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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.May’s Cabinet Reshuffle Is A Disaster For Her Government
By Nitya Chakraborty British Prime Minister Theresa May has shown through her cabinet reshuffle on Monday that she is not in control of the ruling Conservative Party and she can be cajoled by her MPs to change decisions. As a result, the much hyped cabinet changes have led...
Has Rahul broken BJP’s monopoly on hinduism?
By Amulya Ganguli The BJP can claim credit for introducing a major change in Indian politics by ensuring that its slogan, “Garv se kaho hum Hindu hain” (Say with pride I am a Hindu), the leitmotiv of the saffron brotherhood’s Ramjanmabhoomi movement of the 1990s, which led to...
CPI(M) Revives Talk Of Tie-Up With KC(M)
By P. Sreekumaran A tie-up with the Kerala Congress(Mani) has once again become a bone of contention between the CPI(M) and the CPI. The ongoing CPI(M) district conferences saw renewed expression of the need for a tie-up with the KC(M), at present ploughing a lonely furrow in...
Can a billion shanghaied citizens lodge an fir against UIDAI?
By Sushil Kutty To call an investigative reporter a scribe is downright insulting. A scribe is a person who copies out documents and that is not what Tribune reporter Rachna Khaira did when she exposed the ease with which anybody can steal Aadhar data. Her report laid bare...
Electing to dent India by running down each other’s states
Aditya aamir If Gujarat was no-holds barred, wait for the Karnataka assembly elections, which are slated for mid-2018. Electioneering has already started in the Congress-ruled state. A disturbing trend is both the BJP and Congress are painting states where they do not rule in poor light, in the process...
Poll 2019 To Dominate The February 1 Budget
By S. Sethuraman The Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley has manifold challenges for his fifth and final budget for 2018-19, a politically-loaded exercise ahead of the Lok Sabha Poll 2019. The country’s fiscal system has taken a beating in the current year, mainly due to a half-baked GST,...
Keynesian Economics Is Still Relevant To India
By Nantoo Banerjee An unnecessary controversy is being created about India’s ‘untenable’ fiscal deficit for the financial year 2017-18 as it reached 96.1 per cent of the budget estimate towards October end, lifted by an increase in expenditure. Similarly, the growing criticism by certain interest groups about large...
Chidambaram’s perception of Kashmir is lost in rest of India
Aditya Aamir Congress leader P Chidambaram carries the perception that the Modi government and the BJP-PDP state government do not see the reality. So, promulgate Governor’s rule and the fog will clear over the Valley and the reality of the Kashmir dispute will be there for everybody to see....
Whole of Bihar is talking about a Lalu write-off
Aditya Aamir The voices varied as Lalu Prasad Yadav was sentenced to three-and-a-half years after being convicted by a Ranchi court on December 23 last year in another of the fodder cases dogging him from the mid-1990s. While some have read out his political obituary others have spoken of...
Assam In A Mess Over BJP Vote Bank Politics
By Barun Das Gupta BJP’s Hindutva politics has brought Assam on the brink of a massive social unrest. The reason is the party’s decision to grant citizenship to all Bengali Hindu immigrants from Bangladesh after March 25, 1971, while holding all Bengali Muslim immigrants as ‘illegal infiltrators’ to...
Caste Wars For A Casteless India
By Aditya Aamir If there were no castes in 1818 and assuming there was an idea of India at the time, the 900 Mahars who joined the British to defeat the Peshwa’s 20,000-strong army would have been treated as traitors and anti-nationals. But there was a ‘British India’...
Talaq Arguments That Fail Scrutiny
By K. Raveendran Two steps backward and one step forward. This pretty much characterises the approach of Congress and other parties on the issue of reforming the Muslim society of its outdated practices, the one in contention currently being triple talaq. Most accept that it is unfair on women...
Seeds Of Triple Talaq Bill In Shah Bano Case
By Harihar Swarup Mohammed Arif Khan, a minister in the Rajiv Gandhi government, was seen vehemently pleading for retention of punishable clause as the Rajya Sabha took up triple talaq Bill for discussing. It was his rare visit to the Central Hall of Parliament and he was trying...
Rahul coins ‘Gross Divisive Politics’ to demonetise Modi and Jaitley
Jay Bhagwan Congress President Rahul Gandhi did not have to wade into Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) to take potshots at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for the expected slide in Gross domestic Product (GDP). The figure stood up to bring out the genius in Rahul:...
The New Mafia Capitalism Is Spreading In The World
By John Green It aims to highlight a new stage in the evolution of global capitalism: Mafia capitalism. We are, though, not talking here of a few family Cosa Nostras controlling the underworld, but well-organised crime syndicates, with links to governments and security services, gnawing their way to...
Political Stalement Continues In Spain
By Emile Schepers On December 21, the Autonomous Region of Catalonia in Northeastern Spain held new parliamentary elections to replace the legislature which had been deposed earlier by decree of the right-wing government in Madrid. However, the elections resolved nothing, with the electorate still split on the issue...
Promote Health, Not Nuclear Weapons
By Dr. Arun Mitra Despite ongoing tensions in various parts of the world, the year 2017 ended with a positive note. The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) passed by the UN General Assembly on July 7 would always be counted in red letters in history. It has raised...
Mevani Leads The Charge Of The Caste Brigade
By Aditya Aamir Victimhood comes naturally to the Dalit. Jignesh Mevani understands this better than most. The Gujarat MLA has pitted himself willy-nilly against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Maybe he thinks that is the sure shot way to not only become the headline but also to make it...
