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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.Looking Back At Stonewall Rebellion By Gays Fifty Four Years Ago
By C.J. Atkins Fifty four years ago, on June 28, 1969, when a bar named the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village became ground zero for the modern gay rights movement, there were, of course, no corporate sponsors. No political allies in positions of power. And rather than keeping people...
Dilemma And Desperation Plague BJP Top Brass Before Lok Sabha Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Karnataka loss in May this year despite the twin strategy of BJP – high decibel election campaign focussing on polarisation of Hindu votes and harping on PM Modi’s charisma – that shocked the top brass of the party, has now finding itself into a deep...
Big Power Rivalry Influencing Bangladesh Polls Due In January 2024
By Ashis Biswas In South Asia, East Pakistan used to receive international media attention only during its natural calamities. Major powers remained mostly fixated on the tensions and conflicts involving India and West Pakistan. Even after breaking away from Pakistan, Bangladesh had to wait patiently for nearly three decades...
With UCC, RSS And Modi Press Nuclear Button Of Communal Divisiveness
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi is not known for speaking rationally. This time he has faulted in the matter of raking up Uniform Civil Code. While justifying his stand, he said that the country cannot have two laws: one for Hindu and a second one for the ‘other’. By...
Congress Leadership Truce At Chhattisgarh Bodes Well For Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, two states ruled by the Congress are scheduled to go polls before the year is out. Also, both with a leadership problem at the state level! Those were the similarities till a couple of days ago when the Congress high command, after years...
India Seems To Have Lost Its Strategic Autonomy In Global Diplomacy After PM Visit To USA
By P. Sudhir The outcome of the Modi visit to the United States has made one thing clear – India has become more cemented to the United States in a strategic and military relationship. Whatever the rhetoric “of the partnership between two democracies” and shared values, the compulsions for...
A Look Back At The Fascist Aggression Against Soviet Union In 1941 Is Timely
By Krishna Jha It was more than eight decades back, when on June 22, 1941, Hitler launched his fascist attack on Soviet Union. The onslaught was called Operation Barbarossa. Six years before the Operation Barbarossa, Georgi Dimitrov, the general secretary of the Communist International, in his famous address to...
Bengal BJP Divided Over Nominating Its Candidate For Rajya Sabha Poll
By Tirthankar Mitra As the campaign for the panchayat elections is in full swing in West Bengal murmurs of divided opinion have arisen in BJP’s state unit over the choice of a candidate in the coming Rajya Sabha elections in the state. The polls to the Upper House are...
Donald Trump Hints At Deportation Of Communists From US, If Elected
By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON: Attempting to deflect attention from his criminal indictment on charges of violating the Espionage Act, former President Donald Trump is escalating his use of anti-communist and anti-Semitic red-baiting rhetoric to smear opponents and investigators. For years, Trump has wielded accusations of left-wing radicalism against anyone...
Gujarat Gets Status Of First Among Equals In Line With Modi’s Love For Home State
By K Raveendran The standard definition of crony capitalism is the existence of an economic system characterised by mutually advantageous relationships between business leaders and government officials. Going by this, at least two major decisions this week are India-centric, though with linkages to domestic as well as international. The...
China Is More Amused At Impact Of India-US Agreements Than Worried
By K R Sudhaman There is jubilation all over in BJP circles and the Indian media after the recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to United States, where he got a rousing welcome. This is no doubt a landmark bilateral visit which has laid the foundation for taking...
President Biden Puts Geopolitical Interests Above Human Rights In His Talks With Narendra Modi
By Arun Srivastava Even the fragrance of the pleasant words that were bestowed upon Narendra Modi before his departure from the United States had faded, the Indian prime minister had to taste the bitter bite of American anger at some of his cabinet ministers and senior BJP leaders unleashing...
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Is Now Fighting Opposition More Than BJP
By Sushil Kutty If cars and sports utility vehicles can win general elections, then Bharat Rashtra Samithi President K Chandrasekhar Rao is already the Prime Minister! KCR, as he is called, led a convoy of 600 cars & SUVs into Maharashtra on Monday and made jittery a clutch of...
Mamata Banerjee Is Giving Big Focus On North Bengal Districts In Rural Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra If Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee’s detractors have often labelled her political actions to be sans rhyme or reason, she always had the last laugh. Kicking off TMC’s panchayat poll campaign from north Bengal is a case in point. This is the first time in her...
Chandrayaan-3: India’s Ambitious Lunar Mission
By Girish Linganna On September 6, 2019, the aspirations of more than a billion individuals were reliant on a mission that was on its way to the dark side of the Moon—an area that is perpetually shrouded in darkness. Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander was travelling to its destination more than...
U.S. Lacks Credibility Among Middle Easterners, But Not All May Be Lost
By James M Dorsey A recent poll of Arab public opinion suggests US credibility has taken a hit, but all is not lost. That is if the United States realizes that Middle Easterners judge the US on glaring inconsistencies in its domestic and foreign policies rather than on its...
Indian Cricketing Allrounder Ravi Shastri Has An Uncanny Grasp Of Young Players
By Harihar Swarup Ravi Shastri debuted for India as a cricketer in 1981. He was 18. A left-arm spinner who batted right—handed, he took six wickets in the test at Wellington, which India lost to New Zealand, and scored 22 at number 10. Playing alongside the likes of captain...
Progressive Olivia Chow Wins Toronto Mayoral Election In Right Bastion
By Luke Savage From its outset, Toronto’s mayoral election has been full of surprises — the first of them being that it happened at all. Last October, as turnout plummeted to a record low, incumbent mayor John Tory was reelected with a whopping 62 percent of the vote. An...
