Opinion
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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.Mega Exercise To Bring Back Indians Stranded Across The World
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala is all set to receive Non-Resident Keralites (NRKs) stranded in US, Europe and Gulf countries who are being brought back from Thursday, May 7, 2020. More than four lakh NRKs have registered themselves with the NORKA so far. There is, however, divergence over the...
Delusional To Think India Can Grow Without Migrant Workers
By C. Srikumar The migrant workers stranded at different states have now started moving to their home towns. One of such migrant worker while returning home told that he is empty-handed. I am not having money even to purchase a doll for my five year old daughter, nothing for...
Ultra-Rich In USA Make Super Profits From Pandemic
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Call it pandemic profits: A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies, the latest in its biannual series, shows the ultra-rich got ultra-richer in the months since the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. And the richest of them all, Jeff Bezos, profited big time from...
We Need More Of Marxism Today To Face The Saffron Challenge
By Arun Srivastava Marxism, which is the world’s most influential body of thought and has also changed the course of human history, has become more relevant in the Indian context for addressing the economic and humanity crisis that the country was facing in the prevailing situation. Though people have...
Governors And Elected Chief Ministers Must Get Along
By Kalyani Shankar Should the governors and elected chief ministers confront each other even at the time of facing a pandemic? Do we need activist governors or are they mere ornamental and figureheads? Do we need the governors at all or should the post be abolished? Once again there...
Sonia Gandhi Exposes Modi’s Incompetence Once Again
By Arun Srivastava During the 72 years of the independent India, no government ever governed or administered the country, vertically dividing it on the class line, as is being witnessed in the era of Modi. Through his actions Modi has virtually split India and its polity on capitalist and...
Will China Decide Whether Trump Remains King Beyond 2020?
By Sushil Kutty A Bengaluru techie’s email password is ‘Trump is King.’ He lays great emphasis on MAGA – Make America Great Again – and says he’ll change the password if Trump loses the 2020 US Presidential sweepstakes. But this time, MAGA is not the issue, China is! Not...
Coronavirus Pandemic Vindicates Marxism Like Never Before
By Kalyan Bandyopadhyay Two centuries later since the birth of Karl Marx, the teachings of the Communist Manifesto are being further underlined by the coming of the coronavirus pandemic and its aftermath. On the great German philosopher’s 203rd birth anniversary, it’s good to recall what Marx said in the...
Lockdown-3 Sees Madhya Pradesh In Fresh Soup
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: While lockdown-3 has been enforced, Madhya Pradesh is facing four important problems. They are: one, Bhopal and Indore continue to be most seriously affected towns not only of the state but also they happen to be among worst affected few towns in the country. Second,...
Lockdown-Hit PSEs Being Pushed For Funds
By Nantoo Banerjee The pressure on lockdown-hit central public sector enterprises (PSEs) to finance the government’s growing expenditure on fighting Covid-19 pandemic resulting in large budget deficit is mounting. This is despite the fact that most PSEs are highly financially stressed following the global as well as local economic...
BJP’s Tightrope Walk On Identity Politics
By Amulya Ganguli Even as the BJP feels relieved that the protests against the citizenship law ended after the onset of the coronavirus menace, the party continues to perform a delicate balancing act between its innate communalism and opportunistic assertions of being secular. But the claims are apparently of...
For Centre, Migrant Labourers Are Second Class Citizens
By Arun Srivastava It was indeed shocking to know that on the day the world was celebrating the May Day, a senior national leader of the saffron parivar smelt of a conspiracy in the workers demand, made just the day after imposition of lockdown, to arrange for their return...
Modi Cannot Escape Responsibility For Covid-19
By Sushil Kutty The Indian response to the Covid-19 pandemic is dictated by a phalanx of largely faceless bureaucrats operating under the overall supervision of Home Minister Amit Shah. The finger on the ‘Enter’ tab, however, is always that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. So, even if Modi distances...
Pressure On Media Is Mounting In Modi’s India
By Vidhi Thaker and Prastut Dalvi May 3, 2020, marks the celebration of the 27th World Press Freedom Day. It was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in December 1993, following the recommendation of UNESCO’s General Conference. Every year, this day acts as a reminder to nations to ensure...
Covid-19: India Inching Closer To A Safe Level
By Harihar Swarup Current data seems to indicate that India is entering a safe zone as far as the Covid-19 pandemic is concerned. As of April 19, ICMR reported a Test Positivity Rate (TPR) of 4.4 per cent (i.e., one in 23 people were tested positive). Compared to India,...
Is New Delhi Taking Dhaka For Granted On Bilateral Security?
By Ashis Biswas Despite the hanging on April 12 of Abdul Majed – ex-Bangladesh army captain better known as ‘Mujib killer’ – in a Dhaka prison, people continue to ask probing questions about India’s role in South Asia during the turbulent seventies. This comes as a surprise for foreign...
Covid-19 Has Loosened Chinese Grip On RCEP
By Subrata Majumder With the outbreak of the coronavirus, China lost the aura of global supply chain. Eventually, it will lose its grip on ASEAN, which holds a bigger stake in RCEP (ASEAN 10 +6). China deployed economic splurges, in combination with soft and hard power to rein in...
Vietnam Is Now The Safest Country To Survive Covid
By Amiad Horowitz HANOI—Helicopters hovering over rice paddies, burning villages, and the sound of gunfire are the images many older Americans conjure when they hear the word Vietnam. Hollywood provides grist for our imagination about this country. For younger people, if they think of Vietnam at all, their images...
