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.Cash Crunch May Continue Beyond One And A Half Years
By Gyan Pathak Indians have been suffering in the grinding mill of Modi’s monetary policy misadventure for one-and-half years, which began in November 2016 with the announcement of demonetization. Mismanagement of currency notes and coins created a severe “cash crunch” on the one hand, and excessive supply of...
Hang The ‘Nuanced Look’, String The Rapist High
By Sushil Kutty Now that there is an ordinance to deliver death to rapists of children below 12, there are those who are calling for a “nuanced look” at the whole thing. Their argument: Death penalty for both rape and murder will make rapists kill without compunction; most...
Good Times Are Here Again For India’s Super Rich
By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to know that India’s rich are getting richer. The country’s $billionaires’ club is expanding. Fifty-six new members joined the club, last year. Old ones are amassing more wealth every year than ever before. Some are shedding sticky assets after squeezing them for...
Sitaram Has Historic Tasks To Do In Second Term
By Nitya Chakraborty The re-election of Sitaram Yechury as the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) at the just ended 22nd congress of the CPI(M) assumes special significance in the present period of political turmoil when all opposition parties including the Congress are feeling the...
Media In The Times Of Impeachment
By Sushil Kutty You are entitled to your own opinion but not to your own facts. That is a truism. But facts coloured by ideology become opinions. Ideologies are basically left of centre and right of centre. Governments are ideological. The judiciary has to be above politics. And...
Pashtun Protest Escalates Braving Heavy Odds
By Sankar Ray The Western Pakistan is astir more vociferously than ever in the current millennium with the steady advance of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) – Movement for the Protection of Pashtuns – that seeks solutions related to Pashtun question in a centripetal way. This unequivocal...
High Court Rap Minor Setback For Trinamool Congress
By Ashis Biswas In Bengal, opposition parties did well not to crow about their legal victory against the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) over the conducting of the panchayat polls: the Calcutta High Court order snubbed the TMC and the state administration, but it was no more than...
Dangerous Portends Of Agenda-Driven Verdicts
By K. Raveendran “Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.” This remark of Lord Chief Justice Hewart of England, uttered nearly 100 years ago, is now heard throughout the world of common law. It reflects an ethical requirement that judges...
Yashwant Sinha’s Warning Bodes Ill For PM Modi
By Harihar Swarup The Narendra Modi government will complete four years next month (May 26, 2018). It has by now presented five budgets and used up all the opportunity available to it to show results. At the end, however, government seems to have lost its views and surrounded...
BJP Forges Ahead With Party Apparatus For Poll
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Digvijay Singh’s announcement of his entry into MP politics is expected to have a profound impact on politics in the state. He chose Indore to make the announcement in the presence of his wife Amrita and Rameshwar Neekhra, a very senior leader of Congress....
Alliances And Counter Alliances In Syrian War
By Conn Hallinan An unusual triple alliance is emerging from the Syrian war, one that could alter the balance of power in the Middle East, unhinge the NATO alliance, and complicate the Trump administration’s designs on Iran. It might also lead to yet another double cross of one...
New Cuban President Has A Tough Task To Pep Up Economy
By C.J. Atkins The revolution carries on. That’s the message out of Havana, where 57-year-old Miguel Díaz-Canel was elected president of Cuba by the National Assembly of People’s Power in April 19, succeeding Raúl Castro, 86. The 605-member National Assembly, Cuba’s legislature, met on Wednesday and received...
Fiscal 2019 On Chaotic Start With Cash Squeeze
By S. Sethuraman Fiscal 2019 has not begun well for the terminal year of the majoritarian BJP battling desperately for a renewed mandate in the 2019 Lok Sabha poll – which may perhaps be tactically advanced, depending on mid-May outcome of Karnataka Assembly election.. Mounting opposition...
Dalit Political Scene Is Changing Fast
By Arun Srivastava Scared of Dalits feeling alienated and severing their ties with the party, the BJP leadership has embarked upon a major image refurbishing mission. With the Supreme Court reluctant to review its order on the SC/ST Atrocities Act, the BJP has decided to move the court...
Congress For Alliance With BSP-SP In MP, Chhattisgarh
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress is exploring ways to forge an electoral alliance with Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to counter the BJP in the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. .In the 2013 elections BSP had a vote share of 6.29 percent in MP and 4.27...
SC throws the yellow rag out but life-without-Loya doesn’t end there
Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court has dismissed all PILs in the Judge Loya case, asserting that there was no foul play, that Judge Loya took the natural way out. It was expected. No other ruling could have come. The four Supreme Court judges who rose in rebellion with a...
Trump-Xi Tariff War Has Kept Options Open
By Martin Hart-Landsberg There is a lot of concern over the possibility of a trade war between China and the U.S. In early April, President Trump announced that his administration was considering levying $100 billion of additional tariffs on Chinese exports, after the Chinese government responded to a...
Guv Banwarilal, His Cheeky Pat And Mother India
By Sushil Kutty In the movie ‘Mother’ India the resident ‘lech’ was named Sukhilal. In Tamil Nadu, Governor Banwarilal Purohit steals a cheeky pat on a woman journalist’s cheek and Mother India explodes in righteous indignation – brackets Banwarilal in the company of Sukhilal, names that have gone...
