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.The Simple Prescription For Peace
By Dr. Arun Mitra July the 7th will always be remembered as a historical day. On this day in 2017 the world community decided to vote for complete nuclear disarmament and save the world from catastrophe that could threaten the very existence of mankind. It wasn’t an easy...
Headwinds Of Dalit Politics Force Mayawati To Change
By Arun Srivastava For BSP supremo Mayawati the 2019 Lok Sabha election is an opportunity to consolidate her grip on the dalits and untouchables of Uttar Pradesh and resuscitate her own image as a dalit champion. Unfortunately her impulsive political actions of the past have given her...
Mexico Is Poised For A Regime Change On July 1
By Mark Gruenberg In news U.S. workers won’t like to hear, particularly those in Midwestern industrial states that saw their jobs and plants decamp south of the border, some two-thirds of Mexicans support a new North American Free Trade Agreement. Some of that support seems to be coming...
BJP’s 2019 Election Launch Pad Is Out
By Sushil Kutty “What the hell’s going on?” Once journalist-now-dissident-BJP-leader Arun Shourie labels Indian Army’s ‘surgical strikes’ “farjical/farcical strikes” and the next day – 636 days after the army’s special forces struck and decimated terrorist launch pads in POK – television news channels are awash with video proof...
Chances Of Govt-Opposition Cooperation In Monsoon Session Bleak
By Nitya Chakraborty The monsoon session of Parliament beginning on July 18 is expected to see sharpest confrontation between the BJP and the Congress led opposition making the smooth functioning of the proceedings of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha impossible. Right now, the political temperature has hottened...
Congress Warming Up To Kamal Haasan
By Rahil Nora Chopra Will the Congress tie up with Kamal Haasan’s fledgling party? We don’t know yet. But the Gandhi family, at least its younger members, did roll out the red carpet for the superstar. Apparently even as Rahul Gandhi was holding an intense discussion with Kamal on...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Bar associations cannot deny the right to legally represent any individual – The Supreme Court expressed that a bar association could not restrain advocates from defending an individual. The petitioner had filed a writ petition against a resolution passed by the lawyers of the trial court, where he was...
This Is “Undeclared Emergency” Now
By Indira Jaising Some of us who lived through the Emergency declared on June 25, 1975 are still around, I am one of them. I was then a young lawyer practising in Bombay. I had chosen to work for the trade union movement, and in that capacity...
BJP Wants To Project Its Own CM In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has toughened his stand against the BJP and taking a cue from his master, his JD(U) has dared the BJP to pull out of the alliance in the state. However undeterred of his threat and issuing of caution by his...
Justice Chelameswar Was Right In Focussing On Lapses In Judiciary
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 22nd June, 2018, Justice J. Chelameswar retired from Supreme Court, after a tenure of almost 7 years at the Apex Court of the country. After his retirement, he gave interviews to various media platforms, including print and electronic media, which seemed to have upset...
Kashmir: BJP’s 2019-Driven Hindu Card May Not Work
By Amulya Ganguli The series of by-election defeats suffered by the BJP in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar along with its failure to form a government in Karnataka and the party’s uncertain prospects in the three assembly elections this winter cannot but have made the saffron...
A Global Economic Crisis Is Brewing
By Nilanjan Banik and Pierto Paganini We are passing through an interesting time. There is a likelihood that trade war between two of the world’s biggest economies – China and USA – may blow out of proportion. The consequence may be another economic downturn in the offing....
2019 No Cakewalk For BJP, Despite Modi, Shah
By Kalyani Shankar The BJP is getting poll ready, going by the aggressive statements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the party chief Amit Shah. Also the media advertisements indicate a “Modi shining” mood, ahead of the 2019 polls. Shah, known for his micro-management, has already started working...
Indira’s Emergency And Modi’s Phoney One
Sushil Kutty The problem is June 25 falls every year. There is no avoiding the date. And nobody wants a repeat of June 25, 1975. It rhymes, rolls off the tongue like ball-bearings released from their slot. The Congress wants to forget but the BJP keeps reminding the...
Fingering The Dog-Eared Dalit Card
By Aditya Aamir Ajay Singh Bisht says the Dalit should get reservation in Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia. A Thakur calling for reservation for the Dalit is laudable. But Ajay Singh Bisht happens to be chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. So, it smacks politics. To...
BJP Playing Kandal And Mandal Politics In UP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Shocked by the loss of three Lok Sabha and one assembly seats in the by-elections, BJP is invoking both Kandal and Mandal to retain the 73 seats it won in 2014 in the coming Lok Sabha elections. The BJP leadership is now talking...
BIS Bats For Fiscal Consolidation
By G. Srinivasan The central bankers’ central bank, the Basel-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has sounded the bugle of manifest vulnerabilities in the global financial system in particular and the world economy in general even as the near-term prospects remain ‘bright’. In its Annual Report, released...
Centre-Kerala Standoff Flares Up Once Again
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: One step forward, two steps backward. That seems to be the pattern governing Kerala’s relations with the Modi-led Central Government. While the recent outbreak of the Nipah virus saw the Centre and the state handling the situation in perfect coordination – it was...
