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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.CBI’s Sudden Entry Into TRP Investigation In Lucknow Has Political Considerations
By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena are no longer handshaking friends and won’t be unless the Shiv Sena returns to the earlier nuptial arrangement – BJP on top! The two have been at war since after Uddhav Thackeray dumped his dead father’s legacy...
Farmers Continuing Agitation Against Centre Has Stirred The Nation
By Binoy Viswam The wave of resistance unleashed by the peasantry against the farm bills has conveyed a message to the nation. The people who feed the nation through their sweat and labor have the courage to fight back injustice. The Modi government was under the illusion...
State Have Valid Reasons To Be Angry With Centre On GST Compensatin Issue
By Rohan Deshpande Prior to the roll-out of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) from July 1, 2017, states had substantial power to levy origin-based indirect taxes and levies such as sales tax or VAT, octroi, entry tax, entertainment tax, etc. GST introduced a consolidated levy of...
India-U.S. Relations Under A Biden Presidency
By Nitya Chakraborty With less than two weeks to go for the Presidential elections in USA scheduled on November 3, talks have started about what is going to be the impact of the coming to the White House of Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as Vice-President...
BJP Aims At Changing Games In Tamil Nadu
By S. Sethuraman The road to Tamil Nadu Assembly poll, still six months ahead, for May 2021, is full of uncertainties though the ruling AIADMK has decided its Chief Minister Mr E Palaniswami will lead the party seeking a third successive term in a post-Jayalalithaa era. In this,...
India Heads List Of Covid-Related Abuses By Authorities
By K Raveendran US think-tank Freedom House has catalogued the abuse of power by governments all over the world in the name of fighting the coronavirus pandemic and heading the table is India. Perhaps a point of consolation is that the likes of United States, the United...
Migrant Labour In Bihar Set To Vote Against Nitish Kumar In Coming Polls
By Arun Srivastava The thousands of migrant workers who have re-migrated to the cities and their earlier places of work, before fleeing to their native place in the wake of onslaught of the corona epidemic, have started coming back to Bihar to participate in the electioneering. Their...
All Eyes On Priyanka Gandhi For Uttar Pradesh Bypolls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The forthcoming by-elections for seven assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh will be the testing time for Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi. The bypolls for seven assembly seats- Naugawan, Sadat, Bullandshahar, Bangarmau, Ghatampur, Deoria, Tundla and Makhani will take place on November 3 and results ...
Pakistan Opposition To Organise Long March Against Imran Govt
By Sankar Ray The 40,000-plus rally at the Bagh-e-Jinnah in Gujranwala, near Lahore, on Sunday , the 13th anniversary of the twin blasts in Karsaz, targeting the homecoming procession of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto killing around 200 people , under the banner of Pakistan Democratic Movement comprising...
Supreme Court Must Chalk Out Its Path Of Social Justice And Democratic Rights
By Anuj Bhuwania The Indian judiciary is one of the most powerful, however, its power hasn’t been used to hold the state accountable in recent times. In India, it performs a function with and for the state. Indian courts no longer work as a shield for the...
A Perfect Crime, Gripping Netflix Documentary On The Looting Of East Germany
By Dennis Laumann A Perfect Crime, a new four-part documentary series on Netflix about the 1991 assassination of German politician Detlev Rohwedder, surprisingly offers critical viewpoints about German reunification. October 3 marked the 30th anniversary of the reunification of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and...
New Political Alliance In Kashmir Can Help In Starting Of Democratic Process
By Kalyani Shankar It was unusual for the arch- rivals former chief ministers Abdullahs (Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah) of the National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti of the PDP posing for a photo last week in Srinagar. It was Mehbhooba’s father and former chief minister Mufti...
Socialist Victory In Bolivia Elections Is A Big Rebuff To Rightists Propped By U.S.
By Nitya Chakraborty The massive win by the Movement Toward Socialism Party (MAS) in the general elections including President and Vice-President in Bolivia held on October 18, has given a big boost to the leftwing forces in Latin America which were on the defensive in the region...
World Bank Fears A Major Financial Crisis With Continuing Pandemic
By Anjan Roy The current pandemic has the potential of turning into a major financial crisis, fears Carmen Reinhart, Chief Economist of the World Bank. Ms Reinhart’s comments cannot be taken lightly as she has deep insights into the working of the financial system. Her warning...
Letters To Umar Khalid And Modes Of Remembering
By Annie Domini In a deleted tweet posted a few days ago, jailed scholar Dr Umar Khalid’s father, Dr S Q R Ilyas, said his son is spending his prison time reading, writing and collecting his thoughts. Some of us who retweeted it in momentary relief, or...
Come Rain Or Sunshine, Bollywood Should Stay Rooted To Its Secular Ethos
By Sushil Kutty Bollywood is an amalgamation of filmmakers and talented people in the arts, and in the techniques, coming together to script and play out stories on celluloid that catch the fancy of people pining to escape the tediousness of life, for a price. So, it is...
Military Stand Off May Last Until China Recognises LAC
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s current border dispute with China owes its origin in 1950 when China sent its troops to Tibet taking control of the remote mountainous region that declared independence in 1913. The Chinese military further crushed a massive Buddhist uprising in Tibet in 1959. Dalai...
Hindutva Hardliners Ignore Sabka Saath Slogan
By Amulya Ganguli Two recent events have emphasized the saffron brotherhood’s unease with “secularism” and Hindu-Muslim amity. One was the anxiety expressed by Maharashtra governor B.S. Koshyari about the possibility of the chief minister, Uddhav Thackeray, turning “secular”. The manner of his observation seemed to indicate that...
