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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.22 Years After Attack On World Trade Centre, US War On Terror Loses Its Track
By C.J. Atkins How do we measure the time that has passed since Al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and crashed another in a field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001? How should we count the impact of the U.S.’ seemingly endless...
Arab Authoritarian Regimes Hoping For A Prolonged Winter Fearing Discontent
By James M Dorsey Protesters in Syria, Bahrain, Libya, Iran, and Israel are dashing autocratic and authoritarian hopes of a prolonged winter. In response, Arab autocrats are scrambling to squash what they fear could evolve into a third wave of protests in little more than a decade. The autocrats...
India Being Named As Bharat Is Not A Big Issue As Constitution Already Has It
By Kalyani Shankar The well-known quote from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet,” is frequently referenced about name change. It is true of the ongoing debate about India’s official name change to Bharat....
Political Narrative In India To Have New Twist Next Week
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All indications suggests that India’s political narrative will have a new twist next week when the Special Session of Parliament will be held in five sittings from September 18 to September 22. Agenda for the session has still been kept secret and there are only...
BJP Is Now In War Like Preparation Mode For 2024 Lok Sabha Elections
By Sushil Kutty It has been a couple of months since the BJP got into election mode. Preparations for general elections 2024 began in earnest in July 2023. The Karnataka assembly elections loss was a jolt that called for a reassembling of sorts. On September 1, news came of...
Global South Led By Saudi Arabia, Brazil And South Africa Played Key Role In G20 Summit
By Anjan Roy Behind all the rhetoric and claims of red lines for negotiations, some underlying geo-political realities had resulted in the consensus at the G20 meet in Delhi held on September 9 and 10. The final document is full of compromises from all sides. It is a success...
Jhumpa Lahiri’s New Collection Of Short Stories Is A Big News In Literary World
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Renowned Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri’s new collection of short stories – Roman Stories — is set to be released next month. Her fans are excited and expressing their feelings on X, formerly Twitter. This would be her third collection of short stories after Interpreter...
Dev Anand Remains An Iconic Ideal Lover Of Hindi Cinema 100 Years After His Birth
By Tirthankar Mitra Talk of Dharamdev Pishiorimal Anand and one will be greeted by an yawn. But the audience is all ears even at the passing mention of Dev Anand. The evergreen star will turn 100 on September 26. The month long celebrations are already on for remembering the...
Chile Is Still Bitterly Divided By The Legacy Of Pinochet’s Dictatorship
By Craig Johnson Over thirty years after the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990, the government of Chile has formally admitted responsibility for the disappearance, and presumed deaths, of over two thousand individuals at the hands of the Chilean military and associated paramilitary groups. The government has also...
Looking Back At The Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity Govt In Chile
By Guillermo Teillier The following assessment of the Allende years and the CIA-backed coup of Gen. Augusto Pinochet was written by Guillermo Teillier, the late President of the Communist Party of Chile. Teillier died on August 29, 2023. This article was written before his death. It was 1952, and...
India’s G20 Summit Was A Big Success For Modi’s Electoral Prospects
By Annie Domini In hindsight, the New Delhi summit of G20 countries under India’s presidency, from September 8 to 10, could be seen as a one-size-fit-all type of clothing, which wrapped around deep differences of rival geopolitical blocs, primarily led by the United States on the one hand, and...
Government Helped Many First-Time Entrepreneurs Turn Tycoons
By Nantoo Banerjee The political opposition may be desperate to establish businessman Gautam Adani’s link with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but it is absolutely absurd to expect the Prime Minister to react to such suggestions. Over the years, almost all enterprising and ambitious businessmen managed to establish links with...
G-20 Summit’s Success Has Catapulted India As A Reliable Leader Of Global South
By Girish Linganna Xi Jinping’s absence from the recent Group of 20 summit may have been a deliberate move to prevent India from taking the spotlight. However, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with the United States and Europe, managed to find more effective ways to challenge China’s influence on...
Fifty Years Later, Decoding Chile’s Military Coup And Marxist President Allende’s Killing
By Nitya Chakraborty September 11, 1973 was the day when fifty years ago, the first democratically elected left wing president of Chile Dr. Salvador Allende, a leading Marxist was, overthrown through a bloody military coup which had the full backing of the US administration led by the President Richard...
International Labour Organisation Welcomes G20 Support For Just Transition Measures
By Satyaki Chakraborty International Labour Organisation Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo, has welcomed the G20 Leaders’ support for the UN Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions. In their final Declaration the G20 leaders pledged to, “support progress on the implementation” of the UN Global Accelerator, a...
India-US Joint Statement Takes Forward The June 22 Deals To Implementation Stage
By Girish Linganna Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden held a bilateral meeting on Friday (September 8, 2023) on the sidelines of the just-concluded G20 Summit, where both leaders underscored the close ties between India and the United States. They reaffirmed their commitment to the cause...
Sukumar Roy Pioneer Of Nonsense, Rhyme Will Remain A Literary Icon In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Being born and brought up when the all time greats of the world of Bengali letters like Rabindranath Tagore and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay were at the height of their creative powers would not have been considered propitious by most aspiring authors. But Sukumar Roy whose 100th...
Biden Makes An Aggressive Sales Pitch, May Be Taking A Few Orders Home
By K Raveendran Barring platitudes, the joint statement between India and the US in the wake of President Joe Biden’s talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi ahead of the G20 summit is heavily loaded in favour of the United States rather than the other way around. Biden...
