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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.Global Energy Security Under Serious Threat
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The next eight years of the present decade would be decisive not only for Net Zero by 2050, but also to ensure energy security. The world is already not on track to achieve SDG target of providing universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern...
Centre-State Confrontation Hurting Rural Poor In West Bengal
By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the administrative deadlock with the centre over the mandatory provision of 100 days work for unskilled rural people under the MNREGA scheme drags on, adding to the political concerns of the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) Government. This project, suspended since last December in the...
Annie Ernaux’s Writing Has Given Dignity To The Working Class Lives
By Jess Cotton Annie Ernaux, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature last week, was not on the other end of the telephone when the committee rang to deliver the news. Last year, she received a prank text telling her she had won the illustrious award, which might...
It Is High Time Age Of Supreme Court Chief Justice Is Reconsidered
By K Raveendran Chief Justice U U Lalit can feel happy that his 74-day tenure, coming to an end on November 8, is not the shortest in the history of India’s Supreme Court. That dubious record belongs to the 22nd chief justice, K N Singh, who occupied that position...
Despite Denials, Mallikarjun Kharge Has All The Stamp Of Gandhi Family
By Sushil Kutty Congress presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor is getting under the other Congress presidential candidate’s skin, party veteran Mallikarjun Kharge, who has to now defend himself from marketplace innuendos that his name for the top party post was “suggested” by none other than the party’s interim president, Sonia...
Economics Nobel This Year Celebrates Old Wines In New Bottles
By Anjan Roy Economists have ennobled their discipline by turning some basic common sense into highly esoteric and exotic body of intellectual exercise. Common housewife is the best economist for Aristotle. Economics for the Greeks was the knowledge of running a household’s balances. The economics Nobel prize this year...
Geopolitical Minefields Of President Erdogan’s Ambitious Turkic World
By James M Dorsey Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has blown new life into Turkey’s vision of a Turkic world that stretches from Anatolia to Xinjiang in north-western China. “Central Asia now resembles the 1990s when there was a huge competition between global and regional powers for influence over the...
Human Sacrifice Trauma Tarnishes Image Of ‘Progressive’ Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A case of ‘human sacrifice’, in which two women were brutally killed, has shocked Kerala. It is difficult to believe that such an act of unspeakable barbarity should happen in a progressive state like Kerala. But that is the chilling reality to which traumatized Keralites...
Al-Zawahin Led Al-Qaeda With Equal Ruthlessness As Osama Bin Laden
By Harihar Swarup Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian-born surgeon turned-Jihadi known as al-Zawahin who assured the leadership of al-Qaeda after killing of Osama bin Laden led a life steeped in secrecy, betrayal, conspiracy and violence, after the September 11 attacks against U.S. in 2001. While bin Laden, who was killed...
AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal Is Trying To Compete With BJP In Hindutva Race
By Sushil Kutty At last a political party other than the Bharatiya Janata Party has caught on that cornering increasingly rabid Hindu votes is half the electoral battle won in Modi’s India. For decades, the “secular” and “communal” Hindus were separated by the Muslim vote-bank with the secular Hindus...
BJP Gets More Political Concerns On Its Platter Before 2024 Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The two-day National Convention of RJD held on October 9-10 in Delhi has made it clear that there will be a united opposition led by the congress to dethrone the BJP in Lok Sabha Election 2024. RJP leader Lalu Yadav’s saying this in categorical terms...
Amit Shah Is Trying To Exploit JP’s Name In His Current Visit To Bihar
By Arun Srivastava After their design to confine Nitish Kumar to Bihar going haywire, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Amit Shah have chalked out a fresh strategy to unleash a blistering attack on him and portray him as an opportunist politician who even did not care for...
Absence Of Mulayam Singh Yadav Will Have Deep Impact On Samajwadi Party
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Unless Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav understands meaning of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s role in the evolution of Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, it would be a very difficult task to run the party in his absence. Akhilesh Yadav will have to see how his...
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan Is On Backfoot Over Leaked Audio Tapes
By Sankar Ray The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman and the erstwhile Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan’s threat to move the court over the recent audio leaks questioning how and who did leak them suggests that that the PTI chief seems to be on the lookout for an escape from...
Panchayat Polls In Bengal Will Be A Fight Between Trinamool Congress And BJP
By Tirthankar Mitra Panchayat elections scheduled to be held in West Bengal early next year will be in stark contrast to the rural polls held five years ago. But the CPI-M has little reason to be upbeat about its chances of surging past the BJP which many voters opposed...
CPI Has To Take Key Role In Building Broader Unity Against Ruling BJP
By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (CPI) is holding its 24th Party Congress at Vijayawada on October 14 ro 18 this year at a crucial time of the country in terms of both politics and economy. There has been a decisive shift in the political direction of...
India’s Politicised Police Is Mostly Busy Protecting Ruling Party Concerns
By Nantoo Banerjee Last month, the alleged murder of a 19-year-old girl receptionist, Ankita Bhandari, in the Vanantara resort in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Uttarakhand’s Pauri district sparked massive outrage across the country. The girl went missing on September 18 following which a missing complaint was lodged by her parents...
Election Commission Is Functioning In A Bizarre Manner In Shiv Sena Symbol Issue
By Sushil Kutty At the heart of politics is cowardice. Okay, foolhardiness. Take demonetization, for instance. It was a reckless display of authoritarianism, unbridled power, when the BJP-led NDA Government tipped its hat to its Prime Minister and forgot that in a democracy, collective decisions are the norm and...
