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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.S H Raza Retrospective In Paris: Memories Of Motherland
By Harihar Swarup “I didn’t become a French painter or a European one. I remained an Indian painter through the years. That was always in my heart and I am very glad that I was able to come back here again”. The opening of the late Indian modernist painter...
Islamic Reforms Debates Gather Steam Timing With Onset Of Ramzan
By James M Dorsey Reform of Islamic jurisprudence was the elephant in the room when two prominent Saudi clerics recently clashed publicly on whether apostasy was punishable with death under Islamic law. The debate’s timing on a Saudi state-controlled, artsy entertainment channel, Rotana Khalijiya, suggested as much. The debate...
UK’s Iconic NHS Is Slowly Dying Of Privatization
By Tony O’Sullivan We are living under a deeply cruel, ideologically driven government. Since coming to power in 2010, the Conservative’s austerity program has caused over 330,000 deaths, and the mishandling of the pandemic saw a further two hundred thousand deaths, many of them avoidable. Currently, an estimated five...
Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Reveals Danger Of Wider Financial Crisis
By C.J. Atkins Finance capital seems poised to once more drag the country into a new banking crisis, dredging up the spectre of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Great Recession that it sparked. Since Friday, the U.S. government has seized control of two banks in an...
Britain’s War On Refugees Is State-Sponsored Fascism
By Claudia Webbe This week, the Tory Party’s horrific anti-migrant Bill is in its second stage in Parliament — and it is truly frightening that such an appalling piece of legislation is progressing at lightning speed, with this second reading, a mere six days after it was introduced. This...
Nagaland’s Opposition-Free Government Must Remain One-Off
By Kalyani Shankar After the recent Assembly results, all parties in the tiny State of Nagaland formed an Opposition- free government to get a share in the power pie. All the parties unconditionally supported the ruling alliance, and all parties were in the Government with no Opposition. It isn’t...
National Capital Heading Towards A Severe Water Crisis
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The National Capital Territory of Delhi is in the first leg of a colossal water crisis, almost a month earlier than the time it had hit last year, thanks to the unprecedented rise in temperatures in the country in February that broke all records kept...
RJD Demands Restricting ‘Vindictive’ ED Operation In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Already made has been the strong demand on the floor of the Bihar assembly that the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation should be asked to seek permission from the respective state government before proceeding against anyone in the state, similar to...
Decade-old US-Bangladesh Spat Over Dr. Yunus Warms Up Again
By Ashis Biswas After a tense truce, the war of words between American liberal lobbyists and the Bangladeshi ruling establishment over the Nobel laureate economist Mohammad Yunus has returned in full fury. 50 Dhaka-based thinkers have strongly countered a recent statement issued in a leading American daily in favour...
Modi Wants A Third Term To Match Nehru’s Record And Status
By Sushil Kutty A third term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2024 is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s goal. All its efforts and resources are concentrated on achieving this goal, i.e., Modi as Prime Minister for as long as possible, or for as long as Modi wants to remain...
