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India Must Widen Food Support Programme
By Gyan Pathak The second wave of Covid-19 has been pushing millions more in India into destitution and extreme poverty. Many families are losing their earning members to the pandemic, many survived alone and have nothing left with them even to feed themselves, and many lost their jobs. We,...
The Politics Behind Portraying Mamata As Guilty
By Arun Srivastava In the evening of May 2, the moment the Election Commission refused to accede to Mamata Banerjee’s request to recount the votes, it became clear that the BJP was ready with its strategy to humiliate Mamata, destabilise her government once she is sworn in as the...
Chronicler Of Dalit Struggle Wins Saraswati Samman
By Harihar Swarup Marathi novelist, poet, critic and short story writer Sharankumar Limbale was selected for the 2020 Saraswati Samman, a prestigious literary recognition conferred annually by the KK Birla Foundation. The 30th edition of the prize, the highest recognition in the field of Indian literature in the country,...
Modi’s Faith In Youth Power Turns Out To Be An Empty Slogan
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at his eloquent best when he talks about the ‘youth power’ of India and how the future is safe and secure in their hands. “The more emphasis we put on India’s youth power and the more opportunities we will give them,...
Asia Runs The Risk Of Financial Turmoil
By Gyan Pathak Asia is now running the risk of a financial turmoil. The hopes of its recovery have been dashed by the second wave of Covid-19 in India. It has even endangered the global economic recovery. The drop in employment for the region has been projected nearly 70...
Mamata’s Determined Venture Into National Politics
By Arun Srivastava Just 48 hours ahead of her being formally sworn in as the chief minister, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee moved one step forward to stake her say in the national politics. For the experts and the political establishment, who till May 1 were sure of Mamata losing...
What’s Troubling Adar Poonawala, Will The Modi Govt Come Clean?
By Sushil Kutty Adar Poonawala is the ‘King of Vaccines’. And in today’s Covid-19 world, he’s bigger than Jeff Bezos and Mukesh Ambani. Poonawala runs the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest producer of vaccines with a production facility in Pune. Now, on the turn of a coin,...
Asol Poriborton Can Wait In West Bengal
By Nantoo Banerjee The most important lesson from the results of the latest West Bengal Assembly election is that the state is not prepared to accept religion-led politics. The state would rather suffer inadequate economic development, lack of industry, large unemployment and extortion than surrender to a political rule...
The Polls-2021 : Mamata Overtakes Modi, Kerala Left Holds
By S.Sethuraman A spectacular victory for Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal must have come as a crushing defeat for the nationally majoritarian BJP, given its targeted capture of this eastern behemoth, in its planned march to “One Nation”. Now, leading TMC for its consecutive third term...
BJP’s Summer Of Discontent
By Amulya Ganguli It’s been a bad week for the BJP and personally for the prime minister. Not only has Narendra Modi been roundly excoriated by the Western media for the Covid crisis in India for failing to first assess and then tackle the situation, his party has faced...
