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.Long March Of Bharat: Lockdown’s Double Whammy
By K. Raveendran Every life lost by the migrant labour in the wake of the lockdown must be considered a martyrdom in the country’s defence against coronavirus. Their numbers must, therefore, be added to the figures strenuously doctored by the government machinery so as to make the total number...
Post-Amphan, Mamata Is Doing A Splendid Job In Bengal
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s appreciation of Mamata Banerjee for making sincere endeavours to face the challenges of Amphan during his short aerial survey of the cyclone ravaged areas of the South 24 Paraganas notwithstanding, the leaders of his Bengal party unit have launched the worst nature...
Poor Americans, Brazilians Are Suffering For Wrong Leadership
By Sushil Kutty The Covid-19 death toll mounts worldwide and still there are people convinced they are home safe. The tens of thousands of migrant workers who returned to villages in India… Are they home safe? No, the coronavirus is not through, yet. Not in India, and not in...
Mayawati Is Now Seeing Priyanka Gandhi As A Big Threat To Her Base
By Pradeep Kapoor The Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati is known in Uttar Pradesh for her unpredictable twists and turns in choosing her allies. For her, survival in the continuing flux in the political situation of the largest populated state of the country is the core issue and she...
America Is In The Midst Of Systemic Crisis Of Capitalism
By Joe Sims A lot of hope—and rightly so—is being placed in what a post-Trump country and world might look like. And yes, almost anything would be better. (As a popular lawn sign reads, “2020: Any Functioning Adult.”) Proposals for union-friendly organizing rights, student debt relief, a wealth tax,...
Opposition Has Not Enough Teeth To Take On Narendra Modi
By Kalyani Shankar Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be completing his first year in office in his second term on May 30. While critics are discussing Modi government’s hits and misses in the past one- year, what has the opposition done? What is its report card? Has it played...
Nepal’s Anti-India Stance Raises Many Questions
By Barun Dasgupta From early this month, China suddenly escalated tension with India in Ladakh and Sikkim for reasons which are still unclear. Nepal has also chosen this time to claim some areas which are in India, apparently at the behest of Beijing. In fact, the chief of the...
Uddhav Seals His Place In Non-Bjp Opposition
By Amulya Ganguli By attending the meeting of opposition leaders at the national level, Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has formalized his breach with his former ally, the BJP, and become a part of the “secular” camp. The parleys with Sonia Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, H.D. Deve Gowda and 19...
China’s ‘Invincibility’ Marred By Coronavirus, Hong Kong Crises
By Anjan Roy All of a sudden India’s border regions with China appear to be aflame. Incidents of confrontation and skirmishes are reported from the western front in Ladakh to eastern areas in Sikkim. In between, Nepal has also butted in, claiming a stretch of land on which India...
Gujarat Model Is A Superflop In Fighting Covid
By Arun Srivastava The two judges of Gujarat High court have certainly risked their anger of the powers that be by comparing the situation prevailing in the state, post Corona pandemic, to the “sinking Titanic” and also by observing that condition of Ahmedabad Civil Hospital was pathetic and “is...
Narendra Modi Completing Six Years In Office On May 30
By Sagarneel Sinha Many political commentators viewed the 2014 election results, where BJP on its own secured a majority for the first time, as an aberration which wasn’t going to be repeated again — or more correctly, a black swan event. However, all these theories were proven wrong when...
Modi Must Find Ways To Jump-Start The Economy
By Harihar Swarup Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in an unenviable position. He has to attempt a ‘quantum leap’ on the economic front while walking the Covid-19 tightrope. There is considerable risk involved. But it’s a risk he has to take simply because there are limitations to what India...
Why PM Modi’s ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ Is Quite Deceptive
By Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan has a clear message for a self-reliant India. “What an idea!” exclaimed all, in their initial ecstatic reaction, which later gave way to a great disgust, fear, and frustration. The announcement of PM Modi’s economic stimulus package of Rs...
Adivasi Communities Are Worst Hit By Lock-Down
By Brinda Karat As the greatest man made humanitarian crisis since independence plays out across India, prevailing inequalities get intensified due to government policies and approaches during the arbitrarily declared, unplanned lockdown. The curtain of invisibility that hitherto concealed the existence of 10 crore workers, termed migrant workers, has...
Setback In Kerala’s Anti-Covid Battle
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no mistaking it. Kerala has suffered a setback in the war against the dreaded corona virus. The dangerous development is clear from the massive spike in covid positive cases in the recent days. The disturbing surge can be attributed to a variety of...
Britons Must Look Beyond The Theory Of Exceptionalism
By Arun Srivastava The corona pandemic has exposed the myth of the British exceptionalism. The myth has been created by some people who are engaged in the psychological war to prove the dominance of the UK. This word is usually referred to identify the nature of the capitalist development....
Biden’s “Crisis Presidency” Has Transformative Potential
By John Bachtell Like all national and global crises, the COVID-19 pandemic and economic implosion will profoundly change people, work, and society generally. The only question is, how much? Other great crisis moments in U.S. history, like the Civil War, the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam...
Cyclone Amphan and Modi-Shah’s usual ‘Disaster Politics’
By Arun Srivastava Two different messages with two entirely different connotations underline the two widely different attitude and approach of Prime Minister Narendra Modi towards the two states of West Bengal and Odisha. Both the states had to bear the brunt of the Amphan cyclone, but undoubtedly it was...
