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.Economic Slowdown To Haunt India The Next Two Years
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India would be going downhill for the next two years, if Global Economic Prospect just released by the World Bank is of any indication. GDPs for 2023and 2024 have been revised down to 6.6 per cent and 6.1 per cent respectively, which are below 0.5...
Rahul Gandhi’s Yatra Success Triggers Ideological War Within Sangh Parivar
By Sushil Kutty It’s Kurukshetra. And Mahabharata. Bharat Jodo yatri Rahul Gandhi alleges the RSS are “21st Century Kauravas in khaki half pants”. And RSS Chief Mohan Mohan Bhagwat says Hindus are not finished with the “1000-year war with foreign invaders, foreign aggressions, foreign influences and foreign conspiracies.” The...
Curative Petition In Supreme Court Is No Relief For Bhopal Gas Victims
By Indira Jaising On January 10, a curative petition was filed by the Union of India versus the Union Carbide Corporation (‘UCC’), and American Chemical Corporation now owned by Dow Chemical Company, an American multinational chemical corporation, pertaining to the Bhopal Gas Disaster. The disaster occurred on December 3-4,...
For UAE And Others, It’s Business As Usual With Israel’s New Regime
By James M Dorsey For the United Arab Emirates, it’s business as usual as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s newly formed government wastes no time in implementing hardline policies aimed at forcing Palestinians to give up on the notion of an independent state and accept Israeli rule. The UAE...
Chandro Tai, The Ace Shooter Is The Inspiration Of Young Women In Johri Village
By Harihar Swarup Sharp shooter, Chandro Tai, is now 80 but never misses her target. Every morning after finishing her daily chores, she goes to the shooting range close to her house to practice air pistol shooting, something she has been doing for almost 60 years. Even in the...
Congress Has A Three Pronged Strategy To Meet BJP Challenge In 2024
By Sushil Kutty The Congress strategy to defeat the BJP and dislodge Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his pedestal is three-pronged. One, Muslims must be made to vote for the Congress, the Congress alone. Two, the Hindu voter should be convinced that the ‘Tapasvi Rahul’ is the alternative to...
Far Right Coup Attempt In Brazil Sends Ominous Signal To Latin American Left
By Satyaki Chakraborty The storming of the Congress building and the Presidential Palace in Brazil by the far right supporters of the defeated president Jair Bolsonaro on January 8 is a wakeup call to the progressives of Latin America to unite for fighting the right offensive which has been...
Religio-Ethnic Tensions Mark Election Campaign In Meghalaya As State Polls Near
By Ashis Biswas With most major parties adopting an ethnicity-based approach in their pre-poll campaigning, voting in the coming Assembly elections in Meghalaya could be sharply polarised, according to observers. Intriguingly, such a trend may be less noticeable in Tripura. The involvement of Assam-based political heavyweight leaders with elections...
Covid Affected Health Workers’ Families Need Empathy And Support
By Dr. Arun Mitra It is to utter to dismay that only about 23.8 % families of the doctors who lost their life fighting COVID-19 have received the insurance amount announced by the Prime Minister under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP). This is as per the information...
Indian Diaspora Has Greater Role To Play During Amrit Kaal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak At conclusion of the 17th three-day Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention (January 8-10) at Indore on Tuesday, majority of 3,500 participants from 70 countries have been dispersing with enthusiasm and hope that Indian diaspora has a greater role to play not only to India’s journey ahead...
Surging Imports Are Behind India’s Growing Unemployment
By Nantoo Banerjee It is rather depressing to note that the unemployment rate in the country reached 8.30 percent in December, the highest over the last 16 months. In urban areas, the unemployment rate exceeded 10 percent. The number of people looking for jobs last month increased to 40.48...
Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra Is Contributing To Congress Revival
By Sushil Kutty Has Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ achieved what it set out to? What was it that Rahul Gandhi wanted to unify? His party went to pieces here, there and everywhere, wherever it had lost elections, and in states where the Congress was robbed of its hard-fought...
India Economy Is On A Revival Mode But Next Fiscal Will Be Challenging
By K R Sudhaman The preliminary official estimates by Ministry of Statistics has corroborated multilateral and other rating agencies forecast that India’s economic growth would be around 7 per cent in financial year 2022-2023. This only confirms that Indian economy is on a revival mode. The projected GDP growth...
Taliban Regime In Kabul Is In Deep Conflict With The New Pakistani Govt
By Sankar Ray Pakistan – Islamabad camaraderie, built up after the capture of Afghanistan by the Taliban and formation of a new Emirate in Kabul on 15 August 2021, faces a sanguinary breach. A conflictual discontent was simmering ever since the federal government had struck a ceasefire with the...
Row Over Kerala Minister’s Reinstatement
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Was the decision to reinstate Saji Cherian, MLA, as a minister in the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in the state hasty? That is the question doing the rounds in Kerala’s political corridors. Cherian had been forced to step down as Culture and Fisheries Minister...
Eminent Academics Decry Centre’s Attempt To Saffronise History Text Books
By Sulagna Som Historians Ranabir Chakraborty and Aditya Mukherjee slammed the New Educational Policy of the present government at the Centre at the 81st session of the Indian History Congress, held at the Madras Christian College, Chennai, between 27 and 29 December 2022. They blasted the on-going saffronisation of...
Saudis Milking Ronaldo Move To Kingdom To The Hilt
By James M Dorsey Saudi Arabia isn’t wasting time to milk for what it’s worth soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo’s move to the kingdom. Neither are others in the Gulf eager to join the bandwagon. Playing for nine-time Saudi league champion Al Nassr FC for US$211 million over 2.5 years,...
Centre Is Making Use Of LG Of Delhi To Help BJP Get Control Of MCD
By Sushil Kutty The Lt. Governor, Delhi, VK Saxena, acts as if he’s a power unto himself. But everybody knows his loyalty to the Union Ministry of Home is absolute. The Delhi Government is at the mercy of frequent interventions, call them interferences. And if Delhi is suffering, it...
