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.Hyderabad Municipal Poll Is An Acid Test For BJP In Southern States
By Kalyani Shankar Whoever thought that a civic poll would create so much excitement, passion, and polarization? The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections on December 1 has become an unprecedented high profile political event. It is being fought with the same vigour as Lok Sabha polls by...
Behind BJP’s Obsession With The Hyderabad Municipal Polls
By Amulya Ganguli There are several reasons for the BJP’s preoccupation with the Hyderabad municipal elections. It is unusual for a national party to deploy its big guns for a local contest. But the BJP is no believer in commonplace rules. If the party believes that an...
India Is Striving To Stand Up Again From Covid19 Jolt
By Anjan Roy India is making a spirited effort to leave its vicious sick bed and start walking again. That is, going by the latest GDP figures released by the National Statistical Office. After a deep contraction of almost a quarter in April to June this year,...
Chinese Defence Minister’s Talks With Nepal Ministers And Army Crucial
By Barun Das Gupta At a time when China’s relations with India have touched their Nadir and armies of the two countries are facing each other in eastern Ladakh, Chinese Defence Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe flew to Kathmandu last Sunday on a “working visit” to discuss, among other...
Rigorous Restrictions Needed On People For Going Out
By Dr. Arun Mitra With the onset of winter there is surge in the COVID cases. Delhi is already getting nearly 8000 cases every day. Now the cases are rising in other parts of the country as well. This is time when government needs to be very cautious,...
British Labour Party Vertically Split On Ideological Lines
By Arun Srivastava Jeremy Corbyn’s left-wing allies have launched a campaign for the restoration of whip for the former Labour leader, he on his part has been contemplating to initiate legal proceedings against the current labour leader Kier Starmer for denying him of his right. While the...
Frederich Engels Was Prophetic About Origins Of Women’s Oppression
By Prof. Mary Davis The great significance of Friedrich Engels’s Origins of the Family, Private Property & the State is that it is one of the first Marxist analyses of development of family and origins of women’s oppression (the first was August Bebel’s Women & Socialism, 1879)...
India Must Concentrate On Finished Goods Output
By Nantoo Banerjee For now, it appears to be a right decision on India’s part to opt out of the China-led 15-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement to protect the country’s immediate industrial and trade interests. After prolonged negotiations for years, the agreement, sans India, was...
Corruption: Only Industry That Flourished During Covid
By K Raveendran It does not matter if Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and the mandarins in North Block agree or not, it is official that India is in recession. Data released by the National Statistical Office revealed that India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted 7.5 percent in...
Mamata Fighting The Manipulative Skill Of Her Bete Noire Amit Shah
By Arun Srivastava Senior minister Suvendu Adhikari is yet to officially announce his decision to join the BJP, but through his action, going beyond the protocol norms to send the copy of his resignation letter directly to the state Governor Jagdeep Dhankar besides sending to the chief minister...
Friedrich Engels Has Become More Relevant On His 200th Birth Anniversary
By Marcello Musto* Friedrich Engels understood even earlier than Karl Marx the centrality of the critique of political economy. When the two first got to know each other, he had published many more articles – although it was his friend who was destined to become world-famous in this...
Puerto Rico Is Striving To Come Out Of Neo-Liberal Politics
By Jorge M. Farinacci-Fernós Since 1968 Puerto Rico has had a stable two-party system, split on the so-called status question rather than the traditional left-right divide. The once-dominant Popular Democratic Party (PPD) supports maintaining the current commonwealth arrangement with the United States, while the New Progressive Party...
Maradona Was A Big Supporter Of Latin American Left Movement
By James Nalton As Diego Maradona turned 60 on October 30 2020, he made an appearance at what would be his final football match. He was in football until the end and, in his role as manager of La Plata-based side Gimnasia, emerged before kick-off to receive birthday...
November 26 Strike Was For Defence Of Democracy And Secularism
By Prabhat Patnaik The November 26 strike was significant not only because it protests against the Modi government’s brazen and unprecedented attacks on workers and peasants in the country, not only because these attacks carry forward an imperialist agenda, but for a deeper and less discussed reason...
Punjab And Haryana Farmers Give A Wake Up Call To Modi Govt
By Sushil Kutty This is maybe the third round of farmers stirring the pot against the three new agriculture laws which “have deprived them of a fair price and a dignified life.” The Modi Government’s agriculture reforms have been opposed tooth and nail by large sections of...
Remembering Frederick Engels On His 200th Birth Anniversary
By Sitaram Yechury The 200th birth anniversary of Frederick Engels falls on November 28, 2020. Under normal circumstances, without the raging pandemic, necessary precautions and the lockdown restrictions, the CPI(M) would have observed this event in a befitting manner like the Party observed Marx 200 in 2018-19. ...
Tarun Gogoi’s Demise Marks The End Of An Era In Assam Congress
By Harihar Swarup Growing up in the northeast of India in the Nineties was not easy. There would be frequent bandhs, especially on January 26 and August 15, when insurgent groups would “request” us to avoid joining the celebration of the “Indian colonial state”. It would be unimaginable...
Despite Bihar Debacle, Congress Loyalists Still Want Rahul
By Rahil Nora Chopra Even after the bad performance of Congress in the Bihar election, there are still many party loyalists who want Rahul Gandhi’s return as the national president. Most of them have expressed earnest desire that Rahul should take over before the plenary session to...
