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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.Rajputs Re-Emerge As Ruling Clan In BJP
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Rajputs seem to have made a comeback as the ruling clan under the BJP. With the swearing in of Jairam Thakur, Himachal Pradesh is the fifth BJP-governed state with a Rajput chief minister after Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh. Rajasthan chief minister...
2G Spectrum Scam Verdict Suffers From Serious Infirmities
Special CBI judge O.P. Saini acquitted all the accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam cases. The accused included A Raja, then Telecom Minister, K. Kanimozhi, daughter of M. Karunanidhi of the DMK, Shahid Balwa, Sanjay Chandra, Reliance Telecom and Gautam Doshi, amongst others. An accompanying case had Ravi...
Indian Politics Victim Of A Dirty Conspiracy By Saffron Brigade
By Arun Srivastava The CBI special court verdict exonerating all the accused in the 2G spectrum scam exposes the moral decline in the Indian polity during the last five years. The credibility of Indian politicians has always been suspect, but the manner in which it was shredded by...
A New Year’s wish for that brighter socialist future!
By Victor Grossman BERLIN: Berlin and Germany offer plenty to write about, sometimes much of it unpleasant. As we approach the New Year, none of it is burningly new or urgent. Bargaining on forming a new government will last well into 2018, with little prospect thus far of change...
Drug Prices Need Streamlining To Make Them Affordable
By Dr. Arun Mitra Since the cost of drugs comes to about 70 percent of the out of pocket expenditure on health, this becomes a cause of major concern. Because 80 percent of medical care in our country is in private sector and advanced tertiary care is mainly coming...
AIBEA To Launch Struggle Against Liquidation Of Banks
By C.H. Venkatachalam The Cabinet approved the FRDI Bill (Financial Resolution & Deposit Insurance Bill) and thereafter the Bill was introduced in the Parliament on the last day of the last Session and now the Bill has been referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee. The Bill has created widespread...
Cong, BJP take a triple-turn to signal start of 2019 campaign
Aditya Aamir The retort to the triple-T Bill from the likes of AIMIM MP Assauddin Owaisi is, “But what will happen to the wife and children if the husband is put behind bars?” Of course, that assumes the triple-T the husband threw at his wife was just for fun,...
Kamala Mills fire: 1Above had no Mojo Thursday night
Sushil Kutty The 1Above – God Almighty – was not with them that midnight hour when 1Above and Mojo Bistro in Kamala Mills Compound burned, killing 14 and injuring 26. ‘Illegal’ was the word doing the rounds the day after. “Something burnt,” sniffed reporters picking up the story from...
Where have all the vigilante gone?
Adiya Aamir ‘Gai Hamaari Mata Hai’ does not mean the cow is everybody’s mom. It is a political slogan to muster votes and to cover up for the horrible manner in which Indians treat the cow. Cows roam roads and streets in India, looking for morsels to satiate hunger...
One-liner vp ‘begs to differ’
By Jay Bhagwan Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has not only livened up the Upper House with his one-liners, he has also refused to toe the imperialist mindset that wouldn’t let go even the venerable elders in India’s Parliament. On Friday he reiterated his opening...
Sow The Wind, Reap The Whirlwind
By Aditya Aamir What’s all the brouhaha about? Prime Minister Narendra Modi backstabbed “best friends” US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on December 21 at the United Nations and Palestine envoy to Pakistan Walid Abu Ali joined with global terrorist Hafiz Saeed to backstab...
‘Triple Talaq’ Bill Is More Harmful Than Protective
By Gyan Pathak The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017 is potentially more harmful than it aims to protect. Obviously, the issues that might arise in the aftermath of its becoming an act are not well thought. The word talaq is defined in this...
An obscurantist minister responsible for ‘innovative thinking’
By K. Raveendran Union Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Anantkumar Hegde created a storm with his obscurantist call to fellow countrymen to identify themselves by their religion and caste and not to fancy themselves as ‘secular’ because such people have no respectable parentage to claim. He even...
Looking Back At The Eventful 2017
By Harihar Swarup The year 2017 was an eventful year, perhaps more eventful than previous years. The year gone by saw a surge for the BJP: the saffron party, for the first time, has its president in Rashtrapathi (APJ Abdul Kalam was a consensus candidate and not a...
Stop acting and layoff after the takeoff
Sushil Kutty One international film award winner wonder, Malayalam actor Parvathy, has landed three misogynists in a soup one of whom only acts misogynist because he is a director’s actor and the director told him to “give it the best shot you can.” So, Malayalam superstar Padma Shree Mammootty...
Dubai Indian lady orders $40,000 ‘golden’ cake to celebrate Independence Day
Dubai: At the request of an Indian lady client in Dubai, whose name has not been disclosed, city-based Broadway Bakery has created the world’s most expensive edible cake as part of the celebrations of Indian Independence Day. It features Bollywood celebrity Aamir Khan (as Mahavir Singh Phogat) glamorously looking on...
Satellites In The Sky, Gau Rakshaks On The Ground
India tends to live in two worlds ancient and modern. There has never been a more stark exhibition of this dichotomy than the well-known picture of a satellite being carried on a bullock cart in 1981. The explanation for this oddity was that the testing of the satellites...
Modi Has Many Hurdles To Cross
By Amulya Ganguli Only the naïve will believe that Narendra Modi has scored a famous victory by pushing his bugbear, Sanjay Joshi, into political wilderness. Instead, by his uninhibited display of a vengeful spirit, he may have queered the pitch for himself for, as Sushil Modi, Bihar’s deputy chief...
