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.Remembering Jimmy Carter Who Held The Door Open For Neoliberalism
By Sean T. Byrnes Whatever one might say about Jimmy Carter’s presidency, it was clear that the man himself meant for it to be transformational. From a subdued 1977 inauguration — Carter skipped the motorcade and black-tie balls in favor of business attire and an open-air stroll down Pennsylvania...
How Dr. Manmohan Singh Reset A Floundering Indian Economy
By Anjan Roy Thirty-three years are half a lifetime. Thirty-three years ago, Dr Manmohan Singh stepped into a high-profile limelight, well after his formal retirement from a senior government job. When he died last Friday at the age of 92, he was considered India’s greatest finance minister and the...
Multiple Records Across Several Segments Make 2024 A Year Of Gold
By K Raveendran The year 2024 marked a historic period for gold, perhaps fit to be called the ‘Year of Gold’ due to the yellow metal’s remarkable performance across various metrics. Total demand for God surpassed an unprecedented US $100 billion, underpinned by robust investment activity and a supportive...
Jobs And Enterprises Rose In Informal Sector In Survey Year 2023-24
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s jobs market deterioration and failure of the government in decent job creation have sharply pushed up the number of jobs and enterprises in the informal sector, the technical term for which is ‘Unincorporated Sector.’ The Annual Survey of ‘Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE) 2023-24’ found...
DOGE Against MAGA Is Gathering Fire Under Donald Trump’s Nose
By Sushil Kutty This was bound to happen: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy ganging up against President-elect Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters. The two technocrats have their egos hanging from the tips of their noses. Imagine if Vivek Ramaswamy had won the Republican presidential nomination instead of Donald Trump! Now,...
Election Fever Grips Delhi As AAP And Congress Size Each Other Up
By Mriganka M Bhowmick Election fever has begun to grip Delhi as the state prepares for its upcoming elections. Though small in size, Delhi holds significant political importance, influencing perceptions across the country. In recent years, it has drawn national attention due to the intense political rivalry between the...
Peshmerga Making Solid Contributions To Stabilise A Volatile Region
By Manish Rai While on my recent visit to Iraqi Kurdistan, I visited several frontline positions of the Peshmerga forces, where they are facing the Iraqi Army and active ISIS cells. Firstly, I visited Brigade 14 headquarters near Dibak, approximately 60 km from the Kurdistan capital, Erbil. There, I...
China Is Alive To Challenges Of Changing Economic Landscape
By Tirthankar Mitra The Chinese economy continues to be in the news. Now, in a significant change to its fiscal strategy, a record of $411 billion treasury bonds will be issued next year. Such a bonds issue is not new to China, but the sheer magnitude of the effort...
BSP Supremo ‘Behen Mayawati’ Finally Wakes Up To Revive The Dalit Party
By Pradeep Kapoor Will the recent mobilisation of party workers all over the country by the national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Mayawati, to protest the alleged degrading comments on Dalit icon BR Ambedkar by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, help the revival of the BSP? Known for...
2024: Few Positives, Some Negatives, And Judicial Change Of Guard
By Indira Jaising This year began on a positive note. A Bench of Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan delivered the judgment setting aside the remission granted by the government of Gujarat to the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case. The case was of great significance not only...
Belagavi Extended CWC Meet Signals New Wave Of Congress Politics
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Indian National Congress has postponed the grand convention – Jai Gandhi, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan – on the second day of the Extended Congress Working Committee Meet at Belagavi in Karnataka. Instead, a condolence meeting was held to mourn the sad demise of the...
34 Days From June 21 To July 24, 1991 That Shook The Indian Economy
By Nitya Chakraborty On June 21, 1991, the 70-year-old Congress veteran P V Narasimha Rao took oath as the Prime Minister of a minority government amidst massive political uncertainty over its survival. The Congress had got only 232 seats as against the usual majority of 272 in the Lok...
Folk Artist Devi Had To Apologise For Singing Bapu’s Bhajan
By Arun Srivastava Hindu zealots have been busy tearing India and its cultural and social ethics apart, but now they are out to Talibanize India and its social and cultural order. What happened in Patna at the Bapu Sabhagar auditorium to celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of former Prime...
Trump’s Threat Of A Tariff Wall Has Grave Economic Implications
By Prabhat Patnaik Donald Trump is threatening to use tariffs as a weapon against other countries. He has already made three threatening statements: first, he threatened the BRICS countries that if they dared to move away from the dollar, then they would have to face 100 percent tariff in...
Is Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Sulking For The Bharat Ratna?
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Bihar Assembly elections are to take place in October-November of 2025. Union Minister Giriraj Singh is asking for the Bharat Ratna for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and former Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik. In October 2024, the JD(U) had put up a poster outside...
Myanmar’s ‘Tarbuj Brigade’ Gets Set To Enact A Regime Change
By Tirthankar Mitra Longevity of a regime, democratic or otherwise, rests on its popularity. A dispensation has its days numbered after meting out reprisal to its people for what it considers to be acts of defiance. Myanmar’s military junta is one such dispensation. Once feared as a monolithic regime,...
Live-Streaming Has Improved Courtroom Accountability
By Shivam Jadaun The judicial system has not been left untouched in a world increasingly defined by digital transparency. Courtroom live-streaming, once unthinkable due to its perceived threat to the sanctity of judicial proceedings, is now rapidly gaining momentum as a tool to enhance accountability and transparency. At the...
The Real ‘War On Christmas’ Is A Class War Waged By Bosses
By Liza Featherstone In the right-wing imaginary, the War on Christmas had a good run. Fox News host John Gibson alleged in a 2005 book that liberals were planning to “ban the sacred holiday,” and a moral panic was born, yielding outrage after outrage almost every year. This year,...
