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.Growth Rises In The East, Set To Stay There
By Nantoo Banerjee If automobile sales are regarded globally as the engine of growth, India’s next phase of economic growth is expected to come substantially from the hitherto neglected eastern region. Ask any manufacturer of passenger cars, SUVs, two and three-wheelers in the country, eastern states are substantially adding...
Nail-Shot Leaders Of India, PFFT!
By Sushil Kutty The socio-pathology of the nation stinks. Cow vigilante beat a man half-dead. People inform police. Cops assault the victim! At the spot. In the police station. Finally, taken to hospital, Rakbar Khan is declared “brought dead”. Who is to blame? The state government says not the...
‘Miltablishment’ In Islamabad Conspires Against Free Poll
By Sankar Ray ‘Miltablishment’ breathes down the neck of all parties – major and minor – save the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf with Imran Khan at the helm. The PTI is the only party which has not questioned the impartiality of the polls, scheduled to take place on 25 July to...
Kerala Gets Prime Ministerial Cold Shoulder
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala continues to pay the penalty for rebuffing the ruling BJP’s attempts to dig in its heels in the State. And from the look of things, any change in the hostile attitude of the Modi Government seems unlikely towards the state, considered a bastion of...
Holding Corrupt Guilty Until Proven Innocent
By K Raveendran A remarkable Supreme Court judgment on corruption issued during the course of the week has gone unnoticed. In a verdict that can make prosecution in corruption cases somewhat easier, the court ruled that the acceptance of bribe can be presumed if the accused fails to give...
Saffron Brigade Gears Up For Modi Image Boost
By Arun Srivastava The image makeover programme for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, launched at the initiative of party president Amit Shah, is producing the opposite result: it has helped draw people’s attention to his failures and misgovernance, rather than boost his image. While spreading the word about the government’s...
Cameras Wink At Rahul’s Eye To Total Effect
By Sushil Kutty In Dante’s hell corrupt politicians end up in a lake of boiling pitch. Demons with evil claws and grappling hooks guard the lake. Raksha Mantri Nirmala Sitharaman looked like she saw Dante’s Hell when Rahul Gandhi accused her of speaking ‘untruth’ in the Rafale deal? UPA-II...
Muslim Indians Too Have Progressive Aspirations
By Harihar Swarup Before Independence, earthen pitchers containing drinking water at the Railway stations were marked Hindu water and Muslim water. I was a child at that time and amazed to see the marking. Hindus would not drink Muslim water and vice-versa. I had then wondered how can water...
Drug Abuse: Time For Medical Professionals To Step In
By Dr. Arun Mitra Involvement of youth in the use of highly addictive killer drugs in such large numbers as is being reported is a matter of serious concern for social thinkers and concerned citizens, more so for the medical profession. A doctor is duty bound to prevent disease...
The Wolf And The Quake Together
By Sushil Kutty Wolf Aaya, Wolf Aaya… But Congress President Rahul Gandhi had also promised a ‘Bhookamp’ if allowed 15-minute one-on-one with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Friday, he went on the rampage, shaking the foundations of the Modi government in a speech that rocked Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to...
One Year Of GST Is A Saga Of Failure
By Anil Rajimwale It is more than a year since the inauguration of the GST on 1 July last year. Much has been made of this step to achieve ‘uniformity’ of tax in the country: ‘one country, one tax’ is touted as a great slogan by the BJP. There...
Modi Govt’s Policies Have Virtually Crippled BSNL
By Sukumar Damle It all started in 1990s with the advent of ‘Structural Adjustment’ agreed to by the then Congress government at the Centre. Sukhram, the then telecom minister, presented a Bill in Parliament, to turn the department of telecommunications into a corporate body. BJP, whose strength had gone...
TRAI Revamps Regulations To Control Pesky Calls, Spam Messages
TRAI has once again revamped its regulations on spam messages and pesky calls for the benefit of customers. It has asked the telcos to further ensure commercial communications are only made through registered senders. Releasing a statement Thursday the authority writes, “…a complete overhaul of the regulation had become...
Locking up immigrant children is now a billion-dollar industry in U.S.
By Martha Mendoza And Larry Fenn Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the United States that now reaps $1 billion annually—a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds. Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care, and other child welfare...
In Sabarimala It’s Faith Versus Belief
By Aditya Aamir Even the most careless and dated ones among us know that the world and the word have been reduced to a bunch of hashtags. But it is like the Universe. Ever-expanding. From #TalkToAMuslim to #RightToPray. It goes on and on with gay abandon though ‘gay abandon’...
Resort To Mobocracy To Checkmate Tribal Resistance
By Arun Srivastava It is a strange coincidence that on a day Supreme Court ordered the Union and state governments to come up with a law against “the horrendous acts of mobocracy”, the Hindu vigilantes were busy thrashing Swami Agnivesh and making him immobile in Jharkhand’s Litipara. This was...
Nitish Still Keeping RJD Bridge Open
By Rahil Nora Chopra Although Amit Shah declared after the dinner diplomacy with Nitish Kumar in Patna last week that the two parties will fight the coming Lok Sabha election jointly and win all the 40 Lok Sabha seats, the JD(U) leaders are still not confident of getting 25...
Mayawati Preparing To Announce Prime Ministerial Ambitions
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BSP national president and former chief minister Mayawati is preparing to launch herself as a potential Opposition candidate for the prime ministerial post for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. BSP has given a clear indication that Mayawati will contest the Lok Sabha election from any...
