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.Nirmala Has No Idea Of ‘Never Before’ Budget She Has Promised
By K Raveendran Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has a penchant for platitudes and hyperbole. Going by her track record with budgets and stimulus packages, while she promises the moon, she ends up delivering sweet nothing. Come February, she will be presenting her new budget—another magnum opus. This...
Women Workers Number Decline In India Due To Slowdown, Pandemic
By Satyaki Chakraborty Even 73 years after independence, India’s women, especially young women are faced with innumerable constraints in getting employed. The gender gap in employment which was already there in the beginning of 1950’s is showing despite big increase in female education and expansion of vocational and...
Bolivia’s Indigenous Masses Have Changed The Course Of History
By Cindy Forster Two realities collide today in Bolivia. One is the power of a murderous, kleptocratic elite that overthrew an elected government last November, employing violence to impose its will and reprivatize the economy. The other is the people who just voted massively for the return of...
Remembering American Protest Singer Phil Ochs On His 80th Birthday
By Mark Gruenberg For those not fortunate enough to recall, Phil Ochs was one of American nation’s most profound singer/songwriters in the period that bridged the Civil Rights, antiwar, and feminist movements. He was born on December 19, 1940: This week, he would have been 80 years old....
Countering The Corporate-Hindutva Narrative On The Nation
By Prabhat Patnaik The kisan agitation has become more than simply a fight for MSP or against the corporatization of agriculture. Through its practice, it is recovering a narrative that is opposed to the hegemonic narrative promoted under neo-liberalism. And as the Modi government’s skullduggery for breaking the...
Farmers Unions Have To Be Prepared For A Long Haul
By Arun Srivastava The Supreme Court refusing to “interfere with the (farmers’) protest”, holding the view “at this stage the agitation should be allowed to continue without impediment” as they have right to carry out protests and not passing an order to evict the agitating farmers, have not...
Nutritional Security And Farmers’ Welfare Are Inseparable
By Dr Arun Mitra The recently released National Family Health Survey-5 report is a worrying factor. That even after much advertised Poshan Abhiyan the children of our country remain stunted in such a large number calls for review of the efforts to provide nutrition to all the countrymen...
India Suffers Further Decline In Human Development
By Gyan Pathak Hoping for progress, government was claiming the same, but we actually regressed. UNDP’s Human Development Report 2020 has just revealed. In place of human development, India registered a human decline, went two ranks below, from 129th to 131st among 189 countries in the world in...
Yogi-G, What’s ‘Ram’ Doing In The APMC Mandi?
By Sushil Kutty BJP proposes, Ram disposes! Those who did not know that maxim should sit at the feet of Yogi Adityanath with folded hands. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister is by far closer to Bhagwan Ram than any other mortal in Lord Ram’s scheme of things. The...
Female Dissenters: New Faces Of Global Courage And Resistance
By Priyanka Preet Succeeding generations will perhaps remember us as a generation of dissenters–forever resisting, sloganeering, thriving and rebelling. But they must also remember female dissenters kindly for they have revolutionised the idea of citizenship through consistent dissent. With the surge of extremist governments across the globe...
Congress Faces Tough Time Finding Late Ahmad Patel’s Replacement
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the demise of master strategist Ahmed Patel, the Congress does not have even a single leader who can mediate with the allied parties or regional satraps effectively. The Congress high command is searching for a leader who can seek feedback from workers at the...
Kerala Left Democratic Front Shows An Alternative
By Binoy Viswam The people of Kerala have once again proclaimed their political determination by giving a thumping victory for the Left Democratic Front (LDF) in the local self-government elections. It was so convincing that out of 14 district panchayats LDF could win 11. Out of 152 block...
LDF Victory In Kerala Local Polls Is Approval Of State Govt Performance
By Prakash Karat The Local Self-Governing Institutions (LSGI) elections in Kerala have resulted in a resounding victory for the Left Democratic Front. The LDF has won 11 out of the 14 district panchayats; 108 of the 152 block panchayats; and 514 of the 941 gramapanchayats. The LDF...
Supreme Court Move For Panel On Farm Issues Not A Breakthrough
By Arun Srivastava The Supreme Court has advised the Modi government to constitute a panel having representatives of the Centre as well as the farmers’ unions to end the dead lock between the two parties over the three new farm laws. . The observation of the court “your...
India’s Performance In Attracting FDI During Pandemic Is Commendable
By Subrata Majumder Global FDI plunged by 49 percent in the first half of 2020 due to Covid 19, according to UNTACD’s Global Investors Trend Monitor. The fall was more steep in developed nations than in developing countries, according to the report. It was 75 percent fall...
LDF Rides The Rollercoaster In Kerala Local Polls
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A spectacular success achieved in the teeth of extreme adversity. That aptly sums up the thumping victory the Left Democratic Front (LDF) has scored in the local body elections, billed as the semi-final. What is remarkable is that the victory has been achieved...
Andhra’s Gaming Law Is A Setback To Liberty And Human Agency
By Sri Harsha Kandukuri The Andhra Pradesh Assembly recently passed the AP Gaming (Amendment) Bill, 2020 replacing the ordinance promulgated in September 2020. This amendment to the AP Gaming Act, 1974 was carried out to make ‘online gaming, online gambling and online betting an offence’ in the...
UNICEF To Feed Britain’s Children For First Time In History
By Lamiat Sabin UNICEF – the UN’s Children’s Fund – will provide humanitarian aid to Britain’s hungry children for the first time in its 70-year history, according to an announcement made by the UN body. Labour MPs branded the situation a “disgrace” for one of the richest...
