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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.Lula’s Road Back To The Brazilian Presidency Will Be A Bumpy One
By Sabrina Fernandes Amidst the continuing Russian war in Ukraine, the Brazilian people are participating in a major battle between the ruling parties of the Right led by the current president Joe Bolsonaro and the former left wing president Frances Lula of the Workers Party(PT) in the coming presidential...
Sweeping US, EU Sanctions Hit World Economy More Than Russia’s
By Nantoo Banerjee The US-led western trade, economic and financial sanctions on Russia seem to be working instantly, but less to the discomfort of Russia than the rest of the world. The sweeping sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have led to a massive spurt in global oil and...
Double Debacle Could Undo All Rational Calculations Made Before
By Anjan Roy Years from now, when the present will become history, generations will wonder how the world could have survived, if so lucky, with such hyper nationalists like Putin in power. Russia’s Ukraine war is no longer a limited affair now. The distant thunder from the fringes of...
Remembering The Debate Between Satyajit Ray And Mrinal Sen Over ‘Akash Kusum’
By Nitya Chakraborty The maverick film director of Bengal Mrinal Sen, the second most important member of the famous troika in the cinema world that included Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, will step into his 100th year on May 14, 2023. Significantly, Ray was born just two years before...
ICONIC Week Betrays The Hollowness Of Labour Programmes
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Ministry of Labour and Employment is celebrating ICONIC week March 7-13, 2022, which is no more than an exercise just before rolling out the four labour codes to be implemented this year for which preparation are at very advanced stage. However, it betrays the...
Maharashtra Governor B S Koshiyari Is A Tool Of State BJP And RSS
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to Mumbai, Maharashtra after a roadshow in Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency, where he hopes all the assembly constituencies will vote BJP. The seventh and last phase of the assembly elections in UP happened March 7 and the phenomenon of ‘aware pashu...
Russia-Ukraine Crisis Brings Out The Need For Reform Of International Law
By Sara Suresh Vladimir Putin, the Russian Federation President, in his imperialistic speech delivered on February 24, declared a special military operation in order to protect people who had been abused by Genocide for eight years under the Kyiv regime, strive to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine, and bring those...
A Global Antiwar Movement Is Imperative To End Russia’s War Against Ukraine
By Polina Godz For the last few days, I have been following the news coming from my home country of Ukraine in disbelief. I have watched hospitals, residential buildings, and even kindergartens in my home city of Kharkiv being bombed. I saw its central square in ruins. It doesn’t...
Social Media Has Been Converted Into A Playground Of Half Literates
By Devasis Chattopadhyay Social media is a strange and dangerous space these days. Cleavage, muscle, booty shaking as an apology for dancing, and tattooing erogenous zones, are more of display norms than exception. Dance bar induced body movements by teenagers, housewives and daddies alike, to the tunes of Kancha...
Akhilesh Yadav Has Improved His Acceptability Through Long Election Campaign
By Harihar Swarup In the Uttar Pradesh’s assembly elections, the overriding perception is that Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is the man most likely to benefit from electoral tide. Akhilesh Yadav is the complete antithesis of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. This is most marked in the language he uses...
BJP Is Banking On Last Minute Mega Road Show Of Prime Minister To Win
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Will the mega road show of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi spin the magic for BJP in the holy city and other constituencies in seventh and last phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh on March 7? During 2017 assembly polls, riding on Modi wave...
A New Global Energy Order Emerging With US Supplies As Pivot
By Matein Khalid If Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin was the epicentre of the Cold War between NATO and the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact satellite states, Ukraine is the crucible of the geopolitical confrontation between the West and Putin’s Russia. Putin weaponized Gazprom’s gas exports to Ukraine as far...
Russia-Ukraine War Poses Big Challenges To Supply Chain Industry
By Subrata Majumder Supply chain has become the core issue in Make in India. In the forthcoming new foreign trade policy, it will play a prominent role to increase exports. But, unless India reinvents its perception towards Free Trade Agreement (FTA) it will be difficult to emerge as a...
India Loses About $80 Billion Forex Yearly On Students Studying Abroad
By K R Sudhaman Indian students going abroad for studies cost approximately $80 billion foreign exchange, which broadly equals forex received by way of NRI remittances annually. This is a staggering figure spent by about 11 lakh students who go abroad for higher studies. This figure is only growing...
Untold Story Of Pitfalls In Medical Education In Ukraine
By K Raveendran Operation Ganga, the evacuation drive launched to bring back Indian students from Ukraine, is by no means comparable to Vande Bharat mounted during the Covid pandemic, in which over 1.8 crore Indians were evacuated from various parts of the world. But the heart-wrenching stories about the...
Global Corruption Loss In Health Sector Is $455 Billion A Year
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Demand for ramping up health expenditures are at an all-time high, and therefore, countries need additional health resources not only for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic but also closing the gaps in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in health in most emerging and developing...
With Ukraine War On, U.S. Secures Dominance Over Most Of Europe
By Ian Goodrum Russian bombs might be falling on Ukraine cities but many in the United States seem keen on running a victory lap. After Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24 what he termed a “special military operation” in Ukraine following weeks of tensions, the U.S. intelligence...
Financial Sanctions: Bitcoin Is A Big Gainer In The Russia-Ukraine War
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav As the Russian invasion of Ukraine rages on and a catastrophe looks near than ever, Twitter is where the latest news, analysis, and perspectives can be found. These are coming from the powerful and the most cerebral people of our time. It’s fascinating and engrossing...
