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.Lockdown-Hit PSEs Being Pushed For Funds
By Nantoo Banerjee The pressure on lockdown-hit central public sector enterprises (PSEs) to finance the government’s growing expenditure on fighting Covid-19 pandemic resulting in large budget deficit is mounting. This is despite the fact that most PSEs are highly financially stressed following the global as well as local economic...
BJP’s Tightrope Walk On Identity Politics
By Amulya Ganguli Even as the BJP feels relieved that the protests against the citizenship law ended after the onset of the coronavirus menace, the party continues to perform a delicate balancing act between its innate communalism and opportunistic assertions of being secular. But the claims are apparently of...
For Centre, Migrant Labourers Are Second Class Citizens
By Arun Srivastava It was indeed shocking to know that on the day the world was celebrating the May Day, a senior national leader of the saffron parivar smelt of a conspiracy in the workers demand, made just the day after imposition of lockdown, to arrange for their return...
Modi Cannot Escape Responsibility For Covid-19
By Sushil Kutty The Indian response to the Covid-19 pandemic is dictated by a phalanx of largely faceless bureaucrats operating under the overall supervision of Home Minister Amit Shah. The finger on the ‘Enter’ tab, however, is always that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. So, even if Modi distances...
Pressure On Media Is Mounting In Modi’s India
By Vidhi Thaker and Prastut Dalvi May 3, 2020, marks the celebration of the 27th World Press Freedom Day. It was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in December 1993, following the recommendation of UNESCO’s General Conference. Every year, this day acts as a reminder to nations to ensure...
Covid-19: India Inching Closer To A Safe Level
By Harihar Swarup Current data seems to indicate that India is entering a safe zone as far as the Covid-19 pandemic is concerned. As of April 19, ICMR reported a Test Positivity Rate (TPR) of 4.4 per cent (i.e., one in 23 people were tested positive). Compared to India,...
Is New Delhi Taking Dhaka For Granted On Bilateral Security?
By Ashis Biswas Despite the hanging on April 12 of Abdul Majed – ex-Bangladesh army captain better known as ‘Mujib killer’ – in a Dhaka prison, people continue to ask probing questions about India’s role in South Asia during the turbulent seventies. This comes as a surprise for foreign...
Covid-19 Has Loosened Chinese Grip On RCEP
By Subrata Majumder With the outbreak of the coronavirus, China lost the aura of global supply chain. Eventually, it will lose its grip on ASEAN, which holds a bigger stake in RCEP (ASEAN 10 +6). China deployed economic splurges, in combination with soft and hard power to rein in...
Vietnam Is Now The Safest Country To Survive Covid
By Amiad Horowitz HANOI—Helicopters hovering over rice paddies, burning villages, and the sound of gunfire are the images many older Americans conjure when they hear the word Vietnam. Hollywood provides grist for our imagination about this country. For younger people, if they think of Vietnam at all, their images...
Revival Of Internal Demand Can Only Bring New Investments
By Anjan Roy Eight core industries, which constitute over 40 per cent of the total industrial production, have shrunk by 6.5 per cent in March 2020. This decline is by and large before the nationwide lock down was imposed, but these figures reveal what really to expect from the...
Trump Has Made A Mess Of America’s Fight Against Pandemic
By Prakash Karat The coronavirus global pandemic is still raging with its epicentre in the United States of America. It is during this time that President Trump and his administration have launched a frontal campaign against China, blaming it for the creation of the virus and its spread going...
Pandemic Covid Has Many Lessons Globally
By Binoy Viswam The history of the 21st century would be earmarked by COVID19 and the fight undertaken by the countries of the world to defeat the pandemic. The world has had to stand face to face with so many new situations in social life. The economics and politics...
RSS Is Underestimating The Angry Outbursts Of UAE Rulers
By Arun Srivastava The rulers of UAE expressing annoyance and concern at the hatred campaign launched by some Narendra Modi acolytes and RSS cadres in that country probably has not gone down well with the RSS and also with Modi. If Prime Minister had really taken the issue seriously...
Toiling Masses Facing New Challenges In Corona Era
By Krishna Jha It is a moment of smouldering anger. Deprivation has reached to the core, and the process continues. All the gains achieved through bitter struggles are taken away unceremoniously. More than a century ago, when the toilers were raising their flag of revolt, sacrificing their life, in...
The Great Indian Oracle Will Speak Again On Sunday
By Sushil Kutty Yes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hasn’t so far given a hint of what he holds for India on May 3. Will Lockdown Phase 2 morph into Lockdown Phase 3? There are no doubts on whether it will be imposed seamlessly, but there are uncertainties if it...
Rahul To Be Back As Congress President Soon ?
By Rahil Nora Chopra Under the cover of Covid-19 crisis, steps seem tobe underway to ensure that Rahul Gandhi returns as Congress president. Sonia Gandhi recently constituted an 11-member consultative group under the aegis of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to deliberate on matters related to the Covid-19...
India Needs Four Strategies, For Corona Is To Stay
By Gyan Pathak As we are close to the second phase of lockdown the ends on May 3, two things are crystal clear. The first is that the COVID-19 is to stay with us for a long time, and the second is that the people of the country cannot...
India’s Initial Covid Success Camouflages Future Risks
By K Raveendran World leaders, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, have praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his timely decision to enforce a national lockdown to fight the Covid pandemic. Europe and the US have had to pay dearly for their failure to act at the right time. It...
