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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.INDIA Constituents Have To Offer An Alternative Programme To Take On BJP In 2024
By P. Sudhir The results of the five state assembly elections are striking for the way the BJP has won in the three heartland states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. A major victory is the coming back to power in Madhya Pradesh, a state where it has ruled...
New Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy Has To Deliver In Lok Sabha Polls For Congress
By Sushil Kutty Anumula Revanth Reddy is the new Telangana Chief Minister. Also known as ‘Tiger’ Revanth, he took Bharat Rashtra Samithi supremo K Chandrashekar Rao’s place. Reddy is the first Congress Chief Minister of Telangana and faces the daunting task of reviving Telangana’s financial fortunes. For those who...
Madhya Pradesh Results Hide Disturbing Ground Reality For Both BJP And Congress
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The impressive win of the BJP in Madhya Pradesh and humiliating loss of the Congress conceals a disturbing ground reality for both the political parties, since the results hide a disturbing ground reality that they will have to face in the months to come during...
Assembly Poll Results Will Have No Impact In Kerala: Congress
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress in Kerala thinks that the huge electoral setback the party suffered in the Hindi heartland will have no impact on next year’s parliamentary polls in the State. Well, the ground reality is, however, entirely different. Congress leaders in the State are pinning their...
Muslims At Crossroads In India Increasingly Under The Grip Of Hindutva
By Arun Srivastava Even before Congress leader Rahul Gandhi or his sister Priyanka Gandhi could reach out to the Muslims, console them and erase the image of uncertainty from their mind, the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee cautioned them against the design of the saffron ecosystem and asked them...
Narendra Modi’s Meeting With New Maldives President In Dubai Is Significant
By Girish Linganna India has, finally, agreed to withdraw its troops from the Maldives, the president of the strategically located archipelago has said, fulfilling a promise he had made to the country’s electorate ahead of the recent presidential election in the archipelagic nation. Indian government sources said the two...
Infosys Founder N R Narayan Murthy’s ‘Compassionate Capitalism’ Will Not Work
By Krishna Jha It was Narayan Murthy, the software icon who had said in 2020 that working hours for the toilers should be stretched up to sixty hours. In 2023, he went further and said the working hours must be taken to seventy hours. And now he has come...
Ukraine War Has Reached A Dead End With No Country In A Position To Win
By Ben Chacko All through 2023 the conflict in Ukraine has been drifting towards deadlock. As the year draws to a close the military positions remain very much where they were at its start. The much-hyped Ukrainian spring-summer offensive has made little difference beyond the waste of further lives...
RSS’s Tribal Connect Helped BJP Score Hat-Trick In 3 Heartland States
By Arun Srivastava Hyperbole is one of the chief traits of Narendra Modi. For this reason his latest boast that BJP’s “hat-trick” of victories in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh “is a guarantee for a hat-trick in 2024” and that he would get a third consecutive term in power...
Moody’s Downgrading China’s Economic Outlook Has Big Significance
By Anjan Roy One of the most powerful global credit agencies, Moody’s, has downgraded China’s economic outlook to negative from stable. This has major implications for a country in the financial markets and as a reliable destination for global investors. Immediately, this change might not affect China’s investments or...
