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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.Traders Behind Soaring Wheat Prices In India
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s domestic wheat market is on fire ever since the government said it was targeting record shipments this year after exports from the Black Sea region plunged following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. Wheat prices in India rose to record high levels in the last...
Navjot Sidhu Sentence Speaks Poorly Of The Pace Of Judicial Process
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Navjot Singh Sidhu has been sent to the Patiala Central Jail to serve a year-long sentence in a case of road rage, registered in 1988. It took more than three decades for the Indian judicial system to convict and sentence a person whose felony was...
Gyanvapi Masjid/Mandir Issue Is More Complex And Volatile Than Ayodhya
By Sushil Kutty The #MeToo movement was also about correcting the ‘wrongs of history’ in which powerful men got to get their comeuppance for bad deeds done decades ago. Those out of the ambit of #MeToo cheered and clapped, and the #MeToo survivors a sense of justice, and closure—...
Europe Is At Crossroads Between Neoliberalism And Justice
By Nora Garcia Nieves “Neither war that destroys us, nor peace that oppresses us.” This historic anti-war slogan of the Spanish feminist movement holds one of the fundamental keys to building a horizon of peace. It claims that peace is not just a ceasefire, nor is it surrender, or...
Remembering Rammohan Roy On His 250th Birth Anniversary On May 22
By Dipankar Bhattacharya As India observes the 250th birth anniversary of Rammohan Roy, one of the earliest and greatest campaigners for modern India, on May 22, 2022, we are faced with one of history’s cruel ironies. The incumbent regime is pushing 21st century India into revenge-fuelled mass violence by...
Supreme Court Stress On Cooperative Federalism A Slap On Centre
By K Raveendran The decision by the Supreme Court this week that the powers of the Centre and the States to legislate on GST-related issues are equal debunks the idea that the Centre can ride roughshod over the states, as it has been happening to a large extent. The...
Even After Udaipur Chintan Shivir, Congress Is Groping For Its Role
By Amulya Ganguli The one significant outcome of the Congress’s recent Chintan Shivir in Rajasthan was Rahul Gandhi’s acknowledgement that the party has lost touch with the people. Nothing demonstrated this disconnect more than the steep fall in the party’s Lok Sabha tally to 44 in 2014 and 53...
Learning Poverty In India To Induce Huge Loss Of Jobs And GDP
By Dr. Gyan Pathak COVID-19 crisis triggered school closure in India has induced learning poverty to such an extent that the country is set to suffer the worst in South Asia in absolute terms both in respect to jobs loss and decline in GDP, which in turn may accelerate...
Winning The Hearts Of Foreigners Abroad Is Not Going To Help Rahul Gandhi
By Sushil Kutty Sitting abroad and lashing out at the government, is not going to help the Opposition win the people at home over to its side. The ploy will boomerang even before the opposition leader tightens his seat belt on the return flight. Similarly, a pair of journalists...
Rammohun Roy And Karl Marx: Resonating Together
By Pradip Baksi Why may one study Rammohun Roy (1772-1833), a contemporary of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) while studying Karl Marx (1818-1883) today? Some of the burning issues addressed by Rammohun Roy have remained with us since his time and, some others that had seemed to have been...
Mexico Leads In Opposing The Cuba Blockade And U.S. Mischief
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) visited Cuba on May 8-9. He began by highlighting regional unity as good for equal promotion of economic development for all states. AMLO addressed themes he had discussed previously when Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel visited Mexico City...
Gyanvapi Mosque Dispute Seems Poised To Be A Babri Masjid Redux
By Harihar Swarup After three decades of relative calm post the Babri Masjid demolition, events in the Gyanvapi Mosque dispute have taken a swift turn. The latest development is the apparent ‘manifestation’ of a ‘shivling’ during a court-mandated survey, following which the local Varanasi court has ordered for that...
Supply Chain Gaps: Should India Bet On Vietnam To Outplace China?
By Subrata Majumder With China sinking into economic turmoil, the global supply chain industry is under dire threat. China is the global powerhouse, accounting for about one-fourth of the world supply chain manufacturing. Hamstrung by Covid-19, followed by unabated Russia-Ukraine war prompting global sanctions against Russia, China’s supply chain...
Behind The Bars: Time Looms For Sidhu, Karti And Even Lalu Prasad
By Sushil Kutty Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharati was named after the infamous Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA). The dreaded MISA was invoked to send many to jail before it was consigned to the pages of history. Lalu himself has had several jail visits, and it was...
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Calls All-Party Meet Over Caste Census
By Rahil Nora Chopra Despite his differences with the ally BJP, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has decided to call an all-party meeting to discuss the issue of caste-based census. While communicating with the mediapersons in Patna, CM Nitish Kumar said that a meeting would soon be held to...
Violence Against Women Calls For An Inquisitorial Legal System
By Vaishnavi Sundar There had been few attempts at reviewing the Indian criminal justice system since its codification during British rule. But in 2000, a rejig was attempted when the Union Government entrusted a committee led by Justice V.S. Malimath to propose changes to the criminal justice system so...
From Social Services To The Arts, Chilean Communists Remake Nation
By Jon Wilson The Communist Party of Chile PCCh supported Gabriel Boric during the general election, and he won the presidency after defeating the right-wing candidate whose family members had ties to Nazi Germany. PCCh has several key positions in Boric’s cabinet, driving some of the most ambitious “people’s...
Present Inflationary Spiral Is Hitting The Working Poor Hardest
By Sanjay Roy The country is in the grip of an inflationary spiral resulting in galloping price rise of all essential goods used by the people. This crushing price burden is making life exceedingly difficult for the rural and urban poor. The retail inflation rate stood at 7.8 per...
