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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.Lata Mangeshkar Is Eternal: Multiculturalism Which Shaped Her Is Gone
By Saeed Naqvi Lata Mangeshkar’s art was shaped by the fervour which accompanied independence when music, indeed culture, was freeing itself from feudal patronage, opening up spaces for democratization and a wider participation. Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan’s father, Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan, never allowed his performances to...
Mamata Banerjee Facing First Real Challenge From Abhishek On Ideological Lines
By Ashis Biswas Never before in Bengal’s recent history, state-wide civic elections had become politically as consequential as the present round of polls now being held. On February 12 and February 27. Intriguingly, the probable outcome of these elections, a clean sweep for the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), could...
Rising Suicides By Unemployed Sounds The Alarm Louder
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unemployment in India has become a serious issue in the country since November 2016, when Modi government announced demonetization that immediately resulted in millions of the workforce jobless due to shutting down of millions of enterprises and scaling down of production by million others to...
Congress Becoming Relevant Again In Tripura On The Eve Of 2023 Polls
By Sagarneel Sinha The joining of two BJP rebel MLAs — Sudip Roy Barman and Ashish Kumar Saha — to the Congress has, no doubt, given a boost to the grand old party in the north-eastern state of Tripura. It is a homecoming for the two leaders, as they...
BJP Govt Crippling The Public Sector Telecom Companies In A Planned Manner
By P Abhimanyu While placing the budget in the parliament, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, proudly announced that 5G service would be launched in this financial year. In the same breath, she announced that 5G service would be launched only by the private telecom companies. It means the public sector...
Rahul Bets On Channi As Punjab Braces For Assembly Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi has declared Charanjit Singh Channi as the CM face of the Congress in Punjab, marking a departure from the party’s tradition of declaring the leader after the election. The decision was taken days after the Congress high command had sought...
Capitalist Governments Worry More About Inflation Than Unemployment
By Prabhat Patnaik Capitalist governments invariably seek to control inflation by enlarging unemployment. This has nothing to do with any belief in a stable “trade-off” between the two, namely in a stable curve that links the two. Even those who attribute inflation to other causes, such as excessive money...
India Should Start Framing A Law For The Metaverse
By Siddharth Chaturvedi and Priyansh Bharadwaj Recently, multinational technology company Meta’s founder Mark Zuckerberg remarked at an event that ‘India will hugely contribute in building Metaverse.’ This statement raises hope that India is on the cusp of bringing a new revolution of the Internet to the world. However, not...
Where Is The Plan For Employment In This Era Of Distress, Joblessness?
By Krishna Jha Budget has come, offering no optimism, no security against the nose diving economy, and without succour to the starving, unemployed masses. Whatever it has offered for the common masses is underlined by the falling living standards and continuation of further contraction. As even essentials are getting...
Congress Participation In BJP Led Govt In Meghalaya Is A Big Blow To Opposition Nationally
By Nitya Chakraborty The decision of the five members of the Congress Legislature Party in Meghalaya to participate in the Government along with the BJP, is a big blow to the efforts of the opposition parties at the national level to build unity against the BJP in the coming...
Hijab Issue Is Being Used By BJP To Organise Anti-Muslim Polarisation
By Prakash Karat The hijab worn by Muslim girl students has been seized upon by the BJP and Hindutva forces to create another divisive and anti-Muslim polarisation in Karnataka. The insistence of six girls on wearing hijab (head scarf) to class in the government pre-university college in Udupi was...
Congress Manifesto For Uttar Pradesh Polls Making Positive Impact
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Congress is being watched, more keenly than ever before, not only by all political parties but also by the people in the country in general and Uttar Pradesh in particular, the state that goes to polls with first phase of voting on February 10....
Narendra Modi’s Interview To ANI On February 9 Was A Model Of Misconduct
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ANI interview was by a journalist who hobnobs with BJP leaders. So it was that the questions were to Modi’s comfort level. Most of the 70 minutes went with the feeling that Modi was interviewing Modi! The one-on-one interview setting, however, kept...
Emerging Knowledge Suggests Bitcoin Highly Co-Related To Nasdaq
By Matein Khalid It is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end but it is the end of the beginning. Churchill’s famous words express my own feelings about the latest psychotic Bitcoin cycle. This crypto-puppy was at an all time high of $68,990 last...
James Joyce’s Controversial Novel ‘Ulysses’ Is 100 Years Old This Month
By Jenny Farrell On James Joyce’s 40th birthday, Sylvia Beach in Paris published his now most famous work, Ulysses, written in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris, 1914-1921. That was on February 2, 1922. Excerpts had appeared in the U.S. magazine The Little Review between 1918 and 1920. But deemed obscene,...
Pakistan Advantageously Placed In New Geo-Politics Over Ukraine
By Sankar Ray Between an article, ‘A letter from Prime Minister of Pakistan: Pakistan and China, iron brothers and strategic partners – today and forever’ published in Global Times, state-run English daily in Beijing on 30 January 2021 and the forthcoming visit of Imran Khan Niazi to Russia next...
BJP’s Panic Is Reflected In Its Manifesto 2022 For Uttar Pradesh
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Even though the manifestoes of political parties in India released before elections have lost their old values and integrity due to general experience of broken promises, these still offer windows through which one can see what actually has been changing between the two elections. BJP’s...
With Cryptos Under Tax Net, It May Now Be Turn Of Betting
By K Raveendran In the wake of cryptocurrencies gaining legitimacy with the imposition of 30 percent sin tax on the transactions, it may now be considered the next logical step to similarly recognise gambling and betting too as legitimate sporting activity. Revenue to the government has been a compelling...
