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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 Outcome Crucial For Both BJP And Congress
By Arun Srivastava Just a couple of days ahead of the Karnataka assembly polls the BJP and RSS leadership is keeping fingers crossed. Though publicly the leaders are exuding confidence of a clean sweep, getting around 110 seats, in private they seem to lack conviction. They agree...
Divisive Politics In Assam Creates New Rifts
By Barun Das Gupta BJP’s divisive politics in Assam is ripping open old wounds and creating new fissures – between Hindus and Muslims, between Assamese and Bengalis, between the Brahmaputra and the Barak Valleys. It all started during the Lok Sabha election campaign of 2014. The BJP’s...
Modi Officials Inflating Job Generation Figures
By Nitya Chakraborty The demonetization done by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8, 2016, is still having its crippling impact on the informal sector of the Indian economy while the officials and economists close to the PM, are busy inflating the job generation figures in the...
Marxism Has To Be Scientifically Applied In India
By S. Sudhakar Reddy Karl Marx was an eminent philosopher, renowned economist, historian, journalist, political ideologue, revolutionary socialist, great intellectual and multilingual expert. His birthday bicentenary is being celebrated in a spectacular way all over the world from May 5, 2018 onwards throughout the year. Karl Marx obtained...
Mehbooba mufti is a darling, but whose?
By Sushil Kutty Year-round eat, drink and then for a month lay down fork and spoon. That is the month of Ramadan or Ramzan. Of course, ‘prayer’ and ‘fasting’ and the peace that comes with both are also Ramadan. But Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti wants...
BJP Worried About Negative Publicity Over Gram Swaraj Yojna
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Whatever Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath may claim during the election campaign in Karnataka, the Gram Swaraj Yojna for Dalit outreach in Uttar Pradesh has created a major embarrassment for BJP and the government. The programme was launched on Ambedkar Jayanti April 14 and...
Trump’s Actions Are Pushing For A Mideast War
By John Wojcik While President Donald Trump has pulled out of Iran nuke deal, a leader of the secular left in Iran says Trump is stepping up plans for an attack on that country which could trigger a devastating regional war with horrific implications for world peace. ...
Rahul Gandhi Takes A Bad Song To Make It Better
By Sushil Kutty The cat (Rahul Gandhi) is among the pigeons (BJP). The day after Rahul said he is ready to become “Prime Minister”, sitting PM Narendra Modi spoke of the “impudence of the immature”, of the “naamdar with the temerity to betray his own alliance”. Is the...
Jinnah Deserves Our Sympathy, Not Derision
By Amulya Ganguli Eighty years after Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s portrait was put up in Aligarh Muslim University, the BJP’s electoral compulsions in Karnataka have made the saffron apparatchiki call for its removal. The delayed reaction is typical of the Hindutva camp. Its devotion for Lord Ram, for...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Supreme Court refuses to stay the infamous SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act judgment– The Supreme Court refused to stay its March 20 judgment on diluting the stringency of the POA, on an application of recall of the judgment filed by the Union of India. The Attorney General argued that...
Petitions Seeking Live Streaming Of Court Proceedings Being Heard
By Amritananda Chakravorty The Supreme Court is currently hearing a bunch of petitions filed by lawyers and organisations seeking live streaming and recording of the proceedings of the Apex Court, thereby pushing for greater transparency in judicial proceedings as well as raising public awareness on important questions of...
Modi Makes Karnataka Poll Acid Test For 2019
By S. Sethuraman The stakes are so high for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deny the Congress, his arch-enemy, a second successive term in Karnataka – the only Southern state within the saffron grasp, if Kannadigas fall for his tantrums all the way. If the Modi vituperative...
The Intellectual Right Is Striving To Find Its Feet
Aditya Aamir The hunt for the ‘real core Hindu’ is on. Somebody ‘right’ asked the other day: ‘Will the real core Hindu please stand up?’ So far nobody has stood up. Resident Indian National Congress leader in Pakistan Mani Shankar Aiyar is not ‘real core Hindu’. He told...
Chengannur By-Election: CPI(M) Has A Slight Edge
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Campaigning for the Chengannur Assembly by-election has slipped into top gear with the polling date less than three weeks away. The by-election has been necessitated by the death of sitting MLA K K Ramachandran Nair of the CPI(M). The constituency is...
Diamond-Studded Trouble For Siddy And Modi
By Sushil Kutty A journalist friend got a gift a decade ago – an Emporio-Armani wrist watch which went round his wrist like a dream. One evening it went flying off his wrist into the four-deep raucous crowd lined up around the dance floor at the neighbourhood...
Karl Marx Was Hostile To Rigid Dogmas
By Conor McCarthy Two hundred years have passed since the birth of Karl Marx. Few historical figures of any kind have been so influential ‑ surely no thinker has. Yet many now would dismiss his ideas as outdated, as flawed, as tending towards totalitarianism. Why should we remember...
Setting The Stage For Modi-Mayawati Face-Off
By Aditya Aamir ‘Could Mayawati be the next PM?’ NDTV tweeted Sunday after Dr Pronoy Roy asked the question to Mayawati at a JD(S) rally in Karnataka. The BSP supremo smiled. Two JD(S) leaders on the stage with Mayawati smiled. Close Up it looked like a Colgate commercial!...
Banking Scam: A Drag On Indian Economy
By K R Sudhaman A humongous problem that is being brushed under the carpet in India is the grave sickness in the banking industry, particularly the public sector banks. In fact, the banking scam is far bigger and widespread than coal scam or 2G spectrum scam. Diamond merchant...
