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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.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...
Using a mind reading device, ‘locked-in’ patients told researchers they’re happy
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Joe Biden Makes A Great Start With His Pro-People Programme
By Nitya Chakraborty President Joe Biden has given a great start to his four year tenure as the head of the United States of America by announcing a massive programme which not only rolls back some of the racial and anti-people policies of the Trump regime, but also...
January 26: Day For Resolve To Fight Against Wreckers Of Constitution
By Prakash Karat When the pogrom against minorities in Gujarat was raging in 2002, the then President of India, K R Narayanan had remarked to a delegation which met him seeking intervention, that: “The Constitution is not working in Gujarat”. Narendra Modi was the chief minister of...
On January 30, We Have To Resolve To Vigorously Fight RSS, BJP
By Krishna Jha January 30 was the day in 1948 we lost the father of our nation Mahatma Gandhi. It is to remind us again that truth is not absolute. It also has its own motion that keeps moving in stages. Bapu had told us decades back...
No Clear-Cut Direction In Narendra Modi Government’s China Policy
By Barun Das Gupta The people of India came to know from newspaper reports a few days ago that China has set up a village and built around 100 houses along the river Tsari Chu in the Upper Subansiri District of Arunachal Pradesh. The Indian Government did...
Kerala BJP Continues To Be In The Blue Mood
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Public bragging notwithstanding, the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) in Kerala has not snapped out of its blue mood. The reasons are not difficult to decipher. The party’s performance in the recently-concluded local body elections fell far short of its expectations. The Kerala unit of...
MVA’s Big Win In Maharashtra Panchayat Polls Has A Signal For 2024 Polls
By Sushil Kutty Lest we get confused over non-sequiturs, we’ll not talk about Mahatma Gandhi and ‘gram swaraj’ and ‘panchayat’ and blah blahblah… Instead we’ll speak of panchayat elections, the latest example of which is sure-shot ray of hope for the combined opposition arrayed against the BJP-led National...
Farmers Movement Has Imparted A New Meaning To Our Republic
By Arun Srivastava Just after four days the country will celebrate the birth of the republic. But this year’s celebration will be different from the carnival of yesteryears. While this time the celebration will miss a foreign celebrity, it would also be held under the shadow of...
How to find protests in your city when you don’t know where to start
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Supreme Court: Swing Between Activism And Populism
By K Raveendran The approach of the Supreme Court in two aspects of the same issue of farmers protest against the Centre’ farm laws displays a wide swing between extreme activism and complete indifference. Worse still, the change of attitude seems to the result of even less...
Many Lessons From First Five Days Of Vaccination Drive
By Gyan Pathak The first five days’ experience of world’s largest vaccination drive in India has come with a high price but is of immense value. “Vaccine hesitancy” has emerged as the biggest roadblock while the operation as a whole presents a case of speeding up its...
Bengal’s Scholars Planning Social Boycott Of Visva Bharati VC
By Arun Srivastava Cutting across the ideological line, some intellectuals and academics from West Bengal are contemplating social boycott of the vice chancellor of Viswa Bharati University Bidyut Chakraborty for his devious action to malign the renowned Bengali scholar and Noble laureate Amartya Sen. The academics...
As Trump Era Closes, Washington Cannot Rule In The Old Way
BY Joel Wendland-Liu As Joe Biden assumes office, and a potential new wave of right-wing violence lurks, the U.S. ruling class is in a panic. The House of Representatives quickly (and justifiably) impeached Trump for inciting an insurrection. Major corporate donors, who give millions to both dominant...
A Progressive Ruling On Right To Abort, Yet Fear Of Stigma Lurks
By Aishwarya Ramkumar IN 2009, the Supreme Court affirmed that Article 21 of the Indian Constitution includes a woman’s right to her bodily integrity. This means women have the personal liberty to choose what happens to their body, including the right to conceive, abort, and make other...
