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.More Investment Is The Key To Economic Growth In 2020
By Anjan Roy What are the prospects for the Indian economy in 2020. Given the sharp slow-down in the growth rates, the liquidation of the largest non-banking financial company which clogged up credit flows to major housing and other projects, the questions about the bulging NPAs of public...
Socialist Edge Of Corbyn Programme Must Be Retained
By Ben Chacko The response to Rebecca Long Bailey’s clearest pitch yet to succeed Jeremy Corbyn at the helm of the Labour Party shows that the contest is going to be difficult to navigate — not just for the candidates, but more importantly for the socialist left. ...
AAP Is A Front-Runner For February Poll In Delhi
By Kalyani Shankar As the New Year is round the corner all eyes are on Delhi where Assembly polls are likely to be held in February 2020. The present Aam Admi Party government’s term ends on February 22. The fight for Delhi is going to be fierce as...
Pan-India Agitation Against CAA Is Setting A New Narrative For 2020
By Nitya Chakraborty The year 2019 is ending with the continuing agitation by the students, academicians, civil society and the opposition parties against the imposition of CAA by the BJP government on the one hand and the definite shift in the power balance of the country by the...
Hemant Soren Has Taken The Right First Step As CM
By Arun Srivastava While Hemant Soren the chief minister of Jharkhand just after assuming the office decided to withdraw the Pathalgadi sedition case in the maiden cabinet decision, the Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray even after being in office for some time has not so far initiated the...
India Must Give Second Thought To Selling Or Privatising Soes
By Gyan Pathak In the midst of a severe downturn of the economy and the GDP growth rate touching a new low, Modi government has launched a large scale privatisation of the public sector companies expecting one lakh crore rupees as proceeds to cover up shortfall in revenue...
‘After Porn Ends’ Is A Significant Social Documentary
By Brian W. Major After Porn Ends is an important documentary exploring what happens to sex workers once they retire from the “adult entertainment” industry. It raises important issues that viewers can use to inform their thinking and analysis of the role played by pornography, and sex work...
Economy And Stock Market Moving In Opposite Direction
By Nantoo Banerjee Indian economy is witnessing an amazing contradiction. Its growth rate in 2019 is among the lowest in the last two decades. But, its stock market is booming like never before. There is every reason to suspect that the situation is engineered. It has something to...
Modi’s Gujarat Experience Is Hurting Him
By Amulya Ganguli Till the agitations began on the citizenship law, Narendra Modi’s career would have been a matter of envy for all politicians, for he had never known failure since becoming the Gujarat chief minister in 2001. After weathering the storm of the riots in the...
Mamata Puts Full Stake On Muslim Base In Bengal
By Ashis Biswas Apparently, the centre-state confrontation over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed National Register of Citizen exercise (NRC) has reached a premature climax in West Bengal. Largely ignored by mainstream media, Bengal suffered the longest spell of organised arson and the planned destruction of...
Floods In India To Become More Disastrous
By Gyan Pathak Mean annual rainfall and extreme single day rainfall events in India are projected to increase the frequency and intensity of floods in India. Apart from Global Warming and Climate Change, the scale of the impact of these extreme events on people is to be further...
All-Party Meet For Joint Protests In Kerala Against CAA, NRC
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala will continue to conduct joint protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The politically significant decision was taken at the All-Party meeting convened by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday. The meeting was attended by all parties...
Big Lessons In Jharkhand Poll Results For Modi-Shah
By Harihar Swarup The Jharkhand results should worry the BJP; not least because it has been losing assembly elections and allies since 2017-18. The loss of Jharkhand will rankle particularly, since the BJP had won 11 of 14 Lok Sabha seats in the state in May and provided...
Row Over Army Chief’s Remarks Most Unfortunate
By K Raveendran The controversy over remarks by outgoing Army chief General Bipin Rawat is a clear case of the interpretation doing more harm than the original statement. With all shades of opinion joining the acrimony, the armed forces have been willy-nilly drawn into the highly politicised issue...
Army Chief Is Trying To Please His Political Masters
By Arun Srivastava The observation of the Army chief, General Bipin Rawat on the nature of the students’ protests against the new citizenship law and the quality of the leadership at a public event in Delhi is not only bizzare, or inappropriate, nor amounts to overstepping the Laxman...
French Workers Are Making History
By Dennis Broe PARIS: Time magazine named teen climate activist Greta Thunberg its Person of the Year last week, but in truth, given that this has been a year of global unrest and efforts from the streets worldwide to counter the effects of an ever more rapacious neoliberal...
Jharkhand Defeat Is A Definite Shift
By Binoy Viswam Umpteen reasons are there for a party like BJP to panic. The facade of chivalry that they wear as a cover is only meant for hiding their internal fear and related worries. Who among those in the RSS Parivar has expected such a people’s verdict...
RITES Is Now Functioning As Indian Multinational
By Satyaki Chakraborty RITES, the Mini Ratna public sector enterprise has gone global and its performance in the areas of railways and transport infrastructure has got high appreciation from the developing countries of all regions of the world. As a a result, the company is getting big orders...
