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.Indian Economy Is On A Growth Path
By Anjan Roy What was until recently esoteric has become mainline now. Nobody earlier would have bothered about some figures regarding national income, which were left best to some eccentric economists. But now? It is followed with fervor like cricket scores. Rivals are the countries and national income...
After Darwin, It’s Newton’s Turn
By Aditya Aamir Remember Dr Satyapal Singh? He is our Minister of State for Human Resource Development, IPS-turned-politician with a Masters in Chemistry. The top cop who has Science on his finger-tips and a mastery of putting his foot in the mouth, a feat not even Yoga guru...
Growth Recovery Feeble So Far In Current Fiscal
By S. Sethuraman India’s stagnant economy will be entering fiscal 2019 on the back of relatively poorer performance for two successive years (FY16-18), and well below 7 per cent growth in real terms in fiscal 18, amid global headwinds of market volatility, rising inflation and interest rate hikes...
Early Lok Sabha Polls May Not Help PM Modi
By Harihar Swarup Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi go in for an early Lok Sabha poll? There have been growing speculation in political circles that he may dissolve the Lok Sabha in November or December and prefer to hold the general elections along with Assembly elections in Madhya...
BJP’s Success In Tripura Is Not Foolproof
By Amulya Ganguli It will be a mistake to regard the BJP’s success in Tripura as a harbinger of its future prospects elsewhere in the country because it is based on the quicksand of opportunistic politics. What the BJP has been able to do in Tripura is...
Karti chidambaram ‘should not have returned’
Sushil Kutty PC’s son Karti is right. He should have remained in his London digs. Not spend time in a CBI cell. Now, he has given the BJP an electoral strategy. Agreed, the alternative would have given Shah-Modi much the same. It’s a throw, however, whether electoral strategies...
Sena Exploring Alternative Govt In Maharashtra
By Rahil Nora Chopra According to sources, senior Shiv Sena leaders, MLAs and MPs are meeting shortly to decide and chalk out the strategy for the coming Lok Sabha elections. The meeting is also expected to decide on the fate of the party’s support to the Maharashtra government...
Chinese Aggressiveness Brings India And Vietnam Closer
By Subrata Majumder Close on the visit of Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan for the Republic Day celebrations, the visit of Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang to India in March should be viewed from more than the angle of bilateral economic engagement. It has to be seen...
Modi’s 2014 Scarecrows Give A Fright To Amit Shah
Aditya Aamir Farmers do not like the Bharatiya Janata Party. One of the quirks of democracy is that the government of the day is always under attack. More so, during elections, and the opposition are those who do the attacking. Farmers are a big part of the broad...
Implications Of Manjhi Deserting Saffron Company
By Arun Srivastava Former Bihar chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha chief Jitan Ram Manjhi has quit the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). With this he has also announced the decision to join the ‘Mahagathbandhan’, the Grand Alliance. The development might not have any adverse numerical impact on the...
Electric Vehicles To Bring Cheap, Pollution Free Urban Transportation
By K R Sudhaman In a decade or two, nearly 50 per cent of 1.3 billion people in India will live in urban areas and transportation is perhaps going to be a major hurdle, particularly in major cities, which are already choked. Lately there is a new dimension...
Vijayan Expands His Domination In Kerala State CPI(M)
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Factionalism in the State CPI(M) has become a thing of the past. And the party would benefit from it. Thus thundered CPI(M) state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan at the recently-concluded party’s state conference. But the question uppermost in the minds of not only CPI(M)...
Lalu In Jail More Politically Relevant Than Lalu Walking Free
By Arun Srivastava With the Jharkhand high court rejecting the bail application of RJD chief Lalu Yadav in the multi-crore fodder scam, analysts have started writing his political epithet and visualise the end of the politics of social justice. They are aware that Lalu is the only leader,...
Mayawati Is Bucking Trends In Dalit Politics
By Amulya Ganguli Mayawati’s alliance with the Janata Dal (Secular) in Karnataka for the forthcoming assembly election is possibly her last throw of the dice in an effort to retain her political relevance. Realizing that she is becoming a back number in view of the rise of...
‘Apna Desh’ Becomes A Lawless Land
By Sushil Kutty Manoj Baitha, the BJP leader who killed nine children with his SUV, is a scumbag and that is his “good quality”. He doesn’t have the qualities of real good people. Like not getting drunk and driving. This lowlife had liquor in his blood and breath....
Supreme Court Lands In Another Major Crisis
By Amritananda Chakravorty The Supreme Court again seems to be involved in another crisis, with questions of judicial impropriety and challenging conventions raised. The issue pertained to a decision of bench of three judges declaring a 2014 judgment of another three judges on land acquisition as per incurium,...
Taking Indo-Nepal Relationship Forward
By Barun Das Gupta In the recent parliamentary elections in Nepal, the two communist parties secured a majority, relegating the Nepali Congress, an ally of the Indian National Congress and India as such, to the third place. As soon as the elections ended and the communist victory was...
Poll Battle To Win Over Northeastern States Of India
By Kalyani Shankar The most neglected northeastern region has come into focus in the political calculations of the BJP, the Congress and the regional parties in view of the ongoing Assembly elections to Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura. For decades, successive governments at the Centre, often in collusion with...
