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.Bringing Down Inflationary Pressures Will Be Difficult In Next Fiscal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With a prospect of India’s economic growth rate to decelerate from 7 per cent in 2022-23 to about 5.5 per cent with further downside risks, reigning in inflation in the country seems to be difficult in 2023-24 or beyond amidst global uncertainties and economic downturn....
Huge Infra Budget Funds Help Big Companies But Fail To Create Jobs
By Dr. Soma Marla The 2023-24 Union budget has allocated Rs10 lakh crore (121.0 billion US dollar) as capital expenditure for 2023-24. Nearly one-fourth of the capital outlay will be spent on constructing new roads and highways and another quarter on railways for running new high-speed trains (like Vande...
Building Up A Balloon Hysteria Is A Part Of Us Strategy To Isolate China And Russia
By Prabir Purkayastha The newsfeeds from the US seem to be completely insane. First, an F22 Raptor, the most expensive US military aircraft, is used to shoot down a Chinese balloon over the Atlantic ocean. Three more “unidentified flying objects” – definitely not balloons are shot down in three...
Public Discourse On Hindu Rashtra Has Gone Too Deep In Large Parts Of India
By Sushil Kutty Just as we were getting disabused of misplaced notions like the one about earth being flat comes this assertion that the first man on the planet was native to the subcontinent! It is being spread that “Abul Bashar Sayyed Adam” appeared on Adam’s Peak in Sri...
Mexico’s President Aims For Global Alliance Against Cuba Blockade
By W. T. Whitney Jr. On the occasion of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel’s visit recently to Mexico, that country’s leader, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, (AMLO) raised the possibility of many nations cooperating to oppose the U.S. blockade of Cuba. AMLO has become Cuba’s champion in the international arena,...
Governors Are Being Appointed By The Centre To Act As Agents Of BJP
By Prakash Karat The recent appointment of six new governors by the president of India has revealed a lot about how the post of governor is viewed and cynically misused by the Modi government. The appointment of Justice S Abdul Nazeer, who had retired from the Supreme Court just...
All Economic Data Indicate That The Real Wages Of The Poor Are Falling
By Krishna Jha It was the continuing process of instability in the economy that was more obvious with CMIE data showing the country’s unemployment rate touching a four month high, at 7.9 percent in December, 2021, the urban employment rate rose from 8.21 in November 2021, to 9.3 percent...
Poll Campaigning In Karnataka Gets Challenging For Ruling BJP
By Arun Srivastava During the last one month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited poll-bound Karnataka three times, notwithstanding the top leadership’s consistent reiteration that the state leaders would design and spearhead the campaign. Union home minister Amit Shah is also not far behind PM Modi. Shah has visited...
With An Eye On Polls, BJP Giving Special Emphasis On Eastern Nagaland
By Tirthankar Mitra Even as Nagaland goes to the state assembly election on February 27, with an eye on the polls, BJP has unfolded its game plan to pre-empt trouble in its sensitive area- eastern Nagaland. Party president, JP Nadda made some promises for its development while releasing the...
India Must Use G20 Presidency For Its Creative Economy
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s creative economy is large, but its untapped potential is even larger. India therefore must leverage its G20 Presidency to put creative economy concretely on the global agenda. It is the recommendation of a recent ADBI working paper titled “Creative India: Tapping the full potential”...
For Indian Diaspora, Nikki Haley’s Bid For US Presidency Is A Big Booster
By Sushil Kutty “Nikki Haley for President!” That was the talk of the town in the United States. This Haley is no comet. But if she breaks the glass ceiling then it will be meteoric. Hillary Clinton tried, but failed. Vice President Kamala Harris has a chance provided President...
Western Garment Companies Trading With Russia Through Third Countries To Avoid Sanctions
By Ashis Biswas As the war in Ukraine is about to roll over into its second year, Bangladeshi garments exports to Russia have suffered a major drop. A number of Western firms active in the Russian market also downed their shutters within weeks of the Russian offensive launched in...
There Is No Glory In War, It Brings Only Misery, Death And Destruction
By Jeremy Corbyn It was 20 years ago on February 15 2003, that I stepped on to the huge stage in Hyde Park. I immediately realised this was no ordinary rally. I had never seen one million people in one place; in every direction there were people, people, people....
IT Department Must Be Taken To Task For Ignoring BBC Violations All These Years
By K Raveendran It is no joke that under Indian laws anyone can be hauled up at any time, anywhere, because there are some laws that can be slapped against anyone who the authorities are not well-disposed towards. In fact, these laws have become a tool of repression and...
Daily Wage Workers’ Suicides During Pandemic Is Shocking
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India have been listening PM Narendra Modi and his supporters claiming the “great work done” for the workforce in the country, especially during the pandemic. However, the revelation made by Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav in the Lok Sabha on February 13 is quite shocking....
Supreme Court Prima Facie Acceptance Of No Voting Rights For Aldermen Is A Slap To Centre
By Sushil Kutty Why is it that when certain things (for want of a better word) are constitutionally set and there cannot be two ways about it – also no ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’- that such matters are taken to court and the courts, as if this was the first...
India Could Be This Decade’s China If New Delhi Plays Its Cards Well
By James M Dorsey This could be India’s decade if it plays its cards right. The sub-continental state is poised to be the next China, even if its path will likely be less straightforward than that of China and more of a Leninist two steps forward, one step backwards....
Expunging Words From The Speeches Of Opposition Leaders Is Unethical
By S.N. Sahu During his Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi, the Indian National Congress’ Member of Parliament (MP) representing Wayanad in the Lok Sabha, repeated on many occasions the accusation that his microphone was being switched off whenever he spoke in the Lok Sabha to flag issues of public...
