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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.When Hype Fails To Touch People’s Lives
By K. Raveendran Promise the moon. Make people believe in it and win the election. Then turn around and tell them they must be really stupid to believe that they would one day get the moon. This is what Modi did in 2014 to win the election. And...
Make Or Break For Congress In 2018 Assembly Polls
By Harihar Swarup The coming elections in the five states—Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram — have been rightly described as the “semifinal” to 2019 Lok Sabha polls. With the announcement of these elections, India has well and truly entered the poll season. Doubtless, the stakes are...
Trump’s Target Has Shifted From Syria To Iran
By Conn Hallinan The Syrian civil war has always been devilishly complex, with multiple actors following different scripts, but in the past few months it appeared to be winding down. The Damascus government now controls 60 percent of the country and the major population centers, the Islamic State...
Making SC Tharoor’s ‘Floccinaucinihilipilification’
Aditya Aamir Congress Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor is wasting time digging up fossilized lexicon like the worthless and of no value ‘Floccinaucinihilipilification’. A Hindu horde is marching on Thiruvananthapuram, his parliamentary constituency, and momentous things are set to happen. There might even be ‘mob violence’ which some...
Smog: Time To Act And Save Health
By Dr Arun Mitra Unprecedented high levels of air pollution in north India during the months of October and November in 2017 raised serious alarm in the society as well as the government. This is because health is directly related to clean air quality besides clean drinking...
British Indians Face A Full-Blown Brexit Crisis
By Arun Srivastava Brexit with an uncertain future is not a politically and economically correct proposition for India. In the wake of David coming out with the proposal of holding a referendum, apprehensions were expressed on the future of Indians living and working in Britain and the relation...
Forest,Land Rights Key Issues To Determine Tribal Votes
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: During election campaigns, developmental issues get relegated to the background as issues of more currency, irrespective of their significance, such as casteism, regionalism, religion, personal accusations etc. take centre stage. Unless the affected people make special efforts to keep their issues alive, their...
It’s Business Versus Politics For Ramdev This Time
By Rahil Nora Chopra Yoga guru Baba Ramdev will not campaign for BJP in the coming Lok Sabha elections as the guru-turned business tycoon fears that his campaigning for the ruling party may harm the interests of his business empire should BJP fail to make it a second...
Trade War Triggers Relocation Of Production Bases
By Subrata Majumder The global trade war between US and China may prove to be a boon for India and South East Asian countries. The turmoil has triggered relocation of the production bases from China to other emerging nations like India and South East Asia. With the trade...
Far-Right Presidential Candidate Is Ahead In Brazil
By Emile Schepers In the first round of Brazil’s general elections, which took place on Sunday, October 7, Jair Bolsonaro, of the Social Liberal Party or PSL, an extreme right candidate with fascist leanings, came shockingly close to winning the presidency of this country of 208 million...
Organic Distrust Growing Between Sexes
By Aditya Aamir Dissecting #MeTooIndia is dicey. It’s still the tip of the sword but might morph into a weapon of choice in the hands of the righteous avenger. Any woman with a grudge can lend it to misuse. Even otherwise, #MeToo by definition is anti-male, and the...
Supreme Court Direction On Rafale Deal Rattles Modi Govt
By Nitya Chakraborty The Supreme Court’s Directive to the Modi Government on October 10 asking it to provide the details of the decision making process on the Rafale deal to the Court in a sealed cover by October 29, has rattled the Modi Government. The Prime Minister’s...
LDF Government Suffers Loss Of Face
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) has suffered a huge loss of face over its decision to cancel the approval for setting up three breweries and a liquor blending and bottling plant in the state. The government has itself to blame for the massive...
Policy Paralysis Is Nitish Govt’s Trademark
By Arun Srivastava In Nitish Kumar’s Bihar it is the rule of criminals and goons that prevails, with the lives of the common people, especially women, who are supposed to be his trusted vote bank, being decided by them: certainly not sushasan as claimed by the chief...
Bhilai Workers’ Death: A Wake-Up Call
By B. Sivaraman On 9 October 2018, the news that came from Bhilai Steel Plant was a shocker. Nine workers were killed and 14 injured in a blast in the plant. Such industrial tragedies routinely keep shocking the conscience of the nation. Let us consider three sectors which...
Modi Govt is Still Silent on Akbar
By Aditya Aamir The lesser known ‘MJ’ has quit his job post-MeToo accusations, but the more famous ‘MJ’ continues to maintain a wall of silence to multiple accusations of #MeToo surfacing against him online. Maybe, it’s because journalist Mayank Jain’s employer Business Standard decided to act, set...
NRC Row’s Hostile Anti-India Fallout In Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas After Nepal, it could be the turn of Bangladesh to see a revival of anti-Indian political forces and fresh tensions against the minority Hindu community over the NRC controversy in Assam. Sentiments in Bangladesh have been aroused in recent times over repeated contemptuous references by...
UNCTAD Report Rings Warning Bells On Global Economy
By K R Sudhaman The UNCTAD’s 2018 Trade and Development is an eye opener that all is not good with the global economy and hyper-globalisation pursued for some time now has only widened inequality. In case of India bad debt of banks is threatening financial stability. The...
