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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.Many Lessons To Learn From Recent General Elections Held In Vietnam
By Amiad Horowitz We Americans are used to the never-ending and increasingly costly cycle of U.S. electoral campaigns. Theoretically, elections are supposed to happen once every two to six years depending on the office and, one would think, campaigns for those elections would coincide with the election schedule. The...
CPI(M) Leader Mythily Sivaraman Passes Away In Chennai On Sunday
By Satyaki Chakraborty Mythily Sivaraman, veteran Marxist leader, a champion of workers and women’s rights and a formidable name and popular political leader from Tamil Nadu, passed away in Chennai on Sunday. She was 84 and is survived by her husband and daughter. Sivaraman, a leading member of the...
India’s Investor Friendly Image Gathers Momentum
By Nantoo Banerjee It remains a big mystery over the last seven years of the BJP rule as to why the government continues to defend an indefensible law, allowing retrospective tax demand on companies, enacted in 2012 by the previous United Progressive Alliance regime. The law was a brainchild...
BJP Is Getting Nervous About Poll Prospects In Uttar Pradesh
By Amulya Ganguli The BJP’s opponents had easily outrun the saffron party in the last round of assembly elections, winning in three – West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu – of the four states. Even in the fourth, Assam, they performed well enough in terms of vote share if...
Narendra Modi Trampling The Bengali Sub-Nationality Sensibilities
By Arun Srivastava Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was absolutely right in his avowal that second wave of corona which consumed lakhs of innocent people happened because of Narendra Modi failing to perform his moral responsibilities. No incident could illustrate Narendra Modi’s incompetent handling of the pandemic in a more...
China, Bangladesh Thrive On India’s Cattle Export Ban
By Ashis Biswas It may sound ironic, but Bangladesh and China have profited substantially from the NDA Government’s cattle export ban introduced in mid 2014. This comes as no surprise to the growing tribe of critics of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Says a Kolkata- based analyst, ‘A...
With His Bogus Claims, Ramdev Is Pushing Patanjali Products
By Prabir Purkayastha All publicity is good publicity—so the old marketing slogan goes. Is that why Ramdev courts controversy by laughing at Covid-19 victims gasping for air on his Aastha channel? His attack on allopathic medicine as “stupid science” and false claims that “10,000 doctors have died” after two...
Anti-Bolsonaro Protests Sweep More Than 200 Cities Across Brazil
By Steve Sweeney Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro faced calls to resign as mass protests swept more than 200 cities demanding his impeachment over the country’s coronavirus crisis. He has been accused of “genocide” by former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva over his reckless handling of the Covid-19...
Mamata’s Massive Victory In Bengal Has Opened Up National Possibilities
By Harihar Swarup Mamata Banerjee’s political victory in the West Bengal elections is remarkably impressive. Here was a chief minister (CM) who successfully defied two-term anti-incumbency — and while there have been other CMs who have successfully returned to power for a third time (Narendra Modi is a prime...
How Does Changing A Way Of Life Help Anybody In Lakshadweep?
By Sushil Kutty Malayalam actor Prithviraj Sukumaran stands with the people of Lakshadweep who want Lakshadweep administrator Praful Khoda Patel upended in the Arabian Sea at a spot far away from Gujarat, which is where Patel, a close acquaintance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, belongs to. For those walking...
Modi Govt Reduces Statecraft To Worse Than Witchcraft
By K Raveendran Statecraft is broadly understood to be the art of governing and the conduct of national politics. It enjoins on the players a certain minimum standards in terms of probity, which is an essential requirement for an efficient and effective system of governance and socio-economic development of...
Unemployment Going From Bad To Worse Every Week
By Gyan Pathak Every consecutive week of May 2021 brought higher rate of unemployment and a great humanitarian crisis underneath. The situation has been going from bad to worse month after month which crossed the terrible double digit mark in the week ending May 21 when it was 10.3...
Congress Needs Rejuvenation To Take The Lead In Uniting Opposition
By Ashok B Sharma Second wave of COVID has placed Modi government on the back foot. Public resentment against the government is rising. But he is lucky in absence of a national alternative to take on the government. He faces stiff resistance from the regional parties. But the regional...
Villages Ravaged By Pandemic As India’s Federal Structure Crumbles
By Rishabh Shukla and Shivangi Shukla The devastating impact of the second wave of Covid-19 and the bitter truth about the impending third wave is alarming to the federal structure of the country as presently, there are more than 306 districts with a positivity rate of 20 percent or...
How The Public Healthcare In Canada Emerged As A Global Model?
By Dave McKee Canadian media and politicians claim that the country’s public health care system is “what separates us from the Americans.” Social democrats have baptized Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)/New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Tommy Douglas as the “Father of Medicare,” the official name for Canada’s health system. Election...
Unemployment Is The Cruellest Blow Of The Pandemic
By Anjan Roy Unemployment stemming from the spread of covid infection is the cruellest part of the pandemic, apart from the deaths and suffering caused by the disease. World wide millions of people have already been pushed into poverty because of the lack of incomes and employment. On preliminary...
Proposal For A Minimum Global Corporate Tax Rate Is A Positive Signal
By Prabhat Patnaik Following its $1.9 trillion Ovid-relief package, the Biden administration has further announced an infrastructure package of $2.3 trillion. But in contrast to the former which is to be spent within months, the latter is to be spent over an eight-year period. And this package in turn...
Two Agonising Years Of Devastation Under Narendra Modi Regime
By Sitaram Yechury These two years since the Modi II government was re-elected saw the consolidation of the process, with renewed vigour, put in motions even years ago, post-2014 elections, of the realisation of the RSS project of converting India into their conception of a rabidly intolerant, theocratic, fascistic...
