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.Debt Crisis Of Third World Countries Accentuating
By Prabhat Patnaik There is a massive problem of external debt building up for the third world, of which the recent Argentine debt crisis was only one manifestation. At the root of the problem is the collapse of primary commodity prices in the world market which began in April...
Sexual Harassment At Online Workplace In Covid Era May Rise
By Rishabh Chhabaria and Abhigyan Tripathi Several concerns have been expressed with respect to this recent change to the nature of workspace in the socio-legal sphere of the country. It is essential to note that ever since this way to work has become the convention now, there may arise...
One Year Of Modi 2.0: PM Sings Self-Praise, Opposition Criticises
By Rahil Nora Chopra The BJP-led NDA completed one year of its second term on 30 May, with senior party leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda listing the central government’s achievements during the period. Modi addressed the letter to the citizens...
Labour leaders in U.S. Vow to fight Racism
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Declaring that working people are saying, “We’ve had enough,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said unions will continue the fight to root out systemic racism in the U.S. In a 77-minute Zoom telecast on June 3, Trumka and other labour leaders—AFSCME President Lee Saunders, Teachers (AFT) President...
Lokur Needs A Pat For Red-Flagging Supreme Court
By K Raveendran If the migrant labour, forgotten and forsaken by their governments, have to thank anyone for getting the Supreme Court to intervene in the Long March, which history will mark as the biggest takeaway from India’s lockdown to fight covid, it is retired judge Madan B Lokur....
World Environment Day Has A Special Message This Year
By Dr. Arun Mitra World Environment Day is observed every year on 5th June. The COVID-19 Pandemic has made us to think that the issue of environmental degradation and climate change cannot be just a ritual discussion but it has to be taken very seriously. Climate Change is a...
People’s Revolt In USA Has Lessons For India Too
By Binoy Viswam The People’s revolt engulfing the length and breadth of America should be an eye opener to the oppressive regime the world over. It tells the world about the deepening crisis of Trumpism, which has become the synonym of aggressive capitalism followed by many countries including India....
India-China Stand-Off Has Now Global Dimensions
By Anjan Roy India and China are set to meet on June 6 at a fairly high military level consultations for resolving the recent fracas in the high Himalayas in the Ladakh as well as northern Sikkim frontiers. It would possibly be a little naive to expect that the...
Corona Has Given A Big Opportunity To Saffrons To Redefine Polity
By Arun Sruvastava It is only 12 months since Narendra Modi led the BJP to a historic victory. His gaining nearly two third majority has recast the political as well as the electoral landscape. His facing the popular agitation against his manoeuvring of changing the basic character of the...
Modi’s China Policy Lacks Transparency
By Sushil Kutty Right now China should be vulnerable with the ‘gang-up’ of nations against it over the ‘origins’ of the coronavirus pandemic. But, for all that, Chinese incursion against India is unstoppable. The Chinese PLA is all over and this side of the LAC. “Quick Chinese incursions” have...
Existing Smaller MSMEs Were Let Down, Will Get Even Less
By Gyan Pathak The announcement of the Rs 3 lakh crore relief package to the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) of India had created a hope, but the change in definition has induced a frustration. It is now clear that the entire amount of the package was not...
Modi’s Anniversary Letter To People Is A Crude PR Exercise
By Arun Srivastava No one has feared that India would become a problem for the world when corona hit it as the global fraternity was itself facing the worst nature of ravage by corona. Actually the people were worried whether the BJP government and the Prime minister, Narendra Modi...
Confusion Over Cabinet Expansion Mounts In Madhya Pradesh
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: At present Madhya Pradesh is facing three major controversies. Out of the three one is political and others relate to government policies. It is for more than a month reports were current that the state Ministry may be expanded any day. It may be mentioned...
Supreme Court Is Abdicating Its Costitutional Duty
By Mihir Desai COVID-19 is primarily a non-political issue, or so one would like to believe. It is important to assess its significant impact on the poor for whom social distancing is a mirage, access to affordable health care is a chimera, and inaccessibility to food and other essentials...
Trump Calls Antifa Group Domestic Terrorists
By David Renton When the President of the United States says that he’ll be designating Antifa as a terrorist organization, a part of me thinks: well go on then, let’s see you try. Because this awful, foreign-sounding word “antifa” is only an abbreviation of “anti-fascist.” Organizations can be banned,...
Week Long Upheavel In USA Is Shaking The World
By Ben Chacko The greatest wave of protest to rock the United States since 1968 has prompted President Donald Trump to threaten his own people with the army. Trump’s attitude from the start of marches demanding justice for George Floyd, murdered on camera by police, has been calculated to...
Post-Covid Political Activities In India Will Turn Digital
By Kalyani Shankar The Covid-19 has changed the dynamics of almost everything including politics in the world. Today, it poses challenges for all walks of life and also all kinds of institutions. This is true of democracy practitioners, civil liberties and political parties and democracy itself, as Trinamool Congress...
Akhilesh Rules Out Any Alliance For 2022 Up Assembly Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav has made it clear that it would not enter into alliance with any party for the 2022 assembly elections. Yadav also made it clear that at the country level, decision would be taken at an appropriate time. It...
