Opinion
Appeal
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.High Petrol, Diesel Prices Are Choking Economy
By Nantoo Banerjee Nothing is more untrue and misleading than the official statement that the near record surge in current domestic petrol and diesel prices is linked with hardening crude oil prices in the international market. The retail prices of petrol and diesel have almost touched their peak...
Shiv Sena’s Hindutva Card Threatens Maharashtra Alliance
By Amulya Ganguli “East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet.” What Rudyard Kipling said about India and England is applicable to the seemingly irreconcilable differences between the secular and the Hindutva camps in Maharashtra where they have constituted an unlikely alliance to...
Fusion Politics, Protests, Polls Make Some Interesting Books In 2020
By Papri Sri Raman History repeats itself. At least that’s what books say. Which means, history warns us that all that happened in the far or near past will happen again. Biographies of persons or organisations recap histories, retell stories, open our eyes to the politics of the...
Liberal Americans Underestimated The Far Right At Their Own Peril
By Benjamin l. McKean What happened on January 6 in Washington? In one sense, it’s easy to say. Trump supporters, many of them armed, stormed the Capitol Building and forced Congress to recess, delaying the certification of Joe Biden’s election as president for several hours. It was...
Left In Labour Party In Britain Can Hope For Advance In 2021
By Andrew Scattergood Over the last year, the left has seen its power in the Labour Party wane. This has been a shock to many who found their feet in party politics under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. But for those of us who remember the days before Corbyn, it...
Pranab Mukherjee’s Memoirs Give Deep Insight Into Indian Political History
By Harihar Swarup India needs to tackle Pakistan through “deft handling” rather than “romanticising its political approach” and the country gained little by “over-talking” the surgical strikes of 2016, the late Pranab Mukherjee has written in his memoirs that also recall his “very cordial ties” with PM Narendra...
India To Make History Next Week In Battle Against Corona
By Gyan Pathak The week beginning from January 11 is all set to witness a history. World’s largest vaccine drive will be launched in the country. If everything goes well, India will soon win the battle against COVID-19. “It would soon be a reality to vaccinate the entire...
Spiralling Fule Prices: The Pain Has Just Begun
By K Raveendran Petrol prices have hit an all-time high, with pumps charging Rs 84.20 in the national capital. The previous highest was recorded in October 2018. There have also been proportionate increases in the price of diesel, though it is still below the peak recorded in...
Kerala Government Has Been Giving Right Protection To Farmers For Long
By Binoy Viswam As expected, the eighth round of talks between the farmers unions and the Narendra Modi Government ministers failed on January 8. A government subservient to the domestic corporates and FDI could only act in the way the BJP government has done. Hiding under the hollow...
Planning For A Jobless Growth Budget For 2021-22 Again
By Satyaki Chakraborty The exercises for making the first budget during pandemic and the eighth of the Narendra Modi government are on in full swing as the 2021-22 budget will be presented on February 1.Only three weeks are left and most of the stake holders have been...
Kashmir Is A No Zone In India For Any Protest Over Human Rights Violation
By Raja Muzaffar Bhat When on 28 September last year activists and right to information (RTI) campaigners all over the world were commemorating the International Day for Universal Access to Information, we, the RTI activists of Kashmir, were holding a silent protest in the heart of Srinagar...
Momentum Grows For Immediate Removal Of President Trump From White House
By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik WASHINGTON: All around support is mounting, for the immediate removal of the president Donald Trump even as it is clearer than ever that major systemic changes are needed if genuine democracy is to be preserved in the United States. House Speaker...
Modi Govt Has Shown Utmost Callousness To Tackle The Plight Of Workers
By Prabhat Patnaik The Modi government must be the most timid in the world vis-à-vis international finance capital. By the same token, it must be the most callous in the world vis-à-vis the working people of the country. The one is the flip side of the other; and...
The ‘Judas’ And The ‘Friend’ Gunning For Trump
By Sushil Kutty President Donald Trump’s voters and supporters have a name for Vice President Mike Pence, ‘Pontius Pence.’ Yet others of Trump’s legion say ‘Judas Pence’ suits ‘Silent Pence’ better. Be that as it may, but if there’s a person in the United States who’s more “unpopular...
Trump Supporters Showed How Far Rightists Can Go To Throttle Democracy
By Arun Srivastava It was a bloody coup attempted by the rightist forces which was master minded by the president of the USA Donald Trump, in which at least four persons lost their lives, nevertheless the Congress ought to be congratulated for foiling the conspiracy to prevent...
Will He Or Won’t He? Rahul to be Congress President again?
By Rahil Nora Chopra The big question is whether Rahul Gandhi himself is willing to come back as the party president or not. Is he or is he not interested in leading the Congress? According to the party sources, leaders who are considered close to him have told other...
Demand Growing For Blocking Trump From Standing For 2024 Presidency
By C.J. Atkins “Far worse than Watergate.” That’s what veteran journalist Carl Bernstein, one of the reporters who blew the lid off Nixon’s 1972 election burglaries, had to say about President Donald Trump’s Jan. 2 phone call to Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger. By telling the...
Living Standard Of Indian People Is Important – Not Big Buildings
By Binoy Viswam Through giving total clearance for the central Vista project, the Supreme Court once again revealed its total surrender before the government. This process of surrender began on December 7 itself when the court allowed the government to proceed with the foundation stone ceremony. Since then,...
