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.Indian Economy: Contrasting Views — Rajan And Rangarajan
By Anjan Roy A pall of gloom is hanging about India’s economic future ever since the GDP estimates about the first quarter of the current fiscal were laid bare a week back. There is a virtual competition among forecasters about the extent of estimated contraction of the Indian...
Bihar Poll Permutations See Nitish Woo LJP, Manjhi
By Rahil Nora Chopra As the Bihar Assembly election approaches, the political parties are getting busy forming the alliance with other partys. At one time, the main pillar of Dalit politics was Ram Vilas Paswan. In fact, two years back Paswan and Nitish Kumar were good friends. When Nitish...
Six Years Of Modi Rule Has Led Indian Economy To Near Collapse
By Prabhat Patnaik The GDP growth in the first quarter (April-June) of 2020 over the first quarter of the previous year has been minus 24 per cent according to preliminary official estimates. But most knowledgeable people believe that even this is an underestimate of the actual contraction...
National Digital Health Mission Will Be Another Mechanism For Surveillance By Centre
By Dr Arun Mitra Healthcare has always been a concern in our country, but lately the people are more sensitised towards it. This is because of the spread of COVID which is taking toll on the lives of many people from all socio economic strata. In addition...
Planned Conspiracy Is On To Distort The Role Of Early Indian Freedom Fighters
By Krishna Jha To build our present it is imperative to have a rich sense of history, which means hindsight with objectivity, without bias, without any inclination to stigmatise it. But what is happening is simply the reverse. A concerted effort has been unleashed to dim the...
From Sudha Bharadwaj To Rhea, Women As ‘Enemy Of The State’
By Annie Domini The 28-year-old Rhea Chakraborty, actress-girlfriend of the late Sushant Singh Rajput, has been arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau on charges of drugs consumption, for allegedly buying cannabis for Rajput. Cannabis, or marijuana, also known as weed in common parlance, is a mild psychoactive drug...
Twin Disasters Ringing Alarm Bells For Indian Economy And Public Health
By Prakash Karat IN the space of a few days, there have been two developments concerning the pandemic and the economy which are alarming. India became the country with the second largest number of Covid-19 cases in the world, overtaking Brazil. Preceding this came the news that in...
Online Fantasy Sports Are Entertaining Young Indians Like Never Before
By Satyaki Chakraborty Are you not getting enough of cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, volleyball, baseball, hockey and other favourite sports of yours? You can now try the online fantasy versions of these, and that too for free! Homebound Indians bored of the pandemic have been taking to...
Priyanka Has Succeeded In Making Up Congress Battlefield-Ready
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, with her aggressive posturing and fighting spirit, has succeeded in making her party the main opposition in Uttar Pradesh. Her ground level work during the pandemic has reaped dividends in raising the party morale as well as...
AGR Order: A Case Of Subjective Judicial Overreach?
By Rohan Deshpande On September 1, 2020, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Arun Mishra finally sought to set at rest the controversy surrounding payment of Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) dues by telecom companies. It may be recollected that on October 24, 2019,...
Corporations Cashing In On Covid-19 Set To Make Billions
By Ben Chacko Corporations cashing in on Covid-19 are set to make tens of billions more in profits this year while millions of people fall into poverty worldwide, Oxfam has revealed. According to a new report by the charity today, 32 of the world’s largest companies stand...
Modi Revels In Celebrating Everything But Reality
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s obsession with making India the best place in the world is much appreciated even by his critics. But many a time, the expression of his resolve often sounds jarring as it is marked by a terribly wrong sense of time....
Frightening Prospect Of Disease And Death
By Gyan Pathak We are faced with a frightening prospect of the Death. COVID-19 has been infecting and killing more and more. Within weeks, India will become the worst hit country of the world. Death pattern has already been changed since March 24 after the lockdown of...
Modi Govt Is Using Covid As A Shield To Suppress Rights Of Workers
By Amarjeet Kaur Covid-19 has come as a rude shock to the world community. This has impacted all sections of society and all types of activities in the human society but the worst of those affected are the working people the world over. The world capitalists instead of...
New Education Policy Dismantles Diversity And Dissent
By P Sandosh Kumar Indian higher education has witnessed tremendous progress since independence. There has been a significant increase in the number of colleges and universities across the country. The Nehruvian consensus believed in providing limitless possibilities of free liberal education that reflects the spirit of reason, tolerance,...
Trump’s Right Wing Agenda Can Be Defeated In November Poll
By Joe Sims Why did Hillary Clinton lose in 2008? Her campaign couldn’t figure out how to defeat a mass movement. Why did she lose in 2016? Once again, her campaign couldn’t figure out how to defeat a mass movement. While the first loss to Obama...
Bihar Assembly Elections In November Are Crucial For Indian Polity
By Kalyani Shankar The upcoming Bihar elections are unique in many ways. In fact this will be the first digital poll held amidst Covid. This time, the elections will be fought through virtual rallies and door-to-door campaigns as well of the social media. The BJP is far ahead...
21 Million Jobs Lost, But Tv Shows Rhea, Kangana
By Satyaki Chakraborty The disparity between newspaper headlines and what the 24X7 TV news broadcasts daily couldn’t be any wider. If newspapers are frontpaging the unprecedented GDP growth rate contraction by – 23.9 per cent, or the four-decade-high unemployment figures, with 21 million jobs lost in the...
