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.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...
Colombia Is Now NATO’s First Partner In Latin America
By W T Whitney Jr. On May 25, 2018, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos made an announcement that Colombia has joined North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). He mentioned too that Colombia was joining the Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development, an international club of creditors of deeply indebted...
CPI Calls Protest Day On June 20 Against High Fuel Prices
By Nitya Chakraborty The national executive of the Communist Party of India which met at New Delhi on June 3 and 4, 2018, in party’s central headquarters Ajoy Bhavan expressed serious concern at the deteriorating economic and political situation, unbridled hikes in the prices of all petroleum products...
Shiv Sena-BJP Rift Foments Communal Tension
By Dr Bhalchandra Kango AURANGABAD: Shiv Sena had called for a Hindu ‘Shakti March’ in Aurangabad on May 19 against the city police and the home department which failed to take action against those responsible for recent mob violence here. The three wards of old city in...
Facebook In Trouble It Phoned Up A Decade Ago
By Sushil Kutty Mark Zuckerberg must not like the New York Times anymore. The clean-cut CEO of Facebook, social media where friends serenade friends and get high on ‘likes’, was just getting over the profligacy of Cambridge Analytica when the NYT comes out with this report that Facebook...
Grenades Thrown And Shortages Borne
Sushil Kutty Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on June 6, 2018, for the ninth time, clarified that there’s no “scam in Rafale”. She also reiterated that those shouting “ammunition shortage” should be asking themselves, “Who left the shortage? There was shortage before 2014.” The Raksha Mantri, in her forgotten...
Screen Fight Is Over, Now It’s Street Fight
Aditya Aamir A Kaala war is on in Tamil Nadu and neighbouring Karnataka, two states with links to Kaala superstar Rajinikanth, a man whose name recognition in distant shores – Japan to Singapore to sister-city Dubai – is like ‘Hail the Queen’ in the United Kingdom, where films walk through cinema halls...
Time’s Up For BJP’s Undemocratic Choreography
By Amulya Ganguli As in London last April, Narendra Modi participated in a choreographed question-and-answer session in Singapore recently, where one of his responses was apparently to a pre-set query. The difference between the two events was that the BJP aficionado and censor board chief, Prasoon Joshi, managed...
Gossip, Rumour And Test-Tube Sita
Sushil Kutty ‘Gossip dies when it hits a wise person’s ears’, the Buddhist told the journalist who slapped a sneer and shot back, “What about rumour?” The Buddhist shifted to a different asana: “That, my friend, I’m afraid, will move on unless the wise one opens his mouth...
Rahul Gandhi Is Finally Adopting Mamata Model For 2019 Poll
By Nitya Chakraborty At long last, the Congress President Rahul Gandhi has been acting as the unifier of the anti-BJP forces giving up the arrogance associated with the grand old party that it is the natural party of governance. Karnataka assembly elections results set the process and frankly...
OECD For Pushing India’s Economic Growth Engine
G.Srinivasan For the Modi Government, the celebration of the four years of corruption-free governance with the receipt of the mixed message of the latest batch of by-polls to Lok Sabha and State Assemblies across the nation behind, the crucial final year of its first term is replete with...
