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.Time To Come Out Of Colonial-Era Legal Hangover
By K Raveendran It is indeed shocking that a section of the Indian Penal Code allows a married man to present his wife to someone else without the need to get her consent and without inviting the law against adultery. This should have been a clear case of trafficking...
Lapdogs And Lutyen’s Media War
By Sushil Kutty Donald Trump is the key to the treasury for the US media. Circulation and viewership. TRP. Advertisement revenue. Zoom. Vroom. The remote is never far from a hand. New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC. All rolling in hay! No guesses on ‘why?’ CNN’s Jim Acosta...
Smooth Monsoon Session Is Pleasant Surprise
By Harihar Swarup The biggest news is that the Monsoon Session of Parliament has been functioning normally. This is, perhaps, for the first time in four years, since the BJP came to power, that the two houses have been conducting business without interruptions and there is no adjournment for...
Mamata makes her pitch, but oh no!
By Aditya Aamir And in this heart of darkness/Our hope lies on the floor/All love like flame is fleeting/When there is no hope anymore. So we feel, many of us, as 2019 general elections close in on us in a relentless caterpillar-walk. The caterpillar eats distance in a hump-and-slide...
China Is Now A Protagonist Of Multipolar World
By John Bachtell Change is taking place exponentially in today’s world. One unmistakable trend is the rapid rise of China and decline of the U.S. as the dominant global power, a place it has held since World War II. What does this portend for global economic and diplomatic relations?...
Trump Scandals Are Turning Into A Replica Of Watergate
By Mark Gruenberg It’s been 44 years, come August 8-9, 1974, since Republican President Richard M. Nixon resigned in disgrace – before being thrown out of the Oval Office via impeachment and conviction – due to the accumulated scandals, constitutional crimes and cover-ups collectively known as Watergate. And now,...
Congress Should Emulate Akhilesh Model In Seat-Sharing Exercises
By Nitya Chakraborty If the reports about the negotiations among the leading opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh- Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Congress and the Rashtriya Lok Dal, on seat sharing for the coming Lok Sabha poll are any indication, the opposition parties have made a major breakthrough in...
Amit Shah Fails To Have His Way In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP president Amit Shah has failed to have his way in the appointment of the new president of the Kerala unit of the party. The BJP chief has had to swallow a bitter pill as the state RSS leadership said a firm No to his...
Mamata Throws Hat In Ring For PM
By Rahil Nora Chopra At last Mamata Banerjee has also joined the fray for prime ministership in the 2019 elections. In the past she has never uttered a word on these lines, but people close to her are now openly bringing up the subject. Recently Omar Abdullah met Mamata...
Trade War Boosts BRICS Economic Cooperation
By Subrata Majumder BRICS accounted for 23 percent of world economy, 16 percent of world trade and contributed 50 percent to global economic growth. Given these high stakes in global economy, trade war opens a new opportunity for BRICS to play a dynamic role to protect the global multilateral...
India Eyes $400 Billion Exports In 2 Years
By K R Sudhaman Buoyed by a pick-up in exports in April-June quarter this year, India may target $400 billion annual merchandise exports in two years, a top export body said. India clocked about $300 billion merchandise exports in 2017-18 after dipping to $275 billion in the 2016-17 –...
A Cautionary Tale In Time For New Voyages
By Anjan Roy It might not be obvious always why the gods behave the way they do. From their Olympian heights so much more could be visible than ordinary mortals. That also probably applies to the central banks. Reserve Bank has raised the interest rate when the price prospects...
All Set To Crack Jokes At Imran Bash
By Aditya Aamir Navjot Singh Sidhu has the makings of a Mani Shankar Aiyar. Except that Aiyar can hardly make anyone laugh and Sidhu laughs from deep down in his throat at the lamest of jokes. Aiyar and Sidhu will not make good roommates. Sidhu will laugh at every...
Rahul To Launch MP Campaign From Omkareshwar Temple
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: There are now clear indications of MP Congress chief Kamal Nath and campaign committee chief Jyotiraditya Scindia working in greater coordination. Even there are no negative reports about coordination with Digvijaya Singh. A high level meeting was held in New Delhi to discuss the...
Citizenship Row: A Tale Of Administrative Inefficiency
By Ashis Biswas There are strong reasons to conclude that overzealousness of some Assam state officials in dismissing claims of Indian citizenship might have resulted in rendering over 40 lakh people suddenly stateless. Mainly Bengali Hindus and Muslim residents, these people did not find their names in the upgraded...
Rendering Four Million People Stateless
By Barun Das Gupta The second National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam was published on July 30. (The first one was published way back in 1951) After its publication, 40,06,707 residents of Assam, many of them living there for several generations, found that their names “had not appeared”...
Nobody should take Mamata’s Rossogolla away, please!
By Aditya Aamir There are places on earth, where if you found the words, you could talk to the gods! Would Mamata Banerjee, been aware of such places, be talking of “civil war and bloodbath?” Mamata is a most down-to-earth person, but that doesn’t mean she’s any less a...
Aadhhar Brings Value To The Rupee
By Sushil Kutty Ram Sevak Sharma is an adventurer. Somebody illegal alien hacked into his bank a/c and deposited Re 1 there. A direct to bank a/c beneficiary, redeemer of government scheme, Ram Sevak is proof that Modi’s Jan Dhan Yojana is working. It’s another matter that the miser...
