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.Modi Hit By ‘This Or That’ Syndrome
By Sushil Kutty ‘This or that’ has been Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s lot ever since he took charge of India in mid-2014. All of us face ‘this or that’ situations in life, there’s a Hamlet in all of us. But prime ministers should not allow the Hamlet in...
Asia Set To Become Largest Consumer Of Gas
By Gyan Pathak Driven by continuous economic growth and strong policy support to curb air pollution, the Asia and Pacific region will account for over half of the total natural gas consumption growth until 2023 because of robust economic growth led by China and India, says Gas 2018...
USA Leaving UN Human Rights Council Is A Big Retreat
By Ajay Kumar The United States of America has left the United Nations Human Rights Council. This news came as a shock to some and as an eventuality to many. This latest decision is part of a broader foreign policy shift that is being witnessed under the Donald...
India Has Little To Gain By Dancing With Dragon
By G. Srinivasan India and China do not enjoy natural bonhomie due to historic and legacy issues that range from border disputes of bygone decades to the latest crop of problems originating from the dumping of the Middle Kingdom’s cheap products into the Indian markets. Yet as the...
Going Gets Super Tough For Vasundhara Raje
By Kalyani Shankar Of the three BJP ruled states going to polls at the end of the year, the party is really worried about Rajasthan. It is more so after it lost to the Congress two parliamentary and one Assembly seats recently, which had proved the anti-incumbency factor...
Feminists Take On Amma’s ‘Elderly’ Sons
Sushil Kutty “Enough moping, this is a mope-free zone,” former United States President Barack Obama told ‘high-dollar’ Democrats the other day, asking them to pull up their socks and get ready for the 2020 presidential bash. His message found echo in God’s Own Country Kerala, where newly elected...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Supreme Court appoints the third judge in the Tamil Nadu MLA disqualification case – The Supreme Court decided to appoint the third judge in the AIADMK MLA disqualification, wherein the Madras High Court had given a split verdict in June, 2018. A transfer petition was filed in the Apex...
Obrador’s Win In Mexico Is A Big Boost To Left In Latin America
By Nitya Chakraborty The landslide victory of the maverick Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the crucial Presidential elections in Mexico on Sunday, comes as a major boost to the leftist forces in Latin America who have been fighting a battle for survival after a pink tide...
Congress In A Bind On Possible Alliance With Nitish
By Arun Srivastava After Nitish Kumar walked out from the grand alliance, Rahul Gandhi, then Congress general secretary, had accused him of sacrificing his credibility and rules for power. Power makes a man lose his credibility, he had stated. Annoyed with Nitish’s shifting of loyalty, Rahul had...
Continuing Assaults On Lawyers Is A Disturbing Trend
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 6th June, 2018, the Maharashtra police in one swoop arrested five activists, including a lawyer known for his work on dalit rights and political prisoners, in connection with caste-based violence that erupted in Bhima-Koregaon town in Maharashtra in the first week of January, 2018....
Market Betting With Workers’ Pension Funds Could Be Risky
By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to know that the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) investment in equities via exchange-traded funds (ETFs) generated 17.23 per cent return as of February this year. It had invested Rs 41,967.51 crore in ETFs. EPFO had sold ETFs worth Rs 2,500...
New York Victory Is A Turning Point For Left Democrats
By Michael Arney On Tuesday’s Democratic primary election for New York’s 14th Congressional District, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accomplished a nearly impossible task: She defeated her heavily overfunded incumbent opponent. With practically all votes counted, the bartender-turned-socialist-candidate trounced high ranking, ten-term incumbent and Queens Democratic Party Chair Rep. Joseph...
Modi’s Oil Stars May Be Turning Benevolent Again
By K Raveendran Astrology columns are often seen to forecast subjects of certain planets facing the risk of grave danger from fire and water, sometimes even life-threatening. It is not known if crude oil has a ruling planet of its own, but geo-political developments on the earth have been...
The Emerging Nepal-India-China Equation
By Barun Das Gupta Nepal Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli paid a five-day official visit to China from June 19. Before going into an analysis of that visit and its import and impact on Nepal, India and China relationship, it may be useful to take a brief...
Is emergency the only measure of Indira Gandhi?
By Harihar Swarup Howsoever, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues may abuse Indira Gandhi, compare her to Hitler, to mark the 43rd anniversary of Emergency, she remains the most popular leader of India. If BJP leaders think they can get votes by recalling days of Emergency and...
Disillusions Of Worshipping False Gods
Sushil Kutty “What the hell’s going on?” Resentment and bitterness have taken hold of the once redoubtable Arun Shourie. He says “we are so callous. We’re demoralizing the army. They’re endangering the lives of soldiers this way.” Retired army generals do not think the ‘leak’ endangers soldiers. The...
Pakistan Fails In Bid To Keep Off Terrorist Funding List
By James M. Dorsey The Pakistani government’s removal of a virulently anti-Shiite militant from its terrorism list at the very moment that an international money laundering and terrorism finance watchdog was deciding to put the country on a watch list, highlights Pakistan’s struggle to come to grips...
Comparing Indira To Hitler Is A Travesty Of Truth
By L.S. Herdenia I do not hold any brief for Indira Gandhi as far as her decision to impose Emergency is concerned. There is no doubt that the Emergency period will be recorded as a black chapter in the democratic history of the country. But certainly I have...
