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.Indian Economy Needs Fresh Push But People’s Interests Are Supreme
By Harihar Swarup The Indian economy was expected to collapse due to pandemic. But its recovery has been better than most countries. Appropriate counter – cyclical policy enabled this but it worked because reforms had reached a threshold of adequacy. In the recent past growth suffered because of an...
Bolsonaro Is Trying To Repeat Trump Game Even Before October 2 Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty Only three weeks are left for the holding of the historic Presidential elections in Brazil on October 2 this year but the right wing President Jair Bolsonaro who is contesting the elections again challenging the opinion poll favourite Workers Party candidate former President Luiz Inacio Lula...
Queen Elizabeth Was A Witness To The Decline Of Britain’s Power In Global Arena
By Anjan Roy It is hard to think now of England without Queen Elizabeth II. She had been there for as long as anyone could remember. A reign of seventy years. This moment would have been somewhat similar to when Queen Empress Victoria had died in 1901. She had...
Latest I-T Raids On Think Tanks Reveal Nervousness Of Ruling Regime
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised the people of India of having good days, is himself passing through his worst days. Bizarre are the ways in which the Income Tax Department has searched this week the premises of three leading bodies, Centre for Policy Research (CPR),...
Rahul Commences Ambitious ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ From Sriperumbudur
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched his most cherished “Bharat Jodo Yatra” after paying homage to his father Rajiv Gandhi at Sriperumbudur, where he was assassinated in 1991. It might lead to a turning point in Indian politics and could end up projecting Rahul Gandhi as...
Finance Ministry Officials Glossing Over First Quarter GDP Estimates
By Prabhat Patnaik The estimates of Gross Domestic Product for the April-June quarter released by the government of India on August 31 paint a dismal picture of the Indian economy. Since the GDP in real terms (at 2011-12 prices) shows an increase of 13.5 per cent over the first...
NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain Allowed Donald Trump To Play On His Own Terms
By Sushil Kutty In the United States former presidents continue to be ‘President’ for the rest of their lives. And so, ‘President Trump’ gave an interview to NDTV and but for the fact that seven seas separated India from the United States, Trump wouldn’t have agreed to the interview...
“It Is Outrageous That Germany Is Sending Weapons To Ukraine To Continue War”
By Ben Chacko BERLIN: The death of Mikhail Gorbachev on August 30 brought discussion of the collapse of Soviet socialism back to the fore—especially as the neoliberal world order it ushered in is crumbling around us. Just a couple of days before the last leader of the Communist Party...
Nitish Kumar’s Delhi Visit Has Helped The Cause Of Opposition Unity Against BJP
By Nitya Chakraborty Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar’s talks this week in Delhi with most of the leaders of the anti-BJP opposition parties have been very helpful in paving the way for understanding of the need for a joint front of the parties who are...
Kerala Governor Is Misusing His Position By Taking Arbitrary Decisions
By Prakash Karat The governor of Kerala, Arif Mohammad Khan, has been interfering in the affairs of the state universities and taking arbitrary decisions, misusing his position as chancellor of these universities. Recently, the governor appointed a search committee for the post of vice chancellor of Kerala University bypassing...
Women Can’t Wait For Another 300 Years For Gender Equality
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A new UN report has warned that the world would take another 300 years to achieve gender equality if the countries perform to continue as usual. It is too long a time for which generations of girls and women must not be put to peril....
Hindu Right Fringe Groups Are Driving The Boycott Bollywood Campaign
By Sushil Kutty The only real-time missile that can possibly stand up to the filmic ‘Brahmastra’ is the Brahmos, an Indo-Russian collaboration. But Brahmos doesn’t face a boycott like #Brahmastra does though on the eve of its worldwide release, trade analysts are painting a rosy picture of its “first...
Jobless Growth Is Leading To More Hunger And Mass Poverty
By Krishna Jha Our economy is in shambles as growth without jobs goes up to 8.3 percent. Unemployment has been rated at 394.6 million, a fall in the employment availability by two million as the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) reports have revealed. In July, the unemployment rate...
Congress Workers In Uttar Pradesh In A Demoralised State Before 2024 Poll
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The Congress is facing biggest challenge to revive the party in Uttar Pradesh to face 2024 Lok Sabha polls after worst ever performance in assembly polls held in March. this year. It would be very difficult for Congress to save Rae Bareli Lok Seat which...
Remembering Nityapriya Ghosh – A Maverick Left Wing Literary Theorist
By Kunal Bose Born in Barisal, now in Bangladesh, Nityapriya Ghosh who passed away on September 7 in Kolkata, lived a highly productive 87 years and much of that in studying the life and works of Rabindranath Tagore. Expectedly so, since his teacher father Manindra Kumar Ghosh enjoyed the...
Ukraine War Is Fanning Fascist Tendencies In Members Of European Union
By Ramzy Baroud As soon as I landed in Rome, I discovered that I was no longer able to access any Russian media whatsoever. Unfortunately, threats by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, that Europe should sever all links with “Russia’s propaganda machine” were taken seriously by the...
Denial Of Decent Work Increases Poverty Level In Asia
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Working poverty has become a serious concern in Asia and the Pacific region since majority of employers do not give the majority of the workforce enough wages. As for South Asia, India is worst, and among the countries out off track on several counts including...
Unprecedented Increase In Investments Into Greenfield LNG Projects
By K Raveendran Thanks to the fallout of the Ukraine war, greenfield investments in new LNG plants are showing an unprecedented 20 times increase. From just about $2 billion invested annually in such plants in 2020 in the wake of Covid pandemic, the total annual investments in greenfield projects...
