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.Threat Of A Free Fall Of Indian Rupee Against U.S. Dollar In Initial Period Of Trump Regime Is Real
By Anjan Roy The recent volatility in the exchange rate of the Indian rupee against the US dollar has given rise to a debate on how the central bank should react to the situation of progressive depreciation of the national currency. To wit, the rupee appears to hit 90...
Hindenburg Disbanding And The Unresolved Questions That It Leaves Unanswered
By K Raveendran The decision by Nate Anderson to wind up his Hindenburg Research firm ahead of the Trump administration taking charge has certainly given a political window of escape to the BJP and the Modi government, which have been most vocal in defending the Adani group target by...
Biden Is Right-Oligarchs Have Taken Over New U.S. Govt Under Donald Trump
By Satyaki Chakraborty The outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden said in his farewell address to the American nation on Thursday that the democracy in U.S. is sliding into an oligarchy dominated by the big tech billionaires. He did not name Trump but it was clear that he was mentioning...
Global Labour Market Is Under Immense Pressure With Economic Deceleration
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global labour market is under immense pressure with economic deceleration, geopolitical tensions, the rising costs of climate change and unresolved debt issues. Though, in 2024, global employment expanded in line with a growing labour force, keeping the unemployment rate steady, similar to previous year, young...
Lofty Promises By Political Parties On The Eve Of Elections Ominous For Indian Democracy
By Sushil Kutty People fought kings and queens, sultans and maharajas, for exercising their right to vote. Those were days when democracy was nascent and voting was limited to where the magna carta prevailed and where immigrants took over part of a continent and called it ‘New World’. Then,...
Kerala Opposes Union Government’s Offshore Mining Plan
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has voiced its strong objection to the Union Government’s plans for offshore sand mining along the Kerala coast. The State has also taken strong exception to the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) controversial draft...
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Was A Socialist Based On The Spiritual Values Of India
By Mithun Dey On January 23 this year, the nation is going to observe 128th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Netaji was a firm believer that rashtrabhakti (patriotism) is a fusion of religion and nationalism, of the spiritual and the political. He looked for religious philosophy that...
Film Director David Lynch Was Mysterious, Bizarre, And All-American
By Eileen Jones NEW YORK: Losing the powerful film director David Lynch is so awful that it is hard to know what to say and how best to say it. Though he’d stepped away from feature film directing after Inland Empire (2006) and left as his long-form swan song...
India’s Startup Ecosystem Needs Urgent Quality Improvement
By Dr. Gyan Pathak January 16, 2025 was celebrated by Union Government of India as National Startup Day, which was followed by a boasting that India with more than 1.59 lakh startups has now firmly established itself as the third-largest startup ecosystem in the world. The claim was on...
Closure Of Hindenburg Research Body Must Be A Relief To The Adani Group
By Anjan Roy Controversial equity research firm, Hindenburg, has closed down, all of a sudden. Disbanding the operations, the firm’s founder and short-seller said that this “was only chapter of his life” not the only one. The news of Hindenburg closure immediately had a political twist in India. While,...
Akhilesh Yadav Wooing Hindu Voters In A Big Way On The Eve Of Milkipur Bypoll
By Sushil Kutty Samajwadi Party Supremo Akhilesh Yadav has discovered religion, specifically ‘Hinduism’. The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, with a nose for politics, took a ‘Ganga Snan’ and then took an oath to transform the Ayodhya Ram Mandir Complex into a top class wonder of the world when...
Rahul Says Fighting BJP, RSS Is To Defend Indian Constitution
By Rahil Nora Chopra During the inauguration of the new Congress headquarters in Delhi, Rahul Gandhi led the charge that the battle against the RSS-BJP was not just a political one. “The BJP and the RSS have captured every single institution of our country. We are now fighting the...
Alternative Trading And Currency Arrangement Is Possible To Fight U.S. Hegemony
By Prabhat Patnaik The imperialist countries led by the US have been imposing unilateral sanctions that do not have any backing from the United Nations against countries that dare to defy their diktat. According to one estimate almost one third of the countries of the world have been subject...
Indian Workers Are Facing Increased Workload, Prolonged Shifts In Changing Scenario
By Dr Bhalchandra Kango In capitalist economy, unemployment is one of the basic needs that keeps the worker always on the edge. The apprehension of job loss haunts all those in employment. And those unemployed keep in wait at the gate to replace those who dare challenge the system....
Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal Is A Great News But The Follow Up Depends On Netanyahu
By Asad Mirza Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire deal; Israel, Qatar and the United States have said, after more than 460 days of a war that has devastated Gaza. Apparently, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, under intense American pressure had to convince a lot...
After The Ceasefire In Gaza, Pressure Must Grow To End The Occupation
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The ceasefire in Gaza, at least pausing a 15-month-long genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people waged by a depraved Israeli state, must be welcomed. If the ceasefire takes hold — always a doubt given Israel’s record in these matters — it offers some relief to...
Suman Ghosh’s Docu Journey With Aparna Sen Is An Objective Tribute To A Big Talent
By Tirthankar Mitra Ever since she faced the movie cameras in a tomboy’s role in Satyajit Ray’s Teen Kanya, in 1961,AparnaSen has been a head turner. Her unconventional beauty was heightened by her sex appeal through which her little grey cells brightly shone. No flash in the pan performer,...
Disruptor President-Elect Donald Trump Baffles Peaceniks And Liberals
By Nitya Chakraborty The announcement on Gaza between Israel and Hamas just five days before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the President of USA on January 20 has baffled many leaders of the peace movement as also left liberal political analysts as to how to properly assess the...
