IPA Special
Two Indias: Behind The Rising Intolerance In The Civil Society
By Dakshita Dubey In January 2013, while India was coping with the gruesome Nirbhaya gang rape, the first division of two India(s) (post 1947), was done by Mohan Bhagwat, the sixth Sarsanghchalak, or chief, of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Bhagwat claimed that violence against women does not occur...
Los Angeles’s Biggest Film Festival Returns With Great Anti-Racist Films
By Ed Rampell The AFI Fest returned to Hollywood for live, in-person screenings and events, although there was also a virtual component for watching many of the feature, documentary, short, indie, studio, and foreign productions that Los Angeles’ largest annual film festival presented in 2021. Some of the screenings...
Learning By Trial Has A Cost For Which Nation Pays Dearly
By K Raveendran Better late than never. Finally good sense dawned on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in realising the futility of his intransigence on the controversial three farm laws and deciding that it is time for the unwelcome laws to be scrapped. He has apologised to the nation for...
Repeal Of Three Farm Laws Ignites Hopes For Scraping Of Four Labour Codes
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Farmers across the country are rejoicing the victory of their yearlong agitation against the three farm laws, a fruit of their consistent movement not only against these, but also the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP across the country that enforced him to announce...
Modi’s Dramatic Retreat Sullies His Strong Man Image
By Sushil Kutty Has Narendra Modi’s countdown begun? The New York Times took notice of the decision to repeal the three farm laws and pronounced his weakened state. His domination of the Indian political scenario is in shards outside the window he gazes at his peacocks from. November 19,...
Akhilesh Invoking Jinnah Is Fodder For BJP
By Harihar Swarup Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, passed away in 1948. However, today in November 2021 he has come alive in the political battlefield of Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav recently said, “Sardar Patel, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Jinnah … became barristers and got...
Prashant Kishor Working On New Opposition Strategy To Project Mamata As PM
By K R Sudhaman There is a buzz in political circles that opposition parties appear to be stitching up a workable coalition to take on BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and informed pundits indicate that TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is likely to emerge as the Prime ministerial candidate...
Protesting Bangladeshi Students Burn Pakistan Flag
By Ashis Biswas In Bangladesh, Pakistanis are learning the hard way that even 50 years after their country split, displaying their national flag in the East still remains a bitterly emotive issue. A group of young pro-liberation protestors at Dhaka University burnt the Pak flag following a meeting held...
Disappearance Of Chinese Star Sportswoman Prompts Boycott Call
By Anjan Roy Tennis Olympian Peng Shuai had complained of sexual assault by a highest ranking Chinese politician. The cruelty, violence, exploitation of the people by those in power, coercion and society’s acquiescence to all these in spite of awareness about such malaise in current day China unavoidably nudges...
United Movement Of Kisans Forces Modi To Repeal Three Farm Laws
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi corrects his mistake by just shedding his arrogance and announcing repeal of the three controversial farm laws he got passed in the Parliament of India in the midst of COVID-19 crisis when the whole country was struggling to save lives of...
Supreme Court Has The Constitutional Duty To Review The Misuse Of UAPA
By Sushil Kutty Julio Ribeiro and Harsh Mander among others. There will be folks who will mock them with “the usual suspects” tag, but then these former civil servants are persistent with their consistency to stop the Union Government from initiating and implementing overbearing actions; cry foul when the...
High Taxes On Petro Products By Centre Hit The Working People Most
By Prabhat Patnaik The Modi government has been raising taxes on petro-products as its main instrument of resource mobilisation for government spending. This ironically has the dual effect of not stimulating the economy, but stimulating inflation instead. An alternative fiscal policy of raising resources through direct taxes on the...
Final Declaration Of Glasgow COP26 Is An Inadequate Response To Present Challenge
By Dr. Soma Marla The just ended climate summit COP26 has largely disappointed the people around the world as there was hardly any attempt to take bold steps to avert rapid global warming. Despite the urgency to halt catastrophic climate change, the pact that was approved at the end...
India Needs To Adopt Smart Agriculture To Improve Productivity
By K R Sudhaman On a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi rightly repealed the three draconian farm laws to prevent a political snowball in the ensuing assembly elections. It is worthwhile to ponder over how to make Indian agriculture smart now that the controversial laws have been withdrawn....
Priyanka Urges Uttar Pradesh’s Women To Raise Their Voices
By Rahil Nora Chopra Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has distanced herself from the ‘Hinduism vs. Hindutva’ debate, and said that former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid’s view on the issue was an individual opinion. Speaking in Chitrakoot after performing parikrama of Kamtanath temple...
Adivasis Are The Victims Of Narendra Modi Govt’s Hindutva-Corporate Agenda
By Prakash Karat Narendra Modi, while addressing an adivasi rally at Bhopal on the birth anniversary of the legendary tribal leader Birsa Munda on November 15, claimed that after independence, for decades, the adivasis were neglected. It was only his government that made adivasis partners in the country’s development...
Remembering My Visit To Shanghai In 2000 Amidst Dot Com Bubble
By Nitya Chakraborty The McKinsey report on national wealth by end of 2020 released on Monday placing China as the largest economy surpassing the USA led me remember my visit to Shanghai in year 2000 when the entire global economy including China, was undergoing dot com bubble. I was...
Modi Govt Has Bypassed All Democratic Norms In Increasing Tenure Of Two Chiefs
By Krishna Jha The year is almost at its end. Republic Day would bring back to us again the celebrations of democracy. As we revise our pledge on January 26 to abide by our Constitution, protect it and move ahead, the Government has been busy taking decisions and passing...
