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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.Atul Anjaan Asks PM To Convene All Party Meet To Discuss Economic Crisis
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: CPI national secretary and general secretary of All India Kisan Sabha Atul Anjaan has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to urgently call the meeting of all political parties to discuss to discuss grave economic situation in the country.. Talking to IPA Atul...
Despite Stringent Penalties, Crimes Against Women Not Declining
By Niharika Ravi It has been eight years since that woeful night of December 16, 2012, that shook the nation and the world when a para-medic was gang-raped in a moving Delhi bus. She later died of grievous injuries though she was given the best medical care....
Agitation By Farmers Put The Centre At Its Wits’ End
By Nantoo Banerjee Farmers from Punjab and Haryana have shown the community their resolve to protect their interest against lawmakers. If farmers from the rest of the country have not shown a similar courage and initiative to express their disapproval of the three central farm legislations passed...
India’s Vaccine Drive Will Be A ‘Work In Progress’
By Gyan Pathak Since both the Indian vaccines – Covaxin and Covishield – have now been officially approved for emergency use, the focus is on its distribution and prioritization, which are still being worked out as a ‘work in progress’ due to many inherent difficulties in India’s...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Has Finally Discovered A Poet In Him
By Sushil Kutty Jawaharlal Nehru’s tryst was with ‘Destiny’. With the ‘Midnight Hour’ and with ‘Redemption.’ There’s nothing to show in verses and stanzas if he had ever had a tryst with writing poetry. Maybe he must have quoted poetry to someone at some time, but there’s nothing...
Profits Of Companies Soared But Wages Of Workers Were Cut
By Satyaki Chakraborty In the current financial year, many companies suffered due to the lockdown following pandemic, but there are other companies which did normally and profits soared, but the figures show that despite high revenues, these companies cut wages of the workers taking advantage of the...
SBI Sold Electoral Bonds Worth Rs 6,492.7 Crore Without Transparency
By Yogesh Sapkale The anonymity provided to the donors by electoral bonds (EBs) is making it the preferred choice for big donors, including corporates. Over the past three years, State Bank of India (SBI), the official channel for selling these instruments, has sold EBs worth Rs 6,492.68 crore...
Great Singer Paul Robeson’s Biography ‘Ballad Of A Soldier’ Is A Great Read
By Tony Pecinovsky 2020 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...
Polarised India Has To Look Ways For Compromises With Mutual Respect
By Harihar Swarup In a feat of political compartmentalization with no domestic parallel, BJP has managed to sail through post-liberalisation India’s first recession year, the worst public health crisis since Independence, a protracted Chinese presence on the LAC and the largest farmer mobilisation in three decades. Despite the...
India Needs A Genuine Anti-Trust Legislation
By K Raveendran The erstwhile Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission was denounced by all shades of liberal opinion as an integral part of licence raj. However, despite the expressed intent of preventing monopolies, as the entity’s name suggested, India’s major corporate houses flourished as monopolies under its...
Pandemic Strikes Law, Lawyers And The Legal System Hard
By Sanjoy Ghose Lawyers are obsessed with Latin–a dead language with few takers. Often, lawyers unconsciously, and at times, consciously, pepper their conversations with a healthy dose of Latin. When you hear “qua”, “inter alia” and “quid pro quo” in small talk, more likely than not, you are...
Globally 2020 Was A Year Of Movements Not Moments
By Keith Flett Perhaps for several understandable reasons the reality that 2020 has been a year of worldwide protest has been rather missing from the numerous media summaries of the last 12 months. After all, a deadly pandemic has seized the world and led to illness and...
United Struggle To Safeguard Constitutional Values Is Priority In 2021
By Binoy Viswam As the year 2021 begins leaving behind 2020 — the year battered world over by Covid pandemic, the left and the democratic forces of India declare that our struggle for a new India where the dreams of freedom are fulfilled, would continue. In New Year...
No Solution Of Farmers Grievances Possible Within Ambit Of Three Laws
By Prabhat Patnaik The kisans gathered around the Delhi border have unerringly put their fingers on the real issue confronting them, namely their very survival as peasants. Till now there was an arrangement in the country which, though crumbling under the impact of neo-liberalism, still kept the peasantry...
For Opposition, 2021 Should Be Taken As The Year Of Vigorous Renewal
By Sushil Kutty India saw in 2021 at 12 am last night. This morning came the CNN message in the inbox “Brighter days are coming…” Yeah, well, hope so. For CNN, at least, after being battered with charges of “fake news” and other disparaging Trump-coinage for four...
BJP Is Desperate To Create Fissures In Congress-AIUDF Alliance Bid In Assam
By Ashis Biswas Well ahead of the Assam Assembly elections next year, the pre-poll campaign rhetoric exchanged between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its bête noire the pro-minority All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) is turning increasingly vicious. The situation has worsened after serious charges...
2021 Must Ensure Fairness By Apex Court To Rights Of Commoners
By Samriddhi Chatterjee, Sayan Chandra and Aman Garg It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It was an unprecedented effort to save the world’s largest democracy from the clutches of what had become the Leviathan of a selected few. It was...
Mamata’s National Stature Will Depend On Assembly Election Results
By Rahil Nora Chopra Do or Die situation for the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the coming West Bengal assembly elections, Firstly if she wins third time, she may expand her party base outside Bengal and become the face of opposition candidate for the Lok Sabha election in 2024...
