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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.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...
Tek Fog Use By BJP Not Just Immoral, It Is Anti-Constitutional Too
By K Raveendran BJP seems to have re-discovered the original intent of Mark Zuckerberg when he set up a website for Harvard University students, which was later to become Facebook, the social media giant that it is today. Zuckerberg set it up essentially as a tool for students to...
Alliance Of Voters Shifting In Uttar Pradesh Against BJP
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Resignation of three ministers in three days from the ruling BJP led by the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has set the political wheel in the state in motion. As many as 10 MLAs have quit the BJP. The house of the BJP seems to be...
Sharad Pawar Playing A Key Role In Uniting Opposition Parties Against BJP For State Assembly Elections
By Rahil Nora Chopra NCP supremo, Sharad Pawar, one of the sharpest and most experienced leaders in Indian politics, is playing a big role to unite the Opposition in a fight against the BJP in the five state assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur. Sharad...
Financial Markets Under Capitalism Act Against The Common People’s Interests
By Prabhat Patnaik One of the most important arguments advanced by John Maynard Keynes, the renowned economist, was that the operation of financial markets under capitalism is deeply flawed. Such markets are intrinsically incapable of distinguishing between “enterprise” where an asset is held because of the stream of returns...
Manipur Administration Has To Be Vigilant About Violence On Poll Eve
By Ashis Biswas As Manipur braces for the two-phase state Assembly polls, the possibility of sporadic political violence cannot be ruled out. State-based media reports summing up the pre-poll situation, have duly mentioned that most of the long term problems/social evils plaguing Manipur –widespread drug trafficking, the lingering effects...
Haridwar Hate Call Was The Culmination Of RSS Propaganda Offensive
By Krishna Jha A public interest plea filed by Justice Anjana Prakash, formerly of the Patna High Court and senior journalist Qurban Ali has been accepted by the Supreme Court for hearing. It is against the hate speeches at the Haridwar Dharma Sansad held on December 17 and again...
Prime Minister’s Security Lapse Issue Is Leading To Bizarre Reactions
By Sushil Kutty Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Channi is okay with the Supreme Court setting up a five-member panel to go into the breach of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security. Channi spoke to Modi one-on-one and wished Modi a long life till the end of time—and then hoped that...
Distorting And Rewriting History Of Our Glorious Freedom Struggle
By Sitaram Yechury On January 11, the Press Information Bureau (PIB) released an announcement by the ministry of information and broadcasting regarding the observance of the 75th anniversary of India’s independence – Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. This is a clear expression of the intention of this Modi government to...
Poll Battle In Manipur Intensifies As BJP Is Desperate To Retain The State
By Sagarneel Sinha Along with the elections of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Punjab, elections would be held in the north-eastern state of Manipur. The elections would be held in two phases — February 27 and March 3. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has been aiming to return to...
BJP Is On A Fast Declining Mode In Bengal After Last Assembly Polls
By Ashis Biswas Post 2021 state Assembly elections In West Bengal, the main opposition party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is facing an existential crisis. Four major factors have hamstrung the state party’s post-election functioning :these are, (a) a continuing exodus of leadership aspirants/supporters to the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC);...
Rejuvenated Chilean Communist Party Preparing For Congress In April This Year
By Satyaki Chakraborty Chilean Communist Party which is an important part of the coalition headed by the newly elected president Gabriel Boric is holding its next party congress in April this year amidst great expectations among the Chilean people about the transformation of the Chilean economy and society as...
Indian Agriculture Might Be Getting Some Benefits From Covid Pandemic
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The Covid-19 pandemic seems to have done some good to the Indian farm sector. After a government estimate put the food grain production during 2021-22 to be 10 per cent higher than the previous year, the latest figure suggests that tractor production in 2021 has...
