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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.Plastic Recycling Has Become Normal In Covid Era
By Sunita Narain The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is all-subsuming. The pandemic makes it difficult to think or act on all the issues that made up our world yesterday and will stay in our world of tomorrow. One such issue is plastic — the most ubiquitous...
Scindia, Pilot Revolts Expose Unprecedented Crisis In Congress
By Kalyani Shankar The Congress party is facing an unprecedented power struggle from within, which has cost the Grand Old Party dear. The Congress is almost imploding. It had lost a big state like Madhya Pradesh just a few weeks ago and is in the process of...
Social Distancing Is More Dangerous Than Corona
By Arun Srivastava While evolving the strategy to fight the corona pandemic, the policymakers found the phrase “social distancing” as the most convenient tool to fight the menace. But unfortunately they could not comprehend that it has a dangerous dimension and it would expose society’s fragility. ...
Differently-Abled Migrant Women Workers Grapple With Pandemic
By Vedika Kakar When Anita Ghai, a prominent disability rights advocate, said that the heterogeneity of disability is often ignored in terms of governance and policymaking, she had a point. Despite existing policies, there are loopholes in their implementation. The political economy of disability needs to...
Why Reliance Can Rise Five Times Its Current Valuation
By Matein Khalid DUBAI: Last week witnessed a feeding frenzy from the crème de la crème of Wall Street’s smart money (and some Dubai’s smart money LOL!) to be part of the private market financing of Reliance Jio, the emerging supernova of India’s digital ecosystem. After having...
Retail Power Priced Four Times The Generation Cost
By Nantoo Banerjee India is the cheapest producer of electricity from coal, solar and wind sources in the entire Asia Pacific region. It is the only country in the region where solar power costs almost 14 percent less than that of thermal power. However, in terms of tariffs...
Coming State Assembly Elections Are Crucial In National Politics
By Amulya Ganguli It is not as difficult as it may seem to guess the outcome of some of the elections later this year and during 2021. The predictions are fairly easy if the present trends in the poll-bound states are kept in mind. To take the more...
Stronger Putin Emerges As A Big Challenger To Capitalist West
By Arun Srivastava The political leadership of the capitalist countries and their policymakers are in a state of utter slipup on how Putin got massive mandate and also how to deal with Russia and its economy under him. While slapping sanction the Western world had visualised that...
Blaming BJP Won’t Solve The Internal Crisis Of The Congress
By Sagarneel Sinha Since last year’s debacle of the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections, the party has refused to go for a deep introspection and an overall systematic change from top to bottom. Instead, Rahul Gandhi resigned as the party president —not mainly for owning his responsibility...
Supreme Court Must Revisit Its Position On Two-Child Norm
By Vrinda Agarwal On the occasion of World Population Day recently, we witnessed the all too familiar chorus of demands for a population control law. Unfortunately, most of these demands involve making the two-child norm compulsory such that a wide gamut of individual rights and benefits can be...
Sachin Pilot Has Been A Huge Beneficiary Of ‘Entitlement Raj’
By Harihar Swarup Long before Sachin Pilot, there was his equally charming father, Rajesh Pilot. In 1997, Pilot senior decided to take on octogenarian Sitaram Kesri for the Congress president’s post to “save the party”. It’s a battle he knew he could not win as Kesri had “managed”...
India’s Complacence On Covid-19 Security Is Misplaced
By Arjavi Indraneesh Ignorance is for long considered bliss. But not when it comes to vital issues like the spread of a pandemic. Governments all over the world have been showing great reluctance to let the world know of the real situation, lest it should be construed...
Dark Cloud Over Sachin Pilot’s Flypast For The BJP
By Sushil Kutty Sachin Pilot and his 18-19 musketeers are up the creek without a paddle. They have been given respite till July 21 to think over what they want – disqualification or rehabilitation? That’s because the Rajasthan High Court has told the Speaker of the Rajasthan Assembly...
Congress, Others File Memo Against Digital Poll Campaign
By IPA Correspondent The Indian National Congress and eight other political parties — CPI, RJD, CPI(M), CPI(ML), RLSP, VIP, HAM, LJD — have written a memorandum to the Election Commission opposing the digital poll campaign, requesting the EC to ensure free and fair public participation as well as...
Political Prisoner, Pandemic And The Apathetic State
By Megha Katheria After a lot of drama, imprisoned poet and activist Varavara Rao, 79, was shifted to Saint George Hospital in Mumbai after testing positive for COVID-19. He has been moved from the Taloja jail prison hospital to J J Hospital in Mumbai last week. This was...
Trump Turns To Neo-Nazi Symbols To Attract Racist Votes
By C.J. Atkins It’s really no longer controversial to state that Donald Trump embraces the ideas and thinking of the racist right; he’s been brandishing his bigoted credentials since long before he was elected. But the recent adoption of explicit neo-Nazi and white nationalist imagery and symbols by...
World Bank Claim On Poverty Reduction Is Deceptive
By Prabhat Patnaik There is much self-congratulatory back-slapping among governments, the World Bank officials and many economists about the “decline in poverty” that is supposed to have occurred between 1990 and the onset of the recent pandemic. This decline is claimed on the basis of an International...
Surgical Strike Of CBSE Curriculum Is Motivated
By Binoy Viswam The rightist forces committed to the ideology of fascism have always been keen to impress upon the minds of the young generation their own line of thoughts. The guiding principle of Hitler in this regard was “catch them young”. Once in power they do...
