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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.Sanders Forum Wants Worker-Centered Economy After Covid-19
By Mark Gruenberg Though the nation, and the world, are still in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic and the global recession it’s produced, five progressive leaders, marshalled by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., are thinking ahead on to how to build a new economy that works for workers, not...
The Economics Of Dealing With A Lockdown
By Nilanjan Banik and Anurag Narayan Banerjee Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi while admitting that “jaan” (saving lives) is important has chosen to extend the lockdown until 3 May, 2020. Although social distancing is important, however, lockdown also means livelihood of millions getting affected, and the possibility of many...
Are We Aiming For Mars With May 3 Deadline?
By Sushil Kutty Hard to imagine life without a lockdown in these days of corona! The feeling will remain for as long as we do not get on the back of this killer contagion. Particularly, in the absence of a vaccine. And the vaccine could be as many as...
Tackling Covid-19: America First, Or Corporations First?
By S Sudhakar Reddy Donald Trump, the most abrasive president the US has ever had, is the true representative, nay villain, of corporate capitalism with deep-ridden imperialist culture. He will do anything to defend the profits of corporations and his chair in the White House, including sacrificing the lives...
Rearranging The World Order After Corona Crisis
By Sudipto Ghosh The COVID-19 pandemic will change the way to live and work once the crisis has passed. Most importantly, it will make us question our modes of consumption and question the market forces that drive peoples choices. But as the author points out, the choice is a...
Covid-19 Crisis: Need To Plan Beyond Forced Lockdown Idleness
By Anjan Roy The sudden gathering of migrant workers at Bombay’s Bandra railway station, when the prime minister was addressing the nation, drives home the point about lack of communications. It also underlines what a tricky situation we are in. Even if only a handful of those who had...
India Faces Acute Shortage Of PPE In Fight Against Covid-19
By Gyan Pathak The frontline health personnel, including doctors and nurses, fighting COVID-19 are braving the highest risk of being infected by coronavirus amid acute global shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in general, and India in particular. Many of them got infected, died, suffered bias of the people...
Lockdown Privilege And The Politics Of ‘Strict Restrictions’
By Arun Srivastava It was merely a coincidence: Just seconds ahead of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation announcing extension of the lockdown to May 3, in a video a woman was seen bitterly crying and cursing herself for being unable to breast feed her 20...
Corona Crisis: Bhopal Gas Victims Dying Of Neglect Is Shame
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: After tragic death of five gas victims the Madhya Pradesh government was forced to revoke its earlier order of reserving Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC) for Corona patients. Not only BMHRC was reserved for Corona patients but all the indoor patients were shifted...
Covid-19 And The Opportunity To Re-Evaluate Socialism
By Deeptangshu Kar Ever since the Right to Food campaign has approached the Supreme Court of India, in what is commonly revered to as the right to food security petition, the relevance of the Essential Commodities Act 1955 has become more apparent. Food procurement and minimum price support to...
Tackling Corona Crisis Might Be Modi’s Legacy
By Kalyani Shankar Has the coronavirus pandemic altered Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s style of functioning? He knows that dealing with the pandemic is not only a test of his leadership but also if he succeeds, it will be his legacy, which will be remembered for long. Prime Minister has...
Society And Politics Won’t Be Same Once Lockdown Ends
By Amulya Ganguli It is odd that the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has chosen the present moment to release a report calling on the Indian parliament to repeal the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. It is obvious that harried as the government and the people are by the pandemic, neither will...
PM Modi Is Hardly Concerned About Survival Of The Poor
By Arun Srivastava A bleak future stares at India’s economic revival. The country which has been deep in the slowdown before the outbreak of the coronavirus, will find it tough to come out of the economic crisis once the corona curve flattens and situation turns normal. Already the International...
Mayawati Cautions Against Manhandling Of Dalit Officers
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samajwadi Party national president Mayawati had demanded strict action against BJP MP from Kannauj Subrata Tripathi for beating up a Dalit official. Mayawati repeatedly said that Kannauj MP Subrata Tripathi barged into the residence of tehsildar of Sadar area Arvind Kumar and beat him...
Allocation Of Scarce Medical Resources Amidst Corona Pandemic
By Indira Jaising Cases are coming to light where people in need of urgent medical help are being turned back by hospitals that are overstretched with the COVID-19 pandemic. There is no mal-intent in this, but life is dear to all of us, in particular, those with serious ailments....
Despite US Blockade, Cuba’s Public Healthcare Looks After All
By Merriam Ansara HAVANA—For the past three weeks, I have been working mornings in my local doctor’s office. My volunteer job is to go through the six drawers of around 1,500 patients attended by my doctor, Marta Gálvez. The neighbourhood is in Nuevo Vedado, near the Plaza of the...
Life To Go On Through Extended Lockdown
By Nantoo Banerjee All kudos to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her government for inspiring a global advisory board, constituted of some highly well-known experts in diverse fields, to help build resistance against coronavirus in the state while working on post-lockdown speedy recovery of the state’s economy....
Unregulated Private Companies That Are Now Public Utilities
By Anjan Roy One indirect result of the Covid-19 outbreak is the further vindication of the metamorphosis of the technology companies from private sector profit-earning units to the status of essential public utility services. Old people living on their own have ordered medicines on various specialised internet sites, some...
