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.Bengal CPI(M) Gets A Chance For Emerging As Second Party Behind Trinamool
By Ashis Biswas Despite flickering signs of a revival of lost support for the CPI(M) in West Bengal , observers are not yet sure that the party is about to turn the corner in the short term. By no means unsympathetic to the CPI(M) or the Left in general,...
Republicans Are Waging A Cultural War To Win Mid Term Polls In November
By Debabrata Biswas BOSTON: America is having a midterm election for the Congress in November this year which will be very important for the future course of politics in this country and its impact worldwide. In this upcoming election, the Republicans, as it appears, under the present circumstances, have...
Saudis Rooting For A Republican Revival
By James M Dorsey Rather than push for an immediate improvement of strained relations with the United States, Saudi Arabia appears to be looking forward to a time when US President Joe Biden’s wings may be clipped. The kingdom seems to be betting on a better reception in Washington...
Congress Is Facing A Do Or Die Battle In Coming Gujarat Assembly Elections
By Harihar Swarup Elections in Gujarat have traditionally been direct fights between the BJP and the Congress. However, the 2022 Assembly polls expected to be held in November-December, are set to be different after Aam Aadmi Party announced it would contest all 182 seats. The ruling BJP is attempting...
Labour Market Recovery In 2022 Will Be Slower
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Economic outlook for all the countries across the world in 2022 remains fragile due to a range of issues including rising COVID-19 caseloads, higher inflation, and Russian aggression on Ukraine. Economic recovery has been assessed to be slower than the projected earlier, which will make...
Flippant Laws Make Life Full Of Risks For Common Citizens
By K Raveendran We have so many laws to be followed that it is virtually impossible to live for a moment without breaking one. It is a different matter that some of these laws had ceased to have any relevance ages ago, but these continue to fill the statute...
Hindutva And Mobocracy Are Running Side By Side In Indian Politics
By Sushil Kutty “The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it”, said somebody and most of us would not get the meaning right because calculating the ‘square root’ is not everybody’s forte. But in today’s climate, the...
CPI(M), CPI Rule Out Muslim League’s Entry Into Kerala Left Front
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a controversy that the CPI(M) could have done without at this crucial juncture. But that was not to be. The controversy erupted when newly-appointed Left Democratic Front (LDF) convener E P Jayarajan ‘invited’ the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), an ally of the...
Akhilesh Yadav Banking On Youth For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and national President Akhilesh Yadav have given call to party leaders and workers to prepare for 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Significantly Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav visited Mainpuri and other places to interact with party leaders and workers and...
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...
