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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.Á Complete Unknown’ Film Underplays Bob Dylan’s Early Phase Politics Under Guthrie
By Taylor Dorrell NEW YORK: In 1960, a young Robert Zimmerman — who had begun to call himself “Bob Dylan” — journeyed from the icy flatlands of Minnesota to New Jersey on a pilgrimage. His destination: the bedside of his ailing idol, the legendary folk hero, Woody Guthrie. He...
Modi Govt Is A Semi-Fascist Regime With Strong Tendencies Towards Full Fascism
By Dr. Sobhanlal Datta Gupta A controversy has erupted centring around CPI(M)’s position expressed in the Draft Political Resolution for the ensuing 24th Party Congress that the present Narendra Modi Government is not fascist, but marked by fascist tendencies. This stand has been subjected to criticisms by other Left...
Trump Is Out To Destroy The World For The Sake Of American Super Profits
By K Raveendran The world has barely emerged from the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, a crisis that ravaged economies, disrupted supply chains, and sent financial markets into turmoil. Just as nations are striving to rebuild, another storm is brewing—one that threatens to be more insidious and longer-lasting than...
Can Govt Complete Delimitation Process Before Lok Sabha Election 2029?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Politics in South India, especially in Tamil Nadu, has become hotter on the issue of delimitation of constituencies in India, after the first Census to be completed after 2026. Census process in yet to be started, though it was to be started in early 2025,...
CPI(ML)-Liberation’s Patna Rally On March 2 Put A New National Agenda For Change
By Arun Srivastava PATNA: Though the “Badlo Bihar Mahajutan (Change Bihar Maha-Rally)” organised by the CPI (ML) Liberation on March 2 appeared to be a Bihar centric event, in reality, it carried a pan-India message which will have critical impact on the ideological and philosophical subtleties of the political...
Congress Spokesperson Shama Mohamed’s Remark On Fat Shaming Is Uncalled For
By Sushil Kutty Fat-shaming is the new normal in Congress party political circles these days. Congress spokespersons use it with critical remarks regarding the cricketing performances of top Indian cricketing icons. And if you’re Malayali with almost zero cricketing knowledge you’re best at the game. Ask Shama Mohamed, the...
Bizarre Polemics In Madhya Pradesh Politics Over Granting Of Freebies
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Strange things happen in Madhya Pradesh. Latest in this is the open condemnation of the habit of demanding freebies by the people and leaders, readily giving them liberally. This remark of Minister Prahlad Patel drew sharp criticism from Congress. But Patel forgot that his...
Ocalan’s Call To Dissolve PKK Is A Golden Opportunity For Turks
By Manish Rai Abdullah Ocalan, founder leader of The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) made a historic call from İmralı prison where he is being held in near total isolation since 1999 to his party to lay down its arms, dissolve itself and end its decades-long conflict with the Turkish...
On International Women’s Day, The Task Is To Accelerate The Process Of Gender Equality
By Mahalakshmi Pavani The upcoming International Women’s Day, 2025 seeks to ‘Accelerate Action’, to amplify and expedite the sedated movement towards gender equality across the globe. While the global movement for gender parity continues to claim and reclaim spaces, the Indian Judiciary struggles to move beyond its predominantly ‘Male,...
The Left Can Win Elections In Europe Without Immigration Restrictionism
By Daniel Finn LONDON: David Leonhardt has written a detailed article for the New York Times arguing that the Danish Social Democrats and their leader, Mette Frederiksen, could be a model for the center left throughout Europe and North America: “Over the past several years, there is arguably not...
Trump Throws A Challenge To Europe – Accept My Peace Deal Or Get Lost
By Nitya Chakraborty The U.S. President Donald Trump has fired his missile on Europe, especially, France, UK and Germany by suspending arms aid to Ukraine after categorically making it clear that President Zelensky has to agree to the peace and security deal proposed by Trump on Friday in the...
Electoral Roll Manipulation In State Elections Is Prima Facie True
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The evidence brought forward by Trinamool Congress (TMC) from Bengal is just another in a series of evidences of electoral roll manipulation that invariably favours BJP and its allies, as it has recently been witnessed in the recent Maharashtra and Delhi Vidhan Sabha election. Opposition...
Mayawati Fights Family & Foes For Retaining The BSP Supremo Position
By Sushil Kutty Behan Mayawati is anything but a confused aunt. Consumed by her all-powering and unflagging need to stay in power and suspicious of the barest of darkness descending on her, Mayawati sees danger to her throne from all corners of the Bahujan Samaj Party’s Diwan-e-Khas knowing that...
Bathing In Polluted Water Of Ganges For Celestial Gains Negation Of Science
By Dr Arun Mitra After the reports of high-level pollution in the river water at the Kumbh site now the Bihar economic Survey has come out with a report that the water in Ganges river is not fit for bathing at most places in Bihar because of high bacteriological...
Trump’s Gamble: US Policies Could Reshape Europe & Zelenskyy’s Fate
By Girish Linganna Sometimes, history changes little by little, almost imperceptibly. Deep beneath the surface, major forces are at work, slowly shaping the future. But, on the surface, everything seems stable, as if nothing is changing. And, sometimes, it moves very fast, almost like a sudden Nor’wester. Pressure builds...
Israel Seeks To Scrap Existing Gaza Truce Deal To Impose U.S. Plan
By Roger McKenzie LONDON: Israel moved on Monday to scrap the existing ceasefire deal in Gaza and replace it with what it described as a new United States ceasefire plan. Tel Aviv is trying to force the new plan on Hamas by imposing a siege on the Gaza Strip....
Zelensky’s Humiliation Was Trump’s Ukraine Off-Ramp To Focus On China
By C.J. Atkins and John Wojcik NEW YORK: While many people were shocked by the bullying treatment meted out to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance in the Oval Office Friday, the whole humiliating show should have come as no surprise. Though “surrender to Putin”...
Indo-US Commerce Deal May Help India Escape From Chinese Trade Trap
By Nantoo Banerjee If the United States of America is the provider of the largest trade surplus to India year after year, there is no reason for India to impose unreasonable tariffs on merchandise imported from its best trading partner. In fact, the import tariff should not be allowed...
