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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.Nitish Kumar Sending Ominous Signals To BJP Before Bihar Assembly Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the Bihar Assembly elections scheduled to be held in October-November 2025, the BJP has commenced playing Kaun Banega CM with its ally in Bihar, the JD(U) First it was Union Home Minister Amit Shah dispelled speculations that the BJP might push for a Maharashtra-like...
From Indigenous Warships To Maritime Security, Indian Navy Has Moved Ahead
By Aritra Banerjee India is witnessing a transformative era in its naval history. On January 15, 2025, the Indian Navy will achieve a historic milestone by commissioning three advanced combat platforms—Nilgiri, Surat, and Vagsheer—on the same day. These platforms signify technological advancement and mark a crucial step in India’s...
Greece’s Syriza Party, Once The Hope Of European Left, Is In Tatters
By Panagiotis Sotiris ATHENS: First as tragedy, then as farce, and finally as that final season of a mediocre sit-com when every possible trick, even if obviously ridiculous, is used to attract some interest from the audience. This is one way to describe the complete implosion of Syriza, a...
2025 Must See The Emergence Of Strong Movement Of Left And Secular Forces
By P. Sudhir The year 2024, which has ended, has been a tumultuous one both nationally and internationally. In India, the year began with the State-sponsored installation of the idol at the newly-built but incomplete Ram temple at Ayodhya, a signal from the BJP rulers that the era of...
2025 Throws Up Major Challenges To The Left Wing Regimes Of Latin America In Retaining Power
By Nitya Chakraborty The Left wing forces in the Latin American region will be facing major test in the year 2025 as crucial Presidential elections as also the polls to the parliament will be held in four countries, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Honduras. Out of the four, excepting Ecuador,...
In 2025, Left Must Confront A Dystopian Right Fighting For Unchecked Power
By Ben Chacko LONDON: As we enter 2025, the exhaustion of liberal centrism across the West is clearer than ever. The return of Donald Trump to the White House. The recent collapse of the governments of France and Germany. Britain’s own experience — a Labour government resting on fewer...
Indian Workers Will Face Decline In Living Standards Due To Fall In Rupee Value
By Prabhat Patnaik The Indian newspapers have been full of stories about the fall of the rupee vis-à-vis the US dollar in the last few days. Just over a month ago, on November 27, the value of the dollar was Rs 84.559; by December29, it had risen to Rs...
Why Are The Children Missing From The Education System In India?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Falling enrolment of students in schools of India for the second year in a row in 2023-24 is a matter of serious concern. The year preceding the shutdown of schools across the country due to outbreak of the COVID-19 in 2020, enrolment of students had...
RSS Is Determined To Remove Every Legacy Of Mahatma Gandhi In Indian Life
By Krishna Jha New year is here with its pleasant freshness, though not without the pain that never gets dim. The memories that keep haunting are of a man who was killed because he always held human cause above the cold power of the forces of Right. His philosophy...
INDIA Bloc Has To Rejuvenate Itself With New Leadership In 2025 To Meet BJP Challenge
By Nitya Chakraborty The New Year 2025 has started in the backdrop of the restoration of the ruling party BJP’s confidence following its electoral successes in the state assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana and completely overshadowing the Samajwadi Party in the assembly by polls in Uttar Pradesh. The...
A Progressive Call Against Using Ayodhya As Template For All Temple-Mosque Disputes
By K Raveendran RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement cautioning against the proliferation of temple-mosque disputes comes as a surprise. His assertion that Ayodhya should not be seen as a universal template for resolving such conflicts probably reveals the existence of nuanced layers within the ideological framework of Hindu organizations...
Economic Slowdown In 2024 Raised Concerns For 2025 To Modi Govt
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Slowing down of India’s GDP in the second quarter of the current financial year during July-September 2024 to 5.4 per cent, which was a seven-quarter low, has raised a serious concern about maintaining growth momentum of the country in 2025. India’s Chief Economic Advisor, V...
AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal Leans On Soft Hindutva To Take On BJP
By Sushil Kutty Delhi Chief Minister Atishi gets lost in the awesome presence of AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal, who was Chief Minister when Atishi was minister. Kejriwal’s advantage is, he went to jail. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia also went to jail. So did AAP Rajya Sabha MP...
Bizarre Political Developments Are Taking Place In Bihar Under Nitish Kumar
By Arun Srivastava Nitish Kumar’s political astuteness, the quality to quickly understand a situation and use that insight to gain an advantage has been his worst enemy. No doubt he is the discerning, cunning and ingenious politician amongst his contemporaries, these qualities inter alia have turned him vulnerable. His...
Israel’s ‘Mother Of All Battles’ Changes Regional Balance Of Power For Ever
By Matein Khalid There is no geopolitical risk premium in Brent crude even though history just went fast forward and literally ballistic in the Middle East as the IDF bombed Hamas into the Stone Age, decapitated Hezbollah’s command/communications networks, killed Nasrallah, forced Iran’s most valuable proxy militia to sue...
Donald Trump-Elon Musk Duo Emerging As Leaders Of Global Far Right In 2025
By Nitya Chakraborty Year 2025 is going to witness a new era of global advance of far right led by the incoming U.S. President Donald Trump and his acolyte, the richest man of the world Elon Musk. It will be a unique combination fusing the brand of Trump with...
Farmers’ Agitation May Turn Unprecedentedly Aggressive In 2025
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The second leg of farmers’ movement that had begun in the beginning of 2024, with a call for a March on Delhi Punjab on February 13, is set to spillover into 2025, since the PM Narendra Modi led Centre was not even ready to talk...
Will Ajay Bhalla In Raj Bhavan Augur Well For Manipur In 2025?
By Rabindra Nath Sinha After a pause, the last week of 2024 witnessed a spate of incidents of localised violence in a number of locations in Manipur. This was apart from the serious charges and counter-charges that the two warring sides levelled against each other. Civil society outfits and...
