IPA Special
State Help Is Helping Chinese Auto Industry To Dominate Overseas Market
By Kunal Bose Till not very long ago, people around the world loved to believe that bigness in volume of industrial and agricultural products was the only hallmark of China. But this is now disabused by a growing number of sectoral experts. More recently, Nvidia chairman Jensen Huang reminded...
Donald Trump Who Promised To End Wars In Poll Campaign, Goes To War
By Ben Burgis NEW YORK: In January 2023, J. D. Vance had just arrived in the Senate. One of the first things he did was to pen an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal endorsing Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination. His primary argument was that Trump, “started...
Remembering American Writer Jack London On His 150th Birth Anniversary
By Jenny Farrell NEW YORK: Jack London’s journey as a socialist and a writer is a story of dramatic ascent and tragic decline. His socialism grew from lived experience: childhood poverty, hard labour in factories, and first-hand exposure to capitalism’s exploitative logic, crystallisedin1894 . He was born on January...
U.S. Invasion Of Venezuela May Set The Process Of Trump’s Down Turn In November Mid Term
By Nitya Chakraborty The invasion of Venezuela by the United States on the early hours of January 3 along with the kidnapping of President Nicholas Maduro and his wife marks a new phase in Donald Trump’s foreign policy which has been termed by The Guardian columnist as “naked imperialism”....
More New Airlines Are Bad News For Existing Small Domestic Carriers
By Nantoo Banerjee The civil aviation ministry’s much publicized issue of ‘no objection certificates’ to proposed three airlines – Shankh Air, AIhind Air and FlyExpress – apparently to break the near monopoly of IndiGo in the fast-expanding domestic aviation market shows, if anything, a lack of market perspective and...
The Great Indian Paradox – GDP Is Growing High But Rupee Is Sinking
By T N Ashok When India overtook Britain to become the world’s fifth-largest economy, policymakers celebrated a milestone that had been decades in the making. Official growth numbers showed an economy expanding at 6.5 to 7 percent, far outpacing a global slowdown stuck near 3 percent. Yet even as...
Twelve Years After The Maruti Manesar Violence, Workers Still Restive
By Tanishka Shah More than twelve years after an incident at Maruti Plant in Manesar, which led to the death of an HR manager, the dismissal of over five hundred workers and numerous arrests, on November 7, 2025, Gurugram’s Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court issued a judgment denying reinstatement to a...
Trump’s War On Latin America Must Be Stopped By Global Intervention
By Branko Marcetic NEW YORK: Any hope that Donald Trump would be an “antiwar” president went out the window almost as soon as he won the 2024 election, when he filled his administration with a coterie of warmongers. After a year in which Trump backed Israel’s war with Iran,...
Khaleda Zia’s Death Is Helping BNP In February 12 Polls Through Sympathy Wave
By Nitya Chakraborty In the neighbouring Bangladesh, the political developments take unpredictable course many times, but the latest alliance between the NCP, the party of the students body which led the July Revolution and the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami, has shocked the progressive forces who supported the uprising that led to...
USA Invades Venezuela, Bombs Facilities Defying All International Norms
By Satyaki Chakraborty In a repeat of George Bush’s Iraq invasion in 2003 on the basis of fake allegations, Donald Trump ordered invasion of Venezuela on early morning of January 3 beginning the New Year 2026 with the implementation of his National security strategy announced last month. Trump claimed...
Law By Itself Won’t Do; It’s The Application Of Law That Is Most Crucial
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court’s judgment affirming that the mere pendency of criminal cases does not disentitle a citizen from obtaining a passport carries significance well beyond the narrow facts that triggered the ruling. At one level, the verdict reiterates settled law. The right to travel abroad, subject...
Zohran’s Mayoralty Can Advance The Cause Of Socialism In America
By Nick French NEW YORK: On January 1, what to many on the Left felt like a pipe dream less than a year ago is became a reality: democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City. It will not be an easy job. The...
Pushing The Financial System Towards A Dangerous Direction
By Prabhat Patnaik The BJP-led government has just got parliament to pass a legislation permitting up to 100 percent foreign equity-ownership in India’s insurance sector. This, the Prime Minister has announced, marks the beginning of a major “reform” in India’s financial sector, towards presumably much greater private, including foreign,...
BJP’s Cruel Politics Of State-Led Deprivation And Racist Otherisation
By Krishna Jha Power is faceless when it is on its own. It acts only when someone takes its reigns. But when it is made to act by those that are driven by their divisive designs, it gets authoritarian. The year is at its end, and there are attacks,...
The Communist Party Has Long Struggled For Indian People’s Rights
By Dr. Soma Marla The communist movement in India is now a century old. Soon after independence, although, farmers and workers played an active role in freedom struggle, their aspirations were not addressed by the ruling classes. The Communist party took the task of organizing the workers, poor farmers,...
From Indore To Punjab, Media Questions Irk Governments
By Jag Mohan Thaken When a journalist asked questions to BJP leader and Madhya Pradesh Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya, over the death of 10 kids in Indore by drinking contaminated water, he snapped at the reporter, saying, “Don’t ask a worthless (fokat) question.” With the reporter pressing for answers, Vijayvargiya,...
The Modi Doctrine: India’s Navigation Through Global Turbulence
By T N Ashok In the chancelleries of power from Washington to Moscow, a singular question has preoccupied strategic minds throughout 2025: how has India, under Narendra Modi, managed to preserve its economic momentum and political leverage whilst others faltered? The answer lies not in fortune but in a...
Murmurs Of Organisation Reform In Congress Get Louder, Irk Bosses
By Rahil Nora Chopra After poll routs in Maharashtra, Haryana, Delhi and poor performance in the assembly elections of Bihar, the voices for organisational reforms within the Indian National Congress have grown far stronger. The latest in the long line of such voices is senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh....
