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.In The Gujarat Assembly Polls, It Is Narendra Modi All The Way, Not BJP
By Sushil Kutty It is a small world, and sound travels far. Otherwise how could America’s former President Donald Trump echo Prime Minister Narendra Modi? Announcing his 2024 bid for the White House, Trump said, “This is not my campaign, this will be our campaign”. And television host Sean...
Known Separatist Leader Bilal Gani Lone Is Going Mainstream In Kashmir
By Harihar Swarup Kashmir’s politics is likely to witness a major change, Separatist leader Bilal Gani Lone is preparing to bid farewell to separatism and enter the mainstream politics.. Bilal is elder son of Abdul Gani Lone, the Hurriyat Conference leader who founded the People Conference. Considered a moderate...
BJP Govt In Madhya Pradesh Trying To Woo Tribals Before 2023 Assembly Poll
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh BJP has launched a massive campaign to win over tribals who constitute a significant portion of state’s population. Its defeat to the Congress in 2018 assembly polls was largely due to the fact that it won less than one third tribal...
Kerala Governor Pitching For Showdown With LDF Government On VC Issue
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a massive manifestation of Kerala’s collective anger against Governor Arif Mohammed Khan’s activities in violation of the Constitution. The protest march to the Raj Bhavan on November 15 against the gubernatorial grouches saw the attendance of close to one lakh people. The march,...
No Pre Election Fever As Nepal Goes For National Elections On November 20
By Sankar Ray The Federal Parliament and provincial assemblies’ elections in Nepal are scheduled to take place on November 20. But the election fever isn’t felt in most of the 165 first-past-the-post constituencies or directly electable seats out of 275 lower house seats of FP. The same is true...
When Biden Erred In Pitting Ukraine As War Between Democracy And Autocracy
By James M Dorsey US President Joe Biden potentially made a strategic mistake when he framed the struggle for Ukraine as a battle between democracy and autocracy. In doing so, he did America’s main rival, China, an unintended favour. Ukraine is not about democracy vs. autocracy; from America’s perspective,...
CoP27 Draft Agreement Shows Clear Divide On Options To Meet Climate Goals
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The draft text on CoP27 agreement released on Monday, November 14, clearly shows the division. Countries are still fighting on the most contentious issue of agreement on “funding arrangements for loss and damage”. The UN climate conference is still swinging between hope and despair. At...
Biden-Xi Talks At G20 Meet Send Mature Signals Amidst The Period Of Tensions
By Sushil Kutty President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping met on Monday in the Indonesian island of Bali, the first substantive meeting between them since Joe Biden became President, and Xi Jinping secured an unprecedented third term. The other side of the road, other leaders of Group of...
Hemant Soren Is The New Aspirational Symbol Of Adivasis In Jharkhand
By Arun Srivastava Offence is the best strategy for Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren to foil the mischievous designs of the Narendra Modi government, the BJP and the powerful caucus of the Dikus, the non tribals, who have been desperate to grab the land of the adivasis on the...
BJP Is In Covert Collusion With Separatists For Division Of North Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Even as panchayat election is inching closer, north Bengal is in the news for the wrong reasons. The demand for a separate state or Union Territory has resurfaced. The present scenario, however, differs from the one which arose last year when BJP MP John Barla and...
FTX’s Failure Leaves Behind $8-Billion Hole Posing Question About Crypto
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Last weekend Chengpang Zhao, the 45-year-old co-founder and CEO of the world’s largest trading platform, Binance, announced on Twitter that his exchange would liquidate its entire FTT holdings. FTT is an exchange coin of the crypto derivative exchange, FTX, which was valued at $32 billion...
Remembering Ela Bhatt Who Battled For The Unorganised Till Her End
By Indira Jaising Much is known about the life and times of Ela Bhatt, founder of SEWA. I had the privilege of working for her and with her in the service of self-employed women, which gives me some confidence to speak about her and her work. I was always...
Italy’s Far-Right Government Is Already At War With Migrants
By Richard Braude Threats, lies, and the breaking of international conventions. Another Italian government, another round of attempts to turn the ports of Italy into a circus of violations and dehumanizing logistical wranglings. Another round of bolstering Europe’s racist border regime — as if the sea were barbed wire...
Bolivia’s Socialist Government Confronts Separatist, Racist Uprising
By W. T. Whitney Jr. With the exception of a coup-government interregnum in 2019-2021, the Movement Toward Socialism political party (MAS) has headed Bolivia’s government since the beginning of Evo Morales’s presidency in 2006. The MAS government now led by President Luis Arce and Vice President David Choquehuanca announced...
India Needs Large FDI Inflow To Become Factory To World
By Nantoo Banerjee Global investment banker Morgan Stanley may have predicted the current decade as India’s following economic slowdown in China. But, the Indian economy is not growing as fast as it should. Large foreign direct investments (FDI) seem to be fighting shy of India’s highly price sensitive economy....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Playing The Victim Card On The Eve Of Assembly Polls
By Arun Srivastava Like an incompetent carpenter who blames the tools for his bad work, Prime Minister Narendra Modi too has started playing the victim card having failed to keep his promises made to the people and provide a people oriented governance. Modi has come to realise that his...
Congress Has Every Right To Object To Release Of Rajiv Assassins By Supreme Court
By Sushil Kutty Let us agree not to disagree with the Congress that the Supreme Court should not have released the six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case; that this was “totally unacceptable and completely erroneous.” The ruling has made the top court a laughing stock to some,...
Bank Employees Are Again Up In Arms Against Managements
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Bank employees of the country are again up in arms against their management against their alleged highhandedness. To oppose these, which allegedly include unlawful and unfair actions of the bank managements against the employees, All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) has already served a notice...
