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.Massive Opposition To Labour Laws Amendments In UP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: There is a great deal of opposition to the UP government move to bring an ordinance to suspend labour laws for three years in the state in order to revive economic activity in the region and recover lost profits. Opposing the said ordinance, CPIML state...
Modi Regime Is At War With Workers During Pandemic
By Prakash Karat The war on the Covid-19 virus is quickly transforming into a war against the working class in India. In parliament, in March this year, the government had stated that there are estimated to be around 100 million (10 crore) inter-state migrant workers. A vast majority of...
Disappointing Approach Of Labour Ministry Towards Workers
By Amarjeet Kaur AITUC is shocked at the approach of the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment, which had called a meeting with the Central Trade Unions (CTUs) on May 6. The ministry did not respond to any of the concerns/issues/demands raised by the workers leaders and the CTUs....
China And US Have To Contain Increasing Tempers Over Virus Origin
By Anjan Roy The war of words, so far, between the US and China is fast spurning out of control into full scale diplomatic spat. President Donald Trump took the verbal bomb to its furthest height last night when he stated that the pandemic hit the US so hard...
Awarded Kashmiri Journalists Are High Professionals
By Sushil Kutty The last week saw considerable international interest in matters India with ‘foreign bodies’ such as the Pulitzer taking a hand in “needling” India, giving credence to claims of the decades old ‘foreign hand’ trying to hijack the Indian narrative with unsubtle interventions generally strengthening the view...
Large Number Of Testing Is The Only Way To Meet Corona Challenge
By Nilanjan Banik and Parikshit Bhargava In a bizarre move, Mamata Banerjee’s government now favours home quarantine. The State of West Bengal, it seems, do not have adequate health infrastructure to quarantine “lakhs and lakhs of people”. This apprehension may be true for other parts of India as well....
Rahul’s Q&A With Rajan, Banerjee To Pave His Return As Congress President
By Rahil Nora Chopra The conversation of former Congress president Rahul Gandhi with economists Raghuram Rajan and Abhijit Banerjee on the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be part of efforts to remake the opposition leader just ahead of his potential return as the party president. The...
Modi Govt Needs To Think Out Of The Box To Revive Economy
By K Raveendran India has done well to keep the Covid-19 mortality rate to the world’s lowest, but it cannot claim any success in restricting the cost of doing this. It may have saved lives, but as long as it is not on a sustainable basis, the achievement is...
Aarogya Setu App Is An Arbitrary Intrusion Into Privacy
By Barun Dasgupta The Centre introduced the Aarogya Setu app last month ostensibly to keep track of corona virus infectees. It was clarified that the uploading of it in mobile phones was voluntary. Soon enough, however, the Government made it mandatory for all employees, both public and private, to...
Mega Exercise To Bring Back Indians Stranded Across The World
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala is all set to receive Non-Resident Keralites (NRKs) stranded in US, Europe and Gulf countries who are being brought back from Thursday, May 7, 2020. More than four lakh NRKs have registered themselves with the NORKA so far. There is, however, divergence over the...
Delusional To Think India Can Grow Without Migrant Workers
By C. Srikumar The migrant workers stranded at different states have now started moving to their home towns. One of such migrant worker while returning home told that he is empty-handed. I am not having money even to purchase a doll for my five year old daughter, nothing for...
Ultra-Rich In USA Make Super Profits From Pandemic
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Call it pandemic profits: A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies, the latest in its biannual series, shows the ultra-rich got ultra-richer in the months since the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. And the richest of them all, Jeff Bezos, profited big time from...
We Need More Of Marxism Today To Face The Saffron Challenge
By Arun Srivastava Marxism, which is the world’s most influential body of thought and has also changed the course of human history, has become more relevant in the Indian context for addressing the economic and humanity crisis that the country was facing in the prevailing situation. Though people have...
Governors And Elected Chief Ministers Must Get Along
By Kalyani Shankar Should the governors and elected chief ministers confront each other even at the time of facing a pandemic? Do we need activist governors or are they mere ornamental and figureheads? Do we need the governors at all or should the post be abolished? Once again there...
Sonia Gandhi Exposes Modi’s Incompetence Once Again
By Arun Srivastava During the 72 years of the independent India, no government ever governed or administered the country, vertically dividing it on the class line, as is being witnessed in the era of Modi. Through his actions Modi has virtually split India and its polity on capitalist and...
Will China Decide Whether Trump Remains King Beyond 2020?
By Sushil Kutty A Bengaluru techie’s email password is ‘Trump is King.’ He lays great emphasis on MAGA – Make America Great Again – and says he’ll change the password if Trump loses the 2020 US Presidential sweepstakes. But this time, MAGA is not the issue, China is! Not...
Coronavirus Pandemic Vindicates Marxism Like Never Before
By Kalyan Bandyopadhyay Two centuries later since the birth of Karl Marx, the teachings of the Communist Manifesto are being further underlined by the coming of the coronavirus pandemic and its aftermath. On the great German philosopher’s 203rd birth anniversary, it’s good to recall what Marx said in the...
Lockdown-3 Sees Madhya Pradesh In Fresh Soup
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: While lockdown-3 has been enforced, Madhya Pradesh is facing four important problems. They are: one, Bhopal and Indore continue to be most seriously affected towns not only of the state but also they happen to be among worst affected few towns in the country. Second,...
