Opinion
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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.Ukraine War And US, EU Sanctions Leading To Loss Of US Dollar’s Global Dominance
By Subrata Majumder A new landscape in currency dominance in global market is taking shape, with US dollar losing pre-eminence and Chinese yuan gaining steam. According to a IMF survey, dollar share in central bank foreign exchange reserves declined from 71 percent in 1999 to 59 percent in 2021....
A Year Before Lok Sabha Polls, BJP Walking On Thin Ice In Manipur
By Tirthankar Mitra An open air gymnasium being set on fire at Churachandpur merely 60 kilometres away from Manipur capital, Imphal followed by chief minister, N Biren Singh being advised not to come to the trouble spot are some of the ominous signs indicating that things are not at...
Poll Manifestos Of BJP And The Congress Have Little Appeal To Karnataka Voters
By Sushil Kutty Election manifestos gather dust. The statement of intent perhaps lost in translation, so to speak. The mostly disbelieving voters are asked to believe. The BJP released its Karnataka elections manifesto first. The Congress returned the favour on May 2. How do the two stack up against...
Big Spurt In GST Collections Indicates Growth In Domestic Economy
By Anjan Roy India has landed with a bumper GST collection in April this year, indicating thereby that however much some economists had seen serious weakness in performance, domestic economy is showing a robust trend. This year’s GST collections are roughly 20% higher than the corresponding period last year....
Madhur Jaffrey Is The First South Asian To Win James Beard Lifetime Award
By Harihar Swarup Madhur Jaffrey, 89, insists she’s is not actually a cook; just an actor playing the part. She was never trained as a chef, doesn’t chop her onions evenly, only cooks what a homemaker would for her family. (What she did study, she points out, is acting:...
Shaping The New World Order: Nation-State Versus Civilisational State
By James M Dorsey US President Joe Biden positions the Ukraine war as a battle between autocracy and democracy. That reduces what is at stake in the war. The stakes constitute a fundamental building block of a new 21st-century world order: the nature of the state. Russia’s invasion of...
Hollywood Rocked By Massive Writers’ Strike Forced By Studio Bosses
By Mark Gruenberg Hollywood, livestreaming, and motion picture studio bosses’ intransigence in bargaining and creation of “a gig economy inside a unionized workforce,” forced 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America, who craft scripts for television, motion pictures, streaming videos and similar forms of entertainment, to strike at...
King Charles 111 Aims To Synergise Tradition With Modernity At Coronation
By Kalyani Shankar Viewers worldwide will witness the coronation ceremony of British King Charles and his Queen Camilla on May 6. The critical moment in modern British history will be 70 years after Queen Elizebeth11 coronation in 1952. Though Charles succeeded Queen Elizabeth 11 in September 2022 after her...
MVA Sweep In Maharashtra APMC Elections Boosts Its Image In Maharashtra
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Sweep of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in the elections held for Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees (APMCs) across Maharashtra, which is also considered as mini-general election, signals its return to power in the state which is going to be held in 2024, just a...
Farmers Of Karnataka Resolve At Their Meet To Defeat BJP In Assembly Polls
By Arun Srivastava Farmers of Karnataka, under the banner of Samyukta Kisan Panchayat declared an open war against the Narendra Modi government from Bengaluru and called upon the farmers who constitute 65 per cent of the total population of the state, to ensure the defeat of BJP, Narendra Modi...
Satyajit Ray’s Birth Anniversary: Three Encounters Of The Close Kind
By Nitya Chakraborty The Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray stepped into his 102nd year on May 2, 2023. The maestro died in 1992, at the age of only 71. He left us without finishing many of the proposed film and writing projects which he had undertaken in his last...
Remembering The Maestro Satyajit Ray On His 102nd Birth Anniversary
By Nitya Chakraborty The legend of the Indian cinema, Satyajit Ray, has crossed two more years after his centenary celebrations began on May 2 of 2021. The last icon of what is termed as Bengal Renaissance, died at the age of only 71 on April 23, 1992. Though his...
Workers Rallies Throughout The World Observed May 1 With Vigour
By Matt Trinder Working-Class people in Britain and across the world demanded an end to the misery and instability of capitalism on May 1 as the labour movement marked International Workers’ Day 2023. May Day marches and rallies were held in Sheffield, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, India, Pakistan, Nigeria...
Chicago City Has Always Remembered Haymarket Martyrs Of May 1886
By Jeff Schuhrke On a visit to Chicago in 1988, Uruguayan journalist and historian Eduardo Galeano asked local friends to take him to Haymarket Square, the place forever associated with, as he put it, “the workers whom the whole world salutes every May 1st.” He was quickly disappointed by...
BJP Can Be Restricted To Below 160 Seats In 2024 Lok Sabha Elections
By Nitya Chakraborty Less than a year is left for the commencement of the polling in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. After the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s positive talks on forging opposition unity with a large number of parties, including the Congress, focus has shifted to the next...
The Caste Cum Religion Based Reservation Policy Must End
By Nantoo Banerjee The constant political exploitation of the reservation policy, framed in 1950, threatens to further divide the country not only on the caste and sub-caste lines, but also on their extension to rope in religions. As the situation stands today, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar, the author of...
Regional Powers Discuss Myanmar Crisis In A Secret Meeting Hosted By India
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Myanmar, India, China, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Indonesia, the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), recently attended a secret meeting in New Delhi to discuss the ongoing crisis in junta-led Myanmar. This meeting was the second in a “Track 1.5” dialogue...
Faulty Policies By Modi Govt Have Led To Shrinking Of Indian Middle Class
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik As per the State of World Population Report published by the United Nations Population Fund, India will become the most populous country in the world in the summer of 2023. At this point, India also has a relatively ‘younger’ working-age population compared to China. Depending...
