Opinion
Appeal
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.Pandemic Has Exposed The Social Inequalities In India As Never Before
By Devasis Chattopadhyay All of us want the pandemic to be over. We all want a coherent post-pandemic world. But what really the future holds for us? This black swan event is alarming because it still has unfamiliar features. This is a global medical emergency caused by a virus...
Chile Elects Indigenous Woman As President Of Constitutional Body
By Steve Sweeney Chile’s indigenous population is celebrating a historic victory after the election of a Mapuche woman as president of the country’s Constitutional Convention at its first session on Sunday. Elisa Loncon won 96 votes in the second round of voting among the 155-member assembly tasked with drafting...
Corporatisation Of Ordnance Factories May Lead To Selective Privatisation
By Nantoo Banerjee The government decision to disband the Ordnance Factories Board (OFB), under the department of defence production, to convert and regroup its 41 units into seven wholly-owned corporate enterprises may or may not change the business fortune of these factories, but it will certainly reshape the more-than-three...
Opposition Parties Need To Get Their Act Together In Uttar Pradesh
By Amulya Ganguli At a time when the opposition should have had an easy run in U.P. in the aftermath of the Yogi Adityanath government’s mismanagement of the Covid crisis which set the alarm bells ringing in the RSS and the BJP camps, the poor performance of the Samajwadi...
Guaranteed Income Support Could Have Saved Millions During Pandemic
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Since the start of COVID-19, the pandemic has seriously impacted at least 60 per cent people from the bottom on the scale of income in every country. Only a little more spending would have prevented millions of them from falling into poverty and great human...
Privatising Banks Means Receding Rights Of Poor In Getting Services
By Tanvi Apte and Ankush Rai It has been around a year and a half since the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc around the world. India has also not been spared of the pandemic’s wrath. Over the last few months, there has been significant discussion on how the Indian...
Afghan Government Losing Control To Taliban As US Forces Withdraw In Bulk
By Sankar Ray Many diplomats who now keep watch on strategic shifts in Afghanistan and around are deeply worried over the CIA forecast that the Afghan Government will in all probability collapse within six months after the US troops withdrawal. Apparently, the syndrome is manifest .as in less than...
Massive Demonstrations Against President Bolsonaro Rock Brazil Polity
By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazil which plays a key role in transforming the politics of the Latin American region is undergoing a big churning. This was most evident in the last one week as thousands of citizens staged massive rallies in all the major cities of the country on Saturday...
A Front Of Opposition Parties Against BJP Before 2024 Poll Is Possible
By Harihar Swarup The relentless search for a modern-day Chanakya has seen union home minister Amit Shah being projected as his contemporary avatar, even though there is much more to the Arthashastra than a “power at all costs” mantra. Now, after his role in the Bengal triumph, Prashant Kishor,...
Educational Catastrophe That Lies Beyond The Pandemic
By K Raveendran In the government’s initiatives to counter the economic and social impacts of Covid pandemic, education seems to have received the least priority, as this sector has been considered as most expendable because the impact of such neglect is not immediately discernible. The response of the government,...
Covid-19 Threat Spreading To Areas With No Water To Wash Hands
By Gyan Pathak Handwashing have been one of the most effective recommendations to prevent infection and spread of COVID-19. However, 3 in 10 people worldwide could not follow this recommendation during the pandemic because they did not have water in their homes to do that. They remained safe only...
Tirath’s Resignation Marks A Sign Of Caution For Mamata Banerjee
By Arun Srivastava Mission “remove Mamata Banerjee from office” launched by the union home minister Amit Shah has reached to the flash point and to give the final thrust to the operation the BJP leadership today sacrificed its Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat. Today he handed over his...
Will One Nation One Ration Card Help Migrant Workers?
By Ditsa Bhattacharya Recognising that migrant workers are often excluded from the ambit of the food security net under the National Food Security Act (NFSA), the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed all state governments to formulate schemes to provide rations to migrant workers who do not possess ration cards....
Continuing U.S. Blockade Of Cuba Is Against All International Norms
By Ken Livingstone Countries around the world have again demanded at the United Nations that the United States lift the blockade of Cuba that it has been imposing since 1962. On June 23 2021 in the 29th vote at the UN general assembly on the issue of the US...
India Under Narendra Modi Surrendering National Interests To USA
By D. Raja The prime minister attended G7 outreach summit virtually. Known for giving mantras and acronyms frequently, prime minister pitched for ‘One Earth, One Health’ at this rich countries exclusive club. This is ironic since the same prime minister had remained on-committal for the longest time in ensuring...
Time For Mass Actions, Political Discourses To Defeat BJP In Lok Sabha Poll
By Binoy Viswam Political observers and strategy framers have begun preparing for the decisive political battle in 2024. With time, they have evolved their strategy in a rather professional cum speculative manner. Their paid and unpaid services have already made inroads in to the political and organizational structures of...
Bring Informal Workforce Under Social Security Cover
By Gyan Pathak Over 60 per cent of the world’s adult population have been facing a threat to their survival. They are about two billions in number. They are informal workers, working chiefly in informal sector. Informal workers working in formal sectors may add millions to this figure. COVID-19...
BJP Trying To Mislead Apex Court About Bengal Violence Narrative
By Arun Srivastava It is heartening to see that the spirit of federalism and nationalism has conjured the two Uttar Pradesh based people, Ranjana Agnihotri, a lawyer, and Jitender Singh, a social worker, both owing allegiance to the BJP, requesting the Supreme Court to impose President’s Rule in Bengal,...
