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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.Gaza Conflict Shows Modi-Led India’s Evolving Ties With Bibi’s Israel
By Girish Linganna Just hours after Hamas initiated its attack on Israel on October 7, India’s Prime Minister was one of the first global leaders to react. In a strongly worded statement, Narendra Modi condemned the “terrorist attacks” and expressed India’s unwavering support for Israel during this challenging time....
Opposing PM Narendra Modi Turns Too Costly For Arvind Kejriwal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak ED summon to AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear before it on November 2 signals his possible arrest. It has triggered a serious political concern, since ED’s actions in the recent times have been by and large targeted against leaders of...
INDIA Bloc Allies Posing Worse Threat To Congress Than BJP Juggernaut
By Arun Srivastava The news reaching Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh, from the hinterland of the state do not augur well for Akhilesh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party chief, who only a week back had dared to teach a lesson to the Congress for the 2024 Lok Sabha election. While...
Indira Gandhi’s Imprint On Current Leaders Cannot Be Denied
By Tirthankar Mitra Decades after her life was snuffed out by bullets fired from her bodyguards’ guns, Indira Gandhi’s stature remains undiminished. Much water has flown under the bridge since that fateful October day and a dispensation diametrically opposed to her ideology has the reins of governance in this...
Palestinian Films Sweep Toronto International Film Festival
By Bill Meyer The famed Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) just completed its 48th year, and despite the absence of some of its special guests affected by the actors’ and writers’ strikes, TIFF seems to be recovering soundly after the pandemic that decimated the film festival circuit for years....
New Book On Great Irish Playwright Seán O’Casey Is Impressive Feat
By Jenny Farrell Anybody who has come across the work of independent scholar and critic Paul O’Brien knows that his interest lies in the radical tradition of literature and history. He came to my attention with his book Shelly and Revolutionary Ireland (2002). Now, O’Brien has published an impressive...
Indian Railways Urgently Needs A Full-Time Minister
By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not derive much comfort from the fact that Indian Railways, the government’s single biggest public connect, is in bad shape. India’s railway network, recognised as one of the world’s largest railway systems under single management, carries some 24 million passengers daily....
Cessation Of Israel-Hamas Hostilities Is The Need Of The Hour
By Girish Linganna As Israel ratcheted up its ground offensive on Saturday (October 28, 2023), relentlessly pounding Gaza with airstrikes to back up a night of intense bombing, the north of the Gaza Strip was assailed “on a magnitude never witnessed before” and there was “total chaos” in the...
Gandhi’s Experiment With Truth Has No Relevance For RSS Or Modi
By Arun Srivastava Some political commentators hold the view that Palestinians should have followed the Gandhian path and also implicitly accuse them that they never followed the Gandhian path. However, their suggestion also applies to the Israel. The Israeli rulers should have followed the Gandhian path, and boy how...
Amit Shah Facing Angry Crowds During Poll Campaign In Madhya Pradesh
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Minister of Home Affairs and the second most influential leader in the BJP, Amit Shah, only next to PM Narendra Modi, has perhaps rightly perceived the general voters’ annoyance in Madhya Pradesh against the ruling double engine government, both in the state and the...
Kerala Blasts Aftermath Show Global Politics At Local Crossroads
By Sushil Kutty The bomb blasts in Kerala are a reminder that war – anywhere in the world – is never far from politics. The Kerala blasts along with the conflagration it triggered has had a serious impact on politics in India. There is now a Centre-State battle on...
What Palestine Teaches The Western Teachers Of Politics And Law
By Afreen Faridi Liberal legal and political theory, morality and institutions which uphold the Westphalian human rights charter have dug their grave in Palestine. Magna Carta, Bill of Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights … are dead. They have time and again failed to be useful to the Global...
P Vijayan-Led Kerala Rejects NCERT’s Bid To Replace ‘India’ With ‘Bharat’
By P. Sreekumaran Kerala has said an emphatic “No” to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)’s attempt to replace ‘India’ with ‘Bharat’ in the social sciences textbooks for schools. This is in response to the recommendation made by a panel set up by the NCERT that...
Tipra Motha Of Tripura Approaches BJP For Seat Sharing In Lok Sabha Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty Tipra Motha (TM), the powerful tribal party of Tripura has approached the BJP for an alliance to share the seats in the Lok Sabha election in 2024. Tripura has two seats in Lok Sabha including one as reserved. TM wants to contest the reserved seat and...
Against Ruling BJP, Efforts Begin For Opposition Unity In Assam
By Ashis Biswas Opposition parties in Assam, showing a greater commitment to achieve an anti-BJP consolidation than the Congress, ignored the latter’s gamesmanship to begin their long-awaited seat-sharing talks for the Lok Sabha polls in 2024. However, despite a broad agreement among the 14 parties coming together under the...
President-Elect Arevalo Of Guatemala Facing Us Resistance Before Take Over
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Bernardo Arévalo’s victory in the first round of presidential voting on June 25 this year surprised Guatemalans, as did the emergence of his Seed (Semilla) political party. Roadblocks engineered by established political forces threatened his candidacy in the second round of voting, on Aug....
Indian Economy Will Be Seriously Impacted By War Only When Arab Nations Join
By Subrata Majumder The peculiarity of Hamas-Israel war is that unlike other wars or conflict, India do not succumb to the direct impact of the war. It is the spillover impact, which causes concern. Israel is not a major trading partner or major foreign investor in India. Neither, Palestine...
Emotional Response To Murthy’s Call For 70 Hours Work Disguises Real Problems
By K Raveendran Infosys founder Narayana Murthy’s call to the youth of the nation to declare ‘this is my country, I want to work for 70 hours a week’ has created such a storm that it has elicited response from every section of the society, including the veteran technocrat’s...
