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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.Narendra Modi Ignored Grim Reality In His Speech At World Economic Forum
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda 2022 intended to bring world leaders together to address the ‘state of the world’ and to share their visions for the year ahead. On the very first day, the world has head the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi,...
In Punjab, On February 20 Poll, It Is Congress Versus Aam Aadmi Party
By Sushil Kutty There are lots of people, mostly Punjab Congress MLAs, rooting for Charanjit Singh Channi, clamouring that the Congress high command name Channi the chief ministerial face of the Congress; promise that he’ll not be replaced when Congress retains the government-ship of the border state on March...
Bengali Theatre Has Become Poorer With The Passing Away Of Saonli Mitra
By Sankar Ray Saonli Mitra, a legend in Bengali theatre who mesmerized the audience for more than three decades, passed away in Kolkata on Sunday after a prolonged illness. She was the daughter of the theatre icons of Bengal Sambhu Mitra and Tripti Mitra, but Saonli created her own...
India’s Industrial Growth Lacks Focus, Planning
By Nantoo Banerjee For years, the government has been loosely talking about making India a global manufacturing hub. Unfortunately, it does not have either a strong viable programme, or a reliable time frame, to make this happen. Despite having a big potential, India’s metal, engineering, defence hardware manufacturing, construction,...
People Must See Through The Grim Reality Under Modi Rule
By Dr, Gyan Pathak It is high time that the people of India could see, rather must see, through the grim reality under Modi rule, especially since the outbreak of the COVID-19, during which 84 per cent of the households of the country suffered significant decline in income with...
Aam Aadmi Party Is Determined To Play Larger Role In National Politics
By Sushil Kutty With the Aam Aadmi Party, it’s not the Lucknowi ‘pehle aap, pehle aap’. For Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP—born out of the womb of an ‘andolan’—there is time still to conquer India and like the industrious ‘ant’, AAP slogs on, it’s ambitions intact in the future which could...
23 Million People Are Facing Acute Food Crisis In Afghanistan
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav About five months since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the country with 40 million people is seeing the worst crisis in its painful political upheavals of the last few decades – hunger and starvation. As per UN reports, Nearly 23 million people are in the...
Call For Indianisation Is A Fallacy, If Not A Fraud, On The Constitution
By Dr M.P. Raju A call to Indianize and decolonize the legal and constitutional system of India may appear to be innocuous and even attractive. A closer look at such calls may show otherwise. Such a call is not new. However, the recent call is a little different in...
Ruling Socialists Frontrunner In Portugal National Elections On January 30
By Satyaki Chakraborty Portugal’s ruling Socialist Party led by the present Prime Minister Antonio Costa is leading in the current opinion polls as against the main opposition Social Democratic Party for the national elections scheduled on January 30 this year. The other parties, Left Bloc and the Communist Party...
Spanish Communist Deputy PM Yolanda Diaz Imparts Dynamism To The Coalition
By Eoghan Gilmartin When Pope Francis granted Spain’s left-wing deputy prime minister Yolanda Díaz an official audience before Christmas, the opposition Partido Popular branded the meeting a “communist summit.” It seems that even for the mainstream right, the head of the Catholic Church is now part of the “anti-Spain”...
Uttar Pradesh Has Witnessed Various Twists In Politics In Three Decades
By Harihar Swarup Uttar Pradesh which dominates national politics, has had an eventful history in the assembly elections as well. As the state heads for polls, a look at its frequently changing governments and CMs, and the role of key leaders shows its fascinating twists and turns among different...
No End Of Woes For Unorganised Sector Labour As Third Wave Peaks
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The third wave of COVID-19 has depressed the labour market in India. The first two weeks of the new year witnessed more stringent containment measures in several states and metropolis in the country resulting in closures of many economic activities, and this trend is most...
Imran Khan’s Peace Pipeline Is Meant To Woo International Monetary Fund
By Sankar Ray The much fanfare with which the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi announced the 100-page long maiden National Security Policy 2022-2066 meets with both bouquets and brickbats. It was okayed by the miltablishment prior to nod by the cabinet as the PM revealed the ‘civil military...
Bolivia, Chile And Mexico To Work Jointly For Developing Lithium Resources
By Satyaki Chakraborty After the decisive victory of the Left candidates in four out of the five presidential elections in Latin America in 2021, the New Year 2022 is witnessing close collaboration between the lithium producing countries of the region to develop their own resources without depending on the...
Sri Lankan Food Crisis Has A Clear Message For India
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav With 22 million people, Sri Lanka is reeling under an acute food crisis with prices of staple food rising uncontrollably and people running out of cash. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government appears utterly clueless in tackling the evolving situation. By now, the Sri Lankan food...
The Importance Of Being S P Maurya In Turbulent Uttar Pradesh Politics
By Sushil Kutty The worst that is being spoken of about newly minted Samajwadi politician Swami Prasad Maurya is not that he is defector or turncoat, but that he is somebody who is more worried about his family heirlooms, concerned they may not get due recognition as the years...
Dalit Electorates Stage A Come Back In A New Role In Poll Politics
By Arun Srivastava So far, the BJP leadership has used party forums to accuse the Congress and its Punjab government of hatching a conspiracy to harm the prime minister on January 5, but on Wednesday, six BJP chief ministers, acting under a devious design struck the public domain accusing...
Peter Bogdanovich Embodied An Era When Cinema Really Mattered
By Eileen Jones One of my favourite works by the recently deceased writer-actor-director Peter Bogdanovich is a monograph called Fritz Lang in America. In it, he very sensibly argues that Lang’s directorial work in America is every bit as great and important as what he’d done in Germany, though...
