IPA Special
Sonia’s Committees Will Have Little Impact On Rejuvenation Of Congress
By Arun Srivastava Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has constituted a number of committees and put the so called rebels in these committees. Through this move an impression is being created that the dissident leaders, like Kapil Sibal, Shasi Tharoor, P Chidambaram are opposing the leadership for sharing power....
Banks Don’t Change Spots, Do They?
By Papri Sri Raman At first, I was tempted to call this piece, Banks, Babus and Bulls. But then I thought, nothing really changes, and films only confirm this. Especially in India. The recent RBI merger of the old Lakshmi Vilas Bank with Singapore’s DBS Bank brings...
Caste Balance In Bihar Polity Has Undergone Vast Changes In The Last Decades
By Harihar Swarup What does the Bihar election say about the social balance of power? Though most parties attempted to reach out beyond their core social base, there were some predictable patterns. About half the candidates fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) belonged to the forward...
Debate On Making Betting Legal Gathers Steam
By K Raveendran Minister of state for finance Anurag Thakur, who is also a former BCCI chief, has added a sense of urgency to the debate on whether to make betting legal in India by suggesting the other day that such a move would help curb match fixing,...
The Political Soumitra: Ray’s Muse Beyond The Silver Screen
By Annie Domini In a scene from the 1966 film Nayak, the hero Arindam Chatterjee, played by the Bengali matinee idol Uttam Kumar, refuses to alight from his car and address a striking workers’ gathering, despite his trade unionist friend pleading him to say a few words...
Madhya Pradesh BJP Holds Training Camp For Congress Defectors
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: After ensuring victory of most of the Congress defectors, the BJP has launched a project of their ideological assimilation in the party. For this the BJP organised a two day training camp. The camp was attended among others by Jyotiraditya Scindia. Besides...
Pro-Corbyn Group Fare Better In Labour Party Executive Elections
By Arun Srivastava The Labour leader Keir Starmer managed to gain some more seats in the national executive committee (NEC) elections on Friday, but miserably failed to succeed in his mission to completely weed out the Socialist and leftist supporters of ousted leader Jeremy Corbyn as they...
Brazil’s Local Elections On Nov 15 Was A Blow To Far Right President
By Ana Carvalhaes Although traditionally fast and efficient, the electronic vote count from Brazil’s local municipal elections last Sunday was delayed by more than three and a half hours. Yet this alarming development did not prevent the electorate’s general mood from making itself clear well before midnight:...
Talk Of Economic Recovery By Finance Minister Is Misplaced
By Prabhat Patnaik Ministers from Narendra Modi to Nirmala Sitaraman are talking about a recovery of the Indian economy from the pandemic-induced crisis. Even the Reserve Bank of India which estimated the second quarter GDP growth to have been -8.6 per cent, has seen signs of recovery in...
India Most Threatened Of Losing A Generation
By Gyan Pathak The impact of COVID-19 crisis on the lives of children in India has been far worse than most of the countries of the world, because the country’s share in the global burden was already unacceptably high in the beginning of the pandemic. With neonatal...
