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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.Netflix’s Ray Tells Us, The System Is Not Larger Than Life
By Papri Sri Raman Playing with the germ of an Idea, Ray, the new series on Netflix, is brilliantly iconoclast and innovative from several points of view. Released in June, coinciding with the Ray birth anniversary, these four short films, harvested from four short stories Satyajit Ray wrote in...
New Ministers From Uttar Pradesh With Eye On Lok Sabha Elections
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Uttar Pradesh assembly election in 2022 is the semi final before the final of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, as Uttar Pradesh is a crucial state and plays an important role in Lok Sabha polls. Seeing this, seven ministers from Uttar Pradesh were sworn...
Migrants Workers In India Deserve More Than Food Security
By Reetika Khera As we dealt with the nightmarish second wave of Covid-19, the trauma of workers stranded in our cities last year without food, water, work or shelter quietly faded from public memory. One year later, the 29 June order of the Supreme Court brought back memories of...
Criminal Justice System In India Has To Be Empathy-Driven And Reform-Oriented
By Joysheel Shrivastava The objectives of the Indian criminal justice include penalizing, reforming, and rehabilitating the offender. Reformation is its ultimate goal, as the system professes to be more rehabilitative than retributive. However, the system still fails offenders on three counts: (i) ground realities make it more punitive than...
Haiti Is In Big Political Crisis After Assassination Of President Jovenel Moise
By C.J. Atkins In the pre-dawn hours of July 7, the president-turned-dictator of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, was gunned down in his home by assassins. Two men now make duelling claims to be prime minister—and thus head of government. Many Haiti observers warn the stage may be set for the...
Why Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Why Not Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
By Sushil Kutty Doubt if ex-health minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan has many fans. Maybe close kin, and a few good friends. But, is he the incompetent he’s made out to be because he was shown the door by Prime Minister Narendra Modi? The question includes almost all of the...
French Judicial Probe Into Rafale Deal Justifies A Similar Inquiry In India
By Prakash Karat The opening of a judicial probe in France on June 14, 2021, into suspected ‘corruption’, ‘influence-peddling’, ‘money laundering’, ‘favouritism and undue tax waivers’ surrounding the €7.87 billion Rafale-India deal has given new life to a major scandal that the Narendra Modi government has done its best...
Demise Of Fr. Stan Swamy Is A Wake Up Call To All Democrats
By D. Raja Father Stan Swamy, 84 years old Jesuit priest, left us all, felled by institutional murder. His death is the direct outcome of the corporate-fascist nexus running amok in the country. Falsely labelled as an anti-national, incarcerated for eight months awaiting trial, Father Stan had dedicated his...
Pandemic Has Shown The Deepening And Wider Divisions In Indian Society
By Krishna Jha In the deep shadows of Pandemic, the society faces a divide, etched in blood. The vast sections of the masses, fighting the acute scarcity and steep rise in prices of essentials, also realise that the challenges are inherent in the system itself. To surmount them needs...
Cabinet Reshuffle An Exercise Aimed At Winning Assembly Elections
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi loyalists and sycophants have been raining accolades on him for Wednesday’s union cabinet rejig and describing him as the most visionary leaders for his move to show the door to his ministerial colleagues, Dr Harsh Vardhan, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javadekar and Ramesh Pokhriyal....
Cabinet Reshuffle Is Meant To Repair The BJP’s Image Before Coming Polls
By Amulya Ganguli More than the inclusion of Sarbananda Sonowal and Jyotiraditya Scindia in Narendra Modi’s new cabinet, which was expected, it is the unexpected exclusion of old hands like Harsh Vardhan, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Prakash Javadekar which is surprising. Yet, their exits can not only be explained,...
Political Realignment Begins In Bihar With Union Cabinet Reshuffle
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the reshuffle of the Union Cabinet, realignment in Bihar politics has just begun. The already dominant OBC politics in Bihar is sure to undergo a change because the BJP has focused on the OBC politics in the country which is also indicated in the...
Peru Stages General Strike For Pedro Castillo As Coup Fears Intensify
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Latin American countries are in the midst of a major political turmoil as in Peru, the rightists led by the defeated candidate Ms. Fujimori have launched a vigorous campaign to nullify the results of the presidential elections held last month in which the leftwing candidate...
Crude Market In Wild Swings Should Cause Worry
By K Raveendran Fuel prices have already tested consumers’ capacity to pay, not necessarily due unduly high crude prices. But the oil market in the past few days have been witnessing wild swings, which also implied the potential for a further spike, which will be disastrous for the Indian...
Secret Meetings Generate Big Confusion In Maharashtra Ruling Alliance
By Sushil Kutty ‘Fluid’ is the word that best describes the Maharashtra political situation with two old flames suddenly discovering that they cannot live apart, that the once live-in relationship ought to be rejuvenated just so that everybody and not just themselves could live happily ever after. And ex-chief...
Criminal Justice System In India Needs Complete Overhaul To Give Human Touch
By Arun Srivastava Fr Stan Swamy will no more be present to move a bail petition and bother the judges to spare their precious time to listen to his sufferings. He is a liberated soul. It is for the Director of the NIA to undertake some extra amount of...
Next 18 Months Are Crucial For Reversing Setbacks In Development Goals
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The picture of the unprecedented setback to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during the last one and half years of COVID-19 pandemic is indeed worrying, yet brighter future is still possible, for which the next 18 months are crucial, and during this time SDG...
Divyanath Panwar Is Now Top Rifle Shooter Preparing For Tokyo Olympic
By Harihar Swarup Seven years ago, a 11-year old boy in Jaipur excitedly watched Apurvi Chandela in her shooting gear train at the Jagatpura range. As India’s top woman rifle shooter, Chandela was the new sporting star in the city and inspiring for budding shooters, Divyanath Panwar was among...
