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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.Mumbai Film Industry Has Always Welcomed Talent From All States, Especially Bengal
By Kunal Bose In his acceptance speech from hospital bed in Calcutta for the honorary Oscar award, Satyajit Ray said: “I have learned everything… about the craft of cinema from the making of American films. I have been watching American films very carefully over the years and I loved...
Syria’s Future Lies In Democratic Decentralisation To Include Kurds
By Manish Rai The Conference on Kurdish Unity and Common Stance was recently concluded in Qamishli, North-East Syria. Over 400 delegates from various parts of Syria participated in the conference, which aimed to strengthen Kurdish unity and establish common political positions. A communiqué at the end of the conference,...
Influencing Bihar Election Merely On Caste Census Promise Not Possible
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Centre’s announcement of conducting national level Caste Census along with the forthcoming Census in India has intensified caste politics in Bihar, the first state to go to polls later in 2025, whose Vidhan Sabha’s term is to expire on November 22, this year. Political analysts...
Satyajit Ray’s Birth Anniversary: Three Encounters Of The Close Kind
By Nitya Chakraborty The Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray stepped into his 104th birth anniversary on May 2, 2025. 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...
India-Pakistan On The Brink Of Hot War: Nuclear-Armed Neighbours Rage On
By Sushil Kutty Some countries are having it fine. No talk of ‘War and Peace’. The UAE, for instance. Indians and Pakistanis, big numbers of them, live disciplined lives in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Sharjah; Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah, eking out better lives than the ones in India...
Indian Farmers Interests Are Being Sacrificed By Modi Govt At Trade Talks With U.S.
By Prabhat Patnaik Elementary textbooks in economics invariably begin with a completely mythical concept: the concept of “perfect competition”, which is different from the concept of “free competition” that the classical economists and Marx had used. “Free competition” was characterised by the equality of wages (for equal skills) and...
New Labour Codes Entrench The Macro-Patriarchal Tenacity Of The Indian State
By Ritu Dewan In India, the conflict between labour and capital has been intensified with the replacement and codification of all labour laws into four Labour Codes in the name of ‘rationalisation’ and ‘ease of doing business’ in order to reduce the labour compliance burden of industries. This has...
Political Parties In Bihar Competing With Each Other For Taking Credit On Caste Census
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political parties in Bihar are competing with each other to take credit for the Union cabinet’s decision to include caste enumeration in the upcoming national census. Welcoming the move, RJD has defined it a victory of Lalu Prasad and Tejashwi Yadav’s decades of struggle...
India-Pakistan Military Stand-Off: Where Do We Stand On May 1, 2025
By Nitya Chakraborty Ten days have passed since the gruesome killings of 26 people at Pahalgam on April 22. In the following days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a lead to the boiling mood of the nation by announcing a number of measures, including the suspension of the 1960-signed...
Bigger Military Action Against Pakistan May Not Eliminate Cross Border Terrorism
By P Sudhir The terrorist outrage in Pahalgam, which left 26 tourists dead, has united the whole country in condemnation and grief. 25 families spread across India and one family in Nepal saw a beloved family member being murdered in cold blood. By choosing to kill people after ascertaining...
Independent India’s First Caste Census To Impact All Walks Of Life
By Dr. Gyan Pathak By announcing to conduct caste census in India after a gap of about a century, the last being conducted with the Census 1931, PM Narendra Modi led government has not only done away with the independent India’s historical decision not to have caste census at...
Political Leadership Takes Final Decision On War, Not Army Chiefs
By Sushil Kutty The more the three armed forces’ chiefs sit on a decision to strike at Pakistan with uncommon force, the more the chance Pakistan will escape with inconsequential punishment. Point being made is that in the Indian context, a decision on whether or not to go to...
Recessionary Fears Haunt U.S. Economy Once Again As GDP Contracts In First Quarter
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta forecast a sharp decline of 2.7% for US GDP in the first quarter of 2025. That would mark the worst quarter since the Covid era in mid-2020. The US economy has just witnessed its worst quarter since...
Pahalgam Tragedy: What Is The Best Way Ahead For Peace In Kashmir?
By Dr. Ram Puniyani The killing of 26 tourists and injuring of many more tourists in Baisaran in Kashmir was a tragedy beyond words. The terrorists claimed to be part of Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’s front ‘The Resistance Front’, who have taken the responsibility for this dastardly act. They identified...
Will The Latin American Nations Jointly Challenge Trump On Tariff War?
By Pablo Castaño NEW YORK: On December 2, 1823, US president James Monroe declared that the American continent “was no longer to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.” With these apparently well-intended words, the “Monroe Doctrine” was born, which eventually became synonymous with US...
Next Presidential Elections In Bolivia On August 17 This Year Will Be A Stormy One
By W. T. Whitney Jr. NEW YORK: In advance of presidential elections on August 17, 2025, Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Council on April 17 registered 11 political parties and five electoral coalitions. It will soon announce the final list of presidential candidates. Incumbent President Luis Arce, elected in 2020, candidate...
Pahalgam Aftermath: Need To Juggle Economic Interests And Strategic Calculus
By K Raveendran Trump’s aggressive tariff war with China – built on a throwback protectionist logic more suited to the 1800s than today’s intertwined economy – has driven Chinese firms to redeploy their strategies. Major Chinese exporters, now facing punitive U.S. tariffs as high as 145 percent, are desperately...
Politics Over Gayab In A Period Of Intensive Preparations For War
By Sushil Kutty We have heard of the headless chicken flopping about. And of those days of ‘Jhatka’ when headless bled in plain sight. On Tuesday, April 29, a sketch of a headless torso in a kurta-churidar ensemble of rare finish and finery hit the scene. Whose headless torso...
