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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.Arvind Kejriwal’s National Aspirations Depend On Gujarat Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty By end-2022, we’ll have pinpointed the identity of the primary challenger to Narendra Modi’s hegemony over the Prime Minister’s chair. That is, if the Gujarat assembly elections are held on schedule, and not delayed. If the Gujarat elections are postponed, then it will take a few...
Turkey’s Zero Problems With Neighbours Mean A Lot Of Problems
By James M Dorsey Turkey’s reconciliation with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Israel is doing little to return the country to its ‘zero problems with our neighbours’ policy declared more than a decade ago. To be sure, albeit fragile, Turkey has smoothed feathers with the Gulf states...
Bharat Jodo Yatra Is An Opportunity For Congress To Reassert Its Secular Moorings
By Arun Srivastava Rahul Gandhi in September 7 launched his most cherished “Bharat Jodo Yatra” after offering obeisance to his father Rajiv Gandhi at Sriperumbudur, where he was assassinated in 1991. Choosing Sriperumbudur for launching Yatra is quite significant. It might prove to be the turning point in Indian...
New British Prime Minister Liz Truss Is A Party Hopper With Limited Vision
By Anjan Roy Britain gets a new prime minister alright, but that also means the country shows its true colour — a total right wing swing. The new prime minister has won by support of less than 1% of British voters, just by some 20,000 more supporters among the...
Ghulam Nabi Azad Has Always Been A Loyalist Of Gandhi Family
By Harihar Swarup In the summer or 1977, when Ghulam Nabi Azad first came to Delhi after being appointed as general secretary of the Youth Congress by Sanjay Gandhi, he could not withstand the torrid summer. Hs nose bled for several weeks, and he told his colleagues that he...
Medical Doctors Have To Identify With Society And People’s Concerns
By Dr Arun Mitra Medicine is not a profession but a passion. To uphold the dignity of medicine and to ensure commitment to the health care of the people, the World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Geneva was adopted in its 2nd General Assembly at in September 1948. The...
Amit Shah Is Determined To Decimate Uddhav In Maharashtra Politics
By Sushil Kutty Union Home Minister Amit Shah is not known for his kind face. When Shah throws his considerable weight around it can be like 10 tonnes of heavy rock on the toes. Compared to Shah, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray is a lightweight, quite literally! Now, Shah...
Worst Unemployment And Joblessness Beneath High Growth Rate Is Bad Omen
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unemployment rate on September 5 in India on 30 days moving average was as high as 7.8 per cent. Urban unemployment was even worse at 9.1 per cent, while rural unemployment remaining as high as 7.2 per cent during agriculture activities is alarming. The Centre...
Behind The High Suicide Rate Among Daily Wage Labourers In India
By Paarth Pande India’s stunning 13.5 per cent Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP’) growth rate could have been a cause for much celebration had it not coincided with the release of the National Crime Records Bureau (‘NCRB’) data for 2021. ‘Crime in India’, the annual report of the NCRB for...
Rishi Sunak Is Only 42, He Can Look For Another Round Before 2024 Elections
By Arun Srivastava Rishi Sunak (42) being an Indian is not the only reason for Indians taking keen interest in the election of the prime minister of Britain. There are other factors too; one of them, the most important, has been the resurgence of the rightist forces in that...
November Mid-Term Elections Are Crucial For Future Of Democracy In USA
By Debabrata Biswas from Boston America is going to a cliff hanger midterm election in November, this year. A few months ago, the election looked primarily a referendum on the performance of the Democrats and the Biden presidency, centering economy, inflation, crime, immigration and Biden’s stalled legislative agenda in...
Gorbachev Couldn’t Reform The Soviet System But A Better Socialism Is Possible
By Ben Burgis The last president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was laid to rest on Saturday in Moscow. It wasn’t officially designated as a state funeral, although it had “elements of a state funeral,” and Russian president Vladimir Putin skipped it. The snub isn’t surprising. Gorbachev’s program...
Thank You My Lord For Saying “Whatever Is Right Shall Prevail”
By Nitya Chakraborty Quoting from our great epic Mahabharata on Sunday at an interaction with the law students, Chief Justice of India U U Lalit said “ Our motto in Supreme Court is ”Yato Dharmastato Jayah” meaning whatever is right shall prevail. Gandhari said this to Duryodhan while giving...
India’s GDP Growth Belies Its Tax Collection Spurt
By Nantoo Banerjee The country’s encouragingly high tax collections — indirect and direct — during the April-June quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal may have more to do with price and profit spurt than any magical growth of its economy and consumption. High wholesale and retail prices of consumables...
Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra Is An Opportunity For Rahul To Reinvent
By Sushil Kutty A distance of 3676 kilometres separates Kashmir from Kanyakumari. Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ aims to unify India, and Indians. India had come unstuck after Narendra Modi took charge of India. Before Modi, there was Atal Bihari Vajpayee, but Atal’s language was not jarring as the...
New British Prime Minister Has A Tough Task To Contain High Inflation
By Nilanjan Banik The newly elected British Prime Minister Liz Truss will have an arduous road ahead. While the inflation in the United Kingdom has hit a 40-year high and growth in the Euro region has fallen the cry for subsidy has become bigger than before. Inflation is expected...
Nitish Kumar’s Mission To Unite Opposition Has Many Challenges
By Arun Srivastava It was more than a coincidence, when the rebel Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was echoing the views of Narendra Modi of rout of the Congress at a rally in Jammu, the veteran Nitish Kumar was telling the people of the country that the BJP under...
New Turn In Governor-Government Standoff In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Government has deftly tossed the ball back to Governor Arif Mohammed Khan’s court by getting the State Assembly to pass, in quick succession, two bills, which had kicked up a controversy. The first bill to be cleared by the Assembly was the Kerala...
