DEAR EDITOR : I applaud President Biden for signing the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act into law – an important, timely, and refreshingly bipartisan piece of legislation that will provide federal law enforcement agencies robust tools […]
Visuals of Buxar and Ghazipur expose bogey of a new India Covid seems to have taken us back to the colonial times of pestilence and famines, when the poor just floated their dead down the […]
May 6, 2021 H.E. Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India Re: “Open Letter” – in re as Covid19 Tsunami ravages India, the need for the “raw truth” of this lab-created biowarfare agent is now necessary […]
Centre, states should strive for uninterrupted oxygen supply The disruption of oxygen supply is causing deaths almost on a daily basis in the country. Earlier this week, 24 patients, 23 of them Covid-infected, died in […]
The world is worried as reports from India about thousands dying every day for want of medical care pour in. While nations, organizations and individuals have come forward to reach to the suffering people of […]
Biden is on course to fulfilling agenda despite opposition at home and challenges abroad In his first address to a joint session of Congress, U.S. President Joe Biden made clear that his administration would continue […]
Constitutional body is being held responsible for Covid surge The Madras High Court has pulled no punches in holding the Election Commission of India (ECI) ‘singularly’ responsible for the spread of the second wave of […]
SC’s caution against harassing those needing help will deter ill-advised action The Supreme Court has issued a timely warning to the States against any attempt to clamp down on the dissemination of information about the […]
Mindsets must change to rein in police brutality, racism Nine minutes and 29 seconds — that’s how long Derek Chauvin, a White police officer, kept African-American George Floyd pinned under his knee on a pavement […]
By announcing that all U.S. troops would be pulled out of Afghanistan by September 11, President Joe Biden has effectively upheld the spirit of the Trump-Taliban deal, rather than defying it. In the agreement between […]
Hon. President of the United States Dear President, Request your support for India’s democracy – One call does it. Briefly, India has been our reliable ally in containing Chinese influence worldwide, and we base that […]
Indians all over the world are concerned with the confrontational situation in India as a result of the Farm Laws enacted by the Modi government. Some well-wishers of India have sent their comments which we […]
Happy Vaisakhi
Nothing could give us a greater pleasure than to present an edition with great reading. Here we are with Vaisakhi special edition which is dedicated to farmers in India who are protesting against the Farm […]
Build social & political consensus on legalizing marijuana New York has become the 15th American state to legalize the use of marijuana by adults, while Virginia intends to allow possession of small quantities of the […]
Vaccine a bright spot, but no dearth of challenges A year has passed since the World Health Organisation declared a global pandemic after over a lakh cases of Covid-19 were confirmed across the world, transforming […]
Supreme Court lays down norm; time to erase colonial-era law The Supreme Court of India deserves unreserved praise for its decision to dismiss a sedition petition against former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah […]
Film Review Cinema transcends all boundaries. Vikash Verma’s upcoming film “No Means No” is a great example of cinema’s ability to bridge boundaries and bring people together.The first ever Indo-Polish film, “No Means No” is […]
Court stands up for individual’s right to dissent Climate activist Disha Ravi is out on bail in the toolkit case, 10 days after her arrest that had sparked outrage in India and abroad. The 22-year-old […]
Rule of law not a concession given by State to citizens Young activist Disha Ravi’s arrest in Bengaluru in the ‘toolkit case’ and the subsequent order of a Delhi court sending her to five-day police […]
The overhang of human rights on strategic ties Any new leader’s first lot of overseas visits and phone calls, the latter more so during the pandemic, give a realistically accurate insight into his foreign policy […]
The government must not see all criticism as part of a conspiracy against India India’s unusual response to comments on the ongoing farmers’ protests by some international celebrities comes across as highly sanctimonious. “The temptation […]
India celebrated the 72nd year of the Republic on January 26, 2021. The usual pageantry was missing from the Republic Day Parade this time, but there was no waning of enthusiasm and patriotic spirit. The […]
India needs to sidestep the eddies The most-used words in Joe Biden’s inaugural speech were ‘America, American and Americans’ and ‘nation, people and democracy’. The message to heal a badly split America, its apogee reached […]
President Donald Trump has the rare distinction of being impeached twice by the House of Representatives. Just as he created history in 2016 by getting elected after beating 16 Republicans in primaries, and finally defeating […]
© The Indian Panorama