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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.SBI Sold Electoral Bonds Worth Rs 6,492.7 Crore Without Transparency
By Yogesh Sapkale The anonymity provided to the donors by electoral bonds (EBs) is making it the preferred choice for big donors, including corporates. Over the past three years, State Bank of India (SBI), the official channel for selling these instruments, has sold EBs worth Rs 6,492.68 crore...
Great Singer Paul Robeson’s Biography ‘Ballad Of A Soldier’ Is A Great Read
By Tony Pecinovsky 2020 has been a tumultuous year. Millions marched in the streets against police brutality and violence after the killing of George Floyd. They were tear-gassed, shot with rubber bullets and percussion grenades, and run over, among any number of other civil liberties abuses. Their demand...
Polarised India Has To Look Ways For Compromises With Mutual Respect
By Harihar Swarup In a feat of political compartmentalization with no domestic parallel, BJP has managed to sail through post-liberalisation India’s first recession year, the worst public health crisis since Independence, a protracted Chinese presence on the LAC and the largest farmer mobilisation in three decades. Despite the...
India Needs A Genuine Anti-Trust Legislation
By K Raveendran The erstwhile Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission was denounced by all shades of liberal opinion as an integral part of licence raj. However, despite the expressed intent of preventing monopolies, as the entity’s name suggested, India’s major corporate houses flourished as monopolies under its...
Pandemic Strikes Law, Lawyers And The Legal System Hard
By Sanjoy Ghose Lawyers are obsessed with Latin–a dead language with few takers. Often, lawyers unconsciously, and at times, consciously, pepper their conversations with a healthy dose of Latin. When you hear “qua”, “inter alia” and “quid pro quo” in small talk, more likely than not, you are...
Globally 2020 Was A Year Of Movements Not Moments
By Keith Flett Perhaps for several understandable reasons the reality that 2020 has been a year of worldwide protest has been rather missing from the numerous media summaries of the last 12 months. After all, a deadly pandemic has seized the world and led to illness and...
United Struggle To Safeguard Constitutional Values Is Priority In 2021
By Binoy Viswam As the year 2021 begins leaving behind 2020 — the year battered world over by Covid pandemic, the left and the democratic forces of India declare that our struggle for a new India where the dreams of freedom are fulfilled, would continue. In New Year...
No Solution Of Farmers Grievances Possible Within Ambit Of Three Laws
By Prabhat Patnaik The kisans gathered around the Delhi border have unerringly put their fingers on the real issue confronting them, namely their very survival as peasants. Till now there was an arrangement in the country which, though crumbling under the impact of neo-liberalism, still kept the peasantry...
For Opposition, 2021 Should Be Taken As The Year Of Vigorous Renewal
By Sushil Kutty India saw in 2021 at 12 am last night. This morning came the CNN message in the inbox “Brighter days are coming…” Yeah, well, hope so. For CNN, at least, after being battered with charges of “fake news” and other disparaging Trump-coinage for four...
BJP Is Desperate To Create Fissures In Congress-AIUDF Alliance Bid In Assam
By Ashis Biswas Well ahead of the Assam Assembly elections next year, the pre-poll campaign rhetoric exchanged between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its bête noire the pro-minority All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) is turning increasingly vicious. The situation has worsened after serious charges...
2021 Must Ensure Fairness By Apex Court To Rights Of Commoners
By Samriddhi Chatterjee, Sayan Chandra and Aman Garg It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It was an unprecedented effort to save the world’s largest democracy from the clutches of what had become the Leviathan of a selected few. It was...
Mamata’s National Stature Will Depend On Assembly Election Results
By Rahil Nora Chopra Do or Die situation for the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the coming West Bengal assembly elections, Firstly if she wins third time, she may expand her party base outside Bengal and become the face of opposition candidate for the Lok Sabha election in 2024...
Even After Brexit Deal, Uncertainty Looms Over United Kingdom
By Arun Srivastava Finally the Brexit deal has been approved by the UK House of Commons. The way the house proceeding was conducted amidst rebellion by a large section of the Labour MPs, it is certain that it would dominate the political discourse of the UK for...
2021 May Herald New Phase Of Resistance Against Modi Govt’s Agenda
By Prakash Karat The Latin term `annus horribilis’ (horrible year) has been widely and understandably used to define the year 2020 which had just ended. This is a natural description of an unprecedented year, which has seen a global pandemic – the corona virus pandemic – the...
Farmers Unions Have Only Partially Won In Their Battle For Justice
By Arun Srivastava Drag discussion and force them wilt. This is the primary strategy of the Modi government. The prime minister Narendra Modi and his ministers are aware that the farmers will not retreat even for a centimetre from their stand of repeal of the three laws...
Massive Investment In Public Health Is Need Of The Hour In India
By Dr. Arun Mitra Warning by the WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyeses for the need to make greater investment in Public Health system so that ‘world is better prepared to meet the future pandemics’ must be taken seriously. He has further stressed that ‘public health system...
Prime Minister Is Making False Allegations Against Kerala Govt, Left
By V S Sunil Kumar Prime Minister Narendra Modi is playing flute in support of the corporates even as the farmers’ ‘Delhi Chalo’ agitation fire has engulfed the national capital. The prime minister who got defeated morally in front of the unprecedented historic struggle of farmers has...
Dravidian Rivals Look To Clash Again In 2021
By S. Sethuraman Better late than Never – So the mega star Rajinikant seems to have decided in finally ruling himself out, on health grounds, for a leading political role in the Tamil Nadu Assembly election in 2021. A possibility he had kept nourishing for some years and...
