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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.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...
In Bengal, Trinamool Congress Is Main INDIA, Congress And CPI(M) Are Fringe Parties
By Satyaki Chakraborty The victory of the Trinamool Congress candidate Prof. Nirmal Chandra Roy at the Dhupguri assembly constituency by poll in Bengal by defeating the BJP candidate Smt. Tapashi Roy by around 4,000 votes, vindicates TMC supremo Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s claim that the TMC is the main...
INDIA Alliance Scored Over NDA In Its First Electoral Battle After Birth
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Newly constituted INDIA alliance of 28 opposition political parties and refurbished NDA of 39 political parties led by BJP had just tasted the fruit of their first ever electoral battle. INDIA alliance has emerged stronger in 4 of the six states where byelections were held,...
Ghosi Bypoll Defeat During G-20 Summit Is A Personal Jolt For PM
By Arun Srivastava A bad omen indeed. On the day the entire state machinery of ‘Bharat’ was busy exploiting the G20 event to project Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the “Yugpurush” and “Vishwaguru”, via decorating the national capital with larger than life cut-outs and festoons, even bigger than any...
Anatomy Of Congress’s Byelection Win In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THRUVANANTHAPURAM: Puthuppally by-election has not, sprung any surprises. Congress candidate Chandy Oommen won the by-election, necessitated by the death of his father and former chief minister Oommen Chandy with a big majority. The Congress won the battle riding the crest of a tidal wave of sympathy...
Congress Has To Take Seriously The Impact Of BJP-JD(S) Tie-Up On Lok Sabha Polls
By Sushil Kutty The jolt the Bharatiya Janata Party sustained in Ghosi assembly seat of Uttar Pradesh is being blamed by sections of the BJP on Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Behan Mayawati, who allegedly told BSP supporters to cast NOTA. But the NOTA numbers on counting day did not...
Converting G20 Summit Into A People’s Festival Is Highly Welcome
By Harihar Swarup Prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed credit on the eve of G20 summit for converting a heads of government meeting into “a people’s festival”. The government did well to popularize the Indian G20 agenda among people across the country and the world, even if this was...
Indonesian Presidential Election Produces An Unexpected Twist
By James M Dorsey An unexpected twist in the run-up to next year’s Indonesian presidential election puts Centrist Democratic International (CDI), the world’s largest alliance of conservative political parties, and Nahdlatul Ulama, the world’s largest and most moderate Muslim civil society movement, in a bind. In a surprise move,...
Edith Grossman Whom Marquez Said ‘You Are My Voice In English’ Is No More
By Tirthankar Mitra The devil may sometimes be given his due, but not the translator. But English literary scene underwent a dramatic change after Edith Grossman translated works of Latin American authors in English and turned them into literary icons overnight to the devotees of English literature. The 87-year...
