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.RBI Has Failed To Tame Inflation
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s massive population under the low and lower-middle income groups is increasingly under distress as the retail inflation soared to a near six-and-a-half year high in October. The wholesale inflation too rose to eight-month high. The prices of potato rose by 107.7 percent, vegetables 25.2...
Foreign Takeover Of A South India Bank Has Special Significance
By Anjan Roy Takeover of the collapsing Lakshmi Vilas Bank by the Singapore based DBS Bank has come as a big relief, at least for its depositors. The best feature of this take over is that the interests of depositors have been protected. This is important for gaining...
Ruling AIADMK Embraces BJP For 2021 Poll
By S. Sethuraman In a stage-managed grand show, the ruling AIADMK seeking a third term in the forthcoming T N Assembly elections (May 2021) clinched its alliance with BJP even as the Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Chennai was ostensibly to launch the state and central-funded development...
Secular Parties In India Have Every Reason To Shun Owaisi And His AIMIM
By Amulya Ganguli India’s sad pre-partition experience with a predominantly Muslim party has made it difficult for the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader, Asaduddin Owaisi, to find a place in mainstream politics. As an effective speaker, he could have become a part of the opposition at the...
Sonia’s Committees Will Have Little Impact On Rejuvenation Of Congress
By Arun Srivastava Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has constituted a number of committees and put the so called rebels in these committees. Through this move an impression is being created that the dissident leaders, like Kapil Sibal, Shasi Tharoor, P Chidambaram are opposing the leadership for sharing power....
Banks Don’t Change Spots, Do They?
By Papri Sri Raman At first, I was tempted to call this piece, Banks, Babus and Bulls. But then I thought, nothing really changes, and films only confirm this. Especially in India. The recent RBI merger of the old Lakshmi Vilas Bank with Singapore’s DBS Bank brings...
Caste Balance In Bihar Polity Has Undergone Vast Changes In The Last Decades
By Harihar Swarup What does the Bihar election say about the social balance of power? Though most parties attempted to reach out beyond their core social base, there were some predictable patterns. About half the candidates fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) belonged to the forward...
Debate On Making Betting Legal Gathers Steam
By K Raveendran Minister of state for finance Anurag Thakur, who is also a former BCCI chief, has added a sense of urgency to the debate on whether to make betting legal in India by suggesting the other day that such a move would help curb match fixing,...
The Political Soumitra: Ray’s Muse Beyond The Silver Screen
By Annie Domini In a scene from the 1966 film Nayak, the hero Arindam Chatterjee, played by the Bengali matinee idol Uttam Kumar, refuses to alight from his car and address a striking workers’ gathering, despite his trade unionist friend pleading him to say a few words...
Madhya Pradesh BJP Holds Training Camp For Congress Defectors
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: After ensuring victory of most of the Congress defectors, the BJP has launched a project of their ideological assimilation in the party. For this the BJP organised a two day training camp. The camp was attended among others by Jyotiraditya Scindia. Besides...
Pro-Corbyn Group Fare Better In Labour Party Executive Elections
By Arun Srivastava The Labour leader Keir Starmer managed to gain some more seats in the national executive committee (NEC) elections on Friday, but miserably failed to succeed in his mission to completely weed out the Socialist and leftist supporters of ousted leader Jeremy Corbyn as they...
Brazil’s Local Elections On Nov 15 Was A Blow To Far Right President
By Ana Carvalhaes Although traditionally fast and efficient, the electronic vote count from Brazil’s local municipal elections last Sunday was delayed by more than three and a half hours. Yet this alarming development did not prevent the electorate’s general mood from making itself clear well before midnight:...
Talk Of Economic Recovery By Finance Minister Is Misplaced
By Prabhat Patnaik Ministers from Narendra Modi to Nirmala Sitaraman are talking about a recovery of the Indian economy from the pandemic-induced crisis. Even the Reserve Bank of India which estimated the second quarter GDP growth to have been -8.6 per cent, has seen signs of recovery in...
India Most Threatened Of Losing A Generation
By Gyan Pathak The impact of COVID-19 crisis on the lives of children in India has been far worse than most of the countries of the world, because the country’s share in the global burden was already unacceptably high in the beginning of the pandemic. With neonatal...
The Sudden Twist In Kerala Political Tale
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The roles have been reversed in a sudden twist in Kerala’s political tale. The United Democratic Front (UDF) which has been launching an aggressive campaign against the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government’s ‘corruption’, has now become the defender in the wake of...
Sushil Kumar Modi To Be Inducted Into Union Cabinet Soon
By Rahil Nora Chopra After appointing Tarkishor Prasad and Renu Devi as deputy chief ministers in place of Sushil Kumar Modi in new Bihar government, BJP high command has decided to bring Sushil Kumar Modi in Rajya Sabha and he is expected to be elected from the seat vacated...
Wall Street Is Worried As Trump Is Delaying Transition Of Presidency
By C.J. Atkins With their plan to steal the election by having ballots disqualified failing in court after court, President Trump and his legal team are switching gears. His lawyer Rudy Giuliani is now pivoting to a strategy of delaying the final vote count and certification in as...
November 26 Will Be A Golden Day In History Of Indian Working Class
By Sukumar Damle The Central Government passed three Labour Codes on September 23, 2020, on Industrial Relations, on Social Security and on Occupational Health & Safety, while the entire opposition had boycotted Parliament in protest against suspension of eight opposition Rajya Sabha MPs. This suspension itself was...
