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.Bangladesh Desperately Trying To Avert Economic Meltdown Through IMF Aid
By Ashis Biswas Despite timely steps taken by the Government to avert a Sri Lanka-type of economic meltdown, general concern for the Bangladeshi economy continues. While the International Monetary Fund (IMF) promised a $4.5 billion loan to Bangladesh to help it shore up declining forex reserves, there are worries...
Defeat For Left In May 7 Elections On Constitutional Changes In Chile Is A Big Jolt
By Marcelo Casals The Chilean far right scored a major victory in Sunday’s elections for the newly reconstituted constitutional assembly, all but extinguishing any remaining hope of a new, progressive constitution in Chile. The results of the election for the rebranded “Constitutional Council” would have been unthinkable only a...
Haiti Faces A Choice: Social Revolution Or Foreign Occupation
By W. T. Whitney Jr. With long experience of chaos, violence, and dysfunctional governance, Haiti looks now to be on the verge of a new crisis in the form of foreign military intervention. U.S. and United Nations decision-makers have held back, but now they look to be moving, again....
Central Asia And Caucasus May Turn Out To Be Indo-Pacific’s Next Stop
By James M Dorsey America to the rescue. In a twist of irony, that may be Central Asia’s only alternative, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine upsetting the region’s security apple cart. The question is whether the United States, already rejiggering its commitment to security in the Middle East,...
BJP’s Election Juggernaut Was On Full Display In Karnataka Elections
By Sushil Kutty There’s this voter who was born in Mangalore and he has lots of BJP “karyakarta” friends. Good fellows who do the booth management for the world’s largest-richest political party. The commitment of such people wins elections. But, this time in Karnataka, the BJP did not have...
New Pricing Mechanism, Market Downtrend Bring Big Relief To Gas Consumers
By K Raveendran The decision by the Union government to tie local gas prices to international prices comes at a time when global prices are on a downward trend and this is great news for consumers who have hitherto been at the receiving end of higher prices as well...
Released Convicts In Bilkis Bano Case Are Making All Efforts To Evade Law
By Arun Srivastava Notwithstanding Supreme Court glare on the release of Bilkis Bano convicts, the chances are quite bleak that their release would be declared null and void and they would ever be sent back to the prisons. The entire saffron eco system is out to protect them and...
India-Pakistan Bilateral Relations Remain More Frozen After Goa SCO Meet
By Tirthankar Mitra Conversational niceties are adhered to and appropriate body language follows when representatives of nations meet even though adversarial relations exist between them. But the recently concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meet at Goa last week was an exception where foreign minister of India S Jaishankar and...
Sudan Conflict Taking Sectarian A Dimension After Attack On Christians
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Sudan’s interim leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has promised to protect its Christian minority amid growing violence against them. In a meeting with Christian leaders in Khartoum, Burhan pledged to ensure their safety and the rebuilding of churches that had been destroyed during the country’s civil...
Bigotry Poses A Serious Threat To Peace, Harmony And Health In India
By Dr. Arun Mitra News as reported in the Nav Bharat Times dated 12 April 2023, referring to a post in which the mother of a child had mentioned that her daughter came home today crying asked me ‘are we Muslims so dirty’? This is after her class fellow...
Booming Black Market Of Fertilizers In India To Continue
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The booming black marketing of fertilizers in India has been a persistent problem that has worsened in recent years, on account of rising global prices of fertilizers, the supply disruptions during the pandemic, increased demand from the farmers, shortage for fertilizer, and the gap between...
Kurdish Left Could Turn The Tide Against Erdoğan’s Authoritarian Rule
By Cengiz Gunes The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) established itself as a key player in Turkish politics after it secured 13 percent of the popular vote and eighty seats in Turkey’s Grand National Assembly in June 2015. This was possible because it managed to build a coalition with...
Sharad Pawar Has Now Emerged As A Stronger Leader To Lead Battle Against BJP
By Kalyani Shankar Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar surprised friends and foes alike with his sudden decision to give up the presidency of his Party recently, only to withdraw it after three days. It ultimately became a storm in a teacup. Had Pawar stuck to his decision, it...
Decoding Rabindranath Tagore’s World View On His 162nd Birth Anniversary
By Nitya Chakraborty May 9 this year is the occasion for the observance of the 162nd birth anniversary of the globally admired poet and visionary Rabindranath Tagore. Born in Calcutta in 1861, Tagore lived an active life of 80 years till he died in 1941 on August 7 in...
BJP’s Inner Rivalry And RSS Bid For Expansion Have Contributed To Manipur Violence
By Arun Srivastava Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh shirking of his moral accountability to resolve the differences between the two communities Meities and Kukis, and instead blaming the “prevailing misunderstandings between two sections of society” on the issue of inclusion of the majority Meitei community in the Scheduled...
Abhishek Banerjee’s Claim On Trinamool Getting 40 Seats In Lok Sabha Is Not A Tall Talk
By Tirthankar Mitra Pep talk and tall talk are separated by a wide gulf. Unofficial number two in Trinamool Congress hierarchy Abhishek Banerjee’s recent claim of his party bagging 40 out of 42 seats from West Bengal in next year’s Lok Sabha elections will be taken as pep talk...
Opposition Parties Have To Do Lot Of Homework After Karnataka Results
By Sushil Kutty NCP Chief Sharad Pawar was the last political stalwart to jump into the Karnataka electoral showdown and predict the Congress will get the Karnataka electorate’s thumbs up in the May 10 assembly elections results of which will be out by May 13 afternoon. Pawar based his...
Mothers And Babies Are Most Unsafe In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Decreasing investment in maternal and newborn health has stagnated the progress in preventing premature deaths of pregnant women, mothers and babies globally, due to which death befalls on one every 7 seconds. Indian mothers and babies remain most unsafe both in number and its share...
