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.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...
Narendra Modi Swears By ’Constitutional Values’ At Democracy Summit
By Sushil Kutty President Joe Biden is a cognitive disaster, say some of his meanest detractors. Two recent polls—one by the Wall Street Journal and the other by Monmouth University—have given Biden no more chance to retain control of the House and Senate in 2022 than Prime Minister Narendra...
Implementation Process Of Labour Codes Is In Advanced Stage
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Implementation process of the Modi government’s four labour codes has reached an advanced stage with 23 states have already notified the rules, and the centre is preparing to notify its rules soon, after which these will be implemented across the country. Despite stiff opposition and...
RBI’s Digital Coin Proposal Is Not A Better Substitute To Cryptocurrency
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav India is going to debate a new bill on cryptocurrencies in the ongoing winter session of parliament. One of the two most important components of the bill relates to providing the legal framework for the launch of a digital coin by RBI. Many countries around...
Shiv Sena Bats For Rahul 2024 After Mamata’s ‘No UPA’ Jibe
By Rahil Nora Chopra After West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asserted that “there is no UPA anymore”, Shiv Sena batted for Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi to lead the opposition in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut’s back-to-back meetings with the Congress leaders have triggered...
President Joe Biden’s ‘Democracy Summit’ Is Nothing But A Big Hoax
By Ian Goodrum The two day gala’ Democracy Summit’ convened virtually by United States President Joe Biden on December 8 and 9 is nothing but an exercise in hypocrisy by the leader of the capitalist nations extending assistance to the worst authoritarian regimes in the world. The club has...
Sharad Pawar And M K Stalin Must Intervene To Repair Cracks In Opposition
By Nitya Chakraborty In India, political scenarios change very fast. In 1984 Lok Sabha elections, the ruling Congress secured more than 400 seats while the BJP’s tally fell into its lowest two. But the dream rule of the Congress Party did not last for more than two years. From...
Narendra Modi Govt Must Repeal Atrocious AFSPA Law In Totality
By Prakash Karat The killing of 14 civilians in Mon, Nagaland by a special force of the Assam Rifles has brought into sharp relief the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), a lawless law that enables the security forces to act with impunity, which has led to atrocity after...
