Opinion
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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.Newly Elected Leftist President Castro Arouses Big Hopes In Honduras
By Supaya Portillo On November 28, 2021, Hondurans took to the ballot box in masses and voted the country’s first woman into the presidency, the leftist Xiomara Castro Sarmiento Zelaya. Her win comes twelve years after the 2009 coup d’état that destroyed constitutional order and the rule of law...
President Joe Biden’s Summit Was A Big Charade In The Name Of Democracy
By Prakash Karat The “Summit for Democracy” convened by US president, Joe Biden, on December 9-10 was ostensibly meant to strengthen democracy worldwide and to fend off the efforts by “autocrats” to undermine democracy. The focus of the summit, as put out by the US state department, was on...
Leading Bengali Economists Played A Stellar Role In Early Days Of 1971 War
By Nitya Chakraborty The India-Pakistan war in 1971 over the liberation of Bangladesh ended on December 16 of that year with the surrender of the Pakistani forces in Dhaka. That was exactly fifty years ago, Many stories have been written about the role of the army generals, diplomats and...
RBI Proposal Of Inflation-Linked Bonds Could Be Timely
By Anjan Roy Reserve Bank has reportedly proposed floating inflation-linked bonds as a savings option for investors in debt markets. This is welcome on several counts. First, there are few varieties of instruments in the debt market for investors to park their funds. What is more significant, the central...
Farmers Are Yet To Get All Their Demands Conceded By Modi Government
By Krishna Jha Democracy in our country has become something like Hegelian dialectics: It is there and it is not there. Interpretations keep changing, with only one constant factor and that is erosion. When the farm laws were imposed it was in the name of development. Wiping away the...
Rakesh Tikait Has Emerged As A Visionary Who Can Be Trusted To Build A New India
By Sushil Kutty Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait in all likelihood grew up to tales of the Tikait daredevilry at Delhi’s Boat Club when the firebrand Mahendra Singh Tikait led a 7-lakh strong army of farmers and laid siege to India Gate. Mahendra Singh Tikait left this world for the...
Rapid Omicron Spread Imminent, May Derail The Gains So Far
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A rapid increase in the number of Omicron COVID-19 variant is imminent, reads the latest European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) warning, and the other day World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the large number of patients could overwhelm the health facilities...
Cryptocurrency As Democratic Force In Myanmar’s Political Upheaval
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Just when the world seemed to conveniently forget the military rule in Myanmar and the oppression, torture, and killing of pro-democracy protesters over the last 10 months, the indomitable spirit of freedom has spoken up. The shadow government in Myanmar has accepted Tether’s stablecoin USDT...
Congress Is Not Fully Prepared To Take Forward Rahul’s Battle Against Hindutva
By Arun Srivastava Aggressive Rahul Gandhi in his exertion to expose the allegory of Narendra Modi of being the real face of Hindu and Hindutva got himself ensnared into the trap laid down by RSS. Rahul should have realised that Congress’s stand for soft Hindu or Hinduism would not...
For Congress, Defending Rahul’s View On Hindutva Is A Big Challenge
By Sushil Kutty Comparing whether Rahul Gandhi got his Hindu and Hindutva right or did Yoga guru Baba Ramdev laugh too soon at Rahul’s distinction is an exercise in futility. Neither can claim expertise in semantics, let alone in Hindu and in Hindutva. But leave aside all that and...
Price Rise And Inflation Are Going Out Of Control In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Wholesale Price Index based inflation rose to the highest in the present series that begun in 2011-12 to 14.23 per cent in November 2021, simply put, it is 12 years high. The figures are even highest since April 2005 if we compare it to...
RBI Panel Says Physical Channel Lending Will Soon Become Obsolete
By K Raveendran The Reserve Bank of India has been cautioning public about the risk of falling victims to ‘one-click-loans’ of fancy amounts promised by apps. Email and text messages to this effect have been proliferating, especially during and post-pandemic phase, which has seen family budgets as well as...
Jay Chaudhry, A Serial Disrupter Is Now 45th Among Richest Americans In 2021
By Harihar Swarup Jay Chaudhry is a serial disrupter. Born in a small scale farmer in Himachal Pradesh, he went on to found and sell four high-tech firms before starting his fifth, Zscaler, a cyber-security behemoth that has made him the wealthiest Indian American, and put him #45 overall,...
Cuba Defeats Covid-19 With Learning, Science, And Indigenous Expertise
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Education is central to Cuba’s brand of socialism. The revolutionary government’s dedication to scientific knowledge and healthcare for all shows up now as Cubans cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. The United States is not so lucky. Cubans have wholeheartedly carried out masking, social-distancing, testing...
A New International Forum Of Radical Artists Has Been Formed In Britain
By Ben Lunn Almost since the day the fight for socialism became organised, artists in Britain have looked for ways to use their talents in the aid of this great vision. In the 1930s Alan Bush founded the William Morris Music Society as an organisation for artists to discuss...
Parliament’s Winter Session Is Having The Same Fate As Last Two Years
By Kalyani Shankar Former President Pranab Mukherjee, as leader of the House, vexed with the unruly behaviour of the Opposition (then it was BJP), observed that only three ‘Ds’– Discussion, Debate and Dissent – have a place in Parliament and not the ‘fourth ‘D’ -Disruptions. Unfortunately, both the houses...
Both China And U.S. Are Fighting In Bangladesh For Political Loyalties
By Ashis Biswas It’s official. In Bangladesh, China backs the ruling Awami League (AL) firmly Western countries, led by the US and the EU, are becoming increasingly more supportive of the main opposition outfit, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Ironically, it was during the BNP’s tenure in 1991 followed...
Anatomy Of The Governor-Government Standoff In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The standoff between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government headed by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan over ‘political cronyism’ in university appointments is most unfortunate. What is causing grave concern is the fact that the government-Governor spat is occurring with...
