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.Lockdowns In 2020 Could Not Contain Crimes In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Lockdowns and containment measures imposed in 2020 to contain COVID-19 had greatly impacted all sectors of the country except crime which registered and increase. Crime like theft accounted for 76.6 percent of all offences against property, perhaps driven by a pressing need to fill the...
Our Prime Minister Is Forgetting Some Omicron Is On Prey In Varanasi Also
By Sushil Kutty The friendly neighbourhood coronavirus ‘Omicron’ has claimed its first kill in the developed West—an unfortunate person in the United Kingdom, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced this in London when in India Prime Minister Narendra Modi was setting an example by going mask-less in the company...
Narendra Modi Government Caught In A Dilemma Over Crypto Bill
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The Narendra Modi government seems to be caught in a dilemma over the crypto bill that is scheduled to be introduced during the ongoing winter session of parliament. It has maintained a rigid posture throughout the current year by letting out that a ban on...
Gauhati High Court Setting Aside Many Decisions Of Foreigners Tribunals
By Gauri Anand The Gauhati High Court has set aside multiple orders of Foreigners’ Tribunals in the span of one month. The tribunals had declared individuals to be foreigners in all of these cases in an erratic manner, with little substantiation of its process, indicating the need for a...
U.S. And NATO Play With Fire In Their Latest Anti-Russia Campaign
By John Wojcik Major media, led by the New York Times and MSNBC, are stepping up a campaign that could result in military action by NATO and the U.S. against Russia. They apparently want to add an anti-Russia campaign to their ongoing attacks on China. If these corporate press...
India Needs Strong Military-Industrial Manufacturing Base
By Nantoo Banerjee Russia’s continuing support to help India build modern military ware, from guns to fighter jets, missiles and submarines, despite its growing critical defence supplies and technology tie-ups with China, is a clear example of the fact that the Indo-Russian relationship is unshakable by changing global power...
Rahul Gandhi’s Positioning As Hindu As Against Hindutva Has Been Timed
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is not afraid—the ‘Hindu’ in him has taken over, and he is not scared of ‘Hindutva’. Gandhi travelled to Jaipur to clarify this division. Some would call it a “division of Hindu votes”, but Rahul Gandhi was on a larger point—the Gandhi...
Poor Can Hope For A Piece Of Bread, And The Rich Crores
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The two pieces of news – first, Modi government made provisions for merely five kilogram cereals for 800 million individuals per month who were not able to even get food on their own during the pandemic, and second, they written off over 2.03 lakh crore...
All Senior BJP Ministers Given Charge Of Regions Before Polls In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor Finding tough challenge from main rival Samajwadi Party in the coming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior BJP leaders have sharpened attack against former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his party. The massive crowd at the public meetings of Akhilesh...
Trinamool Congress Opting For Fair Elections In Kolkata Civic Polls
By Ashis Biswas With the Kolkata city civic elections scheduled on next Sunday, citizens’ opinions remain divided over the possibility of reasonably free and fair polling on December 19. Trinamool Congress (TMC) General Secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee has set conversational mills rolling with a public appeal to party...
Chile Set For Its Most Divisive Presidential Poll Run-Off On December 19
By Satyaki Chakraborty Chilean voters are witnessing the most intensive campaigning by both the Far Right Jose Antonio Kast and the Leftist Gabriel Boric in the run off to the Presidential elections scheduled on December 19. In the first round on November 21, Kast got 28 per cent votes...
When Karl Marx Was Interested In ‘Nothingness’ Of Buddha
By Sankar Ray Lay readers in the SAARC region may be pleasantly surprised to learn that Karl Marx read and commented on the ‘concept of nothingness (Sanskrit: Śūnyatā; Pali: Suññatā; Vietnamese: Không)’ of Gautama Buddha in two letters, written on 18 and 20 March 1866. While staying as a...
For The Opposition Parties, The Problem Is Not Congress, But Rahul Gandhi
By Harihar Swarup “There is no UPA now”. With these words, Mamata Banerjee seems to have set an interesting cat among pigeons. She made the statement standing besides Sharad Pawar after a high profile meeting with the opposition’s most experienced stalwarts. Pawar did not refute Mamata’s statement. He had...
Decoding The Historic Victory Of The Farmers Against Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty “Farming is a profession of hope,” said someone and passed on, never to take up ‘hope’, and because of that he lived a long life and didn’t have to escape debt by hanging himself from the tree next to the tube-well. The farmers are leaving Delhi’s...
Budget Must Focus On Capacity Building For Health
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The last two years – 2020 and 2021 – have driven us to a crossroads where we need to decide whither to go. Everybody by now might have witnessed how the heath and economic development are in cyclic order and closely interlinked. Our government at...
Biden’s Hoax Summit And A Chinese Brand Of Democracy
By K Raveendran December seems to be the season for democracy. Irrespective of how democracy has been used by rulers and ruling establishments to scuttle democratic principles, there is peaking of interest in singing praise for democracy. What is more curious is that some of these come from the...
Indian Origin Kshama Sawant Taking On Big Capital In Her Own Turf Seattle
By Richard Silverstein In a razor-tight race early this week’ Seattle’s socialist city council member Kshama Sawant beat off a recall attempt bankrolled by the city’s business interests. She won by just over two hundred votes in a race that went down to the wire. The outcome wasn’t determined...
India’s Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery Is Not Sustainable
By Prabhat Patnaik The pandemic alas is not yet over, but there are no economic disruptions in the current fiscal year in the form of lockdowns or workers’ absence. The economy’s performance therefore can no longer be attributed to the prevalence of the pandemic; whatever it is, it is...
