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.Leading War Journalist Peter Arnett Knew Best How To Cover Conflict Zone
By Tirthankar Mitra Having dodged bullets and ducked bombs for a considerable part of his working life, trailblazing war journalist Peter Arnett died in his bed. He was 91. Arnett managed to stay ahead of death in the different theatres of war. In the process, he brought eye witnesses...
How A Disney Studio Animation Film “Zootopia 2” Is Boosting China-US Trade Agenda?
By Nitya Chakraborty Something incredible is happening in Beijing as also in other cities of China in the last five days. The cinema halls showing the American animation film “Zootopia 2” produced by the famous Disney studio are full and the Chinese cine lovers who have not yet seen...
Parliament And Its Complex Witness Strong Protests Over G Ram G Bill
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Lok Sabha passed the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee For Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill 2025 today December 18, 2025 which seeks to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Act amid fierce opposition, uproar, and tearing of the copy of the...
Bangladesh Interim Chief Dr. Yunus Facing Severe Scrutiny From Western Nations
By Ashis Biswas In Bangladesh, the interim Government led by Chief Adviser Dr M. Yunus has not yet succeeded in establishing the requisite level of administrative control over the pre-poll situation. February 12 2026 is the date of polling. As expected old and new parties are carrying on a...
As War In Ukraine Completing Four Years In February, No Immediate Truce In Sight
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: Nearly four years since Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia still occupies roughly 20 percent of the country, and Russian President Vladimir Putin made clear Wednesday that he has no intention of compromising on his territorial demands despite President Donald Trump’s...
This Astronomical Level Of Inequality In India Is Unsustainable
By Nilotpal Basu Some time back, when Thomas Piketty, renowned for his work on inequality, had observed that inequality in India had surpassed the levels prevailing under the British Raj, all hell had broken loose. Now that the World Inequality Report, 2026 is out in the public domain, issues...
Poverty Alleviation And Climate Change Programme Are Intricately Linked
By Krishna Jha The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2025, brought out recently by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Programme, is basically a caution against the looming danger, and not just a statistical update. It is a caution to the world’s...
Wuhan Lapse Was Not A Mistake — It Was A Governance Choice By Beijing!
By Aritra Banerjee The COVID-19 pandemic is often discussed as a tragedy of biology. In truth, it was a tragedy of governance. What unfolded in Wuhan in the winter of 2019–20 was not merely an administrative lapse or a momentary failure of judgment. It was the predictable outcome of...
Venezuela War Is About Oil Trump Admits, Imposes Blockade On Tankers
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: Oil, oil, oil, oil, oil—the word appeared five times in President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post on Tuesday announcing the U.S. military was imposing a “TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE” of sanctioned oil tankers going into and out of Venezuela. The White House occupant’s inability...
Energy Markets Recalibrate As Geopolitics Reshapes Supply Calculus
By K Raveendran Oil prices slipping below $60 a barrel for the first time since February 2021 and a sharp easing in European gas prices mark more than a cyclical downturn in commodities. They signal a rapid repricing of geopolitical risk at a moment when diplomacy, rather than escalation,...
Political Heat Rises In West Bengal After Publication Of Draft Electoral Roll
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the publication of Draft Electoral Rolls on December 16, 2025, political heat has considerably risen in West Bengal which is going to poll three months from now in March-April 2026. Over 58 lakh names have been deleted from the existing voter list during the...
Redefining Aravali, The Oldest Hills Chain Is A Matter Of Concern
By Jag Mohan Thaken The coming generations will hardly believe that there was a chain of the oldest mountains, namely the Aravali hills, on Indian earth and they will read only in the books that the hills spread over 800 km from Gujarat to Delhi, through Rajasthan and Haryana,...
Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Again? Iraq Lies Recycled For Venezuela War
By Rob Warzyniak NEW YORK: On December 6, President Trump’s “War” Secretary Pete Hegseth took the stage at the Reagan Defense Forum to outline the latest iteration of U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. should not be “distracted by democracy building, interventionism, undefined wars, regime change, climate change, woke moralizing,...
As Nepal Readies For National Elections On March 5, 2026, Where Is Gen Z’s Party?
By Nitya Chakraborty Is Bangladesh’s pre-election scenario is being repeated in Nepal which was the seat of a two day revolt by Gen Z of the country against the ruling K S Oli government in the second week of September this year? Major indications are leading to that, the...
What Makes PM Narendra Modi To Dismantle The Demand Driven MGNREGA
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Union Government of India is set to introduce Viksit Bharat – Guarantee For Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill (VB-G RAM G) in the Lok Sabha, which will mark the end of the current Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 under which...
Maharashtra Urban Polls Set The Stage For A High-Stake 2026 Battle
By T N Ashok The announcement of Maharashtra’s urban local body election schedule has done more than set the clock ticking for civic polls—it has forced an uneasy ruling alliance to rediscover the value of unity. With voting for all 29 municipal corporations, including the powerful Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation...
From Chhaava To Durandhar – Story Telling Was The Key To Success In 2025
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers With just days left before the curtain falls on 2025, Bollywood finds itself in an unusually buoyant position. After years of uneven recoveries and post-pandemic recalibration, the Hindi film industry finally rediscovered its box-office muscle this year—powered by star-driven spectacles, rooted storytelling, and a growing...
Why Dickens’s Scrooge Still Walks Among US At Christmas, 182 Years On?
By Keith Flett LONDON: Charles Dickens’s Christmas Carol was published on December 19 1843. Eleven days later the Chartist Northern Star had this response, which was headed “a Christmas Carol”:“According to annual and praise-worthy custom the unfortunate inmates both of the workhouse and prison throughout the metropolis, will, upon...
