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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.Bihar Developments Have Wider Implications For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By Binoy Viswam Indian politics takes a new turn with the fall of the BJP-led government in Bihar. The BJP-led NDA crumbled down there when the JD(U) bid farewell to BJP. Even though for several months, the conflict between BJP and JD(U) was brewing, nobody expected that...
On 75th Year Of Independence, India Lacks A Strong Opposition
By Kalyani Shankar Indian democracy presently suffers from its lack of a strong Opposition. Some feel that the secret weapon of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s success is the divided Opposition. Even Supreme Court Chief Justice NV Ramana recently lamented, “There used to be mutual respect between...
Decoding Indian Economy’s Journey In The Last Seventy-Five Years
By Prabhat Patnaik The post-colonial state in India had two primary tasks before it: one was to overcome the hegemony of metropolitan capital, so that a development strategy in relative autonomy from imperialism could be pursued; the second was to attack landlordism both to free the agrarian population...
BJP Will Find It Difficult Now To Get Bills Passed In Rajya Sabha
By Arun Srivastava One liner puzzling remark from Nitish Kumar, after being sworn in chief minister, “the person who came to power in 2014 will not come back in 2024” while has brought about a major shift overnight in the political culture and dynamics of the country, his...
Colombia Will Be More Fair And Peaceful Under Left Regime
By Satyaki Chakraborty On August 7, 2022, Progressive International Council member Gustavo Petro became the first left-wing president in the history of Colombia. In an address to the nation that was marked by his sense of history and vision for a new Latin America, Petro elaborated on his...
Nitish Kumar Has A Tough Task To Prove Himself Once Again
By Sushil Kutty Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had once told a national daily that if a man was true to himself and to his country, he can become Prime Minister in his 70s! Kumar, born in 1951, is now in his 70s. Also, seldom does one man...
BJP And Sangh Parivar Had Never Any Faith In An Integrated Inclusive India
By Amulya Ganguli It might not be churlish to say that the celebration of the 75th year of Indian independence is more an official event associated with the BJP than a national occasion. The fact that the BJP was ousted from Bihar while facing an angry opponent...
Regime Change In Bihar Is A Positive Development For Opposition
By Arun Srivastava In the fierce battle for buttressing political supremacy between the two Chanakyas, Amit Shah was made to bite dust by Nitish Kumar by aborting his mission Operation Lotus, an endeavour to remove Chief Minister Nitish from power and also restructure his task to finish yet...
Modi Government Is Using 75th Anniversary Programme To Distort History
By Dipankar Bhattacharya A week ahead of the 75th anniversary of Independence, India commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Quit India movement on 9 August 2022. The Congress leadership had been arrested immediately after giving the Quit India call from the All-India Congress Committee session in Mumbai, but...
Rapid Urabanisation To Reshape India’s Energy Consumption Pattern
By K Raveendran The rate of urbanisation in India has so far been slower than other emerging countries. But this is expected to change drastically in the coming decades. So much so that in the next two decades, the country is expected to add a new city of...
India Is Now Preferred Destination To Japanese Companies For Investment
By Subrata Majumder In 2020, Japan adopted two policies to strengthen supply chain resilience. Big subsidy was provided to stimulate Japanese investors to diversify offshore investment and invest in domestic market for supply chain resilience. The main aim was to reduce overdependence on China. Focuses were made on...
International Chess Olympiad In Chennai Was A Great Event For India
By Kalyani Shankar Chess became a craze after Celebrated Bengali Director Satyajit Ray’s movie ‘Shatranj ki Khiladi’ created a big buzz in 1977. But the recent Netflix release ” Queen’s Gambit” took it to a different level worldwide. The story is about a child prodigy living in...
Venkaiah Naidu Had A Good Rapport With Opposition During His Tenure As V-P
By Harihar Swarup “My operation depends on your co-operation, otherwise there will be separation.” As Venkaiah Naidu, 73, demitted office as Vice-President of India on August 10, the Rajya Sabha of which was ex-officio Chairman, will be poorer for his quick wit and puns, many of which elicited...
Veteran Lawyer Kapil Sibal Is Angry With Supreme Court And Judiciary
By Sushil Kutty Veteran lawyer Kapil Sibal isn’t a happy lawyer. It was only a few days ago that the Supreme Court had asked him to be the court’s friend, help it understand the “freebies culture”, and what ought to be done with the pettifoggery that some political...
Chinese Exporters’ Dragon Grip Entangles India
By Nantoo Banerjee Why is it a matter of such a tearing hurry for Indian Railways that it has to rush to China to import 39,000 wheels while the same could have been locally produced? The Railways were well aware of the shortage of wheels for Linke Hofmann Busch...
Congress Must Stand Up To Modi Government’s ED Terrorism
By Amulya Ganguli The enforcement directorate’s relentless pursuit of the Congress and other opposition parties can prove to be counter-productive in the long run. For a start, the impression can grow that the supposedly autonomous agency is being less than professional in its targeting of the non- BJP parties....
India Has World’s Highest Number Of ‘Extremely Poor’ Denizens
By Sushil Kutty Droupadi Murmu has taken oath on July 25, the 15th President of India. Her salary: Rs 5 lakh per month, plus perks. But why talk of the President’s salary? That is because there’s a big gap between what Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s picks for high office...
Workforce Being Ditched, Assurances Of The Centre Lose Face Value
By Gyan Pathak Social security coverage to entire workforce in India will remain a dream even if the Code on Social Security 2020 is implemented in the country. There is lack of enough provisions in it. Moreover, skilling to make our workforce future ready will also not be possible...
