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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.Climate Change Cannot Afford Culture War With The Working Class
By Andy Newman The urgency of the need to address climate change is undisputed on the left. Nevertheless, while it is clear that action must be taken, there has to be a discussion about what those actions need to be. The danger is that if the socialist...
Uprising In Chile Is The Legacy Of Dashed Hopes And Bitter Defeat
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Santiago high school students were the spark. Rejecting a fare hike, they jumped over subway toll barriers on October 18, 2019. Students filled the streets all over. Police action led to injuries and arrests. Some 1.2 million people occupied Plaza Italia in Santiago...
Iowans Initiate The Beginning Of The End For Donald Trump
BY Al Neal Des Moines, Iowa—Either force of habit, or the need to self-medicate after months and months of political ad inundations, and door knocks at all hours, led Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll to find comfort and warmth inside the Royal Mile pub. They strolled in...
Boris johnson ‘dancing to trump’s tune’
By Lamiat Sabin Boris Johnson was accused of “dancing to Donald Trump’s tune” today for downplaying fears a US trade deal would undermine food safety standards. The PM said that he shares the US President’s “optimism,” and insisted that their deal would have “enormous potential” and would be...
Union Budget For 2020-21 Is Hardly Aspirational
By Nantoo Banerjee If the revised budget estimates for 2019-20 are way behind their original targets, it could be wrong to aspire that the first full year union budget under the second term of the Modi government would achieve any economic miracle by radically pushing up economic growth,...
Harping On Bullet Proves BJP’s Desperation In Delhi
By Amulya Ganguli When the BJP raises the communal temperature, it is a sign of the party realizing that it is in trouble. Since the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is being seen as the frontrunner in the Delhi assembly elections, it is not surprising that the BJP...
Shaheen Bagh-Driven Satyagrah Is Moral Threat To Modi-Shah
By Arun Srivastava Nothing could explain better the loss of sense of wisdom and rationality of the BJP leaders and its rank and file and their turning into a band of insensitive mercenaries than the slander inflicted by the general secretary of Bengal, Sayantan Basu. Intensity of...
Budget 2020-21: Big Disappointment For Left-Governed Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Shocking indifference and callous neglect – this has been Kerala’s lot in the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, February 1,2020. Kerala has every reason to feel aggrieved. None of the demands made in the State’s wish list have...
Labour Needs To Find A Vision To Bridge Leave-Remain Divide
By Arun Srivastava Ahead of the contest to find Jeremy Corbyn’s successor in Britain’s main opposition party, some seniors leaders have come out stressing that electability doesn’t mean Labour becoming ‘more Tory’ and strive to simply find fault with the leftwing policies of Corbyn. These leaders also...
Union Budget 2020-21: FM Sitharaman’s Much Ado About Nothing
By Anjan Roy Never before there has been so much speculation about what the union budget would be, what would be the steeply sliding fiscal deficit figures and what concessions could be introduced in the budget to pull the economy out of its present rut as in the...
Budget For The Railways Falls Short Of Expectations
By Gyan Pathak The budget for Indian Railways does not seem to represent in true sense of the top three themes – aspirational India, economic development and the caring society – of the first Union Budget of the decade that has been envisioned to be ‘laying strong...
Sitharaman’s Budget Full Of Platitudes, Cliches And Modi Praise
By K Raveendran Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has used her budget speech as an employment guarantee scheme, not for the large army of unemployed in the country, but the protection of her own job. Her entire speech sounded like an anachronistic eulogy for Prime Minister Narendra Modi....
United Kingdom Leaving European Union Is The Beginning Of A New Era
By Arun Srivastava United Kingdom leaving European Union in the midnight of January 31, has been the most consequential event in recent British political history. While Boris Johnson’s yes men are proud of their leaders’ achievement and claim that it would usher UK into new and...
S M Krishna’s Autobiography Is A Book To Treasure
By Harihar Swarup The latest to hit the book stands is the former External Affairs Minister S M Krishna’s autobiography. Written in Kannada, the book is full of anecdotes. It will soon be translated into English. He writes: “When I was two, Mahatma Gandhi was travelling from Bengaluru...
Latest Bodo Accord Places BJP One Step Ahead In Assam
By Sagarneel Sinha At a time when the country is witnessing a strong polarisation between left and right ideologies “whether India is marching towards Fascism” — some significant developments are taking place in the Northeast. One is the crucial tripartite Bodo Accord signed by the Centre with...
SC Sends Notice To Centre On Plea Challenging Rti Amendment Act
By ‘The Leaflet’ The Supreme Court on January 31 issued notice to the Central Government on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the constitutional validity of the Right to Information (Amendment) Act, 2019 and its accompanying rules namely the ‘Right to Information (Term of Office, Salaries, Allowances...
Senate ‘Trial’ With No Documents Or Witnesses Is A Travesty
By John Wojcik President Donald Trump’s acquittal was a certainty well before Sen. Lamar Alexander’s decision last night to hang tight with his long-time pal Mitch McConnell and oppose efforts by the Dems to call more witnesses and keep the trial going an extra week. The 51-member...
‘Thalinomics’ Is The New Formula To Prop Up Sagging Economy
By Gyan Pathak The first Economic Survey presented in the first year of the 2020s, the decade which has been termed as the ‘key to India’s growth’ by the President of India in the Parliament of India today, presents a very disturbing picture of the state of...
