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.Karnataka Governor Vala Has Acted Like A RSS Pracharak
By Nitya Chakraborty By inviting the BJP leader B S Yeddyurappa to form the new Karnataka government despite his inability to prove majority support among the elected legislators, Governor Vajubhai Vala has acted like a RSS pracharak rather than a custodian of the Indian constitution. The most sordid...
Great Chilean Musician Max Berru Passes Away
By Barbara Russum Max Berrú Carrión was born in Cariamanga, Ecuador, June 5, 1942. He died May 1 at the age of 75 in Santiago de Chile of bone marrow cancer diagnosed last year. Despite not being born in Chile, Berrú became Chilean by choice and lived five...
Sugar Industry’s Bitter Cup Of Woes
By G. Srinivasan In the run-up to the Karnataka assembly polls, with the State being one of the few largest producers of sugarcane in the country, the Union Cabinet approved financial assistance of Rs 5.50 per quintal (100 kg) for cane crushed by sugar mills in the extant...
Riding The Bucking Horse To Power
By Sushil Kutty There are no thoroughbred kudra in Karnataka politics today – stallion, mare or gelding. They are all of suspect breed, with a price and prize to command. Then, there are the horses for courses, tasked to identify the vulnerable horse to rustle from rival political...
Kashmir Developments Need A Strong Political Initiative
By Shameem Faizee With daily worsening situation in the Kashmir Valley, the political parties including the partners of the ruling alliance have unanimously urged the Union government to declare ceasefire for the month of Ramadan and continue it till the end of Amarnath Yatra. They have cited...
Crucial Presidential Elections In Venezuela On May 20
By Tony Burke Presidential elections will be held in Venezuela on May 20 at the same time as municipal and regional elections. Contrary to claims from some who support Donald Trump’s “regime change” agenda in the oil-rich country that Venezuela is a dictatorship, these elections will be the...
Whistle-Blower’s Crusade Against Mining Mafia
By Arun Srivastava PATNA: Even a brusque caution from senior minister Sarju Roy to have the renewal of mining rights to companies investigated by some professional agency for wrong-doing, as the existing procedures are violation of court orders, the Bihar government has preferred to sit idle an allow...
Karnataka Results Show That Modi Magic Is Working
By Amulya Ganguli By turning all predictions about Karnataka upside down, the BJP has shown yet again how effectively it runs the party’s election campaign. Disproving the belief that there was no wave in favour or against any party or that the outgoing chief minister Siddaramaiah had...
Deve Gowda Becomes The ‘Good Father’
By Sushil Kutty The electoral battlefield in Karnataka is strewn with bodies, those of the dead and the wounded. Siddaramaiah has lost more than one arm. BS Yeddyurappa lost his cup of joy because there are these things called ‘slip’ and ‘lip’. Amit Shah lost his confidence. Rahul...
Karnataka Poll Results Give One Big Lesson For 2019 Poll
By Nitya Chakraborty The results of the Karnataka assembly elections have grim lessons for the opposition parties, especially the Congress Party led by Rahul Gandhi in determining strategy for the coming Lok Sabha elections in 2019.The BJP led by Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo has recorded a massive victory...
Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Kathua rape trial transferred to Pathankot, Punjab – After weeks of intense arguments, the Supreme Court finally transferred the trial in the Kathua rape case to the Sessions Court, Pathankot in Punjab, which was the closest court outside the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The Court also directed that...
Mutual Consent Paramount In Adult Relationships
By Amritananda Chakravorty Two recent decisions from the Supreme Court of India have emphasised consent at the centre of adult intimate relationships, irrespective of the marital status of the parties. In both cases, the Court focused on the personal freedom and autonomy of adult persons to live as...
Marxism Is A Living Science 200 Years Later
By Rick Nagin The ideas of Marxism originated in the middle of the 19th century. It was then that two great social scientists, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, first realized that capitalism was a continuation of previous class systems where wealth was accumulated in private hands from the...
Karnataka: The Flip-Flops And Ping-Pong
By Sushil Kutty Everybody’s read the pebbles & thirsty crow story. However, this is the age of Social Media. So there’s a twist in the tale: The thirsty crow makes 69 trips to the river to get the pebbles to raise the water in the bottle to beak-level,...
Overseas Bidders For Air India Trying To Twist Sale Terms
By Nantoo Banerjee In just another three to four months’ time, the fate of India’s long preserved pride, Air India, the national carrier and ‘Maharaja’ of the sky, may be finally decided. Who’ll be the ultimate owner of the airline? It’s a multi-million-dollar question before Air Indians. The...
Twin Gubernatorial Rebuffs In Two Days
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Two gubernatorial snubs in two consecutive days. That has been the unenviable lot of the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government ruling the State. First of the twin rebukes came after political violence erupted in Kannur and Mahe, claiming the lives of...
Trinamool Prefers Short Term ‘Gains’ That May Hurt Later
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In recent times, no ruling party in Bengal ever faced the Panchayat elections as confidently as the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in 2018, with only hours to go for the polls. Most of its objectives have been achieved: its two- tier terror campaign (state-sponsored,...
PPP, PTI Adopt Tactical Truce To Remember Black Day
By Sankar Ray The proverb all’s well that ends well prevailed at Karachi’s Hakeem Saeed ground in Gulshan-e-Iqbal when at long last workers of the two parties, Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan People’s Party, buried the hatchet on the eve of organising a jalsa on the 11th anniversary of Black...
