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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.India’s Improved Relations With Taliban Make Sound Diplomatic And Economic Sense
By Sushil Kutty Why is India talking with the Taliban? The Taliban are a throwback to the early Muslim invaders who made inroads into the subcontinent and who did the talking only with the sword? They came in through the Khyber Pass and ran rampage from the border to...
‘GDP-Nationalism’ Is A Neoliberal Project That Doesn’t Serve The People
By Prabhat Patnaik Liberal opinion is invariably opposed to “nationalism”. It treats “nationalism” as a homogeneous term that necessarily entails a non-friendly, non-accommodative and rivalrous attitude towards other countries. This view however is completely erroneous; anti-colonial third world nationalism is entirely different from the nationalism that developed in Europe...
Congress In Backfoot Over TMC, SP And UBT Support To AAP In Delhi Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra I.N.D.I.A. allies are flexing their muscles in the bloc against the Congress with Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party announcing their support to Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP in the Delhi Assembly elections. While Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) too announced to support the AAP and moving ahead...
Big Political Setback For Congress In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress party in Kerala has suffered a major political setback with the Wayanad police slapping charges of abetment to suicide against Sulthan Bathery MLA and Congress leader I.C. Balakrishnan. The case has been filed as part of the investigation into the suspected death by...
Latest Household Consumption Expenditure Survey Shows Challenges For Poor
By Sanjay Roy The National Statistical Office has recently released the fact sheet of Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2023-24. It is the second survey report of the annual series that begun in 2022-23 after a long gap since the 68th Round Consumption Expenditure Survey released by the government in...
RSS To Take Full Charge Of 2026 Assembly Elections In West Bengal
By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat visiting Bengal for ten days is certainly not such a big news to draw attention. But his stay this time attains importance for the reason that he would discuss the state of the BJP and RSS in the state and give direction...
Latest UGC Draft Regulation Is A Direct Attack On The Principles Of Federalism
By P. Sudhir The New Year 2025 started with another assault on the education system. The Modi government, through the UGC, announced new draft regulations titled, ‘University Grants Commission (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for Maintenance of...
Low GDP Figures For 2024-25 Show The Need For Some Policy Rethinking
By Anjan Roy No sooner than the latest GDP advanced estimates were released, doomsday sayers have stated with settled conviction that India has slowed down and should not claw back into the 8%-plus performance bracket in the next few years. Theirs view is that India might remain in the...
The Year 2025 Begins As A Dangerous Year For Probing Journalists In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The year 2025 begins with the murder of an independent journalist Mukesh Chandrakar in Bastar, a conflict zone for over three decades in Chhattisgarh in India, that witnessed many attacks and counterattacks between Maoist rebels and security forces. The incident retags India as one of...
Modi Govt Still Unconcerned About The Just Demands Of The Farmers
By Krishna Jha The newly proposed farm laws that have been released now are worse than the earlier one against which the farmers sat on path breaking Dharna on the borders of the capital in 2020-2021. Irrespective of extreme weather, they had refused to compromise. These laws were brought...
BJP Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Completes One Month With Confidence
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is the eagle soaring with a bird’s eye view of what’s happening to Maharashtra under his watch as also what should be happening and what should not? Fadnavis is the Chief Minister everybody is talking about as if there isn’t a...
Can CM Yogi Adityanath Wrest The Milkipur Seat From SP In Assembly Bypoll?
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Can Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wrest Milkipur assembly seat from Samajwadi Party for BJP in by-poll scheduled on February 5 to avenge humiliating defeat of saffron brigade in Ayodhya Lok Sabha seat. Samajwadi Party shocked BJP during Lok Sabha polls when Party candidate...
Online Education Among Children Is Causing Serious Mental Health Concerns
By Dr Arun Mitra Online education to the school children is a new phenomenon which was started during the COVID period. Since the Novel Corona Virus was highly contagious and would spread fast in the crowded places, the schools were closed to avoid students mixing in groups. However to...
South Korean Film Squid Game 2 Is An Allegory Of Capitalism Versus Democracy
By Caitlyn Clark If the debut season of the Korean Netflix series Squid Game laid bare the ails of modern capitalism, its highly anticipated second season reflects the challenges to organizing against it. Initially released in 2021, Squid Game became an overnight global phenomenon. In the dystopian survival show,...
As Trump Shockwaves Shake The West, Can The Left Take Advantage?
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Donald Trump’s return to the White House is prompting a realignment towards the hard right across the Establishment. Far more than during his first term. Then many liberals assumed a Trump presidency could be weathered until US politics got back to normal. Those prepared to...
2025 AI Boom May Not Exactly Be Celebration Time For Indians
By K Raveendran As we enter 2025, the accelerating proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to reshape the global landscape in ways akin to the transformational impact the internet had in the late 20th century. Within the first few days of the year, AI-driven technology stocks have seen...
Union Budget 2025-26 Faces Sharp Fall In Real GDP Growth To 4-Year Low
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The projection by National Statistics Office (NSO) of a sharp fall in India’s real GDP growth rate to a 4-year low to only 6.4 per cent in the current financial year 2024-25 compared to the growth rate of 8.2 per cent in 2023-24 is a...
Milkipur Assembly Bypoll In Uttar Pradesh Is A Prestige Issue For Samajwadi Party
By Sushil Kutty The Bahujan Samaj Party wouldn’t fight the Milkipur bypoll. Behan Mayawati is down with political paralysis and her nephew ‘Anand’, who is off and on her successor, isn’t up to the task. So Milkipur will go to a bypoll without the BSP—voting on February 5 and...
