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 Regime Becoming More Authoritarian During Pandemic
By Prakash Karat The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified and reinforced the authoritarian set-up which had been ushered in by the Modi government. The authoritarian trend had begun with the Modi government being installed in office in May 2014. It got consolidated with its return to power in May 2019....
Kamal Nath Blames Digvijay For The Scindia-Led MLA Exodus
By Rahil Nora Chopra Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh had ganged up to ensure that Jyotiraditya Scindia had no place in Congress politics in Madhya Pradesh. But after Scindia quit the party, the Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh jugalbandi has fallen out. In an off-the-record briefing with a journalist,...
PM’s Package Is Of Little Value To Marginal Farmers
By S. Sudhakar Reddy In view of Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation and declared a package of 20 lakh crores as stimulus package. How this package is going to be distributed is a million dollar question. Several people are claiming that they have not received any...
Judiciary Failing In Its Duty During Pandemic
By Ravindra S Garia The pandemic has led to the closure of courts unless it is ‘urgent matter’. A final argument in a criminal appeal or delivering a reserved judgment in such appeals would hardly qualify as ‘emergency’. What does this mean for a person in jail? He or...
India’s Bright Ideas To Rid Us Of Covid-19
By Sushil Kutty President Donald Trump sacked his vaccine chief Rick Bright weeks ago over hydroxychloroquine differences. Bright has now told the US House health sub-committee that Trump’s claim that a coronavirus vaccine will be ready within 18 months is pure hogwash. He spoke of Trump cutting out several...
Guns Or Vaccines? Immorality Of Building Weapons During Pandemic
By Conn Hallinan “There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.” – Albert Camus, “The Plague” French author Albert Camus’s Nobel Prize-winning 1947 novel of a lethal contagion in the North African city of Oran is filled with...
Recession Has Deepened In Indian Economy
By Krishna Jha We are moving towards zero percent growth as the credit rating agency Moody’s investors service has predicted for the financial year of 2021-2022. It said that the negative context prevailing in the country has its own effect on the GDP growth. It did not limit itself...
PM’s Massive Package May Not Mean Much On Ground
By Gyan Pathak India is opening up slowly, with a great sense of fear and insecurity, despair and uncertainty. The package worth Rs 20 lakh crore is empty. The things we needed most are not in the package. Even the real worth of the present package is only about...
PM CARES Fund Needs Public Scrutiny For Transparency
By Arun Srivastava Just a day after the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi announced a Rs 20 lakh crore special economic package, the question on utility and future role of PM Cares Fund surfaced in the public domain in a significant manner. Though barely a week back the Supreme Court...
Frontline Workers Are Called Heroes In USA
By Tim Libertti On one level, the coronavirus pandemic holds out the potential to shift America’s dominant cultural mentality to finally rethink—indeed come to terms with—how our political, economic, and moral systems value the work on which our lives most depend. Presumably, the pandemic conditions are making clear to...
PM’s Package Is A Hark Back To Old Strategy
By Anjan Roy The prime minister’s address to the nation has laid out a plan for completely rebooting India’s economic model in the context of the experience of the corona virus pandemic and the shape of the global economy that he possibly foresees. From an approach of globalisation and...
Covid Reveals The Existence Of The ‘Other India’
By K Raveendran The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the existence of the Other India, which has always been in existence, but remained invisible all along. The Other India comprises millions of migrant labour who do not belong to either the cities or the villages from where they had long...
Modi Is Following The Path Of Economic Nationalism In India
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message to the nation just ahead of launching the fourth phase of ‘lockdown’ measures was primarily recapitulation, populist in nature and designed to boost his personality cult. His speech lacked any definite direction. The speech did not carry the signature of Narendra...
Kerala Seeks Freedom To Modify Lockdown-Related Guidelines
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has requested that the State be allowed flexibility to modify the lockdown-related guidelines in the battle against Covid-19. The request is part of the slew of demands the Kerala has made in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s directive that the States submit their...
Self-Reliance Costs A Pretty Packet
By Sushil Kutty Okay Modi’s cabinet will give its approval. It cannot be disapproval. Modi’s word is final. Ask Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Finance Minister, she who cannot talk/tweet without hashtags @narendramodi and @PMOnarendramodi. It’s about a $265 billion economic stimulus package to rescue Covid-19 hit India. In Modi’s language,...
Urban Job Loss More Severe Than That In Rural India
By Satyaki Chakraborty The extent of job losses in India is more pronounced in urban areas than in most rural areas of the country due to the impact of the lockdown since March 25 this year. The lockdown will continue after May 17 in its fourth phase with some...
International Nurses Day Has Now New Significance
By Susana Barria May 12 is celebrated as International Nurses Day as it marks the birth of the founder of modern nursing Florence Nightingale and the formal recognition of nursing in public health and. In addition, the United Nations World Health Assembly resolved to celebrate nurses and midwives by...
U.S. Targets Cuba, Venezuela During Pandemic
By W T Whitney Jr. Secretary of State Pompeo loudly condemns Iranian border guards who abused Afghans crossing into Iran. He castigates China’s supposed failings with the COVID 19 pandemic. He and President Trump rail against dictatorship they see in Venezuela. They protest Cuba’s “slave doctors” – who actually...
