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.LDF Govt Courts Yet Another Controversy
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Courting controversies and scoring self-goals seem to have become a habit with the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government. The latest issue in which the LDF government has shot itself in the foot relates to the ordinance by the Kerala Government which...
Qaidi No 106 In Jodhpur Central’s Waiting Room
By Aditya Aamir Salman Khan will have to stay at least one more night in the waiting room of Jodhpur Central… Jail! Bail decision reserved for Saturday, Bollywood is probably cursing the magistrate and that’s for sure. Salman fans and the film fraternity spent a sleepless night while...
Brazilian Right Determined To Keep Lula Out Of Poll
By Ben Chako Brazil’s Supreme Court decision to send former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to jail is a nakedly political act. The most popular president in Brazil’s history is also the front-runner in polls for elections due in October. His Workers’ Party government oversaw massive poverty...
NMC bill: a harbinger for change or an incomplete agenda?
By G. Srinivasan The changes incorporated in the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill 2017 after a Parliamentary Committee made its recommendations that were mostly endorsed by the Union Cabinet on March 28 has still left many a serving doctor community sore and sullen. In a country of continental...
Power Struggle Peaks Up In Tamil Nadu With Its Fragile Governance
By S. Sethuraman Tamil Nadu has been in a state of political ferment since the demise of its most formidable AIADMK Chief Minister, Ms. J. Jayalalithaa in December 2016. First two rival factions, each claiming Amma’s legacy, patched up for power and are tenuously holding office without an...
Ethics In Medical Practice A Global Concern
By Dr. Arun Mitra Weakening of sacred patient and doctor relationship based on mutual trust is a cause of serious concern. This is understandable to an extent because medical practice has undergone a transformation in the last few decades. Increasing corporatization and extraneous considerations have made it too...
Pawar Nurses Prime Ministerial Ambitions
By Rahil Chopra After Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, NCP Chief Sharad Pawar is also getting into the act trying to forge the unity of Opposition parties before the Lok Sabha elections in 2019. Sharad Pawar met Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav...
Salman Khan Finally Attains Veergati, Goes To Jail
By Aditya Aamir Year 2018 is bad for Salman Khan. He stands convicted and sentenced for five years in the fourth blackbuck case. Year 1998 was a bad year for the blackbucks killed in Jodhpur by a band of actors led by the superstar. Hunting is a centuries...
Poverty Eradication Plans Only Target Vote Banks
By Gyan Pathak National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRlM), launched in June 2011, was one of the flagship programmes to eradicate rural poverty in India. By the 7th year of its implementation it was to cover all the districts and blocks of the country. Only after two months the...
China Has Lessons To Learn From US-Japan Trade Tiff
By Subrata Majumder Donald Trump is not the first US President to hatch a trade war against its rival. In 1985, Ronald Reagan took an assault on Japan, skyrocketing the yen value to nail Japanese exports. The challenge was to uptick the yen value artificially in a coterie...
Fifty Years After Martin Luther King Jr’s Assassination
By John Wojcik Five decades have passed since the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. In that city this week, thousands gathered to commemorate the civil rights icon’s life. From symposia hosted by the National Civil Rights...
Bengal Not Responding To Assam Govt’s Queries
By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) never loses any opportunity to urge the Central Government to observe existing norms and niceties of governance within a federal political structure. However, there are also occasions when the Bengal Government would do well to follow its...
BJP Determined To Devalue Nitish Kumar
By Arun Srivastava The marriage of deceit and intrigue is on the verge of cessation. Publically both the partners, JD(U) and the BJP have been claiming to enjoy a successful and happy connubial, the reality is they have ceased to be a perfect bed partner. The major partner...
Irani Circular And A Government Running Scared
By Sushil Kutty Arun Shourie was proof of ‘journalism of courage’, the ‘fearless’. One of those who when asked to ‘bend’ did not ‘crawl’. They did not make movies on him but he was the closest to a ‘hero’ to many a young journalist when 24/7 television journalism...
India-Hater Shahid Afridi Is Out Of Favour In Dubai
By Aditya Aamir Shahid Afridi is now ‘Shaheed Afridi’ and along with other Pakistanis out of favour in Dubai. His cricketing career over, the man with the heavy bat is batting for terrorism and terrorists. Maybe he wants to be a politician, walk in the footsteps of marriage-machine...
Riots-By-Design Are Scaring The BJP’s Allies
By Amulya Ganguli The restiveness among the BJP’s former and present allies has spread from the Shiv Sena, which was the first to say that it would not align with the BJP in 2019, to Telugu Desam and Hindustani Awam Morcha’s Jitan Ram Manjhi to Nitish Kumar and...
Big Funds To Boost Fisheries And Animal Husbandry
By K R Sudhaman One of the main problems of Indian agriculture is disguised unemployment. That is, farming by nature is seasonal and hence it does not provide job as well as income throughout the year. It is precisely for this reason every farmer needed to engage himself...
Dalit Is Boiled Meat In The Caste Cauldron
By Sushil Kutty Without doubt there are the twisted caste-oriented who are the scum of the earth and wouldn’t blink a jaundiced eye while committing atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. It is a centuries old practice and no doubts. Thirty years ago, realizing this, Parliament gave...
