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.American Defeat To Taliban Is The Burial Of Biden’s Liberal Intervention Doctrine
By Anjan Roy Twenty years back on September 11 evening, I was in the news room of a leading newspaper, on Delhi’s Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg. Following the normal rhythms of a newsroom in the evening, journalists were sitting down to slog on their copy, discussing news items, someone...
PLI Scheme Is A Welcome Move To Push Jobs In Pandemic Period
K R Sudhaman Productive linked incentive scheme to stimulate and revive the covid-hit Indian economy is very thoughtful and a welcome development as it weaves in job creation in Modi government’s Atama Nirbhar Bharat. This critical factor that is usually lost while analyzing the possible impact of the scheme...
Over 2.57 Lakh People Evicted In India During The Current Pandemic
By Sumedha Pal Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, the Indian government has demolished over 43,600 homes and forcibly evicted over 257,700 people; or at least 505 people per day; or 21 people every hour. Over 173,300 people lost their homes in 2020 alone as a...
As Long As There Are Laws, Nobody Is Free From A Raid Under Modi Govt
By K Raveendran The so-called ‘survey’ by the IT sleuths at the offices of news websites is as ominous as all other raids routinely conducted by government agencies against those who refuse to toe the official line. Any questioning is responded with a raid or survey, the fancy name...
Indian Households Under Unprecedented Unemployment And Debt Crisis
By Gyan Pathak All indicators point to an unprecedented unemployment and debt crisis in India, both in urban and rural areas. Households are reeling under the crisis that has been crippling their growth and well being. The latest data sets, for unemployment and debts, released by National Statistics Office...
Pakistan Is Most Advantageously Placed Vis A Vis Taliban 2 Regime
By Sankar Ray Pakistan seems optimistic, pushing ahead with its policy of backseat driving to keep the Taliban 2.0 in good humour and under control. Not the Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi, but Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence director-general, Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed has been assigned to play the principal role...
Faction Ridden Tripura BJP Is Resorting To Terror Against Opposition
By Arun Srivastava The chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Arun Mishra, who has shown extreme form of alacrity in announcing a probe in the post poll violence and constituting a BJP controlled probe panel has intriguingly been maintaining a passive attitude towards the brutal assault and reign...
Congress-AIUDF Alliance And Breakup Affair Is No Surprise
By Sagarneel Sinha The Congress, despite facing internal opposition, decided to ally with the AIUDF of Badruddin Ajmal before the Assam assembly elections to dethrone BJP from power. The grand old party, however, failed to dislodge the saffron party from power. The dissensions, which somehow got silent keeping in...
Decoding Twenty Years Of ‘War Against Terror” After September 11, 2001
By C.J. Atkins How do we measure the time that has passed since Al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and crashed another in a field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001? It has been 20 years; that’s of course the obvious answer....
Monetisation Of National Assets Is Nothing But Abrogation Of Rights
Prabhat Patnaik EVERYWHERE in the world people got vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus without having to pay a penny, but not in India. Everywhere in the world, historic landmarks that define a nation, that constitute the warp and woof of a nation’s consciousness, are held sacred and left untouched...
Privatisation Of LIC Will Hurt The Public Sector Business Badly
By P G Dileep 18,40,00,00,000 – An ordinary man cannot even read this figure. Foreigners will read this as 1.84 trillion and Indians will say Rs 1.84 lakhs crores. We will be shocked to know that this is the record premium income of LIC last year. Premium means the...
Old Age Dependency Increasing Sharply In India
By Gyan Pathak Old age dependency in India is increasing sharply, decades after decades, along with the number of elders. Though there are many government programmes to support them, they are utterly insufficient, and in many cases too little, as in old age pension scheme under National Social Assistance...
Farmers In Haryana Are A Real Threat To Khattar Government Now
By Sushil Kutty The “Mini Secretariat” in Karnal, Haryana, is where the fired up farmers came after the hugely successful Muzaffarnagar ‘kisan mahapanchayat’, raring to put up a similar performance in the Karnal Anaj Mandi. There the farmers put forward three demands, hoping to nudge Chief Minister Manoharlal Khattar...
China Facing Both Challenge And Risks In Dealing With Taliban Regime
By Arjun AFGHANISTAN’S future remains in a state of flux. The US withdrawal has added to the uncertainty in the region. Afghanistan shares a 90 km border with China and this makes Beijing concerned about the developments in Kabul as instability and violence in Afghanistan directly impinges on its...
Indian Youth Congress Picks Rahul To Lead Party Once More
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Indian Youth Congress national executive meeting unanimously passed a resolution to make Rahul Gandhi the party president once again. This resolution was adopted on the second day of the two-day national executive meeting of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC), which was held at a...
Muzaffarnagar Mahapanchayat Is A Historic Landmark In Kisan Movement
By Prakash Karat THE Muzaffarnagar Mahapanchayat organised by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on September 5 will go down as a historic landmark in the annuls of the peasant movement of the country. Lakhs of farmers from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab along with contingents from many other states...
Left Wing American Senator Bernie Sanders Stepped To 80 This Week
By Nitya Chakraborty America’s most talked about self proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders stepped to 80 years on Wednesday, September 8. He is senator for 14 years since 2007 and is currently chairman of the budget committee of the senate. He was earlier member of the house of representatives for...
Labour Force Undergoing Structural Transformation
By Gyan Pathak Labour force in India has been undergoing structural transformation. It began sometime in the latter half of the Modi’s first term of prime-minister-ship, remained by and large unperceived until the beginning of his second term, but sharply felt when COVID-19 struck the country and general lockdown...
