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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.There Are Many Sides Of Mahatma Gandhi Which Indian People Are Not Fully Aware
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav During the peak of election campaigning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks about Mahatma Gandhi created quite a buzz, with many criticizing his take that nobody in the world knew about Gandhi until the Richard Attenborough-directed film Gandhi came out in 1982. Many people think Gandhi...
A Big Hike In Govt Expenditure Is Imperative For Generating Jobs For The Youth
By Prabhat Patnaik A distinction is drawn in economics between demand-constrained systems and resource-constrained systems (which for simplicity and symmetry we shall call supply-constrained systems). In the former, an increase in output can occur if there is a rise in aggregate demand without causing any scarcity-induced inflation; in the...
Pakistan Prime Minister Is Seeking Big Economic Assistance From China During Talks In Current Visit
By Girish Linganna Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, is currently in China for a five-day visit which kicked off on Tuesday (June 4). China is Pakistan’s closest and most significant partner. This is the prime minister’s first trip to China after the general elections held on February 8. The...
Far Right Heading For Big Win In Current European Parliament Elections
By Loren Balhorn As elections for the European Parliament get underway (June 6 to June 9), the parties of the Left have little to get excited about. In country after country, forces that ten years ago fronted what looked like a European-wide revolt against austerity are barely keeping their...
Three National Elections In Three Continents Signal March Of Vibrant Democracy
By Nitya Chakraborty In a span of three days this week, three largely populated countries — South Africa, Mexico and India got the results from the national elections and all three signalled the triumphant march of the vibrant democracy in each country. The results showed how the vigilant electorate...
Uttar Pradesh Election Result May Be Early Sign Of Change In Indian Politics
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The fall of the far-rightist and hyper nationalist Hindutva Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recently concluded Lok Sabha Election in Uttar Pradesh and the rise of socialist Samajwadi Party (SP) and the centrist Indian National Congress (INC) alliance may be an early sign of...
2024 Lok Sabha Election Verdict: One Step Forward But Fight To Go On
By P. Sudhir The verdict of the 2024 Lok Sabha election is remarkable for the assertion by the people that they value democracy and the constitution. The people have deprived the BJP of an absolute majority, something which it had achieved both in 2014 and 2019. The BJP’s tally...
Allies Set To Extract Their Pound Of Flesh From A Diminished Modi
By Arun Srivastava While Narendra Modi’s declaration that he would be sworn for the third time as the prime minister has enthused his bhakts, it has, at the same time, disenchanted the top RSS leaders as they feel that this message is primarily aimed at insulting them and cast...
Chandrababu Naidu Is In Driver’s Seat In National Politics After 2024 Polls
By Sushil Kutty Chandrababu Naidu is no ‘Comeback Kid’, not at his age. The only ‘kid’ in today’s Andhra Pradesh is Jana Sena founder Pawan Kalyan, the Telugu actor who played a stellar role in bringing together the Telugu Desam Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party. If any title...
India To Rename Two Dozen Places In Tibet Region Of China As Retaliation
By Girish Linganna India has initiated a retaliatory effort against China’s renaming of locations in India’s Arunachal Pradesh state. The Indian government intends to rename over two dozen places in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region as a response. According to The Diplomat, a media organization, they have obtained a comprehensive...
Post Electoral Reverse, Blame Game Starts In West Bengal Unit Of BJP
By Tirthankar Mitra With only 12 seats in its kitty even after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pre-poll announcement that BJP will give its best election performance in West Bengal, it is blame game time in the state saffron camp now. Chary of criticising the prime minister, factional feud has...
Modi’s Comment That The World Did Not Know About Gandhi Till 1982, Is A Mockery Of History
By Krishna Jha An evening on January 30, 1948, Sun was setting and Gandhi was entering the prayer meeting when suddenly Godse started firing at him. After three shots, Bapu was crumbling, looking at his murderer with immense love and forgiveness, on his lips were only two words, “Hey...
In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls, Left Win In Bihar And Rajasthan Is Significant
By Nitya Chakraborty The 2024 Lok Sabha elections have brought some cheers to the Left block comprising CPI, CPI(M) and the CPI(ML)-L as after a long gap, three members have been elected from the Hindi heartland states- two from Bihar belonging to the CPI(ML)-L and one from Rajasthan belonging...
A Bitter Success And A Sweetened Miss: Beautiful Verdict Of The 2024 Elections
By K Raveendran A success that tasted bitter and a loss that couldn’t be sweeter. This is the beautiful verdict that the people of India have handed to the parties in the 2024 elections. A big salute to the wisdom and maturity of the Indian electorate. They have once...
Congress On The Right Track, But Needs Organisational Finetuning
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Indian National Congress (INC) has finally come on the right track, as the Lok Sabha Election 2024 results show. The party that had touched its nadir in 2014 by winning only 44 seats, was somehow able to push up its tally by only 8 seats...
2024 Verdict Against Modi-Shah’s Politics Of Crony-Capitalist Hindutva
By Arun Srivastava Ayodhya, symbol of RSS’s Hindutva renaissance, did not respond to the call of the so-called Hindu Hridaya Samrat, Narendra Modi, and instead voted for 79-year-old veteran Dalit leader, belonging to Pasi caste, Awadesh Prasad. In a single stroke, the voters of Ayodhya shattered two myths: Modi’s...
Like A Falling Star, Naveen Patnaik Fell Off The Political Grid
By Sushil Kutty Only a sentimental romantic will think of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at this hour, the BJD Chief’s worst days in life. Naveen Patnaik is history and will be forgotten. The Bharatiya Janata Party, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading from the front, put a halt...
Big Organisational Mess Led To Congress Disaster In Madhya Pradesh
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Totally weak leadership, lack of organisational skill and wavering stand of Kamal Nath, and decision to sponsor Digvijay Singh as a candidate resulted in total rout of the Congress in all 29 Lok Sabha Constituencies in Madhya Pradesh. The Central leadership’s decision to make...
