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.Modi’s China Policy Lacks Transparency
By Sushil Kutty Right now China should be vulnerable with the ‘gang-up’ of nations against it over the ‘origins’ of the coronavirus pandemic. But, for all that, Chinese incursion against India is unstoppable. The Chinese PLA is all over and this side of the LAC. “Quick Chinese incursions” have...
Existing Smaller MSMEs Were Let Down, Will Get Even Less
By Gyan Pathak The announcement of the Rs 3 lakh crore relief package to the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) of India had created a hope, but the change in definition has induced a frustration. It is now clear that the entire amount of the package was not...
Modi’s Anniversary Letter To People Is A Crude PR Exercise
By Arun Srivastava No one has feared that India would become a problem for the world when corona hit it as the global fraternity was itself facing the worst nature of ravage by corona. Actually the people were worried whether the BJP government and the Prime minister, Narendra Modi...
Confusion Over Cabinet Expansion Mounts In Madhya Pradesh
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: At present Madhya Pradesh is facing three major controversies. Out of the three one is political and others relate to government policies. It is for more than a month reports were current that the state Ministry may be expanded any day. It may be mentioned...
Supreme Court Is Abdicating Its Costitutional Duty
By Mihir Desai COVID-19 is primarily a non-political issue, or so one would like to believe. It is important to assess its significant impact on the poor for whom social distancing is a mirage, access to affordable health care is a chimera, and inaccessibility to food and other essentials...
Trump Calls Antifa Group Domestic Terrorists
By David Renton When the President of the United States says that he’ll be designating Antifa as a terrorist organization, a part of me thinks: well go on then, let’s see you try. Because this awful, foreign-sounding word “antifa” is only an abbreviation of “anti-fascist.” Organizations can be banned,...
Week Long Upheavel In USA Is Shaking The World
By Ben Chacko The greatest wave of protest to rock the United States since 1968 has prompted President Donald Trump to threaten his own people with the army. Trump’s attitude from the start of marches demanding justice for George Floyd, murdered on camera by police, has been calculated to...
Post-Covid Political Activities In India Will Turn Digital
By Kalyani Shankar The Covid-19 has changed the dynamics of almost everything including politics in the world. Today, it poses challenges for all walks of life and also all kinds of institutions. This is true of democracy practitioners, civil liberties and political parties and democracy itself, as Trinamool Congress...
Akhilesh Rules Out Any Alliance For 2022 Up Assembly Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav has made it clear that it would not enter into alliance with any party for the 2022 assembly elections. Yadav also made it clear that at the country level, decision would be taken at an appropriate time. It...
Facemask Is The New Essential In Post-Covid Life
By Sushil Kutty Pictures and videos of Americans slugging it out in the streets with each other and with the police and National Guard over the Floyd death are full of reckless abandon, of people flouting every anti-coronavirus rule in the book; from social distancing thrown to the winds...
Unlocking Process Of The Economy Will Be A Daunting Task
By Satyaki Chakraborty The unlocking process of the Indian economy in phases which started from June 1, is going to be a tortuous one and the tackling of the problems emanating from the opening after 68 days of lockdown in four phases, requires visionary leadership from the centre as...
Starmer Repositioning Labour To Reach Out To The Indians In Britain
By Arun Srivastava It was certainly not an unusual move of the new Labour leader Keir Starmer to distance from Jeremy Corbyn’s policy on Kashmir and repositioning Labour on Kashmiri. The new leader of any political party, my not venture to alter the fundamental ideological line of the party,...
Floyd Killing Exposes Systemic Racism In USA
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON – From Barack Obama and Joe Biden to the AFL-CIO and progressive allies there have come declarations that the Minneapolis police killing of 46-year-old George Floyd on May 25 once again exposed the systemic racism that undergirds U.S. society. Former Vice President Joe Biden, the...
Supreme Court Intervention In Migrants Crisis Too Little, Too Late
By Amritananda Chakravorty The Covid-19 pandemic has affected more than 200 countries in the world, with United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Brazil and India being particularly affected. But no country has had a humanitarian crisis as in India in the form of 80 million migrant workers stranded in different...
Enduring Images Of Pandemic In India Rattle The World
By Amulya Ganguli In the years to come, which will be the defining image of the great Indian labour migration of 2020? Will it be the video of a toddler lifting the shroud over his dead mother’s body on a railway platform? Or of the child half-asleep on a...
Voices Against Neo-Liberal Agenda Are Raging In West
By Prabhat Patnaik The Financial Times of London is one of the most “respectable” bourgeois newspapers in the world. Even this newspaper has now come to recognise something which the Left has been saying for quite some time. In an editorial on April 3, 2020, it wrote: “Radical reforms...
Labour Party Undergoing Ideological Change In Britain
By Arun Srivastava Electoral compulsions and the impulse to keep the rightist forces in good humour have witnessed fundamental transformation of the UK’s Labour Party. The party has decided to divorce the left ideas and policy notwithstanding the ground realities favouring Labour Party embracing the socialist ideas for espousing...
Trump’s Decision To Quit Who Disregards Covid Challenge
By Ben Chacko Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States is terminating its relationship with the World Health Organisation (WHO) came as protests raged over the police killing of George Floyd. The same leader who threatens the world with a “super-duper missile” turns on his own people, warning protesters...
