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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.Hiring PR Agency To Conceal The Truth In Hathras Rape Case
By Arun Srivastava Rape has been a weapon to throttle the voice of protest and in the true sense the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath has been resorting to the same tactics to silence his critics and political opponents when he blamed political parties and civil...
Thirty Years After Germany’s Unification On October 3, 1990
By R S Yadav On September 23, 2020, Parliament passed the three anti-farmer agriculture bills and then on the same day approved the three anti-working class amendments in labour laws tabled as three Labour Codes. One labour Code had been earlier passed in August 2019. Thus, the...
Thirty Years After Germany’s Unification On October 3, 1990
By Victor Grossman On October 3 this year, many Germans, party leaders, and media pundits above all, recalled October 3, 1990, when their dreams of a unified Germany became reality. They celebrated with speeches, fireworks, and beer, and vibrant voices, resounding tutti with the “Deutschland über alles” anthem,...
Pope Francis Has Made History By Calling For Replacement Of Neo-Liberal Capitalism
By Nitya Chakraborty The new Pope Francis, the head of the Vatican based Roman Catholic Church made a history on October 4 when in his sermon he passionately called for the replacement of neo liberal capitalism with a more just and human system. Earlier also, Pope Francis showed...
Mere Passing Of Laws Not Adequate To Prevent Torture Of Dalit Women
By Kalyani Shankar Once again the whole country is aghast at the brutal gang rape of a 19-year-old Dalit girl from Uttar Pradesh who succumbed to injuries in a Delhi hospital last Tuesday after fighting for her life for fifteen days. It was due to the callous attitude...
Alliances Within Alliances Is The New Game Of Elections In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Apparently the leaders of both the alliances, the NDA and Grand Alliance, have succeeded in solemnising a working and effective seat sharing formula, but the voices of dissent emanating from the closed room discussions point to major fissures. While LJP one of the...
Tragic Episode Of Hathras Exposes Uttar Pradesh Govt’s Gross Failure
By Sagarneel Sinha Nothing can justify the injustice done to the family of the Hathras case by the police of Uttar Pradesh who denied them to see for the last time the dead body of their own family member. UP police even hurriedly cremated the dead body of...
Lessons Learned 50 Years After Allende’s Popular Unity Government In Chile
By Guillermo Teillier Del Valle It was 1952 and Salvador Allende was facing his first presidential campaign with few resources. He had the support of the Socialist Party, many of whose militants supported Carlos Ibáñez and the Communist Party, which was illegal and acted clandestinely. They acted...
India Is Far Behind China In Food Output, Consumption
By Nantoo Banerjee It is high time that India formulates a strategy to multiply food production and make food available to its poor millions at affordable prices instead of wasting energy on strategising agricultural marketing. Ranked 102nd in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) of 117 countries, India urgently...
The “Foreign Hand” Bogey To Target Critics Of Hindutva Brigade
By Amulya Ganguli The response of the BJP’s troll army to the Amnesty International’s departure from India showed that Islamophobia was not the only arrow in the Hindutva brotherhood’s ideological quiver. There were also other projectiles which included animus against foreigners. Hence, the comparison drawn by some...
There Will Be No End To Agony Of Distressed Farmers After New Acts
By Gyan Pathak There is no end to farmers’ sufferings in spite of our Prime Minister and his team’s proclamations of their being committed to the welfare of the farmers, at every suicide by farmers, at every mischief committed against them, and at their every loss. It points...
Modi Resorting To Falsehood In His Desperation To Protect Yogi
By Arun Srivastava On a day when the entire nation was shocked at the ghastly incident that took place in Hathras of Uttar Pradesh, stood by the side of the bereaved family to share their grief and pain and was showing its sympathy to the parents of the...
Bangladesh Is Trying To Have A Fine Balance Between India And China
By Ashis Biswas Clearly, the current stalemate in bilateral relations between India and Bangladesh may last longer than expected. The recent visit to Dhaka made by Foreign Secretary Mr Harshvardan Shringla, was a good symbolic gesture, but there is little forward movement on two issues. India is...
New Labour Codes: No Protection Against ‘Hire And Fire’ Regime
By Jane Cox and Sanjay Singhvi That trade unions saw red when the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha passed by voice vote the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, and the Code on Social Security, 2020 is understandable. The passage of...
American Democracy’s Survival Is At Stake As Nov 3 Poll Nears
By Al Neal During a Sep. 23 news conference, when asked about the election outcome, Trump said, “We’re going to have to see what happens,” in response to a question about committing to the results. “You know that I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and...
Coalition Politics Of NDA Undergoing A Radical Change
By Harihar Swarup The decision of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) to part company with its long-term ally need not be surprising except on the question of timing. Coalition theorists would describe the post-2014 NDA as a surplus majority coalition — the BJP has had the numbers in...
Farmers’ Grievances Break Two-Decade-Old BJP-Akali Alliance
By Rahil Nora Chopra The 24-year-old alliance which was started in 1996 between the BJP and the Shiromani Akali Dal came to a halt recently after an emergency core committee meeting of the Akali Dal was conducted, in which it was unanimous decided that the party could no...
A Lament That Should Put Every Indian To Shame
By K Raveendran The other day a Madras High Court judge lamented that India, the holy land, has become the land of rapists, where a rape is happening every 15 minutes. Justice Kirubakaran, his name literally meaning merciful, made the observation while hearing a petition relating...
