Opinion
Appeal
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.Wage Earners And Bottom 20 Per Cent Are The Hardest Hit By High Inflation
By Sanjay Roy The Consumer Price Index (General) measuring retail headline inflation shows a year on year growth of 7.8 per cent in the month of April 2022, which is the highest in the past eight years. Actually, the CPI (General) was higher than 6 per cent in the...
Centre’s Sudden Wheat Export Ban Has Hit The Income Of Common Farmers
By Dr. Soma Marla In 2020, the present NDA government, while bringing three farm laws said they are intended to facilitate fair markets and enhance farmers’ incomes. But the government acted exactly in the opposite by banning exports all of a sudden, when the global wheat prices are attractive...
Ray Liotta Of Goodfellas Fame Was An Actor Of Great Talent
By Eileen Jones No need to get fancy or clever in paying tribute to Ray Liotta, who died suddenly in his sleep at age sixty-seven. This one really hurts. And enrages. Because we saw what he could do when he played his greatest role, Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s...
Indian Membership Of Quad Is Against Both Political And Economic Interests
By Binoy Viswam Strategists of various creed are busy evaluating the outcome of Quad Summit that took place in Tokyo on May 24. Its global proponents are engaged in overtime job to depict the initiative as a milestone in the developmental trajectory of the ‘democratic world’. All related words...
Despite Loss Of Jobs And High Price Rise, Narendra Modi Is Comfortable
By Sushil Kutty Eight years of Narendra Modi, and the lament is “there are still two more to go.” May 26, 2014 Narendra Modi stuck his thumb out at the naysayers and took oath. From that day on, the people of India haven’t been given reason to forget that...
Battle Royale In Thrikkakara By-Election In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Campaign in the prestigious Thrikkakara Assembly by-election has entered the last lap with both the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Congress-headed United Democratic Front (UDF) pulling out all stops to ensure victory. The by-election has been necessitated by the death of Congress MLA...
Food Insecurity To Rise Sharply By November 2022
By Dr. Gyan Pathak There is a 95 per cent chance that the number of people facing food insecurity will rise in the range between 142 million and 243 million by November, from roughly 1.6 billion in mid-May. Moreover, the upward pressure on food prices due to export bans...
Social And Communal Harmony Is Always Helpful For Healthcare
By Dr. Arun Mitra Peace and Harmony helped in development and growth in the human society most of the time; there have however been incidents of violence against others from time to time which have hampered socio-economic growth. Such incidents do not occur spontaneously. Studies have shown that most...
The Continuing War In Ukraine Is Leading To A Global Food Catastrophe
By Marc Vandepitte On May 18 UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres sounded the alarm. For him “the spectre of a global food shortage” looms and he fears “this dangerous situation could tip into catastrophe.” “It threatens to tip tens of millions of people over the edge into food insecurity, followed...
Philippine Left Has Suffered A Brutal Setback In Presidential Elections
By Ken Fuller The scale of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr’s victory in the Philippine presidential election on May 9, where he gained a record 58.74 per cent of the votes cast, has stunned many observers. By contrast, his closest rival Leni Robredo, current vice-president and the main hope of...
Modi’s Sensitivity And The ‘Game’ Petroleum Companies Play
By K Raveendran Petroleum and natural gas minister Hardeep Singh Puri has attributed the excise cut in petroleum products to Prime Minister Modi’s ‘considered and very well thought through assessment that the burden on the common man, the Aam Aadmi, needed to be addressed. He was speaking to television...
IPTA Turns 80: Heralding The Biggest Cultural Movement In India
By Nitya Chakraborty Eight decades ago, on May 25, 1943, an unprecedented cultural development took place in Bombay at the Sundari Bai Hall. The Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) was founded at a conference of the cultural workers and politico-cultural activists in an atmosphere of electric enthusiasm. It was...
Africa Day On May 25 Is A Reminder That India Has Not Done Enough For This Continent
By Sushil Kutty One can be forgiven for coming to the hasty conclusion that External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is another Modi-bot in the long line of them. For when Jaishankar writes “As the world marks Africa Day today, it may be appropriate to assess how much the India-Africa...
Indian Economy Has Resilience But Needs Special Protection For Poor
By K R Sudhaman The global economy is facing unprecedented economic challenges driven by high inflation in practically all major economies and there are fears that this could lead to stagflation as recessionary trends are witnessed in advanced economies and slowing China. The question that is often asked now...
New Financing Model For Global Health Is Historic
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The 75th World Health Assembly, currently in progress in Geneva, Switzerland, that began on May 22 and will conclude on May 28, 2022, has already made a history by adopting a new financial model for global health, but the key to success lies in good...
Hardik Patel’s Political Future Still Remains Uncertain After Exit From Congress
By Harihar Swarup The Nav Sankalp Shirvir focused on youth. So, it is ironic, that Hardik Patel, who was the Congress’s working president in the poll-bound Gujarat resigned just two days after it. At 28, he was the youngest working president, the party had in any state. Patel had...
Modi Government Is Still Making All Efforts To Retain Section 124A
By Prof G Mohan Gopal The opening gambit of the Union Government in response to a writ petition at the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of Section 124A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code (‘IPC’) (S.G. Vombatkere versus Union of India) has taken the legal world by surprise. A...
Saudi Crown Prince Bin Salman’s Heady Days Are Here
By James M Dorsey These are heady days for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. With King Salman home after a week in hospital during which he had a colonoscopy, rumours are rife that succession in the kingdom may not be far off. Speculation is not limited to a...
