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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.Supreme Court Justice D Y Chandrachud Has Spoken Truth To Power
By Prakash Karat Supreme Court Judge, Justice D Y Chandrachud, has given a thoughtful and lucid talk on ‘Speaking Truth To Power: Citizens And The Law’ on the occasion of the Justice M C Chagla Memorial Lecture. In an erudite analysis of the relationship between truth and democracy and...
Allahabad HC Remarks Set To Re-Ignite Acrimony On Secularism
By K Raveendran Recent pronouncements and observations by the Allahabad High Court on issues relating to religious educational institutions and cow protection are likely to add to the apprehensions of the minorities and renew the debate on secularism. There is, however, cause for consolation as these have come during...
Social Protection Is A Human Right Yet Majority Not Covered
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Social protection is a human right, yet majority of the people are not covered under even one social protection scheme across the world. Indians remain one of the most neglected and vulnerable population. The World Social Protection Report 2020-22 reveals that 47 per cent of...
Right Wing Historians Are Distorting The Great Indian Freedom Struggle
By Krishna Jha In the poster released by the Indian Council of Historical Research on the 75th anniversary of our independence, among the eight leading freedom fighters, country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has not been placed. A visionary, he was against the division of the country and opposed...
BJP Spokespersons Are Playing Double Speak On Engaging With Talibans
By Sushil Kutty It’s embarrassing to watch and listen to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s spokespersons and Modi’s ‘friendly Media’ cohorts trying desperately to establish a narrative to rationalize Modi’s decision to ‘engage’ with Taliban “terrorists”. Till before Tuesday evening, BJP spokespersons stuck with the ‘terrorists’ label for the Taliban...
High Fuel Prices Should Be The Major Concern For The Modi Government
By Sagarneel Sinha Petrol sells at Rs 100 at many places across the country. In those places where the price hasn’t yet crossed Rs 100, petrol sells near to it. Prices of diesel too are high. It now sells near to Rs 90 — in cities like Mumbai, it...
Illusion Of Growth And Revival May Create Complacency
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The economic data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) for the first quarter from April to June for the financial year 2021-22 shows that economic recovery is gathering momentum, but the Modi government must avoid creating illusion of growth and revival on the basis...
Bengal BJP Making All Efforts To Postpone Bypolls In The Name Of Covid
By Arun Srivastava The BJP leadership at both central level and the state level, has been making efforts to create a climate in Bengal for ousting Mamata Banerjee from the chief ministership of the state. It is still very difficult but the state BJP leaders are continuing to put...
Many Imponderables Are Staring At The New Taliban Regime In Kabul
By Sankar Ray With the end of 20 year war and occupation by the US forces in Afghanistan as the latter officially ended its military presence in war-raked Afghanistan ending America’s longest war, the Taliban 2.0 will have a free hand to decide which way the new regime will...
India’s Export Market Is Looking Up Amidst New Global Opportunities
By K R Sudhaman India, which missed the bus twice in the past to pursue export-led growth in an era of globalization, is now in the midst of yet another opportunity to utilize trade as an engine of growth. The opportunity has come India’s way in the face of...
Afghanistan 2021: History Repeated Itself For British After 180 Years
By Devasis Chattopadhyay “Final British troops leave Afghanistan to end 20-year campaign” – screaming headline during the last weekend of August 2021 in The Guardian, UK. Boris Johnson, the prime minister, said in the story that now was a time to reflect on the UK’s mission in Afghanistan. “Twenty...
Economist J Dubashi Influenced Economic Policies Of BJP In Last Century
By Harihar Swarup Jay Dubashi is not remembered publicly by the BJP in the 21st century. But, in the 1980s and 1990s, the right wing economist would begin his day early in the party’s national headquarters, spending several hours poring over data and policies of the governments of Indira...
Farmers Morcha Determined To Make A Success Of Bharat Bandh On September 25
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Atul Kumar Anjaan, general secretary of All India Kisan Sabha said that all out preparations are on in the country to make a big success of the Bharat Bandh on September 25 called by Sanjukta Kisan Morcha. He informed that Samyukt Kisan Morcha at the...
Remembering Socialist Thinker Raymond Williams On His Centenary Year
By Peter hill Raymond Williams would not have claimed to have found all the answers. But we should remember him as one of the most thoughtful socialist writers of the 20th century. Raymond Williams was born on August 31, 1921, a hundred years ago today, and died in January...
Haryana Chief Minister Has No Explanation For Police Assault On Farmers
By Arun Srivastava While the Prime Minister Narendra Modi was inaugurating the renovated Jallianwala Bagh complex in Amritsar, his close friend from the RSS days chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, has hatched the conspiracy to enact a sort of mayhem on the agitating farmers. Khattar may outright deny his...
80 Crore People In India Are Facing A Pressing Nutritional Crisis
By Dr Arun Mitra Central Government’s scheme to give 5 Kilogram of grain and One Kilogram of Daal to 80 crore people is an acceptance of abject poverty in our country. This is at a time when the country is aspiring to be 5 trillion economy by 2024. It...
Workers’ Interests Are Neither Promoted Nor Protected
By Dr. Gyan Pathak There had been a wide range of unresolved labour-related issues in India even before COVID-19 struck the country, which has further been exacerbated by lockdowns and containment measures. Workers in both the formal and informal economy were by and large left on their own, and...
BJP Is Set To Make Use Of Narayan Rane Episode To Take On Uddhav Thackeray
By Sushil Kutty Once a gangster, always a gangster? Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai says Narayan Rane was once a small-time Mumbai ‘gunda’ who Shiva Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray noticed and adopted. Overnight Rane became a politician. Today, Narayan Rane is Union MSME Minister and micro, small and medium enterprises happen...
