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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.Opposition Parties Giving Conflicting Signals On Uniting Against BJP In 2024 Polls
By Sushil Kutty Don’t India’s opposition parties have feelings for the electorate? Watching them behave the way they do does not betray any people-friendly vibes. It would not be wrong to label them cynics. In fact, they should be “gently poked in the arm and told to stop being...
Capitalists Are Terming Social Welfare Schemes ‘Populist’ To Deny Benefits To Poor
By Prabhat Patnaik All regimes based on class antagonism require a discourse to legitimise class oppression and this discourse in turn requires a vocabulary of its own. The neoliberal regime too has developed its own discourse and vocabulary and a key concept in this vocabulary is “populism”. This concept...
Massive Green Energy Plan For Indian Capital But Not For Its People
By Prabir Purkayastha The recent announcement of the Narendra Modi government of a Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 19,794 crore) National Green Hydrogen Mission has created two kinds of questions. The most common reaction is what is green hydrogen? And do we have a plan for a green hydrogen path...
Union Budget 2023-24 Must Ensure Inclusive Education
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Poor households of the country have increasingly been put into precarious conditions as far as education of their children are concerned. Public educational institutions, which are the only destination for poor students, are deteriorating in imparting quality education due to a range of issues including...
KCR Tries To Forge Third Front, Gets Chief Ministers On Board
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political buzz around the formation of a third front is revived once again. While talk of a third front has been recurrent, a key change this time is that Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has succeeded in getting top politicians from three other...
Kiren Rijiju’s Latest Letter To CJI Is Aimed At Undermining Judiciary
By Prakash Karat Union law minister, Kiren Rijiju is at it again. He has written to the chief justice of India, D Y Chandrachud, suggesting that a new “search and evaluation committee” be set up which will include a government nominee for making recommendations to the supreme court and...
Bank Frauds Doubled In Eight Years Of Modi Rule In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Number of bank fraud cases across India more than doubled in eight years, and about 12 lakh crore rupees were just vanished from the banking system. Indian Economy has been systematically fleeced, both through legal and illegal means, by big borrowers and bank officials. The...
Two-Day BJP National Executive Discussed Only Elections, No Urgent Economic Issues
By Binoy Viswam Stating that there are nearly 400 days left for the 2024 elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi masked himself by exhorting the BJP cadres to keep aside electoral aims and work for all sections of people. He was addressing the recently concluded national executive meeting of the...
Narendra Modi’s Outreach To Muslims And Dalits Has Many Faultlines
By Sushil Kutty The problem with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is that he thinks and dreams elections, only elections. Winning elections. And setting electoral records! Not that setting a record in elections has helped the people who voted the BJP, or helped those who did not vote the BJP....
‘Career Cushioning’ Emerges As Tool To Face Job Uncertainty Amidst Layoffs
By K Raveendran Between what is described as the Great Resignation in the West, standing for the trend of high attrition rate of employees at one end of the spectrum, and the fear of large-scale layoffs at the other, the high-tech job scene presents a picture of total chaos....
WEF’s Global Risk’s Report 2023: What It Means For Indian Economy?
By Nitya Chakraborty As a part of the tradition of the global CEO’s body World Economic Forum (WEF), the annual five day jamboree at Davos has started and the Global Risk Report 2023 has been released mentioning both the existing risks as also the new dangers threatening the global...
China’s Population Dip In 2022 Has Long Term Impact On Economic Growth
By Anjan Roy China’s population has shrunk in 2022 for the first time in six decades. That has sent bells ringing about the prospects China should be facing henceforth. There is a long and tortuous history culminating in the phase when population is shrinking. China had imposed strict rule...
Union Budget 2023-24 Must Address Rising Inequality In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Budget 2023-24 needs to address the rising inequality in India that has acquired an alarming trend at a time when economic growth of the country is projected to decelerate during the next fiscal. The World Economic Forum in Davos 2023 (January 16-20) is in...
Another Middle-Class Focussed Budget Would Mean Raw Deal To Vulnerable Sections
By K Raveendran Finance minister’s ‘confession’ that she understands the pressures of the middle class as she herself belongs to that class of people and that she would continue to work for their welfare leaves hints to the direction in the Modi government’s last full-fledged budget before the 2024...
KCR’s Move For Opposition Front Against BJP May Not Have Many Takers
By Sushil Kutty On August 31, 2022, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, a.k.a ‘KCR’, travelled to Patna and met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar calling for a ‘BJP-mukt Bharat’. Kumar and KCR weren’t comfortable with each other at a presser, as KCR called for the unity of all...
Uttar Pradesh Congress To Start Hath Se Hath Jodo Yatra From January 26
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The tremendous response to Bharat Jodo Yatra of Rahul Gandhi in Western UP in particular and rest of country in general has boosted the morale of Congress leaders and workers in Uttar Pradesh. The participation of minorities, Dalits, farmers and other sections of the society...
Golden Globe Winner M M Keeravani Is A Great Music Talent In Film Industry
By Harihar Swarup When M M Keeravani won the Golden Globe award for the best original song for S Rajamouli’s film RRR on January 11, he was fulfilling his destiny. As a 4-year—old in Kovvur, Andhra Pradesh, he had walked up to his father; Koduri Siva Shakti Dutta, and...
Davos Meet Of Global Capital Bosses Has Always Been A Big Talk Shop
By Grace Blakeley At the start of each year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) — organizer of the annual Davos conference currently underway in Switzerland — releases its list of the “global risks” expected to dominate over the following twelve months. This year, researchers at the WEF decided that...
