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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.Mayawati Has Lost In Uttar Pradesh Poll But She Can Not Be Written Off
By Sushil Kutty Bahujan Samaj Party supremo ‘Behen’ Mayawati feels betrayed by the ‘bahujan samaj’. The BSP’s Muslim vote-bank dumped the elephant for the cycle and, watching this migration, the party’s upper caste and non-Jatav vote-banks also left fearing the return of the “jungle raj” of the Samajwadi Party...
Assembly Polls Outcome Gives A Big Boost To BJP In Bengal
By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the first immediate impact of the recent Assembly polls in five states has been a noticeable change in the familiar rhetoric used by major parties. The eventual outcome of the polls has also affected the internal functioning of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC),...
Congress Leadership Has To Do Real Introspection On Its Poll Debacle
By Arun Srivastava Just a day ahead of the counting of the votes, March 10, for the assemblies of five states, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had observed emphatically that soon India will be a Congress Free Bharat. His tone bore the impression of an assertive authority. Ever since...
How ‘Z’ Has Come To Acquire An Evil Meaning Similar To Nazi Swastika
By K Raveendran The ‘Z’ marking seen on Russian battle tanks and other military equipment as a coding for the Ukraine invasion is fast acquiring an evil meaning, similar to the evil that the Nazi symbol of Swastika denotes. In India, Swastika connotes exactly the opposite, as the Hindu...
India Has Lowest Female Labour Force Participation Rates In The World
By Dr. Lakshmi Lingam and Dr. Ipsita Sapra March 8 is the International Women’s Day . The history of IWD is linked to women protesting for their rights as workers and thereafter receiving official recognition through this day from the United Nations in 1975. Each year, women’s movements...
Putin’s Russian Empire Ambitions May Encompass Africa
By James M Dorsey Russian civilisationalism is proving handy as President Vladimir Putin seeks to expand the imaginary boundaries of his Russian World, whose frontiers are defined by Russian speakers and adherents to Russian culture rather than international law and/or ethnicity. Putin’s disruptive and expansive nationalist ideology has underpinned...
Modi Helped BJP To Counter Anti-Incumbency Against Yogi Government
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Extensive campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Uttar Pradesh countered the anti-incumbency against Yogi government which is evident from substantial fall in seats in 2022 polls as against 2017 elections. There is a feeling in BJP rank and file that had Modi not campaigned...
Samajwadi Party Has Done Quite Well Compared To 2017 And 2019 Polls
By Sushil Kutty There is “gehri manthan” going on as to what led to the Samajwadi Party loss even after all the signs on the ground pointed to a Bharatiya Janata Party debacle? More important, why did an entire tribe of political analysts fail in their “reading” of the...
President Biden’s Attempt To Seek High Moral Ground Against Putin Reeks Of Hypocrisy
By Prakash Karat The US-led NATO’s attempts to seek the high moral ground against aggression by the “brutal dictator Putin” reeks of hypocrisy and double-standards. Going by the shrill pronouncements of President Biden and Prime Minister Johnson, this is the first time peace has been shattered in Europe after...
Assembly Poll Verdict Won’t Benefit BJP In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The result of the assembly elections in five states will not boost the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala. The Party can not hope for any inroads in the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. The reasons are clear: Kerala is not Uttar Pradesh. The Hindutva...
Independent Journalism In Peril, Right To Information At Risk
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Independent journalism – the kind that favours public interest over political, commercial, or factional agenda – is in peril, due to erosion of business models, increasing crackdowns on press freedom, and ongoing threats against the safety of journalists. The coming decade, therefore, will be decisive...
AAP’s Punjab Victory Opens New Door For Anti-BJP Coalition
By Rahil Nora Chopra The spectacular victory of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab will help it emerge as an important player in the non-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) camp and set the stage for the NDA versus various regional parties competition in the 2024 general elections. The landmark...
Covid-19 Had Big Impact Globally On Social And Domestic Life Of Women
By Jayati Ghosh Across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is known to have dramatically increased gender inequality, but India is probably one of the most extreme examples of this brutal process. Women — and especially young women — were the worst casualties of the employment crisis generated by the...
Russian War In Ukraine Is A Paradigm Shift In Global Geopolitics
By Ben Chacko Liz Truss says the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a “paradigm shift” similar to the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks on New York. This is likely to be true. Russia’s assault on Ukraine is the first major war launched in the 21st century by a power...
Five Assembly Poll Results Jolt For Congress, Boost To BJP And Narendra Modi
By Nitya Chakraborty The results of the assembly elections to the five states – Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur – have shown that the Grand Old Party the Congress is on the decline. The Party has not only lost its ruling state Punjab miserably to the Aam...
There Are Many Lessons For Congress To Learn From Its Debacle In Five Assembly Polls
By Harihar Swarup Election results to five state assemblies have exhibited many firsts. For the first time the Aam Admi Party sprang a surprised when it romped home with a majority in Punjab, leaving far behind the Congress, Akali Dal and other parties. This is also for the first...
AAP Victory In Punjab Means People Are Tired With National Parties
By Sushil Kutty A trait common to all politicians, even the bright young ones, is a penchant for sycophancy. So, when AAP swept its one-state wonder tag out the Delhi window and took Punjab by the “vacuum cleaner”, Delhi AAP leader Raghav Chadha, who ran AAP’s Punjab poll campaign,...
Pakistan Prime Minister Has Got Panicky At No-Confidence Motion In National Assembly
By Sankar Ray The no-confidence motion, tabled against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led federal government and okayed for debate and voting by the Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan, Asad Qaiser, has unnerved and enraged the Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi. In a speech at a gathering of the PTI lawmakers...
