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.Only The Third Package Announced By FM For Farmers Can Produce Results
By Anjan Roy Of all the changes and reforms the finance minister announced over the course of last week, the one reform which is likely to have a lasting impact would be her announcements regarding marketing of farm products. This is visually scrapping the APMCs and marketing of agro...
Poor Labourers Are The Serfs Of Modi’s New India
By Arun Srivastava It was more than a coincidence that on the day around 24 poor daily wage workers, on way to their native places, were killed in a road accident near Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh, the senior BJP leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi were celebrating the sixth...
Kerala Deplores Terms Set On Borrowing
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government has offered a cautious welcome to the Rs 20 lakh crore package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and unwrapped in fie tranches by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The Government has welcomed the decision to raise the limit for...
Getting Muscular With China’s Xi Jinping
By Sushil Kutty Are we past the worst of the coronavirus crisis? From the looks of it and the behaviour of lots and lots of people across the world, yes! Countries worldwide are lifting lockdowns and markets are tentatively started selling with people buying into the belief that things...
Virtual Courts Are A Necessity At The Time Of Pandemic
By Saniya Siddiqui There can be no two opinions, that the novel coronavirus caught the entire world by surprise, and what set countries apart is how they responded to the crisis. India chose the world’s strictest stay-at-home restrictions to ensure life is preserved while allowing only essential services. Although...
Biden, Sanders Join Hands To Beat Trump On Progressive Agenda
By John Wojcik Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders have established a task force to unite the Democratic Party on a progressive agenda. The action reflects the urgency that not only most in the Democratic Party but labour and all its allies place on the task...
Post-Lockdown, Millions To Stay Jobless
By Nantoo Banerjee At least 200 million people may have lost job since the nation-wide lockdown was clamped on March 25 to curb the spread of Covid-19. Although the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE) in its last report said that 122 million Indians lost their jobs in...
Migrant Woes Exposing BJP’s Brahmin-Bania Nexus
By Amulya Ganguli The Narendra Modi government is facing several problems. After the praise it received from the WHO about its handling of the coronavirus pandemic and also from Bill Gates, the signs are that India is on the verge of a second wave of the disease while the...
Time To Transfer Funds From Weapons To Making Of Vaccines
By Dr. Arun Mitra The world is seized with tackling COVID-19 which is being perceived as biggest health threat to the humanity today. True, this virus is more lethal than other Corona viruses. There is an all out effort by the scientists around the world to develop vaccines to...
People From Black And Ethnic Groups Are The Worst Corona Victims In UK
By Arun Srivastava The Prime Minister of UK, Boris Johnson is facing acute pressure to launch an independent public inquiry into the disproportionate impact of corona on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities (BAME) across Britain. This demand has cropped up in the wake large number of deaths the...
Madhya Pradesh Sandwiched Between States Seeing Labour Outflux
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Besides taking care of the corona-related problems Madhya Pradesh has to bear the brunt caused by migrant labourers from all over the country travelling back to their homes. This additional problem is being caused due to the geographical location of the state. Migrant labourers leaving...
Brazil’s Workers Party Set To File Impeachment Motion Against President
By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazil’s Workers’ Party (PT) is set to file papers for the impeachment of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro over his handling of the Covid-19 crisis, saying that he “no longer works with this government.” The party said at the weekend that its executive had “decided to submit...
Modi’s Stimulus Package Can Recover The Economy
By Harihar Swarup The second stimulus package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gone beyond expectations. His address to the nation on May 12 will perhaps mark the day when India embarked on the path of converting a global crisis into an opportunity to accelerate its economic transition...
Why Modi Did Not Elaborate On His ‘Atmanirbhar’ Package
By K Raveendran South Indian superstar Rajinikanth is known for his punch dialogues. His fiery one-liner “When I say something once, it is like saying it a hundred times” in his chart-buster Baasha movie has almost become part of the regional folklore. But even Rajnikanth cannot beat Prime Minister...
Sudden Spike In Covid Positive Cases Jolts Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The look of concern is back on the faces of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) leaders. The reason for their worry is the sudden spike in the Covid positive cases in the wake of the return of Indians stranded in foreign countries. The last...
BJP-Ruled State Govts Declare War Against Workers
By Dr. Prabhat Patnaik Even as millions of migrant workers are wearily trudging back to their villages with no money, no food and no shelter, or are locked up en route in shoddy quarantine camps, a war has been unleashed on the rights of workers under the cover of...
Privacy Is A Major Casualty During Pandemic In India
By Ayan Gupta and Rudraksh Lakra When the very existence of a State is threatened, it is the tendency of governments to take hold of excessive powers. While done in the name of enabling themselves to adequately respond to the threat, these excesses often continue long after the threat...
Fake Medical Theories Thrive During Pandemic In USA
By Kimball Cariou When is science not actually scientific? One answer is that research which cherry-picks and manipulates facts to support a preconceived hypothesis is not truly scientific. Long after Galileo and Copernicus demolished the Ptolemaic theory, some highly educated scientists kept creating astronomical models showing that the sun,...
