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.Vaccination: Perfect On Paper, Disastrous On Ground
By Harihar Swarup India has four decades of experience in running a national immunisation programme for children and pregnant women. It has successfully conducted large-scale mass vaccination drives for many years for polio elimination. Therefore, there was every reason to believe it could deliver Covid-19 vaccines efficiently; however, the...
Modi Govt Forced To Spend All Its Energies On Firefighting
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi was seen struggling to hold back tears while paying tribute to those who lost their lives in the second wave of Covid. Obviously, the opposition parties are not impressed by what they consider as histrionics. There is no doubt that Modi is...
Jobs And Household Incomes Nosediving
By Gyan Pathak We must not be misled by the figures of economic growth and revival being reported in the media now-a-days. Rather, we need to analyse them carefully, because they are being compared with a low base of the pandemic year 2020, to present a rosy picture of...
Bengal Loss A Challenge To Centre’s Act East Policy
By Subrata Majumder West Bengal and North East Region (NER) are at the geographical heartland of India for the axis to Act East policy. The proximity of both to South East Asia and East Asia is the bedrock for strategic policies to promote India’s relations with these regions. Nevertheless,...
Central TUs Support Farmers Unions Call For Observing Black Day On May 26
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has given a call to observe 26th may, 2021 as a Black Day for Indian Democracy. That is the day Narendra Modi Government took oath of office in 2014 and then again on 30th May in 2019. 26th May is the...
Why Vaccination Drive Failed Despite World’s Largest Capacity
By Prabir Purkayastha Our first concept of self-reliance came out of our struggle for independence. It meant developing the indigenous capacity of our people, institutions and industry against the colonial control of the economy. The second self-reliance – Modi’s slogan of Atmanirbhar Bharat – means only local manufacturing. Without...
Best Homage To Sunderlal Bahuguna Is Protection Of Environment
By Bharat Dogra Sunderlal Bahuguna is no more. The veteran environmentalist and Chipko movement leader passed away on May 21 around noon at a hospital in Rishikesh, where he had been admitted about two weeks ago following Covid-type symptoms. He was born in a village along the bank of...
Left Democrats Put Big Pressure On Biden To Work For Cease-Fire
By Nitya Chakraborty The Left democrats, especially the progressive caucus have achieved a major victory in influencing the foreign policy by persuading the Biden presidency to take a tough line towards aggressive Israeli regime and compelling the prime minister Netanyahu to agree to a cease- fire. This was the...
Destitution, Hunger And The Lockdown
By Prabhat Patnaik On March 24, 2020, Narendra Modi had announced that the country would go into a lockdown after four hours! This nation-wide lockdown was to last till the end of May, after which there were local lockdowns but not a general one. It brought acute hardship to...
Centre Must Initiate Talks With Agitating Farmers
By Gyan Pathak After the 11th round of talks between the Centre and the farmers’ unions broke down on January 22, the Centre preferred to test the patience of the agitating farmers rather than taking initiatives for renewing talks with them. Both the sides remained adamant on their stand...
Daunting Challenges Before Pinarayi 2.0
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The newly sworn in Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government is on cloud nine. It has every right to feel ecstatic as Pinarayi has become the first communist chief minister to win a second consecutive term in office, bucking the trend of the LDF...
Exit USA And Enter China Into Afghan Stage
By Sankar Ray No sooner had the USA and NATO announced the unconditional withdrawal of its troops by the twentieth anniversary of 9-11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon, rattling the shaky-from-the beginning peace talks, than the diplomatic circles specialising the nebulous geopolitics...
Punjab Feud Mars Congress Chances In 2022
By Rahil Nora Chopra With farmers angry with the BJP over the new contentious farm laws, there was a presumption that the next assembly election in Punjab would be a cake walk for the Congress. But the running feud between Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu, who...
End Israeli Aggression, Free Palestine
By Prakash Karat The Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Jerusalem and the Israeli aggression on Gaza are not disparate or coincidental events. They are part of the long war waged by the Israeli State against the Palestinian people – in the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank...
RSS Attempt To Swim Over The Tide
By Binoy Viswam RSS, the ideological harbinger of the Modi government, has come to the scene openly. While the Prime Minister and his team handle the grave situation unleashed by the second wave of the pandemic in their typical style, the RSS patriarchs could grasp the real gravity of...
RSS Launches Mission “Positivity Unlimited” To Protect Modi
By Arun Srivastava In the backdrop of Narendra Modi facing the worst drubbing of his political life with international media describing him as “India’s narcissistic Prime Minister” and “shameless demagogue” to revealing steep decline in his popularity, the four-day exercise of “Positivity Unlimited” organised by the RSS chief Mohan...
Learning Deficit A Permanent Scarring Of Covid, Says ADB
By Anjan Roy The Asian Development Bank’s Outlook 2021 is not overwhelmed by the sweeping covid pandemic incidence on the region. It has forecast resurgence in East and South Asia and somewhat sluggish growth elsewhere in the Asian continent. While there will be some transient damages to the economies...
Kejriwal’s Third Covid Wave Warning Is No Child’s Play
By Sushil Kutty The Modi Government has ruled out suspending flights from Singapore just because Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said so, arguing that Kejriwal is “not competent to speak for India”. Kejriwal wanted Singapore quarantined because a ‘Singapore variant’ of Covid-19 that preferred children could be heading for...
