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.Bangladesh Celebrates Its Fifty Years Of Freedom As A Confident Nation
By Ashis Biswas Bangladeshis, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their Independence are pining for happier times as the Covid 19- ravaged 2020 limps to its end. But the sombre national mood has been leavened by a quiet pride, in that the country defying all odds, has economically out...
Congress In Kerala To Take The Groupism Bull By The Horns
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Battered and bruised by the drubbing it received in the local body elections, the Congress seems to have decided to attempt the Mission Impossible: Selecting candidates not on the basis of groups but solely on the winnability criterion. It is a welcome move...
PM’s Make In India Programme Faces Roadblock
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s economic growth target faces a new challenge. The manufacturing sector is not growing. There is no new large investment in manufacturing in recent years. Nor there are signs of new initiatives from the existing companies and business houses to expand manufacturing activities. Even foreign...
BJP Is Going The Whole Hog In Focusing On Mamata’s Failures In Bengal
By Amulya Ganguli Having routed a redoubtable adversary like the Left Front in West Bengal in 2011, Mamata Banerjee must have considered herself to be invincible for much of the past decade. Her belief in her own prowess was such that at one time she was even being...
Home Minister Amit Shah Is Leading Disinformation Campaign Against Mamata
By Arun Srivastava Union Home Minister Amit Shah was not far from the truth when on Sunday he told that the politics of “cut money” that acquired a menacing character during the TMC government would be one of the primary reasons for Mamata’s defeat in the ensuing Bengal...
Amit Shah Is Now India’s Sarbasaktiman Mahapurush After Modi
By Sushil Kutty You can say, ‘What the duck?’ and stop reading right here. Or, take the excuse “Today – Dec. 21, 2020 – is the ‘Great Conjunction’ and ‘Winter Solstice’ rolled into one” and walk away. But think of the consequences: Do you fancy getting caught in...
Biodiversity Is The Secret Behind Nutrition And Good Health
By Veena Sharma It is not for nothing that the Garhwal region of the Himalayas is referred to as deva bhumi, the land of gods. The topography and climate of this sacred land have spawned a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna, which is a natural heritage of...
Biden Regime Should End Drone Wars And Halt Space Militarization
By Conn Hallinan When President-elect Joe Biden takes office on January 21 he will be faced with some very expensive problems, from bailing out the COVID-19 economy to getting a handle on climate change. Vaccinating over 300 million people will not be cheap and wrestling the U.S. hydrocarbon-based...
Sonu Sood Is The Hero Of 2020 – The Year Of Pandemic And Lockdown
By Harihar Swarup The year, 2020, needs no introduction, neither does Sonu Sood. When the year kept throwing challenges at us, he inspired us to face them with kindness and compassion .The work that stood out was the Ghar Bhejo campaign to send migrants home and bring stranded...
Nirmala Has No Idea Of ‘Never Before’ Budget She Has Promised
By K Raveendran Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has a penchant for platitudes and hyperbole. Going by her track record with budgets and stimulus packages, while she promises the moon, she ends up delivering sweet nothing. Come February, she will be presenting her new budget—another magnum opus. This...
Women Workers Number Decline In India Due To Slowdown, Pandemic
By Satyaki Chakraborty Even 73 years after independence, India’s women, especially young women are faced with innumerable constraints in getting employed. The gender gap in employment which was already there in the beginning of 1950’s is showing despite big increase in female education and expansion of vocational and...
Bolivia’s Indigenous Masses Have Changed The Course Of History
By Cindy Forster Two realities collide today in Bolivia. One is the power of a murderous, kleptocratic elite that overthrew an elected government last November, employing violence to impose its will and reprivatize the economy. The other is the people who just voted massively for the return of...
Remembering American Protest Singer Phil Ochs On His 80th Birthday
By Mark Gruenberg For those not fortunate enough to recall, Phil Ochs was one of American nation’s most profound singer/songwriters in the period that bridged the Civil Rights, antiwar, and feminist movements. He was born on December 19, 1940: This week, he would have been 80 years old....
Countering The Corporate-Hindutva Narrative On The Nation
By Prabhat Patnaik The kisan agitation has become more than simply a fight for MSP or against the corporatization of agriculture. Through its practice, it is recovering a narrative that is opposed to the hegemonic narrative promoted under neo-liberalism. And as the Modi government’s skullduggery for breaking the...
Farmers Unions Have To Be Prepared For A Long Haul
By Arun Srivastava The Supreme Court refusing to “interfere with the (farmers’) protest”, holding the view “at this stage the agitation should be allowed to continue without impediment” as they have right to carry out protests and not passing an order to evict the agitating farmers, have not...
Nutritional Security And Farmers’ Welfare Are Inseparable
By Dr Arun Mitra The recently released National Family Health Survey-5 report is a worrying factor. That even after much advertised Poshan Abhiyan the children of our country remain stunted in such a large number calls for review of the efforts to provide nutrition to all the countrymen...
India Suffers Further Decline In Human Development
By Gyan Pathak Hoping for progress, government was claiming the same, but we actually regressed. UNDP’s Human Development Report 2020 has just revealed. In place of human development, India registered a human decline, went two ranks below, from 129th to 131st among 189 countries in the world in...
Yogi-G, What’s ‘Ram’ Doing In The APMC Mandi?
By Sushil Kutty BJP proposes, Ram disposes! Those who did not know that maxim should sit at the feet of Yogi Adityanath with folded hands. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister is by far closer to Bhagwan Ram than any other mortal in Lord Ram’s scheme of things. The...
