IPA Special
Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan Is A Part Of Long Historical Battle
By Sagarneel Sinha There has always been a view to identify India as a country which began her journey after she gained independence from the imperialist British forces. This view has always been a dominant one in the circles of a large section of Indian intelligentsia. However,...
Digital Inequality Is Sure To Have Its Impact On Online Examinations
By Parth Maniktala Imagine a university divides its students into two groups: A and B. Students in group A are allocated books, whereas those in Group B are not. Group A students attend classes regularly, while group B students are not allowed to. Finally, the university conducts...
British Govt Is Abandoning The Workers During Pandemic
By Peter Lazenby Workers have been abandoned by the British government, trade union Unite said after a report revealed an expected jobs massacre caused by the Tories’ mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic. One in three companies expect that they will have to make redundancies by the end...
Knee Jerk HDFC Bank Reaction To Trillion-Rupee Outstanding Auto Loan
By Nantoo Banerjee After ICICI Bank and YES Bank, it is now HDFC Bank to feature in the operational misconduct involving the biggest ever outstanding loan under a single function. HDFC Bank, the country’s most valued bank, faces the charge of operational misconduct by its vehicle financing...
Through Bhoomi Pujan, BJP Has Virtually Rewritten Constitution Preamble
By Amulya Ganguli In the absence of Union minister Giriraj Singh, the BJP M.P. from Karnataka, Teshvi Surya, has provided the Big Picture of the BJP’s worldview. Just as Singh regretted that an exchange of Hindu-Muslim populations did not take place in the subcontinent in 1947, Surya has...
Centre Again Needles Mamata By Sending Official Team To Probe Mgnrega Funds
By Arun Srivastava In what could be the launch of yet another showdown between the BJP-led Centre and the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government, the former has decided to send a team to audit the state’s expenditure under the 100 days Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act...
PAK-CHINA Intelligence Sharing Stepped Up In Afghanistan
By Sankar Ray A hitherto-unprecedented sharing of intelligence data between Pakistan and China on Afghanistan is underway. It serves basically China which has two objectives: undermining the US interests and stifling of outcry over its persecution of the Uighur minority inside China. The Uighur province where the...
Bolivians Are In Revolt Against Their Illegitimate Coup Regime
By Thomas Field Late last month, Bolivia’s transitional government decided to postpone elections yet again, propelling the country into its most profound political crisis in decades. The most popular party — the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) — has been repeatedly denied its right to govern. The MAS...
Unregulated capitalism drives ‘the business of drugs’
By Brian W Major Much of the world is facing a crisis around the use and abuse of various sorts of substances. Headlines around the world show many deaths each day due to overdoses. In the U.S., approaches to this issue have typically involved prohibition, enforcement, and corrections....
Kashmiri People’s Trust In Governance From Delhi Is Missing In One Year
By Harihar Swarup Different sections of Indians hold sharply divided views about the developments of August 5, 2019, in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). Were these, in fact, as many Indians believe, simply a consummation of a process initiated by the state’s accession to...
Karipur Has Been An Accident Waiting To Happen
By K Raveendran The mishap at Karipur airport at Kozhikode, which saw an Air India Express aircraft, break up into two or more pieces, has been an accident waiting to happen. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation had flagged the table top airport as highly dangerous, but political...
Opposition’s Ambivalence On Ram Mandir Boosts Sangh Parivar Plans
By Arun Srivastava The foundation stone for creation of Hindu Rashtra was laid on August 5 by the prime minister of secular India, Narendra Modi by combining State, religion and politics at Bhumi Pujan for Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. The people of this country having a Constitution...
Kerala Traumatised By Twin Tragedies
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has been traumatised by two major tragedies in successive days. The people of the State woke up on Wednesday to learn about a landslide at Rajamala in Idukki district in which more than 20 people were killed. Many are feared to...
Supreme Court Has To Step Up Its Functioning Capacity To Do Justice
By Pranav Sachdeva A tweet by eminent lawyer Prashant Bhushan has upset our Supreme Court enough to send him a contempt notice. Bhushan’s tweet complained that while the Chief Justice of India (CJI) was posing with a luxury motorcycle without a mask or helmet, he had kept the...
Narendra Modi Makes A Clear Break With Indian Secular Ethos At Ayodhya
By S. Sethuraman In laying the foundation for the Ram Temple in the Lord’s birth-place, Ayodhya, on August 5, 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has brought the State and Religion together, making an historic break with Secularism, as it evolved under India’s Constitution. He proclaimed the temple...
Gotabaya’s Massive Win In Polls In Sri Lanka Will Lead To Authoritarianism
By Barun Das Gupta When Gotabaya Rajapaksa won the presidential election in Sri Lanka exactly a year ago, those watching Sri Lankan politics were sure that his Sri Lanka People’s Party (SLPP) would win the parliamentary elections also in August 2020. They have been proved correct. The elections...
New Education Policy: India’s Great Leap Backward
By Prabhat Patnaik In a document like the New Education Policy, one must distinguish platitudes from new provisions, including within the latter even the dropping of old platitudes. Thus phrases like “education is a public good”, “6 per cent of GDP should be earmarked for education” are just...
RBI To Push Credit To Beleagured Sectors More Aggressively
By Anjan Roy No one needs to state upfront that the Indian economy is not in the pink of health. So for the central bank the task is to make the best of a bad situation. The Reserve Bank of India has attempted doing exactly that in its...
