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.Remembering My Comrade And Mentor Shameem Faizee
By D Raja One year has passed since the sad demise of Shameem Faizee, a versatile and valuable Comrade and colleague. I met him for the first time in November 1973. I came to Delhi on my way to Moscow. Second time, I met him in...
Need To Break Nexus Of Politicians, Police And Criminals
By Pradeep Kapoor Most wanted gangster Vikas Dubey may have been arrested from the Mahakali temple at Ujjain but the manner in which he killed eight police officials in Bikru village in Kanpur exposed the nexus between politicians, police and criminals. The complicity of police was exposed...
Govt Buffeted By Storm Over Gold Smuggling Case
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front(LDF) Government has been badly battered by the political storm unleashed by the biggest gold smuggling case Kerala has witnessed in its history. The Government is in the dock because of the alleged links the Chief Minister’s Principal...
Absurd Phase In Supreme Court’s Jurispudence
By Digvijay Chaudhury Either history will impinge some wise and learned thinking behind the Supreme Court’s current jurisprudence or it will term it as an absurd phase. Recent instances (see here and here) point heavily towards the latter but for the sake of our learned and wise...
Cuba Helping The World Fight Covid-19 By Sending Doctors
By Orlando Oramas Leon HAVANA: While the United States tries to disqualify Cuba’s international medical cooperation, the list of brigades sent by the island to fight COVID-19 in different latitudes of the planet grows. They are the members of the Henry Reeve Contingent, created in 2005 by...
Alternative Strategy For Unfettered Growth
By IPA Special Correspondent New Delhi: The public sector undertakings (PSU), government’s strongest-ever asset should be invoked forthwith to not only revive the COVID19 pandemic infested economy but also drive the nation as a catalyst towards growth and development. With their country-wide presence including far flung ...
Possible Second Covid Wave Could Depress Oil Market
By K Raveendran It can only be described as providential intervention that the Modi government’s plan to make money on the sly using the spike in the global crude prices is likely to come to nought. The prospects of a second wave of Covid outbreak is forcing...
Covid Pandemic Has Come As A Great Leveller
By Arjavi Indraneesh The Covid pandemic has come as a great leveller. It has downed powerful heads of state and commonest man on the street, irrespective of caste, creed, colour and climate. Covid has held a mirror to the dark underbellies of societies, which have so far remained...
Bihar Opposition Betraying The Trust Of People
By Arun Srivastava Arrogance comes with a false sense of security and control on the fulcrum of power. So far the accusation of being arrogant was being levelled against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But the fact is the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar does not lag...
Vikas dubey – consider him dead!
By Sushil Kutty The lawlessness in Uttar Pradesh runs and spreads both ways. Yep, those are the words that should be used when discussing and commenting on criminals, both active and dormant hoodlums, in this hugest state of the Indian Union. Uttar Pradesh itself is a sprawling...
U.S. Blockade Accentuates Food Insecurity In Cuba
By W.T. Whitney Jr. Food availability was the top concern of 21 per cent of Cubans responding to a recent opinion survey, reflecting the recurrent food shortages on the island promoted by the U.S. economic blockade and the shortcomings of the domestic food supply system. In 1960,...
Lockdowns Have Links With Riots And Revolution
By Keith Flett Guardian editorials are often ponderous affairs bordering on the pious but a commentary on the ending of lockdown at the beginning of July suddenly opined that “Revolutions are not inevitable” and went on to note that sharp jolts to the system often saw “normality” return...
India Debuts Virtual Parliament Meet With Monsoon Session
By Kalyani Shankar India, for the first time in its more than seven decades of parliamentary history, will have its Monsoon session with some members attending physically and others virtually. This hybrid experiment is necessitated due to the on-going Covid crisis. The lawmakers will be failing in their...
Private Trains Project Is Elitist, Pro-Rich And Anti-People
By Gyan Pathak With inviting request from private operators for qualification for Rs 30,000 crore mega private trains project, Modi government has taken yet another step for privatization of the Indian Railways. The bait being ‘faster-more comfortable-world class travel’ as a bargain for getting support from the...
Changing ‘Faces’ Of The Coronavirus
By Sushil Kutty Covid-19 deaths are indifferent statistics. Till when one of the numerals indicates the passing away of someone who was close acquaintance, a relative or workplace colleague. Then, the number takes shape in flesh and blood. And, then, all of a sudden, the coronavirus is too...
Monthly wage loss from first two lockdowns put at rs. 34,000 crore
By Satyaki Chakraborty A recent study released by the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) reveals that the estimated monthly wage loss caused by job losses and layoffs in the country in the first two lockdowns alone, will touch Rs. 33,800 crore. The study also shows that...
Tearing Down The Wall Between State And Church
By Pratik Patnaik On a foggy June morning of 1987, in his famous speech President Ronald Reagan had famously implored (and rightly so) General Secretary Gorbachev of, what was then, the Soviet Union to tear down a certain wall. The wall that he was referring to was the...
Needed A Strong Pro-Entrepreneur Policy
By Nantoo Banerjee Years ago, Bengal’s Marxist Chief Minister Jyoti Basu once asked one of his close business friends, Jit Paul of the Apeejay group: ‘what is the surest way to create employment fast?’ To this, Paul’s simple suggestion was: ‘create as many employers as fast as possible....
