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Has America Come Any Closer TO DR. Martin Luther King’s Dream?
By Jesse Jackson Last weekend marked the 53d anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination. Over half a century. Has America come any closer to his dream? He would be pleased at some of our progress. Segregation is no longer the law of the land. The Voting Rights Act...
PM’s Learning By Trial And Error Spells Disaster For Nation
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi has declared that a second lockdown is no solution to the second wave of Covid infection, which is threatening to spread with a vengeance, because the economy cannot handle such an eventuality. So far so good. If such good sense had dawned...
Tamil Nadu People Are Waiting With Bated Breath For Poll Results On May 2
By Harihar Swarup Tamil Nadu has a history of strong governments and powerful chief ministers: C Rajagopalachari, K Kamaraj, C N Annadurai, M Karunanidhi, M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa. Few states have had a line-up of such chief ministers whose stature equalled that of prominent national figures. The...
Acute Vaccine Shortage In India Has Posed A Big Challenge
By Gyan Pathak One cannot reconcile with two opposite reports – one coming from both BJP and non-BJP ruled states about closures of and rationing in many inoculation centres due to insufficient supply of vaccines in time, and the other from the Centre as a claim of having no...
Uddhav Thackeray Is Facing Multiple Challenges To His Government
By Sushil Kutty At first, it was an attempt by the BJP to malign the MVA Government soon after it emerged that then state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh had walked into a cul-de-sac. Suddenly, everybody on the run, caught in awkward situations including being hauled up in criminal cases,...
Bangladesh Continues Its Aggressive Export Policy During Pandemic
By Ashis Biswas Unlike most countries affected by a partial economic slowdown because of the ongoing Covid 19 pandemic, Bangladesh is not about to slow down its aggressive export drive. World Bank authorities during discussion a few days ago noted that during the past decade, India’s Eastern neighbour had...
Keir Starmer’s First Year As Labour Leader Has Been A Big Flop
By Grace Blakeley A year into his leadership, British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has managed to defy the expectations of even his most ardent critics. When he was elected, polls found that he had broad levels of support across many demographics. In a relatively short period of time...
Minimum Basic Income Can Only Protect Poor And Jobless In Second Wave Of Virus
By Nitya Chakraborty The second wave of corona virus is sweeping India virtually paralysing people’s lives in many states, especially Maharashtra leading to night curfew and lockdown in large parts of the virus affected districts. The threat of prolonged lock down is looming large if the wave goes on...
Modi Government Has Little Concern For Poor At This Period Of Virus
By Prabhat Patnaik When Elizabeth Warren a contender for American presidentship had proposed a progressive wealth tax during her campaign for Democratic Party nomination, 18 American billionaires had come out in support of her proposal; one cannot recall or even imagine any comparable behaviour in the Indian context. This...
Acute Labour Crisis Looming Large, May Reverse Economic Recovery
By Gyan Pathak The fear of the lockdown has returned almost after a year to haunt the migrant labour again. The chaos like the last year is yet not surfaced this year, but it does not mean people are less fear stricken. It is because the relocking of the...
Remembering Legendary Singer Actor Paul Robeson On His Birthday
By Papri Sri Raman In 1947, Paul Robeson, the black icon of America said he would give up his career for two years to ‘talk up and down the nation against prejudice’. Does ‘prejudice’ sound a familiar word in today’s India? April 9 is the birthday of this great...
With Lt. Governor At The Helm, Policy Paralysis May Affect Delhi Govt
By Brahm Sareen and Shivesh Saini The emerging global image of the Indian democracy is of an “electoral autocracy”. The central government is making this charge appear more realistic with some of its decisions. For example, on 28 March, the President gave his assent to the Government of National...
Mining Act: Centre Is Usurping Powers Of Mineral-Rich States
By Neeraj Mishra Amidst the din over farm bills, the BJP government (it should no longer be called NDA since there are no ministers from any coalition parties) has deftly manoeuvred the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill 2021 through both Houses of Parliament. It’s the BJP’s...
Polling Is Over In Three States And One Union Territory-Only Bengal Is Left
By Rahil Nora Chopra Voting took place in assembly constituencies across the states of West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the Union territory of Puducherry on Tuesday. West Bengal, where voting was over for first three phases, will have five more rounds of polling. A visibly enthusiastic...
RBI Report Shows Pragmatic Optimism To Combat The Challenges In Economy
By Anjan Roy In the grim context of a second wave of covid infections spreading throughout the country and nervous sense of foreboding, Reserve Bank’s latest monetary policy is admirably anchored in pragmatic optimism. This is good for a struggling economy and hopefully should be borne out by events....
Protection Of People’s Health And Livelihoods Is Top Most Priority Now
By Prakash Karat With the second wave of the Covid-19 infection unfolding, India is facing a calamitous situation. April 4 saw the breeching of the 100,000 mark (one lakh) in daily cases with 103,709 cases recorded. Three days later, on April 7, the count reached the highest so far...
Second Wave Of Covid Is Too Serious To Allow Any Petty Politics
By Gyan Pathak As the second wave of COVID-19 in India is becoming grimmer, politics in the country is becoming uglier. The most objectionable was the attitude of the centre to treat the spread of the pandemic as godsend opportunity to implement whatever they want to, violating the very...
Farmers On Dharna Are Carrying The Tradition Of Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March
By Krishna Jha Demanding repeal of three farm laws, guarantee for the purchase of the crops, and also minimum support price, the farmers are sitting on dharna on the borders of Delhi for last almost 140 days, and have initiated the ‘Mitti Satyagraha’ commemorating the famous Dandi March that...
