Opinion
Appeal
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.No Clear Winner Expected In Jammu Kashmir Elections Once More
By Sant Kumar Sharma JAMMU: Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir were last held in the last quarter of 2014. No party could win a clear majority as has been the trend for past two decades since 2002 when the National Conference led by Farooq Abdullah had lost its...
Indian Agriculture As The Largest Private Sector Employer By 2030
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Farmers’ strike and the looming covid-19 pandemic notwithstanding, foodgrain production is estimated to be higher in 2021-22 than the previous year when it touched an all-time high of 308.65 million tonnes. Growing at 3.5%, foodgrain production is likely to remain in the range of 310-320...
Karnataka’s Bill On Conversions Muzzles Religious Freedom
By Rahul Machaiah “For getting human treatment, convert yourselves. Convert for getting organised. Convert for becoming strong. Convert for securing equality. Convert for getting liberty. Convert so that your domestic life should be happy.” This fervent appeal was part of Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s speech when he addressed members of...
In Europe, The Far Right Is Uniting Its Forces In 2022
y Àngel Ferrero At the beginning of September, Santiago Abascal, the president of Spain’s far-right Vox party, announced that his country had been chosen to host the next summit of “patriotic leaders and European conservatives” to be held this month. The meeting, likely staged in Madrid, represents the next...
Further Distortion In Labour Market Imminent From The Third Wave
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the third wave of COVID-19 rising exponentially across India reaching daily new infection over 1.17 lakh with positivity rate of 7.74, many stringent curbs have been imposed on various economic activities, which are likely to be made more stringent within few days. Consequently, the...
‘Who Loves The Punjabi More, Narendra Modi Or Rahul Gandhi?’ Is Trending
By Sushil Kutty Punjab cannot be communally ‘dhruvikaraned’ like Uttar Pradesh can be. The Sikh and the Hindu and the Muslim of Punjab have their own calculations and affiliations but they aren’t at each other’s throats. Faced with such odds, what can political parties do? How about raising doubts...
Congress Mulling To Propose Sharad Pawar As Presidential Candidate
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the states set for assembly elections such as Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur, elections will be held also for 75 Rajya Sabha seats which are expected to fall vacant through the year and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s equations with its allies and...
Latest Co-Lending Pattern For Peasants Is Harmful For National Interests
By Prabhat Patnaik In colonial times, the peasantry had to borrow from private moneylenders. According to Provincial Banking Enquiry Committee reports, these moneylenders in turn borrowed from commercial banks. But while disbursing credit to the peasants and charging exorbitant interest rates, the money lenders at least bore the whole...
Dealing With New Omicron Threat Requires Fresh Look At Strategy
By Dr. Soma Marla In May, 2021, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar had announced that Vaccination would be completed by December, 2021. But the fact is that by December 31, 2021 only 63 per cent of adult population could be fully vaccinated. While the monthly average vaccination for September was...
Bulli Bai Denotes New Type Of Cyber Violence In Our Digital Society
By Gauri Anand and Hinduja Verma On January 1, the Mumbai Police registered a case against the developers of an app, “Bulli Bai”, hosted on GitHub, which used photos of approximately 100 Muslim women, obtained and doctored without their permission, to mock-auction them to other users on the...
Haridwar Dharma Sansad Call Was An Open Incitement To Violence
By Prakash Karat Even two weeks after the hate-mongering dharma sansad in Haridwar on December 17 to 19, where calls were given to attack Muslims and eliminate them by mass murder, there has not been a single arrest. The first FIR lodged had only one name, that too of...
2022 Promises Continuation Of Pink Tide In Elections In Latin America
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Latin American politics has entered a decisive phase in 2022 as the various shades of Left have jointly mounted renewed attacks against the pro-right neo liberal policies of the two ruling governments in Colombia and Brazil which are going for Presidential polls in the year....
BJP Govt’s Economic Agenda Has Dried Up New Job Opportunities In Economy
By Krishna Jha It is not wanderlust that drives people to places, these days it is replaced by hunger, a force that cannot be staved off. Some time back, the number of migratory labour, retrenched, pushed out, had shocked us with their growing number as thousands of men and...
Lives And Livelihoods Are Still At Big Risk From Third Covid Wave
By Dr. Gyan Pathak By the morning of January 6, it was clear that lives and livelihoods in India are at greater risks from the third wave of COVID-19 than many among us believed. Total daily reported cases were about 91 thousand with sharp spike of over 56 per...
Prime Minister’s Return To Delhi From Flyover Is A Victory For Farmers
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been rudely reminded that the farmers’ protests are far from over, Modi’s unilateral surrender notwithstanding—it did not make a dent on the farmers’ spirits. Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi alluded to as much when asserting that but for Covid-19 quarantine...
Narendra Modi’s Accusation Against Punjab CM On Security Lapse Makes No Sense
By Arun Srivastava Never before in the history of our country, a Prime Minister had cast aspersion on the state’s chief minister as was done by Narendra Modi on Wednesday in Punjab. Modi on his return to Bhatinda airport after his aborted visit to Ferozepur had told a senior...
Housing For All Is A Pipe Dream For The Majority In Rural India
By Vikram Singh At least 50 anxious people gathered near the village pond in Chotahi village, Samastipur district of Bihar. They had gathered to save their houses which were declared illegal as the area was developed as a green belt by the state government of Bihar under the project...
2022 Assembly Elections Outcome To Determine Congress Role In Opposition Front
By Nitya Chakraborty The year 2021 ended with a significant outcome of civic polls in Chandigarh where the Aam Admi Party (AAP) emerged as the single largest party pushing the ruling BJP to the second and the Congress to the third position. This was followed by a survey of...
