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.Facemask Is The New Essential In Post-Covid Life
By Sushil Kutty Pictures and videos of Americans slugging it out in the streets with each other and with the police and National Guard over the Floyd death are full of reckless abandon, of people flouting every anti-coronavirus rule in the book; from social distancing thrown to the winds...
Unlocking Process Of The Economy Will Be A Daunting Task
By Satyaki Chakraborty The unlocking process of the Indian economy in phases which started from June 1, is going to be a tortuous one and the tackling of the problems emanating from the opening after 68 days of lockdown in four phases, requires visionary leadership from the centre as...
Starmer Repositioning Labour To Reach Out To The Indians In Britain
By Arun Srivastava It was certainly not an unusual move of the new Labour leader Keir Starmer to distance from Jeremy Corbyn’s policy on Kashmir and repositioning Labour on Kashmiri. The new leader of any political party, my not venture to alter the fundamental ideological line of the party,...
Floyd Killing Exposes Systemic Racism In USA
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON – From Barack Obama and Joe Biden to the AFL-CIO and progressive allies there have come declarations that the Minneapolis police killing of 46-year-old George Floyd on May 25 once again exposed the systemic racism that undergirds U.S. society. Former Vice President Joe Biden, the...
Supreme Court Intervention In Migrants Crisis Too Little, Too Late
By Amritananda Chakravorty The Covid-19 pandemic has affected more than 200 countries in the world, with United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Brazil and India being particularly affected. But no country has had a humanitarian crisis as in India in the form of 80 million migrant workers stranded in different...
Enduring Images Of Pandemic In India Rattle The World
By Amulya Ganguli In the years to come, which will be the defining image of the great Indian labour migration of 2020? Will it be the video of a toddler lifting the shroud over his dead mother’s body on a railway platform? Or of the child half-asleep on a...
Voices Against Neo-Liberal Agenda Are Raging In West
By Prabhat Patnaik The Financial Times of London is one of the most “respectable” bourgeois newspapers in the world. Even this newspaper has now come to recognise something which the Left has been saying for quite some time. In an editorial on April 3, 2020, it wrote: “Radical reforms...
Labour Party Undergoing Ideological Change In Britain
By Arun Srivastava Electoral compulsions and the impulse to keep the rightist forces in good humour have witnessed fundamental transformation of the UK’s Labour Party. The party has decided to divorce the left ideas and policy notwithstanding the ground realities favouring Labour Party embracing the socialist ideas for espousing...
Trump’s Decision To Quit Who Disregards Covid Challenge
By Ben Chacko Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States is terminating its relationship with the World Health Organisation (WHO) came as protests raged over the police killing of George Floyd. The same leader who threatens the world with a “super-duper missile” turns on his own people, warning protesters...
What Modi Can Learn From Emperor Ashoka On Self-Transformation
By Harihar Swarup Emperor Ashoka transformed himself from a ruthless conqueror to a champion of justice, after the devastation during the Battle of Kalinga opened his eyes to the futility of territorial expansion at the cost of people’s lives. Will the extraordinary human suffering we are witnessing during our...
Modi’s Four LS That Don’t Add Up To A Stimulus
By K Raveendran First the slogan, then the idea. This has been Mod’s style in all his slogan coinages. Many of these could actually be described as random midnight thoughts. The latest one for the covid stimulus package is no different. Land, Labour, Liquidity and Law are the four...
India Heading Towards Nutritional Health Emergency
By Dr. Arun Mitra Nutrition is the most important issue to sustain life. It is all the more important for children who need special care and therefore special nutrients to grow. For a healthy nourishing diet it is important that it should contain Proteins, Fats and Carbohydrates as basic...
Surveys To Push Modi’s Popular Rating Misleading
By Arun Srivastava A recent image makeover exercise for the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi by some media houses has inflicted more damage than actually refurbishing his charisma. The findings of the surveys are really unbelievable. Morning Consult, a US-based global data intelligence firm, said the Indian Prime Minister has...
Is Kerala Witnessing a Community Spread?
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Is Kerala witnessing the much-dreaded community spread? That is the question being hotly discussed in the political corridors. Opinion is, however, sharply divided on the issue. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has flatly denied community transmission. The Chief Minister quoted liberally from figures to dismiss the...
Shivraj Chouhan’s Cabinet Expansion Eludes Him Still
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Never in the history of any state did cabinet formation take such a long time as in the present case in Madhya Pradesh. Shivraj Singh Chouhan took oath on March 23, 2020. It was for the fourth time that he was sworn in as the...
Supreme Court Has Finally Taken A Few Forward Steps
By Megha Katheria Earlier this week, the Apex Court initiated suo motu proceedings to examine state solutions for the difficulties being faced by migrant workers across the country. This comes in the backdrop of another bench’s utter denial in recognising the urgency of the migrant crisis. The court had...
Four Years Of LDF Government In Kerala
By Prakash Karat The completion of four years of the LDF government in Kerala on May 25 was invested with a special significance. It came in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic, the tackling of which, by the state government, has earned it widespread appreciation in the country and...
India Is All Set To Change Its Covid-19 Response Strategy
By Gyan Pathak India is all set to change its COVID-19 response strategy. Lockdown phase-5 will be applicable only to the places where social distancing cannot be maintained, such as schools, colleges, cinema halls, religious places or events, and very busy market places. All the modes of public transports...
