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.Preventive Detention Laws In India: A Tool For Executive Tyranny?
By Jasir Aftab In the contemporary liberal-democratic era, where the right to personal liberty is near-universally recognised as of utmost importance and courts around the world readily interfere in cases concerning its infringement, preventive detention laws need to be examined with skepticism. They are a tool for detaining individuals...
Global Imbalance In Vaccinations Threatens Fight Against Pandemic
By John Bachtell As the Biden administration orchestrates a massive effort to open vaccination against COVID to every adult by April 19, a “shocking imbalance” in vaccination is occurring globally. While governments of many wealthier capitalist countries are vaccinating their populations, vaccinations have all but stalled in the global...
Too Early To Forecast India’s GDP Growth In FY 22
By Nantoo Banerjee The sudden spurt in Covid cases across the country over the last two weeks threatens India’s prospect of an early economic recovery in the current fiscal. Only last month, several national and global institutions, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and Reserve Bank had...
BJP Preparing For Babri 2.0 By Targeting Varanasi Mosque
By Amulya Ganguli Any presumption that the construction of the Ayodhya temple marked the end of the BJP’s religion-centric politics, ensuring that the Hindus and Muslims would live happily ever after, was a foolhardy one. The BJP has made so much headway by its pursuit of a Hindu agenda...
Election Commission Has Failed In Protecting Security Of Bengal Voters
By Arun Srivastava The Modi government’s narrative surrounding Sitalkuchi police firing in which four labourers were killed has been critically exposed. The nefarious design of Vivek Dube, the special police observer to put the blame on the local people lies shattered. In his report Dubey a known supporter of...
Conservative Banker Guillermo Lasso Wins Ecuadorian Presidential Elections
By Nitya Chakraborty The Left movement in Latin America got a big jolt on Sunday as the conservative banker Guillermo Lasso won the presidential elections in Ecuador in the run off by defeating the Left leaning candidate Andres Arauz who was much ahead in the opinion poll till the...
Dwindling Prospects For Indian Labour Working Abroad
By Gyan Pathak Internationally migrated people are among the most vulnerable groups to suffer disproportionally from COVID-19 pandemic. Due to repeated wave of infections destination countries and their people are hardening their policies and opinions about accepting the migrants. India is to greatly suffer in the present scenario posing...
Political Economy Of Covid-19 Vaccine Shortages In India
By Ravi Duggal As India enters the third phase of its ambitious COVID-19 vaccination drive, many state governments are reporting vaccine shortages and are having to close down some of their vaccination centres, with supplies available for only 2 or 3 days. Most of these states are non-Bharatiya Janta...
Has America Come Any Closer TO DR. Martin Luther King’s Dream?
By Jesse Jackson Last weekend marked the 53d anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination. Over half a century. Has America come any closer to his dream? He would be pleased at some of our progress. Segregation is no longer the law of the land. The Voting Rights Act...
PM’s Learning By Trial And Error Spells Disaster For Nation
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi has declared that a second lockdown is no solution to the second wave of Covid infection, which is threatening to spread with a vengeance, because the economy cannot handle such an eventuality. So far so good. If such good sense had dawned...
Tamil Nadu People Are Waiting With Bated Breath For Poll Results On May 2
By Harihar Swarup Tamil Nadu has a history of strong governments and powerful chief ministers: C Rajagopalachari, K Kamaraj, C N Annadurai, M Karunanidhi, M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa. Few states have had a line-up of such chief ministers whose stature equalled that of prominent national figures. The...
Acute Vaccine Shortage In India Has Posed A Big Challenge
By Gyan Pathak One cannot reconcile with two opposite reports – one coming from both BJP and non-BJP ruled states about closures of and rationing in many inoculation centres due to insufficient supply of vaccines in time, and the other from the Centre as a claim of having no...
Uddhav Thackeray Is Facing Multiple Challenges To His Government
By Sushil Kutty At first, it was an attempt by the BJP to malign the MVA Government soon after it emerged that then state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh had walked into a cul-de-sac. Suddenly, everybody on the run, caught in awkward situations including being hauled up in criminal cases,...
Bangladesh Continues Its Aggressive Export Policy During Pandemic
By Ashis Biswas Unlike most countries affected by a partial economic slowdown because of the ongoing Covid 19 pandemic, Bangladesh is not about to slow down its aggressive export drive. World Bank authorities during discussion a few days ago noted that during the past decade, India’s Eastern neighbour had...
Keir Starmer’s First Year As Labour Leader Has Been A Big Flop
By Grace Blakeley A year into his leadership, British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has managed to defy the expectations of even his most ardent critics. When he was elected, polls found that he had broad levels of support across many demographics. In a relatively short period of time...
Minimum Basic Income Can Only Protect Poor And Jobless In Second Wave Of Virus
By Nitya Chakraborty The second wave of corona virus is sweeping India virtually paralysing people’s lives in many states, especially Maharashtra leading to night curfew and lockdown in large parts of the virus affected districts. The threat of prolonged lock down is looming large if the wave goes on...
Modi Government Has Little Concern For Poor At This Period Of Virus
By Prabhat Patnaik When Elizabeth Warren a contender for American presidentship had proposed a progressive wealth tax during her campaign for Democratic Party nomination, 18 American billionaires had come out in support of her proposal; one cannot recall or even imagine any comparable behaviour in the Indian context. This...
Acute Labour Crisis Looming Large, May Reverse Economic Recovery
By Gyan Pathak The fear of the lockdown has returned almost after a year to haunt the migrant labour again. The chaos like the last year is yet not surfaced this year, but it does not mean people are less fear stricken. It is because the relocking of the...
