Opinion
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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.War Crimes And Genocide Charges In Ukraine Make Peace Talk Difficult
By John Wojcik Charges and counter-charges about war crimes and genocide are being used by those on both sides of the war in Ukraine who are intent on minimizing diplomacy and emphasizing warfare. With the war raging and the suffering of Ukrainians continuing as they spoke this week, both...
New Ways to Earn Money from the Comfort of your Home
Earning money from home is a common dream of many, but very few people actually ever set out to realise their ambitions. This is due to a variety of reasons, and the number of twists and turns life can take is something we have little control over. However, perhaps...
Sinking Of Russian Ship Moskva Is A Dangerous Turning Point In Ukraine War
By Anjan Roy The sinking of the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea flotilla MOSKVA is a significant turning point in the Ukraine war and also a lesson for military planners across the world. Russia does not yield the point that Ukrainian missiles would have downed the ship and maintains...
Silver Lining Of Hope Despite Pakistan’s Political Turmoil
By Harihar Swarup Two competing perspectives can be extracted from the ongoing drama in Pakistan. The first is the obvious one, of the continued fragility of democracy and its institutions that leads to periodic crises of the kind that unfolded over the past month. That no prime minister has...
Deepening Alliance Of Modi Govt With United States Despite Irritants
By Prakash Karat Some political commentators have argued that the stand taken by the Modi government on the conflict in Ukraine shows that it is wrong to consider India a subordinate ally of the United States. The fact that India has abstained on resolutions in the United Nations condemning...
Vanishing Employment Makes Deadly Cocktail With Rising Inflation
By Gyan Pathak March 2022 has given a clear indication of a deadly cocktail brewing in India with rising inflation, vanishing employment but falling unemployment rate, disappearing jobs from the non-agriculture sector, and the workforce losing jobs in non-agriculture sector returning to agriculture where unemployment is disguised under very...
How Many Members Does The Indian National Congress Really Have?
By Sushil Kutty And we thought Congress President for 19 years, Sonia Gandhi, before Rahul Gandhi took charge, was a Congress party member. And the UPA Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh was also a Congress member. Ditto Rahul Gandhi. The reality is, all three enrolled as Congress...
Shape Of Anti-BJP Front Of Regional Parties Is Not Clear Yet
By Rahil Nora Chopra In the midst of efforts by opposition parties to build a united front against the BJP for the next Lok Sabha elections in 2024, NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said that Third Front is not possible without the Congress. However West Bengal Chief Minister...
India May Face Serious Fiscal Challenges Due To Energy Transition
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced at the Glasgow UN climate change conference that India will meet a target of net-zero emissions by 2070. This means that India will face major energy transition challenge moving away from fossil fuels, which accounts for significant share of Indian...
Hostile Policy Drives Crypto Investors Away From Indian Exchanges
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav India is making all the wrong noises on the cryptocurrency front! In the 10 days beginning April 1, transaction volume on top Indian crypto exchanges such as WazirX, CoinSwitchKuber, CoinDCX, and ZebPay, have declined by over 90 percent, normalized to last year. For context, WazirX,...
Remembering Charlie Chaplin On His 133rd Birthday On April 16, 2022
By Chauncey K. Robinson Saturday, April 16 this year marks what would have been the 133rd birthday of one of the most iconic entertainers in modern history, Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin’s career spanned more than 75 years, from his childhood in the Victorian era to the late 1970s. From the...
Remembering Dr B R Ambedkar On His Birthday On April 14
By D. Raja Dr. B R Ambedkar’s apprehensions that minorities would be tyrannised have come true. His remedy that Hindus should come forward to solve it needs urgent attention in our times. “Minority communities may be crushed. If not crushed they may be tyrannized and oppressed. They are sure...
Fire Of Hatred Spreading Faster Dividing The Nation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak What has been happening in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand now is a clear indication that the fire of hatred is spreading faster than we can douse. It has become a political tool and the major beneficiary is the BJP which is not only ruling these...
Contractor Santosh Patil’s Suicide Exposes Corruption In BJP Regime In Karnataka
By Sushil Kutty Civil contractor Santosh Patil took his life in an Udupi lodge, accusing Karnataka Rural Development Minister KS Eshwarappa of driving him to suicide. An FIR was lodged naming Eshwarappa as the prime accused. The “Others” included all his lackeys. But the gallows joke doing the rounds...
India’s Abstentions From Voting On UN Resolutions On Russia Make Sense
By Aman Kumar Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, India has not taken any position at the United Nations . In all of the voting, India has abstained. The recent abstention is regarding a resolution suspending Russia from the Human Rights Council. The Resolution “Express(es) grave concern at...
AMLO Wins Mexico’s First Ever Recall Election With 91.86 Per Cent Votes
By Kurt Hackbarth The outcome was never in doubt: Andrés Manuel López Obrador was going to win Mexico’s historic recall election on Sunday, April 10. And he did, with 91.86 percent of the vote — or 15.1 million out of 16.5 million votes cast. The election is important on...
United Nations’ Double Standards For Russia On Ukraine War
By James M Dorsey Russia’s suspension from the United Nations Human Rights Council was long overdue, even without the mass killing of innocent civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. A country that poisons or otherwise does away with its critics at home and abroad and stifles freedom of...
Inflation Eating Away Earnings And Wages Faster Than Expected
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The erosion of about one per cent of value of rupee in the consumer market within a month was too great a shock for people to absorb. It was felt by everyone in March 2022, and the workers, senior citizens, women and children were among...
