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.Executive Incapacitation And The Constitution
By Sanjoy Ghose The pandemic has brought with it questions of constitutional importance – one of which is what happens if the Prime Minister of a country is incapacitated? These questions arose in the UK when Prime Minister Boris Johnson was hospitalized (now mercifully recovered) and have often arisen...
Cuban Doctors Are The World’s Heroes
By Rob Miller “Now we have a chance to show solidarity with Cuba and help the Cuban people in their fight against coronavirus at home and abroad.” — Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary There is a growing worldwide demand to end the US blockade of Cuba to help the...
World Communist Parties Vow To Continue Work Of Lenin On His Birthday
By Steve Sweeney Communists across the world vowed to continue the work of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin against the “aggressive nature of capitalism” as they marked the 150th anniversary of his birth on Wednesday. More than 80 Communist Parties of the world including the Communist Party of India and...
How About Some Free Fuel And A Cash Bonus?
By K Raveendran Imagine you stopping at a petrol pump to fill the tank on your way back home; instead of you paying the pump operator, he hands you down a couple of 500 rupee notes. Your brain will simply go corona. (Coronabrain is a new term in Urban...
Many Lessons To Learn From Leninism And History
By D. Raja 22 April 2020 is not just a date in calendar. It marks the 150th birth anniversary of V I Lenin. He was one of the greatest theoreticians after Karl Marx. He was an excellent strategist and tactician who led first socialist revolution in 1917 in Russia...
Remembering Comrade Lenin On His 150 Birth Anniversary
By Pallab Sengupta The world is passing through a very difficult period, a period it ever witnessed in last ten decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has put human life before a life and death question. Starting from China, the said virus had already engulfed the entire globe, and that also...
Kerala Adopts Model Policing Paradigm To Fight Covid
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Kerala Government has now been recognised and acclaimed globally, for its adept handling, in treating and in containing the spread of coronavirus in the State. The so called “Kerala Model” is now a matter of international research and study. The efficacy of the Health wing...
75th Founding Day Of AIBEA: Looking Back And Looking Ahead
By CH Venkatachalam April 20 is a special for all of us in the All India Bank Employees Association, or AIBEA. It was on this sacred day, 74 years ago, in 1946, that our beloved AIBEA was founded. From a small, tiny bush, today AIBEA has grown into a...
Finally, Shivraj Chouhan Adds Five Ministers To His Cabinet
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has taken two important steps to strengthen his team to fight the menace of Covid-19. The first step is the addition of five Ministers and the second is the constitution of an advisory committee. Meanwhile, the central government...
Opposition Demands Centre Addresses Migrant Labour Issues
By Pradeep Kapoor Opposition has demanded from the central government as well as the state governments to look into the problems to migrant labourers stranded in various parts of country. AICC general secretary and in charge of UP, Priyanka Gandhi, in a video appeal to the central government and...
Calibrated Exit From Total Lockdown Is Needed
By Kalyani Shankar Time has come for the state chieftains to show their leadership qualities to fight the Coronavirus after the lockdown exit. The coming days are crucial but there is a kind of healthy competition among the chief ministers to excel in dealing with the pandemic. It is...
Crude Oil Plumbs Depths As Demand Crashes During Covid
By Anjan Roy Crude oil, once used to be called liquid gold, is plumbing the depths only The Economist had dared to predict. The Economist, London-based magazine founded by 19th century most prominent public intellectual, Walter Bagehot, had written that oil price would slump to $5 per barrel. After...
Why Spend Money On Harpoons And Torpedoes Now
By Barun Das Gupta The Indian economy has been witnessing a slowing down of growth for a long time – to be frank, since the second UPA rule. With the coming to power of the BJP six years ago, the economy started decelerating, first slowly, then it gathered speed....
Remembering Lenin On His 150th Birthday During Pandemic
By Prakash Karat April 22, 2020, marks the 150th birth anniversary of the greatest revolutionary figure of the twentieth century, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. After Marx and Engels, Lenin made the biggest contribution to the theory and practice of Marxism. Lenin’s groundbreaking theoretical advances, such as his analysis of imperialism,...
Right To Life And The Disaster Management Act Of 2005
By Nandita Rao Heart-breaking images of migrants trekking home on foot have hit the world headlines, making us weep for our fellow human beings. To be robbed of dignity is to be denied the protective cover of the Preamble to the Constitution of India to which every Indian can...
Containing Corona Boris Style
By Arun Srivastava Of all the world leaders the approach of the US President Donald Trump and the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared to be most erratic. Both the leaders shockingly relied on the market forces for overcoming the crisis, worst was the attitude of Boris in fighting...
Reopening Economy After Lockdown Exit
By Nantoo Banerjee The second round of lockdown in the country provide enough time for the government and industry think tanks to carefully workout plans to restart the economy post-lockdown, rebuild strong supply-chain network, depend more on domestic production than imports, float attractive long duration government bonds to raise...
Hindutva Agenda Continues During War Against Corona
By Amulya Ganguli The life-and-death struggle against coronavirus doesn’t appear to have dissuaded the BJP from pursuing its Hindutva agenda although there may have been a slowing down. For instance, the party is no longer actively propagating the virtues of the citizenship act or the National Register of Citizens...
