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.China’s Coronavirus Impacting Global Economy
By Anjan Roy While the novel Corona virus is leaving a trail of its victims throughout the world, it is for sure going to dent the global economy as much hard. The crisis underlines several action plans for the future. First, in a connected world even local...
Using Clemency To Bring Non-Violence Into State Policy
By Prof G Mohan Gopal The ghastly crime of rape and murder for which the Nirbhaya four are convicted is a heart-breaking reminder of the unimaginable brutality of violence and the immeasurable value of non-violence. The perpetrators must be held fully accountable. The question before us...
Britain’s Left Is Facing A Sustained Ideological Offensive
By Ben Chacko Stockport MP Nav Mishra’s warning that “constant anonymous briefings and threats” risk poisoning the Labour leadership race is spot on. Mishra’s anger is directed at stories suggesting Labour MPs might quit if Rebecca Long Bailey wins, but these are part of a wider...
Coronavirus Set To Close China To The World
By Nantoo Banerjee Coronavirus from China may not have yet impacted life in India, but it threatens to ruin the livelihood of the country’s tens of thousands of traders and businessmen, importing products and components to service a $100-billion plus Indian market for goods made in China. The...
Kerala Budget Is Praiseworthy Despite Financial Distress
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: We shall overcome despite the heavy odds. That is the powerful message sent out by the Kerala Budget, animated by the never-say-die spirit. A close look at the murky backdrop against which Finance Minister Thomas Issac presented the budget is in order...
Democrats Must Focus On Removing Trump From The White House
By John Bachtell Confusion surrounding the Iowa Caucus results continued Feb. 6 after Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez called for a re-canvass of votes to ensure their full integrity. The chaos is likely the final nail in the coffin of the Iowa caucus, long criticized as undemocratic...
Kirk Douglas Was Proud Of Breaking The Blacklist
By Michael Berkowitz Kirk Douglas was Spartacus, the doomed slave who rebelled against the repressive Roman Empire. He was Colonel Dax, the soldier-lawyer who defends three sacrificial French troops who refuse a WWI suicide mission in Paths of Glory. He was painter and social activist Vincent Van Gogh...
Ireland’s Election Indicates Shift To Left
By Ben Chako EXIT polls in the election to the Dáil Éireann indicate a surge in support for the left-of-centre Sinn Fein, mainly at the expense of the two right-wing parties that have dominated the Irish Republic’s politics for 70 years and more. The electoral system...
Arvind Kejriwal Poised To Get A Second Term As Delhi CM
By Harihar Swarup At the time of writing this column, most hectic election campaign in Delhi has come to a grinding halt. It is time one can hazard a guess about the poll outcome. From all accounts, Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party appears to be far ahead...
Finance Minister Persists With Her Intransigence
By K Raveendran Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s intransigence over economic slowdown continues to baffle. She seems to be suffering a mental block in accepting the reality and is in need for some serious counselling by not just psychologists, but economists as well. For, acknowledgment of the nature...
NRC By Stealth And Subterfuge
By Prakash Karat The Modi government has gone on record in parliament that it has not taken any decision till now to prepare the National Register of Indian Citizens. This was the reply given by the minister of state for home affairs, Nityanand Rai, to a written question....
2020-21 Budget’s Social Sector Vision Is Blurred
By Dipa Sinha Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman began her speech by saying that the Union Budget was “woven around three prominent themes” — aspirational India, economic development for all and building a caring society. Achieving any of these would require extraordinary efforts on the social sector front starting...
Poetry, Tariq Ali Thinks, Is Attuned To New Internationalism
By Sankar Ray In parts of the Arab world and India, interestingly, poetry is witnessing “a huge revival. At the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, students took to platform and sang Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Hum Dekhenge; the same happened in the Jamia Millia University”, said Tariq Ali,...
US House Passing Big Pro-Worker Law Raises Hopes For Green Union Jobs
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Turning aside a multitude of Republican “poison pill” schemes, the Democratic-run U.S. House passed the Protect The Right To Organize (PRO) Act, the nation’s most-comprehensive pro-worker labor law reform in decades, 224-194. Five Republicans and 219 Democrats voted for it. And as strenuous worker...
Modi-Shah’s Citizenship Law Has All The Four Fundamental Errors
By Gyan Pathak Despite stiff opposition to CAA-NPR-NRC all over the country, the Modi government’s adamant attitude on their implementation is not only surprising but also alarming. PM Modi is still saying that people are being misled about CAA, deliberately ignoring the fact that it contains all the...
Prashant Kishor Bets On AAP Win In Delhi
By Rahil Nora Chopra At last Nitish Kumar has expelled his JD(U) Vice President Prashant Kishor from the party. In the beginning when Prashant Kishor started criticizing the CAA and NRC, the general perception in the political circle was that Prashant Kishor might be speaking on behalf of Nitish...
Why is Mohan Bhagwat Paying so much attention to MP?
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Mystery surrounds over the extra attention being paid by the RSS Chief Dr. Mohan Bhagwat to Madhya Pradesh. In the last three to four months, Bhagwathas held camps in many cities of the state. At present, he is attending a five-day camp...
CPI National Council Three-Day Special Session Concludes
By D Raja The three-day national council of the Communist Party of India at its special session dedicated to party organisation has decided to observe a week-long protest along with other left parties from February 12 to 18, 2020. The special session held on February 2-4, 2020 in...
