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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.Rahul In Media Outreach Programme
By Rahil Nora Chopra The NDA’s victory in the election of Rajya Sabha deputy chairman was of course the result of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strategy. But it was also helped by the failure of Congress to put up a fight of substance. Rahul Gandhi did not contact with...
BJP Should Replace A Muslim Street Name With That Of Naipaul
By Amulya Ganguli In VS Naipaul’s death, Hindutva has lost an icon. It is an irreparable loss, for there is unlikely to be any other Nobel laureate who will echo BJP MLA Sangeet Som’s view on the Taj Mahal as a “blot on our culture”. Like the UP legislator...
Lok Sabha Elections In December Is Now A Strong Possibility
By Nitya Chakraborty In the wake of the Independence Day address of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the publication of an opinion poll of a news channel that the Congress has good chance of regaining all the three states- Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in the coming assembly...
Battle To Control Mind With Media
By Aditya Aamir NDTV also stings. Till the other day it was thought stings are only Cobrapost. But NDTV anchor Nidhi Razdan wants Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold a press conference, “like prime ministers of all democratic countries hold.” This after Modi gave an “email interview” to questions...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
i. Appeal against acquittal order of Talwars admitted – The Supreme Court has admitted the appeal, filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation against the Allahabad High Court decision acquitting the Talwar couple in the double murder of their daughter Arushi and the help Hemraj. An appeal was also...
Shah Commits Blunders In His Bid To Checkmate Mamata
By Arun Srivastava The moves by Amit Shah, the so-called Chanakya of BJP, are no more invincible and his charisma is on the decline. Recent defeats of his party at the by-polls have shaken his confidence. It is perhaps this sense of loss that has prompted his frequent Kolkata...
Delhi High Court Verdict On Begging Has Wide Ramifications
By Amritananda Chakravorty In a landmark decision, the Delhi High Court decriminalised begging in Delhi, and struck down many provisions of the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959 (‘BPBA’), as extended to the National Capital Territory of Delhi in 1960. In a decision given by the Acting Chief Justice,...
Chouhan Govt Under Fire For Lapses, Nepotism
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: While Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is continuing his “Ashrivad Yatra”, which according to BJP and a section of media is getting good response, there have been incidents that questioned his government’s performance, if not his personal reputation. The first incident relates to...
Fear Is The Key And Khauf Se Azzadi
By Sushil Kutty James Hadley Chase wrote ‘Fear is the Key’ – a thriller which featured a Red Indian protagonist who, to get going on a career in crime and rake in dollars, came to the conclusion that the key to ransom is to put the fear of death...
Opposition Has No Choice But To Unite Against Modi
By Kalyani Shankar Prime Minister Narendra Modi in one of his rare “interviews” last week had ridiculed the idea of any Grand Alliance of the Opposition parties to challenge him in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls calling it a political adventurism. “It is a failed idea that has never...
Chinese Media Alleges Printing Indian Currency
A controversy has sparked in India whether China was given the license to print currency in past following an article titled “Why other countries are giving China a license to print money”. It is learned from the article that China is printing foreign currencies on a huge scale and...
Our Charter For Independence Day
By Anjan Roy Perchance I were the Prime Minister of India, or failing in that ambitious aim, I were entrusted with the responsibility of conceptualising the speech of the Prime Minister of India this Independence Day, what should it have been. Let us begin with a negative list. For...
Imran Khan’s Tryst With Afghanistan
By Sankar Ray Incorrigible optimists in Pakistan, albeit very few in numbers, are disappointed with the US decision to suspend military and educational training of 66 Pakistani officers under the ‘International Military Education and Training program’, thanks to the obstinacy of President Donald Trump. This is the first awkward...
Naipaul: A Self-Confessed Exile For Ever
By Sushil Kutty Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul should have been given the honour of being the first man sent to Outer Space, the spaceship programmed not to ever return. He was that kind of man – a surly exile, with a dark presence. A man who saw warts before...
Controlling Media From The 10th Floor
Aditya Aamir “Okay. One meeting? Or two? One for the papers and one for the TV?” “One, I think. The TV people like to be in the same discussions with the newspaper guys. Makes them feel like journalists.” “What about radio?” Daniel asked. “@*#k radio.” That’s dialogue straight out...
Kanwariyas, Not Gau Rakshaks, Have Put Centre On Dock
By Amulya Ganguli Why has the vandalism of the Kanwariyas and not the violence of the gau rakshaks made the government aware of the near-anarchic conditions in the country, as a petitioner to the Supreme Court has alleged? The reason is that while the targets of the gau rakshaks...
Parliament Fails To Pass Anti-Trafficking And Consumer Protection Bills
By Nantoo Banerjee Parliament might have had its best monsoon session in the last 18 years going by the hours of operations of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and the number of bills passed, yet nothing could explain why it failed to move and pass the critical anti-trafficking...
Shah On An Impossible Mission Uproot Mamata
By Sushil Kutty ‘Mission Uproot Mamata’ got going Saturday. BJP President Amit Shah arrived in Mamata-land past high noon, well past the hour to make a fight at ‘OK Corral’. But Mayo Road, where Shah addressed BJP’s Paribortan-types, was choc-a-bloc, shoulders rubbing shoulders. Mamata’s TMC decided not to spoil...
