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.That Inconvenient Issue Trump-Kim Summit Didn’t Talk About
By Harihar Swarup As the world hailed the Trump-Kim summit as successful and big event of the current year, there is a lesser known side of North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un’s rule. As talks between two leaders progressed, human rights activists were watching if Trump would bring up...
Time For Oil Buyers To Form A Cartel To Checkmate Opec
By K Raveendran Cartel versus cartel is certainly a fair deal. Oil cartel OPEC has been holding the world to ransom by manipulating supplies so that the buyers pay a price that can sustain the extravagant life of their rulers and citizens for endless time. The whole world has...
Indo-Iran Ties At Crossroads After Us Sanctions
By K R Sudhaman India-Iran ties have become challenging yet again after the recent US sanctions against Tehran following the unilateral pull-out of Washington from Iran Nuclear deal. But this has thrown a new opportunity to get into shipping services in a big way that will facilitates Iranian...
The Octopus In The Newsroom
By Sushil Kutty ‘Postcard News’ stands branded as fake news ever since its editor tweeted a clearly false news. Sunday morning US President Donald Trump added Washington Post to the list, opining (not a reporter’s word) that if WaPo employees go on a long strike “we would get...
BIS Says Crypto Currecny No Substitute For Hard Money
By G. Srinivasan Promising to replace trust in long-standing institutions such as commercial and central banks with trust in a new, fully decentralized system founded on the block chain and related distribution ledger technology (DLT), are the crypto-currencies emerging from obscurity to prominent position? This is a crucial...
Political Corruption Is Ruining The Country’s Image
By Nantoo Banerjee Call it an irony of fate or, maybe, his tryst with destiny, Palaniappan Chidambaram, the country’s four-time finance minister, is in a mess. Chidambaram has been chargesheeted by his once trusted Income-Tax Department for allegedly making investments in foreign assets and not disclosing them in...
Rebooting the Kashmir Policy
Sushil Kutty There’s a call to “reboot” the India Kashmir policy. Also to reboot the definition of ‘anti-national’. Sane voices as opposed to the “insane right-roiled” are demanding that. Shujaat Bukhari’s killing has sharpened divisions in the media and every media anchor wants to become Kashmir interlocutor. And the...
Impact Of Climate Change On Health
Dr Arun Mitra Climate Change implies significant variations in temperature, wind patterns and precipitation that may occur in cycles over decades, hundreds, thousands and millions of years; sometimes these changes may be random occurrences. These result in rain or hail, snowfall or extreme weather events like thunderstorms, cyclones,...
It’s Time To Cease The Ceasefire
By Sushil Kutty ‘You left all too sudden…’ says the June 15, 2018 front-page of Rising Kashmir, the words etched on a black & white picture of journalist Shujaat Bukhari, editor-in-chief of Rising Kashmir. All too sudden was also the killing of rifleman Aurangzeb, abducted and killed while...
Congress Crisis: Tinkering Won’t Do
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The time for tinkering is over. A quick surgery alone can save the Congress in Kerala, reeling under the twin setbacks it suffered within the space of 10 days. First was the humiliating defeat the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) suffered in the...
It’s a Dog’s Life in Dusty Delhi
Aditya Aamir Jocko Street, on the second day of his return to Delhi, walked the streets and shut out thoughts of the city in the desert, the other side of the sea. Jocko was the typical Delhiwallah, who took the dirt with the dust, the garbage with the litter...
Islamophobia And A Succession Plan
By Sushil Kutty The Quantico FBI agent finds a rosary on a slain terror suspect and Eureka! “It’s a Hindu prayer rosary”. The Priyanka Quantico character promptly cues in: “It is a false-flag operation to blame Pakistan just before the crucial Kashmir summit!” Is that so? A...
BJP, Congress Launch Mass Contact Programme In MP
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: After the conclusion of ten-day farmers’ stir both BJP and Congress have launched a campaign to win over the support of various sections of society. While the Congress is holding mass meetings, the BJP workers have launched a door to door campaign. BJP leaders...
Beautiful Game, But In Limbo In India
By Anjan Roy As the 2018 World Cup Games were kicked off at the Luzniki Stadium in Moscow, the enthusiasm for football is slowly working into a frenzy. For India, there is an irony in all this. It is not playing in the World Cup as it does...
SCO Entry To Help Boost India-China Trade Ties
By Subrata Majumder Chinese media were euphoric that the 18th Summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held in Qingdao, China, where India and Pakistan were admitted as new members of the organization, will open a new page for better relations between the two countries. Chinese newspaper Global Times...
Trump Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
By Sushil Kutty Lessons from around the world. One of them that anyone who marries Imran Khan can expect to be ex-spouse. Second: Imran Khan swings both ways. Third: Trump’s marriage with Kim is vague. Four: War-games are like bedroom-games. They provoke, help balance the balance! Post...
Marx Was A Great Scholar In Mathematics, Linguistics
By Sankar Ray Twenty-five years ago, as grapevine had it, when the then general secretary of Communist Party of India Indrajit Gupta was reportedly approached to write a forward for the first comprehensive English version of Karl Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts from the Russian text, the CPI leader declined...
Despite Trump’s Record, There Are Positives From The Korea Summit
By C.J. Atkins It was no Reagan-Gorbachev moment, nor was it some earth-shaking leap toward permanent peace. But contrary to what you might be hearing or reading, the Trump-Kim summit did achieve some net positives…or, at least, potential ones. Many liberal commentators and media personalities are so eager...
