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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.ED Suffers A Legal Setback In Kerala Against LDF Govt
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANTHAPURAM: For once, the central investigating agency Enforcement Directorate(ED) finds itself at the receiving end. The ED suffered a legal setback when the Kerala High Court adjourned to August 17 the hearing on a writ petition filed by former Kerala finance minister Thomas Isaac challenging...
Echoes Of Demand For Civilisational Rather Than National Boundaries
By James M Dorsey When Prime Minister Victor Orban recently spelled out his vision of Hungary’s frontiers, he joined a club of expansionist leaders such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping, and members of the Indian power elite who define their countries’ borders in civilisational rather than...
Stabbing Salman Rushdie In Open Stage By A Fanatic Gives Ominous Signal
By Sushil Kutty Two headlines stood out. One in an Israeli newspaper, ‘No one will any longer dare offend Islam: The 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie’. And the other in a New York daily, ‘NJ man, Hadi Matar, with sympathies toward Iranian government ID’d as suspect in Salman...
RSS And BJP Are Trying To Appropriate Legacy Of India’s Freedom Struggle
By D Raja As the country is celebrating the 75th anniversary of independence, it’s an irony of history that the RSS, which remained loyal to the British, is now trying to appropriate the legacy of our secular and inclusive struggle for independence. Seventy-five years ago, our country reached...
India Lacked Policy Focus For Growth With Equity, Grass Root Development
By Nantoo Banerjee Some may disagree but India has failed to cash in on its spirited struggle for freedom from over-a-100-year-old British Raj to convert the country into an abode of peace and prosperity for its citizens in the last 75 years. Official claims apart, India continues to...
Afghanistan After One Year Of Taliban Rule Witnessing Extreme Poverty
By Sankar Ray During the one year under the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, girls are more isolated, hungry and sad- often go to bed without food, 46 percent of whom say they’re not attending school compared with 20 percent of boys, according to a study, ‘Breaking Point: Life...
Mario Fiorentini, The Last Surviving Partisan Of Rome Uprising Dies
By David Broder Mario Fiorentini, the last surviving partisan of the anti-fascist battalion in Italy died on August 8 at the ripe age of 104..He was born in 1918 in the last days of World War 1 and fought his most important battles after the Wehrmacht invaded his...
Democracy Is Under Siege As India Celebrates 75th Anniversary Of Independence
By Prakash Karat Till recently, when commemorating the significant anniversaries of independence, we could cite the parliamentary democratic system as one of the major achievements of independent India. The adoption of a republican constitution in 1950 provided the scope for people’s participation and a voice in politics which...
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...
