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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.Asaram gets ‘life’ till god calls his ‘man’
By Sushil Kutty The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a sea of swirling plastic waste in the middle of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas and thrice that of France, is difficult to remove. Similarly, human garbage, trash like self-styled ‘god-man’ Asaram Bapu, is hard to get rid...
Modi And Xi Need To Focus On Trade Issues
By G. Srinivasan India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President in perpetuity Xi Jinping summit parleys sans aide but with interpreters in Wuhan on April 27-28 to take advantage of their mutual chemistry in cementing bilateral relations have not come a day too soon. Soon after Modi’s...
CPI’s Kollam Congress Has To Chart Programme For Revival
By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India’s four day 23rd Congress at Kollam in Kerala beginning April 26, has got a tough task in preparing the Party to be a prominent participant in the current battle of the opposition parties against the NDA government at the centre...
Real People, Real World, Real Poetry
By Chip Grim Poetry on the Picket Line might sound a little unlikely, but it works. It’s a squad of writers prepared to turn up on picket lines and read poetry — something a little different and, usually, it goes down pretty well. It started off by accident...
Us Rejoining TPP To Put Further Pressure On China
By Subrata Majumder The US-China trade war has taken a new shape after Trump administration evinced interests for re-joining the TPP (Trans – Pacific – Partnership). Seemed to have been flattened by Chinese bellicose and domestic lobby by US farmers, Trump administration is likely to shift pressure on...
Major Decisions of the Courts in India
CJI’s impeachment motion rejected by Vice President – 71 Rajya Sabha Members belonging to seven political parties have signed the notice for initiating impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra. In a press conference, the opposition leader, Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad also mentioned that the same had...
Strong In Polemics But Bad In Law
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 19th April, 2018, the Supreme Court of India dismissed the series of petitionsseeking an independent probe into the death of CBI Special Judge Loya, who allegedly died of cardiac arrest on 1st December, 2014. Judge B.H. Loya was hearing the Sohrabuddin encounter case, wherein...
Popular Angst Against BJP, Modi About To Explode
By Amulya Ganguli Close on the heels of an open letter written to Narendra Modi by 49 former bureaucrats about the “terrifying state of affairs” in India, has come yet another missive by as many as 637 academics in India and abroad who have voiced a similar concern....
BJP Goes Into Election Mode In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP is now in the election mode for 2019 Lok Sabha polls. As a part of damage control after the humiliating defeat in two by-elections for Lok Sabha seats Gorakhpur and Phulpur, BJP national president Amit Shah visited the state capital and held discussions...
Casting couch as ‘livelihood provider’
By Sushil Kutty Pretty girl in Delhi tells mom and pop and little adorable brother at dinner that her bags are packed and first shot of dawn she will be up and gone to Bollywood! Mom – who’s always warning daughter to take care stepping outdoor because there...
A Great Victory For The Yechury Line
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Cometh the hour, cometh the man. And the chosen man at this critical juncture in the country’s political history is CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury. It may sound a cliché. But the fact is it is Yechury’s finest hour. By getting the 22nd...
Every Rooftop And Pond Can Be Solar Power House
By K R Sudhaman Buoyed by the leg up in solar power development in the country, rooftop solar is fast catching up with land becoming scarce, particularly around major cities where solar provided a viable solution to tackling peak power demand. With net metering fast catching up, solar...
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...
