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.Lesson From Emergency: When Institutions Cave In, Democracy Dies
By Harihar Swarup Most commemorate Emergency on June 26 as a reminder of the bleak 21 months when democracy was derailed. Actually, the Emergency came into effect on June 25 at 11:45 pm when the then President, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, signed the proclamation even though he was...
Deliverance From Chinese Products Virtually Impossible
By K Raveendran Nationalist elements have called for a ‘boycott China’ movement in the wake of Chinese border incursions in Ladakh. But it is clear that independence from China would take a bigger struggle than India’s freedom movement for deliverance from the colonialists. China has established a...
Absurdity Of Continuing Oil Price Hike Under Modi Regime
By Prabhat Patnaik Between, say December 25, 2019, and June 23, 2020, world crude (brent) oil prices have fallen by nearly 37 per cent. They had fallen by over 60 per cent between end-December and mid-April, but there has been some price-recovery since then; even so, the...
United Nations Experts Demand The Release Of Anti-CAA Activists In India
By Satyaki Chakraborty Leading experts of the United Nations have urged upon the Government of India to release the activists who have been arrested in the last few months for their protests against the introduction of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the country. The experts in...
Congress Has A Glorious Past Of Which It Can Be Proud
By Mriganka Mouli Bhowmick Amidst of Corona Crisis, the China-India border conflict has become new area of political slugfest where Congress with Rahul Gandhi at its front has nullified every claims of Modi Government about the ground control. The unfortunate death of Indian soldiers while fighting against Chinese...
Centre’s Policies Bringing Miseries To Common Masses
By Binoy Viswam On the 18th day of incessant rise of fuel price, diesel has out beaten petrol. It may be for the first time that diesel becomes costlier than petrol. Everybody knows that now fuel price in India has nothing to do with the price of...
PM Has Infused New Life To Make In India Through Atmanirbhar
By Subrata Majumder Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a new lease of life to his much fancied Make in India programme by calling for Atmanirbhar Abhiyan as a means of giving a push to the Indian industry in the period of the pandemic and as also in...
Forty Five Years After Declaration Of Emergency By Indira Gandhi
By Mohan V Katarki Our hard experiences teach us lessons. But, India hasn’t learnt its full lesson from the State of emergency clamped by the then Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi on 25th June 1975, to save herself from disqualification after the historic judgement of Allahabad High Court....
China Betrayed Nehru Once, It Has Now Turned On Modi
By L.S. Herdenia During the Chinese revolution, progressive forces of the world lent every possible support to it. At that time, it was widely believed that most of the Chinese people consumed opium and were always in a stupor. Additionally, the country’s economy lay totally shattered. It...
Congress Still Divided On The Question Of Rahul Gandhi
By Rahil Nora Chopra All is not well within the Congress, which is split wide open on the leadership question. While important leaders are increasingly frustrated with Rahul Gandhi’s behind-the-scenes control of the party, his decisions and positions on crucial political and policy matters, there’s also a strong...
India Has Many Options To Meet Latest Challenge From China
By Anjan Roy Nothing could compensate the loss of twenty young lives of the Indian Army, but the episode and China’s premeditated actions on India’s Himalayan borders willy nilly has changed for good the global geo-political narrative. Much to its chagrin, India is now hyphenated —as they...
Privatisation Of Coal Blocks Is A Big Threat To Environment
By Krishna Jha Coal workers in the country, engaged in one of the most hazardous jobs, struck work for three days from June 2 to 4, 2020. It was not only against the deplorable conditions that the miners keep facing every day, the struggle launched was also against...
Central Trade Unions Gear Up To Challenge The Government
By Sukumar Damle On 3 July 2020, the Central Trade Unions are slated to launch their nationwide campaign to protest the deteriorating conditions of the workers, spree of privatization of public sector units, suspension of labour laws citing the pandemic and other issues. The pressure cooker situation...
Indian Civil Society Calls For Knowledge-Sharing In Fight Against Covid
By Satyaki Chakraborty Countries across the globe are racing towards developing a successful vaccine for COVID-19. Various governmental research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and even universities are working around the clock to research fast diagnostics, effective treatment, and vaccines. However, given the large scale demand, concerns have raised...
EU Mulls Real Wall To Bar Entry Of Americans To Europe
By Mark Gruenberg On Tuesday in Arizona Trump had his picture taken at the phony prop he calls his “beautiful wall,” one of the props along the border with Mexico that he runs to every time he wants to stir up fear of immigrants. While he was...
Anti-Slavery Movement Was The Link Between Lincoln And Marx
By John Wight On page 405 of the folio edition of the writings and speeches of Abraham Lincoln there is a letter dated January 19 1863. It is titled “To the Workingmen of Manchester, England” and begins: “I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the address...
Covid Outbreak Drags Everything Down Except Gold
By K Raveendran Gold prices hit record highs last week, with 10 gm of the metal costing over Rs 48,000. Prices have since scaled back a little, but continue to be at multi-year highs. Gold is perhaps the only asset whose value has gone up when everything else...
Big Split In RJD Is A Boost To NDA On Poll Eve In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Three decade old tryst of the RJD with the highly caste sensitive Bihar politics suffered the first ever worst jolt with the founder of the party, former union minister and vice president, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh quitting the party along with five MLCs. The reason...
