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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.Under Its New Leader, Labour Party Is About To Abandon Leftism
By Arun Srivastava An admirer of Harold Wilson, the newly elected Labour leader Keir Starmer is nevertheless determined to carve out his own niche in UK and Labour politics. But one thing is certain that Starmer who is known to follow the middle path, cannot leave his impact without...
Modi’s Light And Sound Show Reveals Lack Of Ideas
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s light and sound show, or for the order to be right, sound and light show, as part of his national strategy to fight the coronavirus threat amounts to taking symbolism to the level of fantasy, or farce, as his detractors would rather...
India Must Intensify Its Fight Against Covid-19
By Arun Srivastava Even while India is in the midst of unprecedented coronavirus calamity and acute economic crisis, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been busy sharpening his charisma and perfecting image makeover by calling upon the people on Friday to hold a nationwide candlelight vigil at their homes...
US Surpasses China In Facing Brunt Of Coronavirus Pandemic
By Harihar Swarup Crisis faced by India’s hundreds of thousands of migrant workers has shown that the Union government’s centralized command-and-control approach of managing the coronavirus pandemic (Covid 19) will not work. Recent steps, from the poorly planned lockout to the decision to shut down borders without consulting the...
Covid-19 Lockdown And Rising Health Challenges
By Dr Arun Mitra, Dr Tejbir Singh & Dr Sham Sunder Deepti* The lockdown to break the chain of spread of COVID-19 is an essential step. In the initial stages it was found that the people who had come from abroad, Indians or non-Indians, carried this virus with them....
Sonia Gandhi Monitors Congress States During Corona Crisis
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi wants to prove that states ruled by her party are tackling the coronavirus crisis better than the states under the BJP. She first wrote to the Congress chief ministers and followed it up with a video conference with them....
Covid-19: Remain United To Overcome The Threat
By Binoy Viswam By all means these days are critical. In India this stage of the pandemic is the most decisive one. Its dangerous threat of spreading wide was predicted by experts. A national crisis does stare at the face of India. Its impact on India’s future is unpredictable...
Mental Health Of Quarantined Indians Needs Attention
By Arun Srivastava The fear of the unknown is most terrifying. It turns more acute when one is not sure what lies ahead and is not in the position to comprehend how many ways one should try to perceive an outcome. The same situation has arisen in the wake...
India’s Migrant Workers Are Facing The Brunt Of Covid-19 Chaos
By Amarjeet Kaur The plight of almost 40 crore of workers, based on a very miserly estimate, out of 54 crores of workers with almost 90 per cent of them in the unorganised sector as of now in 2020 needs to be addressed immediately. The estimates are that 10...
Karnataka Defies Kerala HC Order To Open Border
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala, which is engaged in a grim battle against the dreaded corona virus, suffered two setbacks on a single day. The most serious setback has been the refusal of the Karnataka Government to obey the order passed by the Kerala High Court to open the...
Fight Against Corona: Socialism Is The Global Future
By D. Raja The lockdown has completed a week and has two more weeks to go. By that time one hopes the lakshman rekha will be wiped off by Modi, who gloomily declared the lockdown and before on 19 March, ordered Indians to follow janata curfew and thali bajao...
Encounter With Coronavirus And The Economic Pandemic
By C Srikumar The whole country is under lockdown for 21 days, even though WHO has warned that a lockdown alone cannot defeat the coronavirus. Was our country fully prepared to meet both the corona and the economic pandemic? Have we learnt any lesson after the outbreak in China?...
Religion And Virus: Between A Hard Place And The Wall
By Sushil Kutty God versus Virus. Who would have thought! Praying for divine intervention at times of crisis has been in the nature of man from time immemorial. But for religions, which came rather late in the day, to take everything, including viruses, as a challenge to God’s supremacy...
Central Trade Unions Write Joint Letter To Labour Minister
By Satyaki Chakraborty Central trade unions of India have written a collective letter addressed to the Union Minister of Labour and Employment, Santosh Gangwar, highlighting the plight of workers, especially the informal workers, in the wake of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 induced 21-day lockdown. The joint letter has been...
UP Opposition Leaders Direct Rank And File To Help In Relief Work
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh’s opposition parties have come together in a big way to help the general public during the current corona crisis. Significantly enough, Rahul Gandhi who was avoiding visit to Amethi after being defeated in Lok Sabha polls, has sent his close aide along with...
Factors That Checkmate Modi’s National Lockdown
By K Raveendran Two kinds of images flashed across TV screens this week captured the essence of the nationwide lockdown declared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fight the spread of coronavirus. The first category showed people standing within boxes or circles to buy essential items so as to...
Coronavirus Should Change Our Socio-Economic Policy
By Anjan Roy The coronavirus pandemic will leave some deep and fundamental lessons for organising our economy and for a new kind of social policy. If lockdown was the essential way to fight the spread of the virus, it has also shown where our social policies are flawed and...
Emerging Faultlines In India’s War Against Corona
By Gyan Pathak India’s war against coronavirus has exposed several social, economic, political, and administrative fault-lines of which some need urgent repair to win the battle within the lockdown period that ends on April 14. We have made a considerable defense against COVID-19, our enemy number 1, but are...
