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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.Kerala Assembly Speaker In The Eye Of A Storm
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANTHAPURAM: Kerala’s political waters have been muddied further with the Opposition accusing Kerala Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan of helping the gold smuggling case accused and corruption in running the Assembly. The timing of the allegations against the Speaker is significant. The allegations made...
Ashok Ghelot To Expand His Cabinet In First Week Of January
By Rahil Nora Chopra After Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s allegation that the BJP was conspiring to topple his government, BJP leaders have questioned Gehlot’s ability to lead the Congress. Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat who was in the forefront in attacking Gehlot during the recent crisis in Rajasthan...
Imran Khan’s Talk Of National Reconciliation Has Caused Furore
By Sankar Ray Democratic polity in Pakistan is endangered once again as the Prime Minister Imran Khan suddenly talks of the infamous National Reconciliation Ordinance, introduced by the last dictator-President Pervez Musharaf on 7 October 2007, granting amnesty to politicians, political workers and bureaucrats who were accused...
Detention Of Activist Anand Teltumbde Is A Mockery Of Human Rights
By Niharika Ravi The Human Rights Watch has called the detention by the Indian government of civil rights and Dalit rights activist, Anand Teltumbde as “wrongful” and “politically motivated”. “Indian authorities are using draconian counterterrorism laws against activists simply for criticizing the government or raising their...
Six Million Children Out Of School In India Due To Covid Impact
AFFECTED MOST DURING THE PANDEMIC By B K Chaturvedi The COVID-19 pandemic raging across the globe has led to the closure of schools. In India alone, it has affected the education of nearly 290 million children. Already, there were six million children out of school. This number...
Government Must Implement Swaminathan Report On Farmers
By Nantoo Banerjee It seems the government has lost the trust of farmers. Instead of keeping its promise to expand the list of agricultural products under the ‘minimum support price’ (MSP) system to prevent distress sale of farm produce, the new farm laws threaten to abolish the practice...
Farmers Are Getting All Out Support For Their Just Demands
By Dr Somu The response to the call for Bharat bandh by Samyukt Kisan Morcha — an umbrella body of over 500 farmers’ organisations was over whelming. It was from one and all across the country. In almost all major cities, there was a deserted look as shops...
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...
