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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.Afghanistan Joining China’s BRI Programme Is A Big Diplomatic Defeat For India
By Sushil Kutty “Brotherly neighbours” China and Pakistan have been joined by Afghanistan to pin down India on CPEC. Foreign Ministers of the three countries met in Islamabad on the heels of the SCO foreign ministers meeting in Goa. The Pakistan-China-Afghanistan nexus should worry the so-called Hindu nationalist government...
PM Modi Going Communal In Karnataka Shows His Desperation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi has desperately raised the religious slogan ‘Bajrang Bali Ki Jai’ in the Karnataka electoral battlefield. Obviously to rescue the BJP from the danger of being defeated by the opposition alliance of the Congress and JD(S). Everyone heard the communal intonation underlying...
NCERT’s New Text Books Are Erasing The Past, Blinding The Future
By Justice R.S. Chauhan (Rtd) Every generation has the right to interpret history. Historiography has undergone many transformations. Western historians saw history in a linear fashion— in which man went from being a caveman to a post-modern one. Thus, according to Western historians, history is a progressive journey from...
In The Last Leg Of Campaign In Karnataka Polls, BJP Is Focusing On Hindutva
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The last time Karnataka went to the polls in 2018, the keenly-fought election had given a fractured mandate, with BJP winning 104 seats in a 224-member Assembly. However, the BJP could not get the magic number of 113 and remained out of power despite all...
Sharad Pawar’s Resignation Drama Masterstroke Hits BJP And Fadnavis Most
By Harihar Swarup It did not take long for the rethink on the resignation. Allowing the hysteria to last just a few hours seemed more in keeping with Sharad Pawar’s style than his dramatic announcement on Tuesday evening that he was resigning from the President-ship of the party he...
Trouble In India, Russia Talks On Rupee Trade Mostly The Result Of Posturing
By K Raveendran A reported impasse in the use of rupee for trade between India and Russia is seen more as posturing rather than a failure of the arrangement as both sides cannot manage without each other in the context of the prevailing global political situation. There have been...
Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar Acted Like A Cop, Not A Diplomat At Goa SCO Meet
By Sushil Kutty The toughest foreign minister in the hemisphere, India’s EAM S. Jaishankar cannot suffer fellow foreign ministers who pour scorn on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, call him names and think they can make a clean getaway! And, if the erring foreign minister happens to be Pakistan’s, woe...
British Labour Party’s Big Win In Local Polls Sets Pace For 2024 Victory
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Labour Party in Britain made massive gains in the country wide local bodies elections this week vindicating the opinion polls that the Labour under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer is set to form the next Government after the national elections scheduled in 2024 or...
‘The Kerala Story’ Won’t Further Sangh Parivar Agenda
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will the controversial film, “The Kerala Story”, further the propaganda of the Sangh Parivar? That is the million dollar question resonating in the political corridors of Kerala. Secular parties in the state say that the film seeks to portray Kerala, a bastion of secularism, as...
Deepak Joshi Finally Leaves BJP And Joins Congress Leading State BJP In Turmoil
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: All attempts of national and Madhya Pradesh leaders to persuade Deepak Joshi not to leave BJP failed. He finally joined the Congress on Saturday in the presence of PCC president Kamal Nath. He accepted the Congress membership along with large number of his followers....
Rise In Unemployment In India Again In April Is A Wake-Up Call
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rise in unemployment rate in India again in April 2023 should serve as a wake-up call for PM Narendra Modi led ruling establishment, since it shows the upward trend since the beginning of 2023, a year when both the domestic and global economies have been...
Syrian President Al-Assad Plays A Strong Hand In Diplomatic Poker
By James M Dorsey Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has put restoration of control of all of Syria at the core of efforts to manage multiple Middle Eastern rivalries that often play out in his war-ravaged country. Al-Assad’s demand means different things to different parties. For a group of Arab...
Public Sector Banks Have Contributed To Economic Growth In Last 53 Years
By C H Venkatachalam In any country, banking sector plays a vital role in shaping up the economy. Especially in poor, underdeveloped and developing countries, banks have a crucial role to play. Our country is no exception. Prior to independence, all our banks were in private hands, some of...
Present Acute Unemployment Crisis Can Not Be Dealt By Modi’s Neo-Liberal Agenda
By Prabhat Patnaik The data on unemployment brought out by the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE) present a grim picture. Not only has the unemployment rate increased sharply for some years now, starting from even before the pandemic, but the figure which had shot up during the...
Higher Budgeting For Agriculture And Food In India Is Now Crucial
By K R Sudhaman Agriculture and food are now back in the centre stage in the backdrop of the critical geopolitical developments. This has become necessary after food shortages witnessed in the face of Russian-Ukraine conflict in countries dependent on wheat imports from those two warring countries. In this...
Paying Tribute To Great Music Legend Saint Tyagaraja On His Birth Anniversary
By S. Sethuraman Saint Tyagaraja, who combined wealth of Music and heights of poetic excellence was born in Tiruvarur in present day Tamil Nadu on May 4, 1767. He had inherited music in pristine forms of earlier times like Prabhanda Gita and absorbing Bhakti Gitams spreading in the Cauvery...
Remembering Julian Assange On World Press Freedom Day
By Prabir Purkayastha MAY 3rd is World Press Freedom Day, a reminder that the role of news organisations is to speak truth to power. Not to manufacture consent – to use Chomsky’s famous words – for the government and the ruling classes. While doing that, I want to remember...
Sharad Pawar Is Emerging As NCP Supremo With Stronger Domination
By Rahil Nora Chopra The most unexpected development in the political scenario was Sharad Pawar’s resignation as NCP chief and this has not only surprised his party but also his Maharashtra allies Uddhav Thackeray and Congress. After the dramatic show of distress from partymen, Sharad Pawar agreed to once...
