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.Too Many Lives And Livelihoods Lost To Extreme Weather In 2022
By Dr. Gyan Pathak We have faced several dramatic weather disasters which claimed far too many lives and livelihoods in 2022. From extreme floods to heat and drought, weather and climate disasters affected millions and cost billions, indicating that climate change has intensified this year, and in the next...
RJD Leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui Is Right About Worsening Situation For Muslims
By Sushil Kutty It took 75 years but at last at least one politician has confessed that India is not a safe country for Muslims. Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui told this to his children, a son and a daughter. Growing up they lived the privileged lives...
Concerns Over Undermining Biodiversity Act Through Amendment Persist
By Tushar Kohli Even as India has signed the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework deal to address the ongoing biodiversity loss, restore ecosystems and protect indigenous rights, the Union Government has been harbouring plans to amend the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 in a way that may dilute the institutional structure...
Time For Middle Eastern Sports Has Arrived On The Global Arena
By James M Dorsey This decade and beyond could be the era of Middle Eastern sports. It may not have sunk in yet, but the Qatar World Cup was the kick-off rather than the finale. Qatar and Saudi Arabia will be this decade’s focal points of Asian sports. By...
Cristina Kirchner’s Conviction Means An Uncertain Future For Argentine Progressives
By Craig Johnson Earlier this month, Argentina was rocked by a story so big that it broke through the country’s jubilant anxiety over the World Cup — the vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (or CFK, as she is commonly called in the Argentine press), was found guilty by...
India Plagued By Decent Work Deficit And Dismal Unorganised Sector
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Two things have clearly emerged during four-days 42nd session of AITUC held during December 16-20 in Alappuzha. First, India is plagued by decent work deficit and dismal status of unorganized sector, and the second, the unity of trade unions, the only tool that can counter...
Indian Authorities Have To Take Proper Lessons From Covid-19 Pandemic
By Dr Arun Mitra With the news that few cases of new Omicron variant which is said to have shorter incubation period and faster spread than the previous COVID infections is a matter of concern. However we have enough experience now from the past and should utilise that for...
Rajasthan BJP Going Ahead With Jan Akhrosh Yatra Despite PM Asking Rahul To Stop
By Arun Srivastava If the tone and tenor of Narendra Modi’s speech at the high level meeting held on Thursday to discuss the strategy to fight covid is any indicator, it is obvious that Rahul Gandhi would have to terminate his Bharat Jodo Yatra even before reaching Delhi, not...
After Himachal Impact, Congress Wants Pilot To Campaign More
By Rahil Nora Chopra Former deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Sachin Pilot, is now again in the limelight. After Congress snatched Himachal Pradesh from under BJP’s nose, the party wants to deploy him extensively in campaigns across the Hindi-speaking states like Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, in addition to Rajasthan....
Bharat Jodo Yatra In Delhi On December 24 Will See A Battle Of Nerves Between Modi And Rahul
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi wasted breath warning Indians that “Covid is not over yet”. Who does not know that? Also, asking Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi to mask up was asinine. If nothing else, the Gandhi scion is clairvoyant. Rahul was the first politician to warn the...
India’s Creeping Industrial Stagnation Is The Result Of Neoliberal Policies
By Prabhat Patnaik There has been much discussion in public about the index of industrial production for October 2022 being 4 per cent lower than the index for October 2021; and quite rightly so, since no obvious explanations like a Covid-induced lockdown or even its residual lingering effects can...
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s Daughter Worried About Threat To India’s Secular Ethos
By Sankar Ray Dr. Anita Bose Pfaff, daughter of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Emilie Schenkl, has expressed her dismay at the erosion of secular values in India in the recent period and how her father had always fought for building India as a secular state. In an interview...
Kolkata International Film Festival Showed Movies Of Varied Nature
By Abhisek Roy Barman The 28th Kolkata International Film Festival has come too fast, only 8 months after its last incarnation in this year’s April, and this time it lasted seven days, between December 16 and 22. The promotional campaigns were intriguing from the outset: giant banners were installed...
RBI Governor’s Stance On Cryptocurrencies Is Alarmist Not Pragmatic
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Early this week, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) made headlines in international media for claiming that the next global financial crisis will come on the back of cryptocurrencies. He added that any attempts to regulate and help cryptocurrencies grow will end...
Madhya Pradesh Assembly Creates History By Discussing Nonconfidence Motion Till Midnight
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: History was created in Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha on two counts – one not only for the first time a no confidence motion was admitted after a gap of more than 15 years but the government allowed opposition to speak. It was also for...
Narendra Modi Govt Has Stepped Up Its Attack On The Supreme Court
By Prakash Karat The Narendra Modi government has stepped up its attack on the Supreme Court. In the past few weeks, the union law minister, Kiren Rijiju, has been making a series of statements, both outside and inside parliament, criticising the collegium system of appointing judges as alien to...
Shortlisting Of Gujarati Film ’Chhello Show’ For Oscar Is A Great News For India
By Satyaki Chakraborty At long last, there is a big news for India’s film industry from the US Academy which organizes the Oscar awards. Director p Nalin’s Gujarati film ‘Chhello Show’ has been shortlisted for Oscar nomination in the international feature film category. Apart, Rajamouli’s RRR’s track ‘Naatu Naatu’...
Workforce World Over To Face Great Hardship In 2023
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Workforce world over would face greater hardship in 2023. IMF has already sounded alarm over the grim global situation in their latest World Economic Outlook. More than a third of the global economy is expected to slip into recession in 2023, while the three large...
