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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.Regulated Cryptos Appear To Be The Way Forward
By K Raveendran If you can’t fight the enemy, join them. This is an adage that has found expression at different points of history and by different authors. This best describes the predicament of central banks when it comes to cryptocurrencies. One can only sympathise with them as the...
Modi’s Expressway To An Election Rally Aboard An IAF Jet
By Sushil Kutty So, there is now one more reason why you should be born a chaiwala’s son with a free pass to travel on all trains passing through the little railway station not far from where you rest your tired head every night. You, of course, can aspire...
Bengal Assembly Says BSF Being Used To Take Over State
By Sankar Ray For the first time, the Trinamool Congress, CPI(M)-led Left Front and Indian National Congress together protested against the Union ministry of home affairs’ arbitrary extension of the territorial jurisdiction of the Border Security Force through a notification on 11 October from 15 km to up to...
National Capital Gasping For Breath As Administrations Fight
By Gyan Pathak We have just seen last week as to how the blame game played by the Narendra Modi led BJP and the Arvind Kejriwal led AAP in the National Capital Territory Delhi did not help deal with pollution in the Yamuna river water, though their rules contribute...
Quila Darhal: A Heroic Civilian Resistance By Kashmir Villagers
By Harihar Swarup Sardar Basant Singh was barely 13 when Pakistanis attacked the border villages of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in September 1947. The invaders, who were led by the Pakistani army, captured several villages and towns. But Qila Darhal, Basant’s village near Nowshera town in...
China Outmanoeuvres India On Bangladesh’s Teesta Project
By Ashis Biswas China has edged well ahead of India in addressing Bangladesh’s core concerns and offering substantive overall assistance to the smaller country. Bangladesh has formally approached China to participate in its ambitious ‘Teesta River Comprehensive Management and Restoration project’ following India’s failure to implement an in-place water...
Shady Deals That Helped Foist Dubai On Top Of The World
By Arjavi Indraneesh The Pandora Papers has unveiled the story of offshore companies created within Dubai’s corporate enclave casting fresh light on Dubai’s rise as one of the world’s financial capitals— and on the UAE’s role as a nexus for money laundering and other financial crimes. The UAE is...
Harsh Truth Is We Have To Live With Covid Hereafter
By Kalyani Shankar Will there be a third wave of covid -19? The Health Ministry has been warning of a possible third wave for some weeks now, although no one knows whether it will hit India at all and, if it does, how severe will it be. Covid 19has...
Ephemeral Illusions About China As New Economic Superpower
By Anjan Roy It is a long haul from the BRIC report of Jim O’Neill of Morgan Stanley who had predicted the changing kaleidoscope of the world economy. The report predicted that in a short while of three decades, China and India would become the second and third biggest...
BJP, AAP Brinkmanship Holding Delhi To Ransom
By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Aam Aadmi Party, which of the two is brave, and which coward? Before the answer is out, a couple of things. One, both parties will be contesting the assembly elections in five states. Two, if reports are to be believed,...
Akhilesh Emerges As Main Challenger To BJP In UP
By Pradeep Kapoor Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has galvanised the rank and file of her party to take on BJP and make significant impact in the assembly polls. There is a realisation in Congress that the party may not get a good number of seats but it would...
American Left Have To Work Hard Among The Working Class To Do Better
By Jared Abbott I woke up on November 3 this year to a cheerful email from Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The headline exclaimed, “Tuesday’s election shows that Socialism can win anywhere!” Wow, this longtime DSA member briefly thought, maybe I was wrong, I guess India Walton pulled it...
The People Vs. COP26: Time For Politicians And Billionaires To Listen
By Ramzy Baroud Of all the speeches and political grandstanding at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), the words of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador were the most profound and least hypocritical. López Obrador raged against the “technocrats and neoliberals”—world leaders who hold the...
Black Gold Defies ‘Quit Coal’ Call At COP26 Climate Summit
By Nantoo Banerjee What a paradox? King coal refuses to surrender even as more than 40 countries at the COP26 climate summit at Glasgow pledged to ‘quit coal’. Instead, global demand for coal and price have skyrocketed over the last several months with China, the US and India playing...
BJP Has Given Its War Cry To Retain States In Coming Assembly Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty BJP’s Chanakya, the grand strategist Home Minister Amit Shah is in action. He is moving like a wounded lion after his disastrous defeat at the hands of Bengal’s own tigress Mamata Banerjee in the latest assembly elections in Bengal. Shah had staked his everything in Bengal...
Ordinance On CBI-ED Tenure Is A Super-Heavy Duty Bulldozer
By Sushil Kutty This regime of ‘Pradhan Sevak’ Narendra Modi is a ‘JCB’ and it compares well with Rakesh Tikait’s tractor. Modi is bulldozing through Opposition voices and he does not wait for Sunday to give way to Monday to make clear his intentions. Sunday, November 14, his government...
Two-Day Countrywide Strike ‘To Save People And Save Nation’
By Hemalata The National Convention of Workers — held at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, on November 11 —gave a clarion call to the working classes of the country to prepare for a massive countrywide general strike during the forthcoming budget session in February 2022, under the common banner ‘Save...
Powerful Mass Movement Is Needed To Challenge Communal Violence
By Dr Arun Mitra The story of Wolf and the Lamb where the Wolf cooks up an excuse to eat the lamb applies to the present day human society as well. The use of force by the powerful to suppress the people whom they dislike or think to be...
