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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.Far Right Jose Kast Leads Over Leftwing Boric In First Round Of Chilean Elections
By Satyaki Chakraborty Jose Antonio Kast, candidate of the far right received nearly 27.94 per cent of the votes as against the Left nominee Gabriel Boric’s 25.75 per cent in the first round of Presidential elections in Chile held on November 21. Since no candidate got majority of the...
Joint Movement Of Farmers Has Shown Narendra Modi His Place
By Nitya Chakraborty The joint movement of the farmers has finally led to the announcement by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the withdrawal of the three farm laws which can be termed as the most significant political defeat of the PM in his tenure of last seven and...
From One Party Rule To Life-Long Supreme Ruler
By Nantoo Banerjee By making Xi Jinping a life-long leader of the China’s Communist Party (CPC) and president of the People’s Republic of China, the party not only endorsed Xi’s ambitious plan to make China the world’s No.1 military and economic power by 2049, far surpassing the United States...
Unilateralism Of Modi, Hardening Of SKM’s Stance, To Yield No Fruit
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Within a few days of unilateral announcement of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal the three controversial farm laws, the whole range of issues relating to farms and farmers have become complicated. The reasons on the surface is unilateralism of Modi and hardening stance...
Modi In A Blatant Appeasement Mould Has His Bhakts Confounded
By Sushil Kutty Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party keep talking about “appeasement”, accusing the Opposition, especially the Congress, of “minority appeasement” and coming to power time and again on that plank. The notion was drummed into the electorate that the BJP never engaged in appeasement of any...
Two Indias: Behind The Rising Intolerance In The Civil Society
By Dakshita Dubey In January 2013, while India was coping with the gruesome Nirbhaya gang rape, the first division of two India(s) (post 1947), was done by Mohan Bhagwat, the sixth Sarsanghchalak, or chief, of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Bhagwat claimed that violence against women does not occur...
Los Angeles’s Biggest Film Festival Returns With Great Anti-Racist Films
By Ed Rampell The AFI Fest returned to Hollywood for live, in-person screenings and events, although there was also a virtual component for watching many of the feature, documentary, short, indie, studio, and foreign productions that Los Angeles’ largest annual film festival presented in 2021. Some of the screenings...
Learning By Trial Has A Cost For Which Nation Pays Dearly
By K Raveendran Better late than never. Finally good sense dawned on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in realising the futility of his intransigence on the controversial three farm laws and deciding that it is time for the unwelcome laws to be scrapped. He has apologised to the nation for...
Repeal Of Three Farm Laws Ignites Hopes For Scraping Of Four Labour Codes
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Farmers across the country are rejoicing the victory of their yearlong agitation against the three farm laws, a fruit of their consistent movement not only against these, but also the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP across the country that enforced him to announce...
Modi’s Dramatic Retreat Sullies His Strong Man Image
By Sushil Kutty Has Narendra Modi’s countdown begun? The New York Times took notice of the decision to repeal the three farm laws and pronounced his weakened state. His domination of the Indian political scenario is in shards outside the window he gazes at his peacocks from. November 19,...
Akhilesh Invoking Jinnah Is Fodder For BJP
By Harihar Swarup Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, passed away in 1948. However, today in November 2021 he has come alive in the political battlefield of Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav recently said, “Sardar Patel, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Jinnah … became barristers and got...
Prashant Kishor Working On New Opposition Strategy To Project Mamata As PM
By K R Sudhaman There is a buzz in political circles that opposition parties appear to be stitching up a workable coalition to take on BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and informed pundits indicate that TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is likely to emerge as the Prime ministerial candidate...
Protesting Bangladeshi Students Burn Pakistan Flag
By Ashis Biswas In Bangladesh, Pakistanis are learning the hard way that even 50 years after their country split, displaying their national flag in the East still remains a bitterly emotive issue. A group of young pro-liberation protestors at Dhaka University burnt the Pak flag following a meeting held...
Disappearance Of Chinese Star Sportswoman Prompts Boycott Call
By Anjan Roy Tennis Olympian Peng Shuai had complained of sexual assault by a highest ranking Chinese politician. The cruelty, violence, exploitation of the people by those in power, coercion and society’s acquiescence to all these in spite of awareness about such malaise in current day China unavoidably nudges...
United Movement Of Kisans Forces Modi To Repeal Three Farm Laws
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi corrects his mistake by just shedding his arrogance and announcing repeal of the three controversial farm laws he got passed in the Parliament of India in the midst of COVID-19 crisis when the whole country was struggling to save lives of...
Supreme Court Has The Constitutional Duty To Review The Misuse Of UAPA
By Sushil Kutty Julio Ribeiro and Harsh Mander among others. There will be folks who will mock them with “the usual suspects” tag, but then these former civil servants are persistent with their consistency to stop the Union Government from initiating and implementing overbearing actions; cry foul when the...
High Taxes On Petro Products By Centre Hit The Working People Most
By Prabhat Patnaik The Modi government has been raising taxes on petro-products as its main instrument of resource mobilisation for government spending. This ironically has the dual effect of not stimulating the economy, but stimulating inflation instead. An alternative fiscal policy of raising resources through direct taxes on the...
Final Declaration Of Glasgow COP26 Is An Inadequate Response To Present Challenge
By Dr. Soma Marla The just ended climate summit COP26 has largely disappointed the people around the world as there was hardly any attempt to take bold steps to avert rapid global warming. Despite the urgency to halt catastrophic climate change, the pact that was approved at the end...
