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.Facebook-Jio Deal: A Precursor To The Post-Covid World
By Anjan Roy In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a commercial deal between two private companies can have strategic diplomatic significance and can give a clue to the post-corona world. One of the most glamorous technology giants, Facebook, has picked a minority stake of 9% in Reliance Group’s...
Macabre Toss Between Olympics And Hunger Games
By Sushil Kutty We will not let anybody go hungry sounds fine. But right now for the chap sitting watching television in drawing rooms across India, the ones who do not qualify for ration or direct to bank cash transfers, he is not aware which governments – state and...
Govt On The Backfoot Over Sprinklr Deal
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government is sharply divided on the agreement it has signed with controversial US-based company Sprinklr for uploading data on the people under surveillance for covid-19. The seriousness of the issue can be gauged from the fact that the CPI(M)’s main...
The ‘Other’ Pandemic: Domestic Violence During Corona
By Surabhi Karwa R, an unmarried woman, who returned to her hometown, due to lockdown, gets beaten daily at the hands of her abusive father. Another woman, S, a married woman, had to lock herself in a room to save herself from her abusive husband. Yet another woman, K,...
Executive Incapacitation And The Constitution
By Sanjoy Ghose The pandemic has brought with it questions of constitutional importance – one of which is what happens if the Prime Minister of a country is incapacitated? These questions arose in the UK when Prime Minister Boris Johnson was hospitalized (now mercifully recovered) and have often arisen...
Cuban Doctors Are The World’s Heroes
By Rob Miller “Now we have a chance to show solidarity with Cuba and help the Cuban people in their fight against coronavirus at home and abroad.” — Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary There is a growing worldwide demand to end the US blockade of Cuba to help the...
World Communist Parties Vow To Continue Work Of Lenin On His Birthday
By Steve Sweeney Communists across the world vowed to continue the work of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin against the “aggressive nature of capitalism” as they marked the 150th anniversary of his birth on Wednesday. More than 80 Communist Parties of the world including the Communist Party of India and...
How About Some Free Fuel And A Cash Bonus?
By K Raveendran Imagine you stopping at a petrol pump to fill the tank on your way back home; instead of you paying the pump operator, he hands you down a couple of 500 rupee notes. Your brain will simply go corona. (Coronabrain is a new term in Urban...
Many Lessons To Learn From Leninism And History
By D. Raja 22 April 2020 is not just a date in calendar. It marks the 150th birth anniversary of V I Lenin. He was one of the greatest theoreticians after Karl Marx. He was an excellent strategist and tactician who led first socialist revolution in 1917 in Russia...
Remembering Comrade Lenin On His 150 Birth Anniversary
By Pallab Sengupta The world is passing through a very difficult period, a period it ever witnessed in last ten decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has put human life before a life and death question. Starting from China, the said virus had already engulfed the entire globe, and that also...
Kerala Adopts Model Policing Paradigm To Fight Covid
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Kerala Government has now been recognised and acclaimed globally, for its adept handling, in treating and in containing the spread of coronavirus in the State. The so called “Kerala Model” is now a matter of international research and study. The efficacy of the Health wing...
75th Founding Day Of AIBEA: Looking Back And Looking Ahead
By CH Venkatachalam April 20 is a special for all of us in the All India Bank Employees Association, or AIBEA. It was on this sacred day, 74 years ago, in 1946, that our beloved AIBEA was founded. From a small, tiny bush, today AIBEA has grown into a...
Finally, Shivraj Chouhan Adds Five Ministers To His Cabinet
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has taken two important steps to strengthen his team to fight the menace of Covid-19. The first step is the addition of five Ministers and the second is the constitution of an advisory committee. Meanwhile, the central government...
Opposition Demands Centre Addresses Migrant Labour Issues
By Pradeep Kapoor Opposition has demanded from the central government as well as the state governments to look into the problems to migrant labourers stranded in various parts of country. AICC general secretary and in charge of UP, Priyanka Gandhi, in a video appeal to the central government and...
Calibrated Exit From Total Lockdown Is Needed
By Kalyani Shankar Time has come for the state chieftains to show their leadership qualities to fight the Coronavirus after the lockdown exit. The coming days are crucial but there is a kind of healthy competition among the chief ministers to excel in dealing with the pandemic. It is...
Crude Oil Plumbs Depths As Demand Crashes During Covid
By Anjan Roy Crude oil, once used to be called liquid gold, is plumbing the depths only The Economist had dared to predict. The Economist, London-based magazine founded by 19th century most prominent public intellectual, Walter Bagehot, had written that oil price would slump to $5 per barrel. After...
Why Spend Money On Harpoons And Torpedoes Now
By Barun Das Gupta The Indian economy has been witnessing a slowing down of growth for a long time – to be frank, since the second UPA rule. With the coming to power of the BJP six years ago, the economy started decelerating, first slowly, then it gathered speed....
Remembering Lenin On His 150th Birthday During Pandemic
By Prakash Karat April 22, 2020, marks the 150th birth anniversary of the greatest revolutionary figure of the twentieth century, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. After Marx and Engels, Lenin made the biggest contribution to the theory and practice of Marxism. Lenin’s groundbreaking theoretical advances, such as his analysis of imperialism,...
