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.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...
Equality And Rights Elude Minorities All Over The World Even In 2021
By Ajit Singh The concept of democracy, which had promised equal rights and voice for the voiceless and to act as a human rights watchdog to check injustice and atrocities in totalitarian and autocratic regimes, has failed to ensure equality for minorities even in the world’s largest democracy. Ironically,...
SC Verdict Re-Ignites Debate On Law Versus Lawmakers
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has passed a historical verdict on the powers of the legislature vis-à-vis other institutions of parliamentary democracy, declaring that the privileges of the elected representatives do not place them above the law of the land. The landmark decision by a bench comprising Justices...
The Assam-Mizoram Border Clash Has A Long History Of Conflict
By Barun Das Gupta The death of seven Assam policemen in armed clashes with the Mizoram police on July 26 is deplorable. Assam has “border disputes” with Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram for a long time. This time, according to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the clash with the...
Third Wave Of Covid-19 Will Be Hitting India Very Soon
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India may be only three to six weeks away from the predicted third wave of COVID-19 that may actually hit the country. Union Ministry of Health sounded alarm yesterday, though not for the third wave, but for slowing down in drop of new cases as...
The Spectre Of Mamata Banerjee Is Haunting Narendra Modi And BJP
By Arun Srivastava West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is on the mission to the National Capital, after assuming office for a third term, to prick the aura of Narendra Modi and dismantle the perception of his being invincible. Just before leaving for Delhi she sent a clear message...
Kerala LDF Suffers From Ally Trouble
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As if the plethora of problems plaguing the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) are not enough, its allies are giving the Front a big headache. The ‘culprits’ are the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Indian National League (INL). It was the NCP which embarrassed...
Payal Kapadia Wins Prestigious Golden Eye Award At Cannes Film Festival
By Harihar Swarup A student writes letter to her estranged lover, who has been pulled out of college by his parents for being in a relationship with her, a girl of different caste. Through her letters and story the viewers gets a sense of what can be like to...
Demand Is Rising Globally To Probe Pegasus Spyware’s Role In Snooping
By Sangam Four prominent U.S. lawmakers have jointly issued a statement calling for action against NSO-like companies that sell spyware to authoritarian regimes across the world. Terming such companies as the “A.Q. Khans of the cyber world”, the statement called for stricter regulations as it was used against “peaceful...
