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.Time Is Running Out Of Congress For Reinventing Itself Before 2024 Polls
By Harihar Swarup Congress has seen the exit of many heavy weights over the decades— and survived. It lost socialists in 1948, with Acharya Narendra Dev, Jayaprakash Narayan, and Ram Manohar Lohia walking out to form the socialist party. It saw vertical split in 1969 when Indira Gandhi got...
Frustrating Increase In Auto-Makers’ Delivery Timeframe
By K Raveendran The gap between time of booking and delivery of new cars is changing from months to years, which is causing frustration to buyers of new vehicles. During the pandemic, the industry was down in the dumps as demand dried up completely dried up. But as the...
Our Indian Engineers And Public Sector Ship Builder Can Take Credit For INS Vikrant
By Sushil Kutty Is INS Vikrant Indian made? Question modified: Is INS Vikrant made with Indian knowhow? Like the Chinese asking their government whether its aircraft carrier Liaoning, which traces its shipyard to Russia, made with Chinese knowhow? INS Vikrant does not carry a similar foreign baggage. But to...
Gulf Security In Peril, With Or Without Nuclear Deal With Iran
By James M Dorsey With the fate hanging in the balance of the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear program, prospects for greater security and stability in the Middle East are meagre with or without a deal. Undoubtedly, the region will be better off with a revival of...
President Joe Biden For Wider Front To Defend Democracy In Mid Term Polls
By Mark Gruenberg President Joe Biden took the gloves off against his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, calling the former Oval Office occupant and his MAGAite disciples a huge threat to democracy and the future of the United Sates. He went to Independence Hall on September 1 to deliver both...
Decoding Gorbachev’s Turbulent Six Years In Soviet Union – 1985 To 1991
By Nitya Chakraborty Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on August 30, 2022, at the age of 91 in Moscow will be remembered for his role in precipitating the downfall of the Communist Party rule in the Soviet Union in 1991 — 74 years after the November revolution in 1917 led...
Amit Shah’s Visit To Seemanchal Region Is Worrying For Nitish Kumar
By Arun Srivastava For those familiar with the political economic contour and social political cultural dimension of Bihar, the two day visit to the state of the electoral strategist of BJP, Amit Shah, on September 23 and 24, is absolutely not an exercise to reach out to Muslims of...
Modi Government Applying Rules For Bureaucracy To Suit Its Convenience
By Sushil Kutty Bilkis Bano’s 11 rapists were given the benefit of remission, their horrible crimes set aside like so many cookies in the jar. Now, they are back to roaming the streets. And we also have a second case of remission, this one for an IAS officer who...
Sharad Pawar Bats For United Opposition As Nitish Eyes Bid For 2024
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the exit of Nitish Kumar and Uddhav Thackeray from NDA, the Mahaghatbandhan is hopeful of gaining an edge over BJP in Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Karnataka in the next general elections. NCP chief Sharad Pawar has advocated and suggested for the unity...
Muslim Leaders / Organisations Protest Madrasa Demolitions In Assam
By Ashis Biswas Muslim leaders and organisations in Assam and beyond have strongly protested against the recent demolition (by using bulldozers) of three Madrasas so far by the BJP-run State Government. Major minority organisations may approach the Supreme Court to protest against some recent actions carried out by the...
Inflation Is Being Controlled At The Expense Of Working Class
By Prabhat Patnaik Economists distinguish between two kinds of inflation: “demand-pull” and “cost-push”. Demand-pull inflation is said to occur when there is excess demand in a situation where supply cannot be augmented, because full capacity output has been reached in one or more crucial sectors. Wartime inflation is a...
India’s FY 23 Q1 GDP Impressive But Pitfalls Remain As Inflation Worrying
By K R Sudhaman It is a no brainer that India’s economic growth would look impressive after a virtual shut down in the previous year due to Covid Pandemic. But the question to be asked is the double digit growth is good enough and to the desired level and...
BJP Losing More Than 80 Seats In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Is Not Impossible
By Nitya Chakraborty Just eighteen months are now left for the holding of the next Lok Sabha elections in March/April of 2024. BJP has been talking of a “Congress-mukt Bharat”, while the Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao called for “BJP-mukt India” in Patna on Wednesday in the presence...
Narendra Modi Government’s Hypocrisy About Freebies Knows No Limits
By Prakash Karat On the last day of his tenure as chief justice on August 26, Justice Ramana referred the pleas on political parties promising freebies to a three-judge bench to be decided by the new chief justice of India. The Supreme Court, getting into the freebies issue, is...
The Congress Presidential Elections Process Has Been Turning Bizarre
By Sushil Kutty Thiruvananthapuram Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor might run for Congress president. A final call is awaited. The last time the 70-year-old fought a non-parliamentary election, he aimed for the moon! But the moon was out of his orbit. This time, if he does contest, and he...
RSS Leaders Are Bent On Changing The Course Of India’s Real History
By Krishna Jha When in 2016, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) was targeted by the new regime, the students and teachers refused to submit. Classes continued under the open skies since authorities had locked the class rooms. Teachers kept their promise. Students debated the concepts that were posed as challenges...
Sri Lanka Inches Closer To $2.9-Billion IMF Loan Under EFF
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav In a breakthrough, IMF said in a statement Thursday morning that a staff-level agreement between IMF and the Sri Lankan government has been achieved. The agreement provides for $2.9 billion in assistance under Extended Fund Facility (EFF) over 48 months. The details of the agreement...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Three-Day Visit To India Crucial
By Ashis Biswas Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s long-awaited visit to India beginning September 5 is unusually significant for a variety of reasons: From all indications, the burden of expectations is more palpable within the ruling establishment in Dhaka than among Indian political leaders. During her three-day stay, Ms...
