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.Stage Set For Further Intensification Of Farmers Agitation As Talks Fail
By Arun Srivastava Frantic efforts of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah to break the farmers’ agitation lie shattered on the streets of Delhi. The rustic farmers refused to subscribe to his well-crafted and nicely worded proposal which was nothing but a collage of lofty lies meant to...
India Is Taking Big Biological Risks
By Gyan Pathak India runs an unprecedented biological risk, but we are not prepared to successfully deal with. Coronavirus pandemic is a wake-up call, but the government is too slow to reform and invest satisfactorily in health and biotechnology sector. It leaves the country too vulnerable to dangers....
United States Needs Multi-Racial Unity To Implement People’s Agenda
By John Bachtell Joe Biden and Kamala Harris assume office on January. 21, 2020, confronting the most significant overlapping set of crises since the Great Depression, beginning with the exploding Covid-19 pandemic, and economic, inequality, and ecological crises. Only large-scale solutions and government intervention can begin to solve...
An Intense Digital Campaign Expected In Bengal Polls
By Sagarneel Sinha During the last Lok Sabha elections, Trinamool Congress supremo and chief minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee was quite sure that her party would get most of the 42 seats. Based on that hope she even dreamt of her party playing a major role in...
Rustic Brute Power Of Farmers Versus Sophistry
By K Raveendran The spontaneity in the response to the farmers’ agitation makes it stand out from similar campaigns. The agitation is drawing support from all shades of public opinion and patriotic sportspersons from Punjab have threatened to return their awards. The first time this happened was when...
Sharmila Tagore: A Gracious Presence As A Film Icon For Six Decades
By Papri Sri Raman Sharmila Tagore, the graceful icon of the Indian cinema turned 76 on December 8.My parents rarely went to the films and never with children, so I do not have any recollection of any films seen in my school days. It was only in...
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony Was The Hymn To Humanist Utopia
By Jenny Farrell Like few other composers, Beethoven expresses the will for freedom, the democratic longing of the people. His music is the continuation of the French Revolution through the means of art; his Ninth Symphony is a hymn to the humanist utopia of the equality of all...
Cuba Is A Shining Example Of Model Health Care To Defeat Covid
By Sergio Ferrari Just a few days before commercial flights with Cuba were reestablished, in the middle of November, the Swiss physician and professor Franco Cavalli traveled to that Caribbean nation. He is president of MediCuba Europe, an important network of healthcare NGOs with a presence in...
Rajinikanth May Finally Come To Terms With Bjp Before Assembly Polls
By Kalyani Shankar Will the BJP be able to rope in Tamil superstar Rajinikanth who has announced his plans to launch his much-awaited political party in January 2021? He is a phenomenon and will be a factor in the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly polls scheduled for April- May...
Bharat Bandh Success Gives Hope Of Farmers-Workers Unity In Action
By Sushil Kutty The question being asked was ‘how much of Bharat would be in Bharat Bandh?’ Both the pro-bandh and the anti-bandh lobbies wanted the answer to be in their favour. So much so, the question was asked two days in advance of Bharat Bandh, December...
President Maduro Wins National Assembly Elections Establishing Full Control
By Nitya Chakraborty President Nicholas Maduro won convincingly in the elections to the 277 seat National Assembly elections in Venezuela on December 6 thereby ending the five year old majority of the right wingers following their victory in the 2015 elections. With the capture of National Assembly which...
Bangladesh Is Moving Fast To Become Middle Income Country By 2024
By Ashis Biswas Bangladesh is learning that even achieving economic progress comes with a price tag. . Its march from ‘developing’ to a middle income category by 2024willend the zero tariff and other concessions it currently enjoys from advanced countries on its exports. According to Bangladesh media...
India’s Confusing GDP Growth Projections For 2021-22
By Nantoo Banerjee It appears to a big relief that most rating agencies — local as well as global — are high on hope that Indian economy will be among the fastest growing major economies in the world in 2021-22. However, growth projections vary widely — from...
Twitter India Suspending Salil Tripathi’s Account Is An Outrage
By Annie Domini When writer-journalist Salil Tripathi, who’s a universally-renowned free speech activist and the Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee of the PEN International, posted a 2009 poem titled ‘My Mother’s Fault’ on the Babri Masjid demolition, Gujarat and 1947 on Twitter, he soon realised...
RBI Working Panel Pushing Someone’s Dangerous Agenda
By K Raveendran The widespread resentment over the RBI internal working group (IWG) recommendation to allow leading industrial and business houses to own banks has prompted Governor Shaktikanta Das to clarify that it does not amount to the apex bank’s views. He has promised that a decision...
BJP’s Hindu Card Boosts Its Tally In The Hyderabad Municipal Polls
By Amulya Ganguli The renaming of Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar, as suggested by U.P. chief minister Yogi Adityanath, has had to be put on hold for the time being because the BJP failed to come out on top in the municipal elections despite faring exceedingly well. The...
Hatching The Conspiracy To Denigrate The Farmers Agitation
By Arun Srivastava Public Interest Litigation (PIL) which so far has been most effective instrument for a dissenter to register his disagreement to consent. Is ironically behind used by the supporters the Modi government to criminalise the dissenters and urge upon the judiciary to punish them on...
UK Lawmakers Extend Support To The Agitating Farmers In India
By Arun Srivastava A day after 36 cross party lawmakers led by the Labour Party’s Tanmanjit Singh Dhesi, expressed their solidarity with the agitating farmers in India, and wrote to UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to raise the matter with the Indian government, thousands of Diaspora Indians have...
