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.In This Era Of Pandemic, Old Economic Theories Are Going Upside Down
By Anjan Ray Extreme situations bring forth extreme thinking. When the world is facing economic crisis from coronavirus pandemic and government spending is shooting through the roof, Modern Monetary Theory —or better known now-a-days as MMT— is putting forward an alternative viewpoint — don’t bother about rising deficit...
Banning 59 Chinese Apps Was A Kneejerk Reaction To Chinese Challenge
By Arun Srivastava India banned 59 Chinese smartphone applications, including some popular ones like TikTok, Shareit, UCBrowser, Club Factory and Cam Scan this Monday. The reasons cited by the Modi government has indeed been of very serious nature. If the officials of the Modi government are to be...
Chouhan Gets No Central Clearance For His Expansion List
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: It is now crystal clear that the BJP central leadership did not approve the list of probable ministers suggested by the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Thus it is for the third time that the process of cabinet expansion has been...
Jolly Mohan Kaul, Legendary Communist From Bengal, Passes Away At 99
By Sankar Ray My mind pulls me backward to 1938 when I was not even born. A national inter-university debate competition was taking place at the University Institute Hall in Kolkata. The motion was that ‘the only way to achieve the independence of India was the Gandhian path of...
As Rahul Gandhi Turns 50, Congress Leans On Him Once Again
By Kalyani Shankar Congress leader Rahul Gandhi turned 50 last week and celebrated it quietly in view of the coronavirus outbreak. His father Rajiv Gandhi became the Prime Minister at the age of 40. Rahul too could have become the Prime Minister in 2009 when the Congress returned...
“PM Cares” Fund Is Still Shrouded In Secrecy
By Gyan Pathak PM Cares Fund is yet within the womb of secrecy. Prime Minister’s Office has been unwilling to reveal its secrets ever since its conception and inception three months ago. It is a back step since it flouts transparency, one of the fundamentals of good governance,...
Yashwant Sinha’s New Front In Bihar Is Aimed At Both RJD And Congress
By Arun Srivastava The announcement to form a Third Front by the former Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha on Saturday is more than his expression of intent and interest to effectively intervene in the election to the Bihar assembly. Sinha certainly does not nurse a huge utopian...
Crisis In Congress-Led UDF In Kerala Accentuates
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The crisis bedevilling the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) has deepened with the Congress leadership expelling the Jose K Mani-led faction in the Kerala Congress(M). The expulsion followed the refusal of the Jose faction to obey the directive of the Congress to resign...
When Jail, Not Bail, Rules During Pandemic In Indian Courts
By Nilima Dutta and Susan Abraham Imagine for one moment, what it would be like to be kept in jail for years, deprived of your family, your freedom of speech, your liberty of movement and your right to work, merely on suspicion and conjecture. A terrifying concept for...
Democratic Presidential Candidate Gives Support To Striking Workers
By Mark Gruenberg BATH, Maine—Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and a parade of other prominent politicians are supporting the 4,300 Machinists Local S6 workers forced to strike by their bosses at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine. “A job is about a lot more than...
Economic Boycott Of China Is Easier Said Than Done
By Nantoo Banerjee China’s fast economic incursion into India looks as portentous as its constant land-grab attempts into Indian territory along the Line of Actual Control. The entire Sino-Indian border (including the western LAC, small undisputed section in the centre, and the McMahon Line in the east)...
Saffrons Still Consider Rahul Gandhi As Their Main Rival
By Amulya Ganguli His party is in disarray. It practises politics only sometimes, as a former M.P. said. It doesn’t have a full-time president, only an interim one. Apparently, the organization is waiting for a sulking former chief to take the reins into his own hands from his...
Community Response Needed To Minimise Spread Of Coronavirus
By Dr. Arun Mitra Continuous increase in number of COVID 19 cases in the country is a pointer to its community spread. Even though the ICMR does not agree with this, but several Epidemiologists have different opinion. No community transmission of Covid-19 is a falsehood, says Dr Jayaprakash...
Modi’s Nehru-Bashing Is Meant To Attack Democratic Values
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been trying to build his empire on the foundation of Nehru bashing, he has been outdoing the Emergency of Indira Gandhi by creating a more crude and ruthless Emergency like situation. Nehru bashing has not at all been...
For Indian Policy Makers, China Policy Is A Big Riddle
By Sushil Kutty Chinese incursions against India, it seems, are unstoppable. What’s more, this incursions date back to the 1950s. Long before Mao Zedong categorized China’s ties with India as “armed co-existence.” The transgressions which came with the ‘salami-slicing’ of India’s territory at the LAC has kept India...
High Level Political Intervention Is Needed To Deal With Border Conflict
By Prakash Karat The clash at the Galwan river valley which resulted in the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers, including the commanding officer of the 16 Bihar regiment, has understandably roused the anger of people in India. The incident was shocking and condemnable as it happened after the...
Lesson From Emergency: When Institutions Cave In, Democracy Dies
By Harihar Swarup Most commemorate Emergency on June 26 as a reminder of the bleak 21 months when democracy was derailed. Actually, the Emergency came into effect on June 25 at 11:45 pm when the then President, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, signed the proclamation even though he was...
Deliverance From Chinese Products Virtually Impossible
By K Raveendran Nationalist elements have called for a ‘boycott China’ movement in the wake of Chinese border incursions in Ladakh. But it is clear that independence from China would take a bigger struggle than India’s freedom movement for deliverance from the colonialists. China has established a...
