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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.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,...
Democrats Win In Georgia-Run Off Is A Big Advance For American Left
By Nitya Chakraborty The victory of both the Democratic Party candidates in the Georgia run offs for the two senate seats on January 5 elections, is a landmark in the present battle in the United States of America to opt for a forward looking programme for correcting the...
One Nation, One Election Is A Threat To Democracy And Federalism
By Prakash Karat The Modi government and the BJP are planning another serious assault on the Constitution and the very basis of parliamentary democracy in India. The BJP has conducted 25 webinars in the last week of December 2020 to propagate the idea of “one nation, one...
2021-22 Budget Should Focus On Reviving Demand, Not Fiscal Correction
By Anjan Roy The prime minister is reportedly meeting leading economists this week presumably to pick their brains for ideas and suggestions on how to go ahead handling the economy. In the first week of January the next budget is just a month away. One wonders if...
Elderly With Precarious Conditions In India Multiplying Rapidly
By Gyan Pathak Demographic changes are unprecedented. Fertility is falling, longevity is increasing, and rise in elderly population is dramatic both in absolute and relative terms. The first investigation of health, economic, and social well-being of India’s elderly has now revealed their precarious condition. Their terror stricken, shocked,...
Covid Vaccination Programme Has To Be Undertaken With Great Care
By Dr Arun Mitra That the government of India has decided to vaccinate the health professionals and front line workers is a welcome step. Over 700 doctors and many more health workers died during the fight against COVID. Since the health workers are at a high risk...
Only United Truggle Of The Agitating Farmers Can Help In Repealing Laws
By Arun Srivastava Agitating farmers have no reasons to be optimistic of a favourable verdict in their favour when the Supreme Court will hear on January 11, a batch of pleas challenging the new farm laws as well as the issues related to the ongoing farmers’ protest....
Supreme Court’s Helping Hand To Modi’s ‘Pakoda Economics’
By K Raveendran Observations made by the Supreme Court in a case relating to compensation to a deceased housewife should help Prime Minister Narendra Modi take his ‘pakoda economics’ to new, but highly productive frontiers. Modi’s pakoda economics seeks to redefine the meaning of employment so...
Saffrons Are Foolishly Using Tagore To Influence Bengal Voters In Poll
By Arun Srivastava While the entire saffron brigade from Delhi to Calcutta has suddenly become conscious of the existence of Rabindranath Tagore, image of the Bengali culture and ethos, the public face of Hindu culturism Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have been striving hard to exploit the legacy...
Corporatisation Of Agriculture Is Not All That Bad For Farmers
By Subrata Majumder India underwent two phases of agriculture reforms since independence. In 1960’s, it launched Green Revolution to increase productivity of agriculture produces. In the second phase, it introduced three farm bills in September 2020 to dismantle the restrictive agriculture marketing. The main aim is to protect...
Delhi Sultan Is Finally Realising His Dream Project At The Time Of Covid
By Sushil Kutty The Opposition is looking for words to condemn the Central Vista, which got the Supreme Court’s nod January 5, 2020. So far, they have found ‘travesty’ and ‘misplaced priority’ and a couple of others like “saddened” and “colossal waste of public money.” Somehow, the...
When “Rule Of Law” Becomes “Rule By Decree” In Parliament
By Vaidushya Parth In the Indian constitutional scheme of things, the work of Parliament is to make laws (legislation), check the work of the government (scrutinising the role of the executive), and to conduct debates on current issues of public importance. Generally, the decisions made in one House...
Assange Judgment Is A Stunning Victory Of Free Speech And Humanity
By Tim Dawson AS Judge Vanessa Baraitser started to deliver her ruling in the Old Bailey’s number two court on Monday nothing felt right. Proceedings started late. Julian Assange slumped in the dock, surrounded by bullet-proof glass, his clothes flapping slightly around his diminished frame. They Don’t Extradite...
Sasikala Is Sure To Be Active Again In Tamil Nadu Politics After Her Release
By Kalyani Shankar Sasikala, a close aide, and companion of the former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa will be released soon. Post-Jayalalithaa’s demise in 2016 there was massive political turmoil within the ruling AIADMK until she was sent to jail in February 2017 for four years....
Farmers Agitation Is Getting A Character Of Another Freedom Movement
By Arun Srivastava After 40 days of peaceful non-violent satyagrah, a situation reminiscent of the famous 1942 “Do or Die” movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi, is fast emerging on the political horizon with the farmers’ not willing to accept anything below scrapping of three black farm laws...
God Save America As Trump Is Set To Settle Scores With Biden
By Sushil Kutty January 5, 2021, is the Georgia senate runoffs and if the Republicans lose “we’ll change America” is what Democratic senate minority leader Chuck Schumer promised a couple of months ago, soon after Joe Biden was declared winner by television networks on November 4. Since then,...
