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.Ruling Regime Is Moving Towards A De Facto Unitary State
By Prabhat Patnaik Federalism is one of the basic features of the Indian constitution. In the constituent assembly, Professor K T Shah wanted the term “federal”, together with the term “secular”, included in the preamble itself, but Dr Ambedkar rejected it on the grounds that the federal and...
Trump’s New Pick For Supreme Court Bench Coney Barret Is Anti Worker
By Mark Gruenberg In her three years as a federal appellate court judge, Amy Coney Barrett, whom GOP Oval Office occupant Donald Trump has nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, has shown herself to be bad news for workers’ rights, legal analysts report. But what may...
Modi Government Is Enslaving Labour To Appease Big Corporates
By Prakash Karat The three labour laws passed in Parliament at the fag end of the truncated monsoon session constitute a grave assault on the working class of the country. The Industrial Relations Code, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code and the Social Security Code,...
After Ayodhya’s Closure, will BJP play the Mathura Card?
By Amulya Ganguli While the charge of a conspiracy to bring down the Babri masjid on December 6, 1992, has been discounted by the CBI court which considered the issue, its observation that the demolition was the handiwork of anti-socials cannot be a matter of pride for the...
Trump’s Dig At Modi Uncharitable, But Not Off Mark
By K Raveendran Friend Trump has given Modi a left-handed compliment by bracketing India with China and Russia for not being real with the Covid numbers. “We don’t know how many people died of Covid-19 in China, Russia, India… because they do not give straight answers, they...
Farm Bills Will Boost GDP Growth By At Least 2 Per Cent
By Sugato Hazra Those who have read a little economics and also have the capacity to think logically will accept the role of market expansion in betterment of human life. From the classical growth theory of Adam Smith till endogenous growth theory of Paul Romer the constant factor...
Centre-State Confrontation In Kerala Over CBI Inquiry
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the Left Democratic Front (LDF) deciding to strongly oppose the CBI inquiry launched into the State Government’s Life Mission project, the stage is set for a protracted politico-legal battle with the Centre. The confrontationist ambience has been accentuated further by the State...
Women, Children And Migrants Battle Odds To Survive In Covid-19
By Gayatri Sharma In early 2020, women’s groups across the country looked forward to attending the Sixty-Fourth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held in New York. The year 2020 was special for CSW as it marked 25 years since the Beijing Platform for...
Bizarre Guideline Issued By Tory Govt For Not Using Anti-Capitalist Materials For Teaching
By Arun Srivastava The Boris Johnson government on Thursday took a firm step towards considering the schools in England not to use anti-capitalist material in teaching and also directing them not to use resources from organisations which have expressed a desire to end capitalism. Though a...
BJP Is Now In A Position To Do Away With Its NDA Allies
By Kalyani Shankar The BJP is slowly reconciled to live without its major allies now that its oldest ally, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has quit the BJP led NDA alliance on Saturday. The BJP and the SAD have been partners even in the Jan Sangh days. With...
Reconstituted BJP Central Leadership Creates Big Division In Bengal Party Ranks
By Arun Srivastava Instead of banking on the RSS and committed BJP hands, the Home Minister, Amit Shah has put his bet on the Trinmool turncoats for navigating the assembly election waters of 2021 in West Bengal. The reconstituted state committee of BJP made it crystal clear...
Congress Nominates Defectors From BJP To Fight Scindia Loyalists In Madhya Pradesh
BY L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Despite squarely blaming defection and defectors for the overthrow of the Congress government, the Congress has decided to sponsor defectors for the forthcoming by-elections. While announcing second list of candidates the Congress allotted four defectors for the by-poll. All the four candidates joined the...
Why Congress-Led Front Ended Agitation In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a positive development, the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) has ended its anti-government agitation. True, the decision has come a bit late in the day. But, as the saying goes, better late than never. It must, however, be said that the UDF...
Demystifying Factors That Led To Sushant Singh Rajput’s Death
By Sushil Kutty So here’s it in alphabets: If Ramu had caught the coronavirus in February 2020, nearly 90% chances were Ramu with his baggage of comorbidities would have inexorably died. But if Ramu were to contract the virus in the first week of, say, October 2020, most...
Isher Judge Ahluwalia: Leaving A Great Legacy Behind
By Indira Jaising The demise of acclaimed economist Isher Judge Ahluwalia has kindled numerous memories of her contribution to India’s civil society. The Padma Bhushan awardee achieved numerous accolades for her work and contribution to the field of Indian economic policy. Having completed her Ph.D. in economics from...
Trump Administration Angles For New ‘Cold War’ With China
By Carlos Martinez Since Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to Beijing, the trajectory of U.S.-China relations had been towards greater levels of cooperation and economic integration, even if these masked deep underlying contradictions and the ever-present possibility of confrontation. However, over the course of the last few years, we’ve...
New Laws Won’t Protect Farmers, Consumers
By Nantoo Banerjee Bringing three important agriculture-related bills in Parliament at one go and getting them passed in less than a week’s time without any serious debate or special scrutiny are most unusual, if not unprecedented. On the face of it, the bills seek to double farmers’ income...
Drug Users, Accused Politicians Must All Be Under The Scanner
By Amulya Ganguli At a time when several central agencies are pursuing, in tandem with a number of television channels, the allegations of drug abuse by film stars, it might be expected that the same eagerness to unearth the truth would also be displayed by the official organizations...
