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.Never Whisper In The Presence Of Wrong
By Dr. Arun Mitra ‘Never Whisper in the presence of wrong’ is a quote attributed to Dr Bernard Lown, the founder president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) from 1980 to 1993, who said ‘The ticking of numerous time bombs demands critical re-examination of...
World Needs Powerful Non-Aligned Movement To End Cold War
By Roger Mckenzie and Vijay Prashad War is an ugly part of the human experience. Everything about it is hideous. War is most obviously the act of invasion and the brutality that goes along with its operations. No war is precise; every war hurts civilians. Each act of bombardment...
Confusion Reigns Supreme Over Political Ideology Of Arvind Kejriwal
By Sushil Kutty Poet Kumar Vishwas and politician Alka Lamba should have kept to themselves and not attempted to correct their former comrade in arms and Aam Aadmi Party convener, Arvind Kejriwal, who is no longer just the Chief Minister of Delhi but also inspiration for Punjab Chief Minister...
Indian Agriculture Facing Major Technological Challenges In Present Decade
By Dr B K Kango When India became independent in 1947, the debate was about the vision the country was going to have. The options that were to be followed were few. Struggle for socialism was an obvious and continuing factor, uniting with the non-monopoly section of the bourgeoisie....
Remembering V I Lenin On His 153rd Birthday On April 22, 2022
By Aditya Nigam Barely a hundred years after its birth, the mainstream communist movement in India, lies in shambles. Formed in 1920, according to the CPI(M) and in 1925, according to the CPI, the communist movement has had a long and difficult history that is partly reflected in the...
Big Wage Gap Between Skilled And Unskilled Widening Inequality
By Sanjay Roy One of the major reasons for rising income inequality in both developed and developing countries in the globalised economy is the widening wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers in different sectors. It is often attributed to the increasing demand for skilled workers, particularly on account...
Congress Party To Hold Chintan Shivir At Udaipur From May 13 To 15
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the total defeats put up by the Congress in the recent five state assembly elections, The Congress has planned to hold three day Chintan Shivir in Rajasthan’s Udaipur to rethink and discuss about the recent dismal show from May 13 to 15 at a...
A New Level Of Attacks On Muslims During Navaratri Festival
By Prakash Karat The month of April has seen a sharp escalation in the attacks on Muslims by the Hindutva forces. Using the nine-day Navaratri festival beginning on April 2 and culminating on Ram Navami day on April 10, the RSS outfits like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the...
May Day This Year Throws Up Big Challenges For Indian Working Class
By Krishna Jha May Day is here again. The central figure of the day, that is proletariat, is engaged in production and also in keeping alive the basic moving force of class divided society, which is its struggle against the capital. In the continuing thread of evolution going through...
Delhi BJP And Centre’s Police Playing A Communal Card Over Demolition
By Sushil Kutty The case of the Jahangirpuri demolition drive can be rightly termed a curious case, if only because one of the petitioners, Ganesh Kumar Gupta, whose juice shop was demolished by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), is the best friend of the BJP government at the...
Russia’s Ukraine War Now Set To Be On A Long Term Course With High Tech Weapons
By Anjan Roy Two days ago Russian President, Vladimir Putin, had warned the west of “unpredictable consequences” in case of continuing weapons supplies to Ukraine. What appears to be more and more unpredictable is the course of the war and its consequences. Russians are perhaps becoming impatient with Putin’s...
Inflation Is The Major Challenge To The Reviving Indian Economy Now
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done reasonably well in managing the Indian economy during the difficult two years of covid pandemic despite several challenges by ensuring food security to millions of people who became jobless. This has won accolades from World Bank and International Monetary...
New Births Of Children In Rohingya Camps Rage Controversy In Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas Once more, the Bangladesh Government finds itself embroiled in a tricky public debate with civil rights groups — this time over a touchy matter involving the quantum of food supply to the stranded 1.1 million strong Rohingya population. The bone of contention: whether the Rohingyas produce...
The US Dollar May Be The Next Casualty Of Russia’s Ukraine War
By Branko Marcetic Nearly two months in, there’s little doubt Russian president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has been a colossal strategic blunder. NATO is unified, energized, and set to expand into two historically neutral countries, the Russian military looks to the world like a paper tiger, and the...
India Manages Hop From Crisis To Crisis Relatively Well
By K Raveendran It has been a hop from crisis to crisis, each more disruptive and destructive than the other. The pain and sufferings endured by people to change their demonetised notes in the wake of Modi’s midnight demonetisation were unprecedented. Another midnight move, the introduction of half-baked GST...
Concealment, If Any, Of Covid-19 Deaths By Govt Is Un-Ethical
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Concealing COVID-19 deaths is anti-people. It saves the exchequer some money that would have been otherwise given as compensation, and the government saves itself from the burden of fixing accountability for the deaths which may necessitate the guilty to put into jails. The greatest beneficiary...
The Queer Handling Of Demolition Drive By Municipal Corporation Of Delhi
By Sushil Kutty It was a setback to the narrow-minded right-wing, and victory for the liberal left, to the opposition parties, and to the anti-Modi of whom there are legions. But when the Supreme Court’s order took its own time reaching the respondents in this age of instant information,...
Political Killings In Kerala Acquiring A Communal Hue
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The most disturbing feature of the latest political killings in Kerala – two murders within 24 hours in Palakkad district – is that the violence seems to be acquiring a communal colour. Less than 24 hours after a Popular Front of India (PFI) activist was...
