IPA Special
Demonetisation Has Been Most Devastating For Common People In Independent India
By Prabhat Patnaik In the entire history of post-independence India, no single economic measure has been as devastating for the people and as utterly futile in achieving its stated objectives, as the demonetisation of currency notes, of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denomination, decreed by the Modi government on...
Farm Distress Causing Huge Number Of Agri Worker Suicides In India
By Dr Soma Marla There is a serious criticism on NCRB for not reporting the actual size of the reported data. The bureau releases statistics on suicides by farmers and agricultural labourers based on information provided by various state governments, which is often under-reported to save their image from...
What Xi Consolidation Means To The Rest Of The World
By Anjan Roy Not that it mattered, but still Chinese President Xi Jinping has got formal recognition as the absolute ruler of the country at the meeting of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. And that’s a lot of headache for India and many others. Absolute rulers...
AAP Rides Ram Temple Wagon To Uttar Pradesh Assembly Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra Aam Aadmi Party has commenced their campaign in Uttar Pradesh for the 2022 assembly elections with slogans of Ram Rajya and nationalism. The announcement of the free pilgrimage plan to Ayodhya came soon after Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s own visit to the temple town. After...
A New Approach To Muslim ‘Mandate’ To Help Every Other Muslim
By James M Dorsey Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud must have gotten his tenses mixed up when he asserted in a recently published memoir that no one should underestimate the political importance of Muslims’ commitment to helping other Muslims. Prince Turki’s memoir is focused...
Can Hybrid Hearings Provide The Alternative At Regional Branches Of Supreme Court?
By V. Vasanthakumar Article 130 of the Indian Constitution says that the Supreme Court shall sit in Delhi or in such other place or places, as the Chief Justice of India (CJI) may, with the approval of the President, from time to time, appoint. It will be of interest...
Fight For Climate Justice And Migrants Interests Are Interlinked Glasgow COP26
By Ben Chacko The march in Glasgow demanding justice for refugees and rejection of British Home Minister Priti Patel’s Nationality and Borders Bill could not be more timely. It highlights the fact that the refugee and climate crises are interwoven. It turns attention to the reality of Britain’s reactionary,...
No Honest Review Made At BJP’s National Executive Meet After A Long Gap
By Prakash Karat The national executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party was held on November 7. As it was being held after a gap of two years, there was interest to know how the ruling party at the centre assessed the political developments and the work done during...
Indo-Pak Dialogue Rivalry On Afghanistan
By Sankar Ray The third Delhi Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan on Wednesday less than three months after the Taliban’s seizure of power in Kabul has not really been to India’s liking – neither strategically nor diplomatically. Boycott by Pakistan and non-participation of China and the USA have decimated...
SIT Clean Chit To Modi In Court Again After A Decade
By Sushil Kutty Zakia Jafri is at least a decade older than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the way things are shaping up, it looks like Zakia will live long enough to see closure to the Gujarat riots case. Then Gujarat Chief Minister and now Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
Tax Cuts May Be Prelude To Fuels Under GST Before Polls
By K R Sudhaman On the eve of Deepavali, the Union government in a masterstroke cut excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 5 and Rs 10 respectively to bring some relief to consumers hit hard with their prices surging beyond Rs 100 per litre. Close on the...
Glasgow COP26 Draft Text Is Powerful, But Ambiguities Exist
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Glasgow draft text of the summit agreement released by the COP26 presidency under UK is indeed the most powerful text on climate change so far, but ambiguities still exist. It means it will have some legal force, but the ambiguities would make room for...
MGNREGA Now Caught In A Hopeless Drift
By Krishna Jha It was MGNREGA, the flagship rural employment scheme that had provided succour to starving migrant labour when the economic crisis was galvanising the entire production process. Choices were extremely scanty. It was either to go hungry and face the ultimate or to get infected with the...
India Is Having A De Facto System Of Presidential Government
By Anurag Tiwary Recently, the Kerala High Court expressed its dismay that a petitioner sought the removal of the Prime Minister’s photograph from the COVID vaccination certificate and termed it as a “dangerous proposition”. The high court’s observation shows how personality cults have been assumed as inevitable in contemporary...
New York Documentary Film Festival Entries Have Socially Relevant Themes
By Bill Meyer United States of America’s largest documentary film festival, DOC NYC, has begun its 2021 edition from November 10-18 in-person and online at www.docnyc.net. This 12th year of DOC NYC has a wealth of relevant films for progressive viewers. Some of the highly recommended docs include Listening...
A War That Was Lost Even Before It Began
By Sushil Kutty So, they will have a ball across the Wagah Border and all we will have this side will be TV screens painted in Pakistani green! Gather the import? Well, all of Pakistan will be on its knees praying for a Pakistan win in the semis against...
India Slows Down In EV Lane As Others Speed Away
By K Raveendran While the world is moving at a fast pace to embrace electric vehicles, India seems to have lowered a gear or two down, with the result that the country does not even figure in the growth estimates of major EV markets around the world. Even an...
Trading Charges On Yamuna Pollution Is Ridiculous
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Pollution in Yamuna in Delhi has always been highlighted every year as is currently being done. We witness some trading of charges and then everyone becomes calm. Pollution remains as usual. The reason is the very low and narrow mindset of the ruling political parties,...
