IPA Special

Kamala Harris Has A Good Record As An Environmental Activist

By Olivia Rosane   Kamala Harris is now the first Black woman and the first person of Indian descent to run for national office for a major political party in the U.S., the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) pointed out. She also has a strong legacy of championing environmental...

Aug 20 · >

Sanders Emerges As Unifier Of Anti-Trump Forces At Demo Convention

By Nitya Chakraborty   Leftwing leader of the Democratic Party Bernie Sanders acted as the unifier of anti-Trump forces in the country through his highly emotive address on the opening day of the Democratic Party’s convention, thereby facilitating the path of victory of Joe Biden at the coming Presidential...

Aug 19 · >

Ailing Indian Hospitals Need Urgent Treatment

By Gyan Pathak   The Lady with the Lamp, the founder of the nursing profession Florence Nightingale, had said that a hospital should do no harm to the sick. However, it is a commonplace thing in India for a patient to suffer in the hands of doctors, nurses, and...

Aug 19 · >

Continuing Job Losses In Salaried Class Sending Ominous Signal

By Satyaki Chakraborty   The latest report of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) that nearly five million salaried employees lost their jobs in July this year due to covid pandemic and the lockdown that followed, is sending an ominous signal about the trend in the country’s economy....

Aug 19 · >

India Needs To Re-Work Its Strategy To Meet Covid Challenge

By Sunita Narain   Deaths in the United States because of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic are not so high, asserted President Donald Trump. This, he said, the day his country crossed 160,000 deaths because of the virus. But, however preposterous, Trump was right. If you take, as...

Aug 19 · >

Prashant Bhushan Getting Big Support From Bar And Academics

By Paras Nath Singh   Senior advocate of the Supreme Court and activist Prashant Bhushan is getting wide support from the leading figures of the civil society including lawyers and academics for his stand on the Indian judiciary. Senior lawyers of the country   have expressed the view that the...

Aug 19 · >

A Facebook Logo In Saffron May Be In Order

  By K Raveendran   Facebook will do well to consider a change of its theme from blue to saffron, which might help the leading social media company to protect its biggest market, a key consideration that influences the media giant’s policies with regard to independence and commitment to...

Aug 18 · >

Nomination Of Kamala Harris Is A Milestone In American Politics

By Kalyani Shankar   The Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tweeted on Tuesday:  “I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants — as my running mate.” It was indeed a...

Aug 18 · >

BJP’s Silence On The Rise Of Half-Desi Kamala Harris Is Conspicuous

  By Amulya Ganguli   While liberals in India and all around the world are celebrating the nomination of a “person of colour”, Kamala Harris, as the Democratic party’s vice-presidential candidate for the US polls, the BJP has been conspicuously silent.   Its quietness is all the more surprising...

Aug 18 · >

Indian Startups Are Bouncing Back Overcoming Covid Constraints

By Rameesh Kailasam   Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses across sectors have seen a slump, and startups too are facing a decline in revenues.   A Nasscom survey conducted last month showed that 70 percent of Indian startups surveyed have less than three months of cash runway. The survey...

Aug 18 · >

Bhushan’s Conviction Is A Symptom Of Political Judiciary

  By Ajay Kumar   I usually do not find myself to be in agreement with Prashant Bhushan’s views. I always disliked the idea of public interest lawyering. As a conservative, I have always found the idea of an activist court quite worrisome.   I did not like the...

Aug 18 · >

Covid-19 Recession Hits Britain’s Vulnerable People The Hardest

  By Ceren Sagir   The Covid-19 recession is having a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable people in Britain, a report claims.   People who are young, low-paid, black, in self-employment, with low levels of education or living in large families are most likely to have lost their...

Aug 18 · >

Big Brands Are Ruthlessly Robbing Indian Buyers

  By Nantoo Banerjee   Over four decades ago, the then union industry minister T A Pai launched a unique campaign against multinational corporations producing and marketing global consumer bands in the country and following local practice of cheating in measures. MNC toothpaste brands were his favourite target. Packed...

Aug 17 · >

Indian Navy’s Ambitious Expansion Plan Is Timely

  By Barun Das Gupta   An expansionist China is looming larger and larger before India, posing a threat to her land, sea and air. There is no denying the fact that all the three services of the armed forces – army, navy and air force – have been...

Aug 17 · >

Congress Has A Long Record Of Rebel Homecomings

  By Harihar Swarup   Over the years, the Congress has seen scores of rebellions and defections by party men more senior and prized than Sachin Pilot. But never in recent memory has a disaffected leader has been assiduously wooed as a former Rajasthan deputy chief minister after his...

Aug 17 · >

India Should Not Follow Any Double Standard For Apps

By Prabir Purakayastha   India’s ban on Chinese apps for allegedly protecting India’s data sovereignty, becomes suspicious when we see no such problem with the US companies doing exactly that: taking Indian citizens data out of the country.   Ravi Shankar Prasad, the minister for electronics and information technology...

Aug 17 · >

Prashant Bhushan And The Issue Of Contempt

  By Indira Jaising   We have all known that the personal is political for a very long time. But when it comes to institutions, there is a sharp distinction between the two. The institution of the judiciary is a constitutional one. Those who occupy the offices of India’s...

Aug 17 · >

Britain Is Facing Recession For The First Time In Eleven Years

By Arun Srivastava   The UK has been pushed into its first technical recession – defined as two consecutive quarters of economic decline – since 2009. The economy shrank 20.4 per cent compared with the first three months of the year. Household spending plunged as shops were ordered to...

Aug 17 · >
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