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.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...
Heathcare Has To Be Made Inclusive In India
Dr Arun Mitra Health planning in India started in 1938. The British government had formed a committee, popularly known as Bhore committee under the chairmanship of Sir Joseph Bhore, who was an Indian civil servant and Diwan of the Cochin State. The committee was formed in 1943 to survey...
Selective Application Of Judicial Principles
By K Raveendran By restoring the provision for summary arrest of people accused of atrocities against dalits and backward classes, the Modi government has solved a major political challenge to its credibility, but left open even a more serious judicial question: can a legal principle be applied selectively? The...
Post-Karunanidhi Era Seems Uncertain For Tamil Politics
By Harihar Swarup How will the political scenario unfold in Tamil Nadu after Karunanidhi? The Tamil state has already seen how the events shaped after demise of Jayalalithaa. A well entrenched party like AIADMK is on the verge of split and it has been reduced to minority in the...
The Whole Caboodle Is In A Triple-T Mess
By Aditya Aamir Got to get worse before it gets better! That’s the short history of the war against Triple-T, the obnoxious divorce handout which Indian Muslim husbands hold over the heads of defenceless Muslim wives. Is it possible that these male hobos will be hoisted with their own...
Dam It, Nature Is A Real Rascal
Sushil Kutty Time 12.20 pm. Twitter handle @pendown warned “4.25 lakh liters of water is gushing out per second from Idukki dam. In four hours waters will reach Aluva.” And Aluva is not far from Kochi. From the Kerala Express, sight of the chimneys of brick mills signal the...
Jailed Lula Nominated As Presidential Candidate
By Emile Schepers The Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, or PT) of Brazil has decided to run the country’s extremely popular former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known by all as “Lula,” as its candidate in the October presidential elections in this nation of 200 million people. The...
Big Confusion Over Minimum Wage Implementation In Delhi
By B. Sivaraman “The Hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” Repeating these words of Lewis Carroll from Alice in Wonderland, the Delhi High Court in its judgment on 4 August 2018 set aside the 14 September 2016 Delhi government notification on minimum wages, which increased the minimum wages...
Narendra Modi’s Rafale Deal Shows His Utter Dislike For Public Sector
By Nitya Chakraborty More and more details are coming out of the controversial deal concluded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015 for the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jet planes for the Indian defence forces and it is apparent that the Prime Minister has totally sacrificed the interests...
Indian High Commissioner Seeking Assurance From Imran Khan Action Against LeT
Before the swearing ceremony of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan as the next prime minister of the country the Indian high commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria is learned to be calling him for a meeting on Friday. Sources claim the meeting has been finalized and prior to it only...
