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.Spectre Of Nipah Flare-Up Receding
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The worst is over, and the Nipah-struck Kozhikode district is bouncing back to normality. The most gratifying aspect is that no new cases have been reported in the ‘second wave’ of the Nipah outbreak in north Kerala. None of the second set of...
Creamy Layer Turns Messy And Uncanny
By K Raveendran The most hilarious court judgment ever is attributed to Sir Roger de Coverley, an Old English fictional character. Sitting in judgment for three days, hearing a dispute between two men complaining against each other, Sir Roger finally gave the verdict: Much might be said about both...
Desperate Nitish Move To Retrieve Lost Ground
By Arun Srivastava Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has lost the battle for survival even before it was trumpeted. The manner in which Nitish has been shifting the goal post and shuffling agendas gives a clear indication that he is in deep crisis and unable to evolve his...
Will opposition unity survive to snatch 2019 from Modi?
By Harihar Swarup Encouraged by the poll success in Karnataka and by-elections in Uttar Pradesh, Opposition unity looks certain in the run up to the general elections in 2019. If the Opposition sticks together, the BJP led by Narendra and Amit Shah, appears to be in trouble. Presuming...
Pranab Strikes Big Bang, Congress Hits Black Hole
By Sushil Kutty Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History Of Time and Citizen Pranab Mukherjee’s A Short History of Bharato! One a book, the other an oral summation. Hawking’s book was for eighth graders and it explained complex concepts such as space, time and black holes to the simple mind....
India Among Worst Peaceful Nations
By Gyan Pathak Against the popular belief among Indians that India is one of the most peaceful nations of the world, it has been declared 28th worst peaceful nation ranking 136th out of 163 nations measured for peacefulness by the Global Peace Index 2018. In comparison to last year,...
Yogi In Deep Trouble After Humiliating Defeats
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath appears to be in deep trouble after the humiliating defeat in Kairana and Noorpur by-elections. Both Yogi and state BJP president Mahendra Nath Pandey have been summoned to Delhi by party president Amit Shah to seek a firsthand report on the...
Rahul Rally Creates Positive Vibes For MP Congress
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Eight days of farmers’ agitation have passed off peacefully. The only major event during this period was the visit of Congress president Rahul Gandhi to Mandsaur district, which saw six persons killed in violence last year. Five of them were killed by police bullets....
Ajit Jogi Seen Likely To Return To Congress
By Rahil Nora Chopra Speculation is rife again that Ajit Jogi may return to the Congress after Rahul Gandhi called up Jogi’s wife Renu, who is a Congress MLA, to enquire about his health earlier this week. Jogi is suffering from pneumonia and was shifted to a private...
Ghettos Of Utmost Happiness
By Sushil Kutty Arundhati Roy’s first book God of Small Things won the Man Booker in 1997. Second book Ministry of Utmost Happiness made it to the list but sank in its own sea of utmost unhappiness. Not surprising. For, it is like “beyond the flyover, the...
GDP Growth Looking Up, But Serious Problems Remain
By K R Sudhaman The Indian economic growth figures for January- March 2018 quarter announced early June are certainly encouraging. The CSO figures say fourth quarter of 2017-18 recorded 7.7 per cent GDP growth, which is an eight quarter high. Following this growth momentum, the overall GDP is...
Manmohan Singh Was A Real Reformer With Innovative Policies
By Subrata Majumder Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not a radical reformer. He is a great administrator and not a reformer as he seems, the Economist said. The report card of his four years governance envisages that he is more laudable in administration and bureaucracy than in...
Humbled Modi-Shah Duo On Survival Strategy
By S. Sethuraman The poll battlefield for Lok Sabha 2019 has become wide open in the aftermath of Kairana, the third script-changing by-poll loss for the ruling BJP in its heartland (UP). This was on top of other countrywide reverses the party suffered over recent weeks. It...
When Pastoral Becomes Political And The Peril
Sushil Kutty Pastoral brings to mind rolling hills, green meadows, scattered farms, standing crops, farms, sheep, fowl, horses, cow, smoke rising lazily from chimneys… and in the distance, the spires of a church. Peaceful. Idyllic. Pastoral. Then comes a series of letters, and pastoral turns political. First,...
Thousands Of British Citizens Trapped In High Debt
By Morning Star Reporting Team Hundreds of thousands of people are “trapped” in debt and facing legal trouble because they cannot afford to pay for social care, research by the GMB union has found. The report, which is based on freedom of information requests submitted to local authorities...
Kerala Polity Acquiring A Redder Hue
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no mistaking the signs: Kerala’s political landscape is all set to acquire a deeper shade of red in the wake of the Chengannur assembly by-election result. CPI(M) candidate Saji Cherian retained the seat by trouncing Congress candidate D Vijaya Kumar by...
Tharoor In The Dock Kicks Up A Farrago Of Emotions
By Aditya Aamir Jocko Street cut short the overseas call. “Shashi Tharoor is in trouble, what will I tell my friends in Thiruvananthapuram? Their hearts will be broken, especially the women.” Alec Smart stabbed a finger in the air: “What happened to Tharoor? Last I heard the man...
India Is World’s Second Most ‘Unequal’ Country
By Nilanjan Banik For India, the case of rising income inequalities deserves special attention. New World Wealth, a Johannesburg-based company, published a report where it claimed that India is the second-most unequal country in the world, with millionaires controlling 54 percent of the wealth. In Japan, the most...
