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.India’s Foreign Policy Comes Of Age Under Modi
By Rapti Ray & Dr. Buddhadeb Ghosh The ‘Prime Minister stays in foreign countries and occasionally visits India.’ Such is the allegation of opposition parties against Narendra Modi. But they are not admitting the fact that India’s foreign policy for the first time since 1947 has reached a youthful...
Hindi Or Tamil, Language Requires A Tongue
By Aditya Aamir Wednesday, a Tamil scholar won the day, posthumously. Thursday, a Hindi aficionado was chosen Rajya Sabha deputy chairperson. A balancing of languages! One as old as the tongue. The other still flung on faces where it’s yet to ring. The English medium is still looking for...
NRC In Assam Big 2019 Electoral Tool For Modi-Shah
By Amulya Ganguli Inadvertently, the Supreme Court has handed the BJP a convenient issue for exploitation in the forthcoming elections. It is the judiciary’s call for updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam which is bound to add zest to the BJP’s campaign against illegal immigrants, enabling...
Babus Put Together A Wishy-Washy E-Commerce Policy
By G. Srinivasan India’s policy wonks and mandarins in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry have at long last woken up from their feigned slumber to put in place a draft National Policy on Electronic Commerce (e-commerce) a few days ago. This draft with warts and all would now...
India And Trump’s Trade War Gamble
By B. Sivaraman “US-China trade war can make Indian products competitive”— declared some newspaper headlines on 5 and 6 August 2018, reproducing verbatim the press release of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). One started wondering why the premier industry chambers in the country should just restrict itself to...
IMF Says India Needs To Reinvigorate Efforts To Keep Job Engine Running
By Gyan Pathak India will need to build on the success of its reforms to sustain rapid growth and raise incomes for the country’s 1.3 billion people, though the economy is gaining momentum. With a growing working-age population, which constitutes about two-thirds of the total population, India needs to...
Loss Of Chanakya Puts T N Politics In Greater Disarray
By S Sethuraman Age has been taking a toll of leaders of substance at a critical juncture for Indian democracy, under threat of being overrun by divisive forces led by BJP-RSS. A virulent campaign by them is on for a second term of governance at the Centre to facilitate...
AIADMK Hoisted With Its Own Petard
By Sushil Kutty It’s all over, bar the shouting… And the shouting will continue till the curtains come down on the next round of elections. In these grave times, the big story is that M Karunanidhi got his place on the Marina – to the left of mentor Annadurai....
Tamil Nadu Is Heading For Troubled Times
By Amulya Ganguli The death of J. Jayalalithaa and M. Karunanidhi within eight months of each other has rung the curtains down on the atheistic, anti-Hindu, anti-Brahmin and anti-Hindi Dravidian chapter of Tamil Nadu politics. The beginning of this period, which underlined the state’s distinctive nature, was the watershed...
A Skullcap Without A Head To Stick It On
By Aditya Aamir Will somebody take the podium away from Shashi Tharoor? It should have been taken away from Asauddin Owaisi long ago. It’s not too late even now. But who will do the taking? Rahul Gandhi could in the case of Tharoor. Barrister Owaisi? One thing’s sure. Neither...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
i. Constitution bench hears arguments on decriminalisation of adultery –The Supreme Court has begun to hear arguments on the constitutional challenge to the offence of adultery. The Petitioners argued that Section 497, which penalises a man for having sexual relationship with a married woman with imprisonment up to 5...
Saffron Groups May Use Aadhaar For Campain For Hindurashtra
By Arun Srivastava The Union government has already confessed to the Supreme Court that the personal datas of some Aadhaar card-holders had been leaked. This confession is suffice to expose the tall claims of the Modi government that Adhaar was a safe and secured instrument. Though some rights organisations...
Draft NRC For Assam Raises Many Questions
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 30th July, 2018, the second draft of the National Register of Citizens (‘NRC’), which was touted as the proof of citizenship, was released. Out of 3.29 crore applicants in Assam, around 2.89 crore people found their names in the list, thereby leaving out around 40...
What Is Songran Festival In Thailand
Songkran, the world’s largest water fight, happens every year in Thailand. In April almost every shop in the country, from electrical stores to gardening centres, will start selling water pistols; and children will take to the streets, pistol in one hand and strange burning talcum powder in other, in...
Modi-Shah Desperate To Muzzle Free Press Before Lok Sabha Poll
By Nitya Chakraborty The latest reports about the resignations of two leading respected journalists of a national TV channel ABP News following the high pressure from the BJP ministers and the party bosses on the company management, only indicate that the ruling party leadership is becoming more and more...
Chouhan Announces More Doles To Woo People
LS Herdenia BHOPAL: Ignoring criticism and in gross violation of government rules and procedures, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister continues to announce sops to win the support of the electorate in the forthcoming Vidhan Sabha elections. Just the other day he handed over thousands of letters of intent of job...
Hard Realities Banter King Khan’s ‘Pious Platitude’
By Sankar Ray Political breeze in Islamabad stinks as the foul smell of many a compromise takes away fragrance from the hitherto street-smart Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf president Imran Khan Niazi as he had to compromise unethically to ensure a stable government. If all goes well, the formal announcement of Prime...
Banks Penalising Poor For Low Balance Is Inhuman
By Gyan Pathak Poverty is no crime, because a poor man does not commit a crime by not being able to overcome his poverty. He is rather a victim of the complex socio-political system that makes him poor, keeps him so, and exact penalty for not being able to...
