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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.Budget Should Be Strong On Substance, Short On Rhetoric
By Nantoo Banerjee It is time to deliver a budget like never before. This fiscal, India has recorded the biggest economic degrowth since independence. The budget for 2021-22 must focus on a specific road map to stabilise the economy, help increase consumption, grow employment and compress government....
More Public Spending To Step Up Job Generation, Is Need Of The Moment
By Anjan Roy Every year, budgets come and budgets go. But the budget for fiscal year 2021-22 will be an extraordinary effort in the background of an unprecedented disruption in nation’s life. First, last one year the pandemic hit economy, leaving an imprint of a loss...
Congress Has To Find New Narrative To Attract The Youth And Common Masses
By Kalyani Shankar Will the Gandhis continue to control the 135 year- old Congress party or will it shrink further? This is the question dogging not only the Congress leaders but also the millions of party workers. The party is gripped by the most serious leadership crisis...
Budget 2021-22 Must Make Sense For MSMEs
By Gyan Pathak When crores of people are without jobs, economy is suffering from twin crisis of demand and supply, reviving the MSMEs and opening up doors to create new ones, make sense. Budget 2021-22 must do that, since all the MSMEs were shut down with lockdown orders...
Oommen Chandy’s Star Rises Before Polls In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The more things change, the more they remain the same. These words encapsulate the state of affairs in the Congress in Kerala right now. There was a big clamour for change in the leadership of the Congress in the wake of the...
Right Wing Outbursts Against Netflix Streaming Tandav Have No Real Basis
By Papri Sri Raman For a long long time, right-wing thinktanks have wanted an elite university. A Vivekananda University with a proven brand image. They have not yet got it. Their unions have been active in student politics since the 1980s. From the 790-odd universities, they have chosen...
Will BJP’S Wooing Of Subhas Bose Help The Party In Bengal Polls?
By Amulya Ganguli Subhas Chandra Bose is the latest non-Hindutva luminary to be appropriated by the BJP in its search to gain wider acceptability. Having no leaders of national stature of its own, the party and the Sanghparivar have had no option but to engage in a poaching...
January 26 This Year: A Day Of Two Republic Day Parades
By Arun Srivastava During the 72 years of India turning Republic, the country has never witnessed taking out of two parallel parades to celebrate the auspicious day on which the Constitution to safe guard the interest and democratic aspiration of the people was implemented. While the...
Transparency And Trust Are Two Pillars Of Good National Governance
By Harihar Swarup Transparency and trust are two major — and interrelated — pillars of public policy decision-making. Transparency is the principle of allowing those affected by decisions to know about the outcome and the process that led to those decisions. Transparent governance means that government officials act...
Govt To Blame For Botched Talks With Agitating Farmers
By K Raveendran Thanks to Covid, the Modi government could put an abrupt end to the agitation against citizenship laws, albeit at a time when the movement was showing signs of spiraling out of control. But Covid has had no impact on the farmers agitation, as it has...
With Talks Making No Headway, Farmers Movement Getting BJP Flak
By Arun Srivastava Resorting to the peaceful Gandhian Satyagrah or protest is the biggest crime in India. For last two months the Narendra Modi government has been tolerating the Gndhian Satyagrah of farmers, but he is no more willing to endure it. So far the IT cell...
BJP Leadership Is Worried At Continuation Of Farmers Agitation
By Rahil Nora Chopra The farmers protest has put the centre in a tight spot. Both the government and the protesting farmers look equally determined not to give in. The farmers and former Congress president Rahul Gandhi are repeatedly exhorting that the laws are meant to benefit three or...
India’s Data Protection Regime Must Learn From The Whatsapp Fiasco
By Parvathi Sajivand Shagun Bhargava On January 5 this year, WhatsApp notified its users in India and other countries of changes to its privacy policy and terms and conditions which would come into effect on 8 February. Though, many users consent to changes in policies and terms and...
Budget 2021-22 Needs A Job-Oriented Growth Vaccine For Revival
By Nitya Chakraborty The first budget of the Narendra Modi Government in a period of pandemic is being presented on February 1 this year. Hardly ten days are left. The pandemic and lock down battered Indian economy is looking for a recipe which should be of relief to...
Farmers Are Fighting For Upholding The Constitution
By Prabhat Patnaik In its systematic attempt to vilify the farmers’ movement against the three infamous agriculture bills that open peasant agriculture to corporate take-over, the government keeps using the argument that the opposition to these bills is confined to farmers only from a couple of states, that...
American Labor Unions Heartily Welcome Biden-Harris Inauguration
By Mark Gruenberg As expected, union leaders warmly welcomed the January 20, inauguration of Democratic President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, whom organized labor helped push to victory last fall. But they split between endorsement and silence on a main theme of Biden’s inaugural address:...
PUCL And 100 Organisations Demand The Repeal Of The UAPA
By Parvathi Sajiv In a session packed with human stories of abuse and misuse of law where activists and commoners were abused, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) began a three-day session on January 20 with over 100 other organisations comprising advocates, activists and others who spoke...
Central Trade Unions Urge Centre To Put On Hold Four Labour Codes
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions (CTUs) in statement on January 20 urged the government of India to put on hold all the four codes and then to start afresh discussions with the CTUs on each of the labour code in the true spirit...
