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.Pegasus’ Legendary Thunderbolt Strikes Modi Govt
By K Raveendran Pegasus, the winged horse, is supposed to carry thunderbolts as per Greek mythology. It seems one of these bolts has struck the Modi government, which is in a real predicament over the use of the Israeli spyware to snoop on people in India. Whether such use...
Home Minister Amit Shah’s Failure In Assam-Mizoram Dispute Is Glaring
By Sushil Kutty Amit Shah! If there’s a ring of authority to the name, it’s because ‘Shah’ spells ‘Amit’, like in the ‘Rishtey mei toh hum tumhare baap lagte hain, naam hai Shehanshah’, which is a ringtone that sounds like ‘The name is Bond, James Bond!’ But this is...
Battle Against Pandemic In India Is A Long Drawn One With Twists And Turns
By Harihar Swarup Despite improvements in daily vaccination numbers and the promise of increased supply, challenges persist in India’s vaccination drive. First, there is a sharp rural-urban disparity (which, to be sure, is narrowing) in per capita vaccination numbers, and second, there are intermittent “dry” days in some parts...
Safely Reopening Of Schools Is Now Possible
By Gyan Pathak Reopening schools after closure of about 16 months since the lockdown from March 24, 2020 is being felt necessary, but the fear of COVID-19 infection has made the government indecisive on reopening and parents hesitant about sending their children to schools, though we have seen in...
Mamata Banerjee Has Maximum Capability To Unite The Opposition Parties
By Arun Srivastava Mamata Banerjee’s task to bring together the entire opposition on a common platform and evolve a unity model is more arduous and daunting than the challenges being faced by Rahul Gandhi. For accomplishing her mission she has not only to make agree the opposition parties to...
South Asian Nations Have To Meet Challenges Of Covid And Health Care
By Dr. Arun Mitra Use of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August 1945 respectively led to a situation where the common man was struck in dismay; even the military strategists of Japan could not imagine that such a powerful and devastating weapon had already...
New Emigration Bill A Step Forward, But Indians Need More
By Vasanth Adithya. J India is a labour intensive nation with the largest diaspora in the world. According to a United Nations report, “Migration 2020 Highlights”, close to 18 million (1.8 crores) Indians live and work outside the country. Several independent investigative reports have highlighted the grave exploitation of...
Mamata Banerjee’s Talks During Delhi Visit Have Formed The Basis Of Opposition Unity
By Nitya Chakraborty West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s talks in Delhi during her five day visit beginning July 26, have helped in a big way in facilitating the process of an understanding in principle that the Congress has to be a major partner in the proposed front of...
In Three Decades Of Liberalisation In India, Fruits Of Growth Have Not Gone To Poor
By Prabhat Patnaik It is thirty years since India adopted neoliberal policies in 1991, though some would date their introduction even earlier to 1985. Newspapers are full of assessments of the impact of these policies on the economy, and liberalisers from Manmohan Singh downwards, have suddenly become visible, lauding...
Serious Threat To Economy And Health Continues
By Gyan Pathak Despite some positive developments, serious threat to economy and health continues, warned the mid-year review of the WTO. To overcome the risk the countries across the world need to keep the markets and supply chain open and restrictions minimized it suggested. The report was reviewed by...
U.S. President’s Programme To Give Incentives For Vaccination Is A Novel One
By Sushil Kutty United States President Joe Biden is giving away $100 each to citizens who vaccinate. State and local governments have been told to draw from Biden’s $1.9 trillion ‘American Rescue Plan’ to incentivize vaccinations. The $100 incentive might “sound unfair” to those who have already vaccinated, but...
Could Didi Get The Opposition Together To Take Modi On?
By Rahil Nora Chopra West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi at 10 Janpath on Wednesday, 28 July, is being keenly watched by political observers all over the country. It’s obvious that Banerjee is keen on assuming a national role and...
United States Is Silently Expanding Its Military Presence In Africa
By Eileen Whitehead It is almost impossible to find out any news of what is happening in Africa. It’s as though the continent is completely off the media’s radar, yet what is happening there will have consequences for the whole world. The reason why this region is subjected to...
Unalloyed Lies Mark Modi Govt’s Statements In Parliament In Monsoon Session
By Prakash Karat The first week of the monsoon session of parliament has revealed a lot about the character of the Modi government. In the space of a few days, the government went on record with two untruths. The first was the equivocal statement by the minister of information...
Modi Government Admitted Snooping Through Pegasus In Parliament In 2019
By Krishna Jha Will the winged horse ever get rooted? Will it ever be able to boast of a key to treasure of truth? Truth that appeared in the Lok Sabha shackled in untruths? Truth that is the ultimate objective for the Parliament to deliver to people for the...
Don’t Consign Working Households To Peril
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Majority of working households in India have been undergoing an unprecedented hardship ever since countrywide lockdown was announced on March 24, 2020. They were largely uncovered by any social security schemes on the one hand and only 28 per cent of them had salary earning...
Blinken Comes And Leaves Giving No Big Assurance To India
By Sushil Kutty US Secretary of State Antony Blinken doesn’t know much about the people of the region he visited. South Asia abounds with the weirdo. The day before Blinken arrived, five Pakistani men gang-raped a goat and murdered it before they fled. Last heard the police were hunting...
New Era Begins In Peru Under Leftwing President Pedro Castillo
By Satyaki Chakraborty Pedro Castillo was finally sworn in as Peruvian president on July 28 on the 200th anniversary of the Andean country’s independence from Spain. With this, the Latin American nation entered a new era to be ruled by a self proclaimed Marxist-Leninist who has promised to impart...
