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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.Bharat Bandh Success Gives Hope Of Farmers-Workers Unity In Action
By Sushil Kutty The question being asked was ‘how much of Bharat would be in Bharat Bandh?’ Both the pro-bandh and the anti-bandh lobbies wanted the answer to be in their favour. So much so, the question was asked two days in advance of Bharat Bandh, December...
President Maduro Wins National Assembly Elections Establishing Full Control
By Nitya Chakraborty President Nicholas Maduro won convincingly in the elections to the 277 seat National Assembly elections in Venezuela on December 6 thereby ending the five year old majority of the right wingers following their victory in the 2015 elections. With the capture of National Assembly which...
Bangladesh Is Moving Fast To Become Middle Income Country By 2024
By Ashis Biswas Bangladesh is learning that even achieving economic progress comes with a price tag. . Its march from ‘developing’ to a middle income category by 2024willend the zero tariff and other concessions it currently enjoys from advanced countries on its exports. According to Bangladesh media...
India’s Confusing GDP Growth Projections For 2021-22
By Nantoo Banerjee It appears to a big relief that most rating agencies — local as well as global — are high on hope that Indian economy will be among the fastest growing major economies in the world in 2021-22. However, growth projections vary widely — from...
Twitter India Suspending Salil Tripathi’s Account Is An Outrage
By Annie Domini When writer-journalist Salil Tripathi, who’s a universally-renowned free speech activist and the Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee of the PEN International, posted a 2009 poem titled ‘My Mother’s Fault’ on the Babri Masjid demolition, Gujarat and 1947 on Twitter, he soon realised...
RBI Working Panel Pushing Someone’s Dangerous Agenda
By K Raveendran The widespread resentment over the RBI internal working group (IWG) recommendation to allow leading industrial and business houses to own banks has prompted Governor Shaktikanta Das to clarify that it does not amount to the apex bank’s views. He has promised that a decision...
BJP’s Hindu Card Boosts Its Tally In The Hyderabad Municipal Polls
By Amulya Ganguli The renaming of Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar, as suggested by U.P. chief minister Yogi Adityanath, has had to be put on hold for the time being because the BJP failed to come out on top in the municipal elections despite faring exceedingly well. The...
Hatching The Conspiracy To Denigrate The Farmers Agitation
By Arun Srivastava Public Interest Litigation (PIL) which so far has been most effective instrument for a dissenter to register his disagreement to consent. Is ironically behind used by the supporters the Modi government to criminalise the dissenters and urge upon the judiciary to punish them on...
UK Lawmakers Extend Support To The Agitating Farmers In India
By Arun Srivastava A day after 36 cross party lawmakers led by the Labour Party’s Tanmanjit Singh Dhesi, expressed their solidarity with the agitating farmers in India, and wrote to UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to raise the matter with the Indian government, thousands of Diaspora Indians have...
Providing Vaccines To Billion Indians Will Be The Toughest Task For Govt
By Harihar Swarup The last nine months have tested our collective resilience like no other period in recent human history. A virus, the size of a fraction of human hair, has ensured that countries across the world are put under varying levels of lockdown, movement of people and...
Economic Recovery Signs Are Too Fragile At The Moment
By Nitya Chakraborty The Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das’s projection about the trends in the Indian economy in the remaining four months of the current fiscal, has some sense of objectivity about the sectoral pattern of the industry’s operations but the analysis has some false sense of complacency...
Maharashtra Poll Results Give A Big Boost To Uddhav Thackeray’s Image
By Sushil Kutty It’s a fact now: The majority of graduates and teachers of Maharashtra prefer Maha Vikas Aghadi over Bharatiya Janata Party. Uddhav Thackeray over Devendra Fadnavis. Sanjay Raut over Arnab Goswami. And, Uddhav’s Shiv Sena over Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sena. Uddhav’s ‘secular Shiv Sena,’ that is,...
A Bruising Battle In Kerala For Control Of Local Bodies
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The local body elections, billed as the Semi Final is well and truly on, with the campaign shifting into top gear in the final lap. The three main contenders – the CPI-M-led Left Democratic Front (LDF), the Congress-headed United Democratic Front (UDF) and the...
‘Ballad Of An American’ Is A Graphic Biography Of Paul Robeson
By Tony Pecinovsky This 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...
Spain’s Left Is Winning The Battle For Welfare Through Budget
By Eoghan Gilmartin & Tommy Greene “This government is different because we are in it,” Spain’s deputy prime minister Pablo Iglesias told Jacobin last month. “We are the only force from our political tradition that is in the government of an EU country, indeed in the fourth-biggest euro...
Rajinikanth Is A Phenomenon In Tamil Nadu Political And Social Life
By Kalyani Shankar Come 2021, Tamil Nadu is getting ready to welcome the mega superstar Rajinikanth’s political party even as he is yet to announce its name. After many decades of playing the role of the Hamlet in real life whether to jump into politics or not,...
Lakhs Of Farmers Are Fighting For A Better Future Of The Country
By Binoy Viswam The challenges posed by those who provide food for the nation is not so simple, as the rulers think it to be. The farmers of India are waiting at the borders of the national capital for the last one week. At the moment tens of...
Special Parliament Session Is Needed To Repeal Farm Laws
By Arun Srivastava Two rounds of meetings between the agitating farmers and junior ministers deputed to talk the farmers by Narendra Modi himself have failed. The agriculture minister after today’s failed meeting announced that the third round of meeting would take place on December 5. It...
