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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.Madhya Pradesh Women Fight Closure Of Boozing Yards
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Strange things are happening in Madhya Pradesh. Women generally are against liquor shops, bars and other such outlets. But in Madhya Pradesh just the opposite is happening. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan himself announced closure of “ahatas” (courtyards adjacent to liquor shops) in...
CPI(M) Confident Of Retaining Tripura
By Barun Das Gupta State Assembly elections to three north-eastern States – Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland – will be held next month. Tripura goes to polls on February 18, while Meghalaya and Nagaland on February 27. The results will be out on March 3. In the last five...
Karni Sena Provides A Preview Of Hindu Rashtra
By Amulya Ganguli Even as the gau rakshaks have yielded place in the media headlines to the Karni Sena, the latter’s crusade against the screening of the Sanjay Leela Bhansali film, Padmavat, is giving a foretaste of what can be expected if and when India’s present constitutional order...
CPI(M) Victim Of The Bourgeoise Maneouverings
By Arun Srivastava Prakash Karat might have been feeling ecstatic at his victory. The Central Committee members endorsed his political line of ‘no alliance, no understanding with the Congress’. But the BJP is celebrating his triumph.Karat and his comrades have made the task of making a clean sweep...
After Liquor, Nitish Now Turns Against Dowry
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the liquor ban, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is now toying with the idea of a slogan asking people not to take or give dowry. He is said to be planning to activate the police and administrative departments to implement the campaign against...
Bhansali, Media And Politicians Feed Padmaavat Frenzy
By Sushil Kutty The irony is Sanjay Leela Bhansali caters to the same base instincts that the media accuses the “fringe” of. Bhansali’s Allauddin Khilji is pictured a violent sultan who wears his vices on his sleeve. He is a womanizer who rapes his wife. A glutton who...
Modi’s Flawed Policies Working Only For Super Rich
By Gyan Pathak The second most important slogan around which Narendra Modi has been reaping political dividend since the general elections in 2014 is ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ (support for all, development for all), but the data released by various organizations ahead of the World Economic Forum gathering...
Challenges Confronting Indian Republic
By D Raja India in 2018 confronts mounting challenges of crisis proportions. Such challenges are products of the divide and misrule of the BJP-led NDA regime over a period of three years. Never ever in post Independent India the country faced such intense and devious polarisation in society,...
Most Of World Remains ‘Less Free’, Says Report
By Aditya Aamir The audit of global freedom, the latest report of Freedom House, an independent think-tank that rates free countries and not-free countries, is out and India remains in the ‘free’ category, while China and Russia are not worth the thought much less the description. None of...
Economic Growth Is Expanding Income Inequality In India
By Nantoo Banerjee It is a matter of concern that economic inequality is far exceeding the economic growth rate in India. The growing income disparity, alongside the massive promotion of consumerism, is driving the deprived more to crimes as the latest report of the union government’s National Crime...
India Visit Gives Netanyahu A Domestic Breather
By Arun Srivastava Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to India has of course helped India and Israel to normalise their bilateral ties, but more than that it has facilitated Netanyahu to buttress his image back in his country. It is significant that Netanyahu chose to visit India...
A Blunder More Serious Than The One In 1996
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) Central Committee’s resolution ruling out any form of electoral understanding or adjustments with the Congress is a political blunder more serious than the one the party committed in 1996. A close analysis of the prevailing political situation...
New Twist In Starry Politics Of Tamil Nadu
By Kalyani Shankar Tamil Nadu politics is taking an interesting turn after the entry of the two super stars – Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth. After their appearance together recently on the occasion of the 101st birth anniversary of former chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran, who was himself a super...
Where Cows Get Ambulances And Boys Bleed To Death
By Aditya Aamir Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is cow-friendly to a fault. Soon after the ‘Yogi’ became CM, the state government had unveiled a fleet of ambulances to move ailing cows “to hospital” and everyone cheered. But what about human beings? Is the Hindu chief minister...
Difference Between Preferred And Appropriate
By Sushil Kutty It was a gritty court saga out in the open. For the journalist a seemingly impossible heist given to him on a platter even if the limelight was for the four judges alone. But at the end of the day, the January 12 press conference...
Aadhaar Hearings Commence Before The Constitution Bench
The much anticipated hearing challenging the validity of the Aadhaar programme as well as the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 (‘Aadhaar Act’) began last week in the Supreme Court before the Constitution Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Mishra, Justice A.M....
Karat’s Win In CC Meet Is A Blow To Opposition Unity
By Nitya Chakraborty For those who have been anxiously waiting for the CPI(M) central leadership to take a final decision in favour of building a broadbased unity of the democratic and secular forces to fight the BJP and its allies in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the voting...
Make In India, Make In Bengal
By Nantoo Banerjee If proximity to raw materials, abundant supply of water and electricity, availability of trained manpower, port and road connections, nearness of local and export markets and helpful local administration and government are principal pre-conditions for industrial investments, few Indian states can match West Bengal in...
