IPA Special
Modi Is A Prisoner Of His Own Indecision On Covid Management
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Covid management policy is increasingly showing its faultlines as the virus surges ahead exponentially in the country and the death rates also continue hiking. Corona is a new disease and all the countries are at wits end to deal with this life...
Narendra Modi’s ‘Shock And Awe’ Policy Flops Again
By K Raveendran ‘Shock and awe’ has come to stay as a cardinal feature of Narendra Modi’s policy pronouncements. Its first major manifestation was demonetisation, which was announced without proper consultations and even went against wise counsel, to the limited extent it was sought. And the result has been...
Modi’s ‘Bold’ Decisions Push The Economy To The Brink
By Harihar Swarup On March 24, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a nationwide lockdown on India, there were, reportedly, a mere 500 Covid-19 cases in India. The situation could have been dealt with by imposing limited restrictions on socio-economic activity and delineating local containment areas/zones – the strategy...
All Pervasive Failure To Deal With Migrant Labour Woes
By Arun Srivastava It is better not to be pessimist. But one thing is certain that to what extent the latest intervention of Supreme Court will help the workers seeking refuge in their native places, ameliorate their condition and minimise their miseries is a matter for deep concern. On...
Alarming Increase In Covid Positive Cases In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Friday, June 5, 2020 marked the highest single-day spike in covid positive cases in the State with the number crossing the 100 mark for the first time. As many as 111 people tested positive causing grave concern in health circles. The steady rise in the...
Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat Programme Is A Big Farce
By Prakash Karat Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has hijacked the concept of self-reliance (Atmanirbhar Bharat). He claims this is the way to revive growth and make the 21st century, India’s century. Behind such bombast lies a crude contradiction and deception. The Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan special package announced to realise...
Debt Crisis Of Third World Countries Accentuating
By Prabhat Patnaik There is a massive problem of external debt building up for the third world, of which the recent Argentine debt crisis was only one manifestation. At the root of the problem is the collapse of primary commodity prices in the world market which began in April...
Sexual Harassment At Online Workplace In Covid Era May Rise
By Rishabh Chhabaria and Abhigyan Tripathi Several concerns have been expressed with respect to this recent change to the nature of workspace in the socio-legal sphere of the country. It is essential to note that ever since this way to work has become the convention now, there may arise...
One Year Of Modi 2.0: PM Sings Self-Praise, Opposition Criticises
By Rahil Nora Chopra The BJP-led NDA completed one year of its second term on 30 May, with senior party leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda listing the central government’s achievements during the period. Modi addressed the letter to the citizens...
Labour leaders in U.S. Vow to fight Racism
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Declaring that working people are saying, “We’ve had enough,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said unions will continue the fight to root out systemic racism in the U.S. In a 77-minute Zoom telecast on June 3, Trumka and other labour leaders—AFSCME President Lee Saunders, Teachers (AFT) President...
Lokur Needs A Pat For Red-Flagging Supreme Court
By K Raveendran If the migrant labour, forgotten and forsaken by their governments, have to thank anyone for getting the Supreme Court to intervene in the Long March, which history will mark as the biggest takeaway from India’s lockdown to fight covid, it is retired judge Madan B Lokur....
World Environment Day Has A Special Message This Year
By Dr. Arun Mitra World Environment Day is observed every year on 5th June. The COVID-19 Pandemic has made us to think that the issue of environmental degradation and climate change cannot be just a ritual discussion but it has to be taken very seriously. Climate Change is a...
People’s Revolt In USA Has Lessons For India Too
By Binoy Viswam The People’s revolt engulfing the length and breadth of America should be an eye opener to the oppressive regime the world over. It tells the world about the deepening crisis of Trumpism, which has become the synonym of aggressive capitalism followed by many countries including India....
India-China Stand-Off Has Now Global Dimensions
By Anjan Roy India and China are set to meet on June 6 at a fairly high military level consultations for resolving the recent fracas in the high Himalayas in the Ladakh as well as northern Sikkim frontiers. It would possibly be a little naive to expect that the...
Corona Has Given A Big Opportunity To Saffrons To Redefine Polity
By Arun Sruvastava It is only 12 months since Narendra Modi led the BJP to a historic victory. His gaining nearly two third majority has recast the political as well as the electoral landscape. His facing the popular agitation against his manoeuvring of changing the basic character of the...
Modi’s China Policy Lacks Transparency
By Sushil Kutty Right now China should be vulnerable with the ‘gang-up’ of nations against it over the ‘origins’ of the coronavirus pandemic. But, for all that, Chinese incursion against India is unstoppable. The Chinese PLA is all over and this side of the LAC. “Quick Chinese incursions” have...
Existing Smaller MSMEs Were Let Down, Will Get Even Less
By Gyan Pathak The announcement of the Rs 3 lakh crore relief package to the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) of India had created a hope, but the change in definition has induced a frustration. It is now clear that the entire amount of the package was not...
Modi’s Anniversary Letter To People Is A Crude PR Exercise
By Arun Srivastava No one has feared that India would become a problem for the world when corona hit it as the global fraternity was itself facing the worst nature of ravage by corona. Actually the people were worried whether the BJP government and the Prime minister, Narendra Modi...
