IPA Staff
8275 stories by IPA Staff
Bengali Intelligentsia Has To Counter BJP’s Islamophobia
By Amulya Ganguli The belief that the RSS-BJP has scored an ideological victory over the secular forces by forcing their leaders to visit temples at election time or give voice to the Chandi incantation is only partially true. Hindus have always been expressive about their faith as the four-day...
What Next: Should Development Precede Bengali Pride?
By Subrata Majumder The uproarious West Bengal poll is over. Nudging out the highly speculative hung government, West Bengal witnessed the return of TMC (Trinamool Congress) led by Mamata Banerjee, with a massive victory for a third term. This sends a new message to Modi’s political satraps, who were...
States Battle Covid Without Much Help From Modi Govt
By Subodh Varma Last year, the Central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared to be directing the fight against COVID-19 directly, imposing a two-month long lockdown starting March 25, 2020, announcing various schemes and policies to buoy the economy, funding private companies for vaccine development and other...
Behind The Scene: A Vote For Both Change And Continuity
By Harihar Swarup The outcome of the assembly elections is a setback to both national parties and will result in more assertive states. It is also now time for all the new governments to focus on Covid-19. Swear in the new chief ministers immediately, don’t fight over cabinet berths,...
Modi Has A Knack For All Wrong Decisions At The Wrong Time
By K Raveendran “This government has lost its mind. They talk of being a superpower, but what kind of superpower that can’t even find oxygen for its people?” This quote from a Meerut man who lost his niece to Covid, has been carried by The Economist to show the...
Wheat Procurement Up Amidst Fear Of Covid-19
By Gyan Pathak The ferocious rise in COVID-19 infection and its continuing spread from the urban to rural India has put the government and the people under fear of difficult days ahead. People are worried about fall in their income and rise in inflation, while the government has become...
Japanese Deflation — That Horrible Sinking Feeling
By Anjan Roy In the midst of a pandemic, the economic scenario is looking dismal. To break the chain of infection, we are isolating ourselves and that is bringing the level of activity to a minimum; demand is hibernating; investment is better not mentioned. Prices of manufactured goods are...
Total Lockdown Should Have Been Declared Earlier
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The nine-day total lockdown, which has come into force from this Saturday, has been welcomed by one and all. It has been put in place as the partial lockdown has failed to prevent a deterioration in the covid situation. But there is a perception that...
Questions Being Asked As To What Next For Labour Party
By Arun Srivastava Labour’s humiliating byelection defeat in Hartlepool marks the disastrous end to the first year of Keir Starmer’s leadership, which was supposed to begin a new era for Labour. Keir had replaced Jeremy Corbyn with the promise to salvage the situation and give a completely new dynamics...
Is There Hope In This Pandemic?
By Ibad Mushtaq This perhaps may not be the best of times to ponder upon the question of hope. Engulfed by death, disease and desolation, India, and along with it the entire world, is going through a time unparalleled and not witnessed by most of us alive. Scenes of...
