Prabir Purkayastha

Founder Editor of Newsclick which covers and analyses key issues in today's world from points of view virtually missing from the coverage of the dominant corporate media.

Prabir Purkayastha
Belt and Road Initiative: Promise and Perils
16 Jan 2019
With the Belt Road Initiative set to change the face of Eurasia, Rajat Nag and Newsclick Editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha discuss the potential of the project and the obstacles it faces.
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Destroying the CBI as an Institution
11 Jan 2019
The removal of Alok Verma as Director, Central Bureau of Investigation has decimated India's premier police investigating agency.
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Citizenship Bill Violates Constitution, Will Divide and Communalise North-East: Jitendra Chowdhury
10 Jan 2019
In conversation with Prabir Purkayastha, Jitendra Chowdhury, MP from Tripura, speaks about the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.
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Science Will Survive the Modi Regime, Will Science Institutions?
10 Jan 2019
Under Modi’s aegis, the Indian Science Congress has damaged its standing and reputation by allowing nonsense blessed by political power to be passed off as science.
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Centre Speaks of 100,000 Crore Contracts to HAL While Bankrupting It
09 Jan 2019
A discussion about the HAL issue, specifically in the context of Defence Minister Niramala Sitharaman’s claim that the company is being given many orders.
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Why NaMo Won't Tell You The Truth About DeMo
05 Jan 2019
Paranjoy Guha-Thakurta and Prabir Purkayastha talk about Narendra Modi's deafening silence on demonetisation, especially during his recent interview with ANI.
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Lynching as a Public Spectacle
04 Jan 2019
Pushing India towards a Hindu majoritarian state under upper caste dominance is the true intent of today’s mass violence.
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2018: The Year of Institutional Crises
29 Dec 2018
Starting from the Supreme Court to CBI, from RBI to CSO, all these crises exposed the government's disregard for the institutions.
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The BJP’s New Surveillance Regime
27 Dec 2018
The Indian surveillance laws must come to terms with the Supreme Court’s privacy judgement. A blanket demand for backdoors and encryption keys to communications and equipment endangers people without…
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Has India Become a Surveillance State?
25 Dec 2018
The recent notification by the Home Ministry and the proposed changes to the Information Technology rules threatens citizens’ privacy and freedom of expression. A Newsclick conversation between…