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.Prime Minister’s Selective Response To Major Issues Of Nation Is Perplexing
By Sushil Kutty It is dozens of hours since the wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to listen to their ‘Mann Ki Baat’, perhaps aware that India’s Prime Minister often slips into his default position of hard of hearing. And PM Modi, for all...
Attempts Towards De-Dollarisation Is Expressive Of Current Crisis Of Capitalism
By Prabhat Patnaik Janet Yellen, the US treasury secretary, has finally acknowledged what has been obvious to most people for quite some time, namely that the imposition of sanctions against countries that the US is hostile to, runs the risk of jeopardising the hegemony of the dollar as the...
Inclusivity And Diversity Must Be The Core Of New Education Policy
By Dr Taniya Malik The recent suicide of Darshan Solanki, an 18-year-old chemical engineering student at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, belonging to a Scheduled Caste (SC), has once again sparked a debate on caste-based discrimination in particular and inclusion in general at prestigious higher education...
BJP In Crisis Situation As Karnataka Goes For Assembly Polls On May 10
By Harish Bala Karnataka is one of the important states in Indian politics as it sends 28 members to the Lok Sabha. The election commission has announced elections to the Karnataka assembly on May 10 and counting of votes will be completed by May 13. Karnataka is a state...
Kaliagunj Violence Is A Culmination Of BJP-Trinamool Turf War Over Rajbanshis
By Tirthankar Mitra Rajbanshis are in the news for the wrong reasons. Ahead of the rural polls in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress and BJP have stepped up their outreach in Kaliagunj after two lives both from Rajbanshi community were snuffed out, a teenage girl was allegedly gangraped and then...
Will Congress Repeat In Karnataka Assembly Poll What Mamata Did In 2021?
By Arun Srivastava Is the Congress Party in Karnataka in a position to repeat in the May 10 assembly polls what the West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee did in 2021 polls in her state ?. The question is being asked by the seasoned political...
Will Prime Minister’s Social Engineering To Rope In Muslims And Christians Succeed?
By Sushil Kutty Nobody can stop Prime Minister Narendra Modi from doing electoral social engineering using Pasmanda Muslims and Kerala Christians for fodder. If the secular parties can, so can the so-called communal. But giving crumbs with one hand, and taking away crumbs (given by secular parties) is BJP-plated....
Realisation Of India’s Growth Potential Needs Better Support System
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India has always been said to have great growth potential. In recent years, even the ‘fastest growing economy’ tag has been tied on its neck for several times. Now it is expected to retain this tag in 2023.Under the deception of such comforting propaganda lies...
For Indian Communists, The Teachings Of Lenin Are Very Relevant In Present Time
By Krishna Jha At a time when we celebrate birth anniversary of our guide and philosopher Comrade V I Lenin on April 22, we are passing through a phase called as rule of finance capital. It is defined by Lenin as the higher stage of capitalism that takes away...
Push For Virtual Money Gets Major Boost Globally With EU And South Korea
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The world of banking and finance is making a significant move towards the digital economy. The landscape is changing rapidly, from the European Central Bank’s announcement about the digital Euro to the Chinese city of Suzhou paying salaries in digital Yuan. India is also moving...
Low Quality Of Education In India Making Large Number Of Youth Unemployable
By Girish Linganna A large section of youngsters in India, looking desperately at career advancement prospects, is paying for 2-3 degrees in the hope they will one day find their dream job. They are drawn irresistibly to colleges that are mushrooming inside tiny apartment complexes or inside stores in...
Harry Belafonte Was Mainly An Activist Who Became A Great Artist
By Ed Rampell The multi-talented, widely admired performer Harry Belafonte died Tuesday, April 25, at age 96. He was born on March 1, 1927, in New York City as Harold George Bellanfanti, Jr. His ancestry is Jamaican and Martiniquan, and his paternal grandfather had Dutch Jewish origins. Belafonte’s career...
Anand Mohan’s Release Is Linked To BJP-JD(U) Battle Over Loyalty Of Rajputs
By Arun Srivastava Perseverance of the real politick finally prevailed over the political morality and forced the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to release the gangster, Anand Mohan. Unlike the Gujarat’s BJP government and Union home ministry which had released rapists and killers, without caring for the set legal...
Prime Minister Sounds The Bugle In Kerala For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP leaders in Kerala are in seventh heaven following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Kerala. They are gushing from the housetops that visit was an unqualified success and a political game-changer. But the jury is sharply divided over its outcome. The Prime Minister...
IMF Provides A Shot In The Arm For Modi’s Campaign For 2024 Polls
By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government, facing persistent criticism that the poor has become poorer and rich richer under its policies, couldn’t have asked for anything better. The IMF has literally ‘come to the aid of the party’ asserting that India’s achievement in financial inclusion is truly remarkable....
Parkash Singh Badal Had Twists And Turns In Akali Politics In Punjab
By Sushil Kutty A Sikh when he goes places can be traced to a gurdwara. Nowadays, the trace will lead through Canada, the United Kingdom and into enemy country Pakistan. Akali Dal titan Parkash Singh Badal would not be at any of these Sikh centres of convenience. After 75...
Recent Changes In NCERT Books Show Dangerous Trends
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Improving the quality of textbooks for children is a continuous process. All civilizations have been doing this throughout ages, and all of us in India too, have grown witnessing changes in our textbooks. Of late, especially after Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India in...
Big Shortfall In Agricultural Production May Create Food Shortage In Ukraine
By Amitabha Sen The war ravaged Ukraine is expected to close the current marketing year (July-June) with shortfall both in agricultural production and in exports as well, going by the reports both of the Ukraine Agriculture Ministry report and the USDA’s Kyiv staff report. According to the latest statistical...
