IPA Special
Enduring Images Of Pandemic In India Rattle The World
By Amulya Ganguli In the years to come, which will be the defining image of the great Indian labour migration of 2020? Will it be the video of a toddler lifting the shroud over his dead mother’s body on a railway platform? Or of the child half-asleep on a...
Voices Against Neo-Liberal Agenda Are Raging In West
By Prabhat Patnaik The Financial Times of London is one of the most “respectable” bourgeois newspapers in the world. Even this newspaper has now come to recognise something which the Left has been saying for quite some time. In an editorial on April 3, 2020, it wrote: “Radical reforms...
Labour Party Undergoing Ideological Change In Britain
By Arun Srivastava Electoral compulsions and the impulse to keep the rightist forces in good humour have witnessed fundamental transformation of the UK’s Labour Party. The party has decided to divorce the left ideas and policy notwithstanding the ground realities favouring Labour Party embracing the socialist ideas for espousing...
Trump’s Decision To Quit Who Disregards Covid Challenge
By Ben Chacko Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States is terminating its relationship with the World Health Organisation (WHO) came as protests raged over the police killing of George Floyd. The same leader who threatens the world with a “super-duper missile” turns on his own people, warning protesters...
What Modi Can Learn From Emperor Ashoka On Self-Transformation
By Harihar Swarup Emperor Ashoka transformed himself from a ruthless conqueror to a champion of justice, after the devastation during the Battle of Kalinga opened his eyes to the futility of territorial expansion at the cost of people’s lives. Will the extraordinary human suffering we are witnessing during our...
Modi’s Four LS That Don’t Add Up To A Stimulus
By K Raveendran First the slogan, then the idea. This has been Mod’s style in all his slogan coinages. Many of these could actually be described as random midnight thoughts. The latest one for the covid stimulus package is no different. Land, Labour, Liquidity and Law are the four...
India Heading Towards Nutritional Health Emergency
By Dr. Arun Mitra Nutrition is the most important issue to sustain life. It is all the more important for children who need special care and therefore special nutrients to grow. For a healthy nourishing diet it is important that it should contain Proteins, Fats and Carbohydrates as basic...
Surveys To Push Modi’s Popular Rating Misleading
By Arun Srivastava A recent image makeover exercise for the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi by some media houses has inflicted more damage than actually refurbishing his charisma. The findings of the surveys are really unbelievable. Morning Consult, a US-based global data intelligence firm, said the Indian Prime Minister has...
Is Kerala Witnessing a Community Spread?
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Is Kerala witnessing the much-dreaded community spread? That is the question being hotly discussed in the political corridors. Opinion is, however, sharply divided on the issue. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has flatly denied community transmission. The Chief Minister quoted liberally from figures to dismiss the...
Shivraj Chouhan’s Cabinet Expansion Eludes Him Still
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Never in the history of any state did cabinet formation take such a long time as in the present case in Madhya Pradesh. Shivraj Singh Chouhan took oath on March 23, 2020. It was for the fourth time that he was sworn in as the...
