relief camps have been opened. It was as though...
Modi Government Failed To Breathe Life Into MSMEs
By Gyan Pathak Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in India have been suffering for the last four years due to the insensitivity of the Modi government. How much of it was intentional in favour of big corporate sector, and how much of it was the result of...
National Tv media finally smell ‘petrichor’
Aditya Aamir It took a pyre lit to look at a province drowning. Atal Behari Vajpayee couldn’t have died at a more wrong time. National television news media couldn’t take eyes off the ex-PM. His poetry became the anthem, the lament of the dirge from God’s Own Country...
Election Commission Should Not Allow Simultaneous Polls
By Harihar Swarup Election Commission has rightly scotched idle speculation in recent days on the possibility of clubbing Lok Sabha elections with 11 assembly polls. Drastic solutions like imposing President’s Rule in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh and Mizoram were mooted so that polls here could be delayed and...
Uncertain Times For Germany’s Politics
By John Wojcik During my two-week vacation in Germany last month it was clear to me that Germany, like the U.S., is at a crossroad. Dangerous developments connected with a rising fascist movement under the banner of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) are underway. Germany’s Left Party (die...
Swachh Bharat A Skewed Mission
By Arun Srivastava Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has neither been a ‘Jan Andolan’ nor a mission. It is indeed doubtful whether it was the best tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150 birth anniversary in 2019. The manner in which the so called mission was launched at Rajpath in New...
Quoting Vajpayee To Bring Modi To Heel
Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party appropriated Sardar Patel. The Congress it seems has taken ahold Vajpayee. Tit for tat. The poet prime minister would not have objected. Didn’t Nehru tell him he would be Prime Minister? He was more “Nehru” than many Congressi stalwarts and couldn’t bear to see...
Vajpayee Is In The Masterclass Of Indian Politics
By Anjan Roy Most politicians when they die, evoke mixed feelings and despise even when their achievements are supreme. In many time, they are bitterly remembered because they hit so many so hard. The singular exception about Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be that he will universally be...
Vajpayee Was Diametrically Opposite To Modi
By Amulya Ganguli History will see Atal Behari Vajpayee and Narendra Modi in completely different lights for being almost diametrically opposite to one another. The differences between the two BJP prime ministers related mainly to their temperament and outlook, which, in turn, guided their approach to governance...
Water Climbing Malayali Stair Cases, Implacable
By Aditya Aamir There is red alert in watered-out Kerala. Thousands are stranded on rooftops, and thousands more on/in “second floors”. Choppers are flying rescue sorties but many of the ‘Mayday-Mayday’ drown in air. Newspapers have stopped landing on stoops. If they do, they come rolled in watery weather....
Modi: Hopes Raised And Hopes Dashed
By Sushil Kutty The 72nd Independence Day was no different from the 71st or the 70th. That’s because the ‘Man’ on the ramparts of the Red Fort was the same who stood on August 15, 2014, ’15, ’16, ‘17 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, often referred to as ‘Feku’...
Vajpayee: In the Masterclass of Indian politics
By Anjan Roy Atal Behari Vajpayee will be remembered fondly by friends and foes alike. Those whom he fought will remember him, as always, being above board; those he had worked with will remember him with nostalgia. The very mention of very name brought to mind the broad visage...
Vajpayee: In the masterclass of Indian politics
By Anjan Roy Atal Behari Vajpayee will be remembered fondly by friends and foes alike. Those whom he fought will remember him, as always, being above board; those he had worked with will remember him with nostalgia. The very mention of very name brought to mind the broad visage...
Fear Stalks Rain-Ravaged Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: These are not frightening frames from an Alfred Hitchcock movie. These are shocking sights of a real-life tragedy unfolding its horrors. And it has been the lot of God’s Own Country to witness it. Kerala is no stranger to rain havoc and the resultant flood...
Is Modi a Hype or Real Achiever?
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi coined a new phrase ‘Minimum Government; Maximum Governance’ in 2014. Recently in his ‘mann ki baat’ radio address, he said good governance is the birthright of every Indian citizen like swaraj (independence) and we should have it. Nearly four and a...
