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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.Those who aspire to rule by leveraging new coalitions of larger groupings must take marketing much more seriously
Marginal farmers, disadvantaged rural population, women, dalits, minorities are known for vigorous participation at every level of the democratic process. Democracy with universal suffrage, regular elections and presence of numerous political parties has flourished in India. It has deep roots and growing mass participation, as evidenced by one...
Tillerson’s Exit Signals Further Shift To Right
By Mark Gruenberg Pleasing few people but himself, GOP President Donald Trump dumped Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in an early-morning tweet on March 13, replacing him with CIA Director Michael Pompeo, a former Kansas right-wing congressman, foe of the Iran nuclear deal and past advocate of...
Trump Dumps Global Trading Rules For Political Gains
By G. Srinivasan The signing of the controversial tariff hike on steel and aluminum by the U.S .President Donald Trump on March 8 in the White House in the presence of workers from the afflicted industries has generated not only a lively debate within the country but also...
Token Censure Of Saffron Vandals Will Not Do
By Amulya Ganguli The delight which Tripura’s saffron governor Tathagata Roy, the go-between between the RSS and the BJP Ram Madhav, the Hindutva gadfly Subramanian Swamy, and others in the Sangh Parivar expressed over the toppling of Lenin’s statue in a town in Tripura was short-lived because it...
Gorakhpur Shows Both Modi And Rahul Their Place
By Sushil Kutty For the Congress, the dinner was ‘last’ night, the realization was ‘this’ morning. That was because in the line-up of the UPA, assuming that it will be an alliance of the UPA including the BSP and the SP in 2019, where does Rahul Gandhi and...
Pharma Approval: Stringent policy framework needed
Today, India is witnessing a 22-25% growth in medical tourism, and healthcare providers expect it to be a billion industry this year. (Reuters) Patient safety is the cornerstone of all healthcare systems. That it must prevail over commercial interests of healthcare providers, healthcare professionals and the pharmaceutical firms...
From plate to plough: Waiving off loans not a solution
As per the Maharashtra government, up to December 2017, only loans of about Rs 11,000 crore have been settled with farmers. First, let us compliment both the parties—farmers and the state government—in Maharashtra’s agrarian crisis for reaching an amicable solution, at least for the time being, and averting...
Congress Must Come Out Of Reclusiveness
By Arun Srivastava Sonia Gandhi reaching out to the opposition parties and their leaders has been an astute move. Her dinner diplomacy reminisces her initiatives that had culminated in the formation of the UPA against the NDA. It was expected of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi that he would...
BJP Nosedives To Agarwal’s Mediocre Level
By Aditya Aamir The most prominent feature on Naresh Chandra Agarwal’s expansive face is his nose which has a broad sweep to it. On Monday, he dumped the Samajwadi Party and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, a shift that will not be seen unless he gets another...
G-20 Has Not Done Enough To Tackle Jobless Growth
By K R Sudhaman Group of 20, G-20 as it is called, has certainly ensured that the 2008 global financial crisis, which triggered an unprecedented global recession, did not get converted into a great Depression like that of 1930s. In fact, it goes to the credit of G-20,...
Dirty Tricks By Backroom Boys Of BJP In Nagaland
By Barun Das Gupta If the proverbial leopard cannot change its spots, can the BJP change its politics of domination? Just before last month’s assembly elections in Nagaland, the BJP took a calculated risk by breaking its ties with the Naga People’s Front (NPF) with which it was...
Bjp Faces Tricky Situation With Its Allies
By Kalyani Shankar Now that the Telugu Desam Party has pulled out its ministers from the Modi cabinet for not protecting the interests of Andhra Pradesh, what happens to the BJP’s ambition of conquering the southern states? The BJP chief Amit Shah said after winning the three northeastern...
Supreme Court Finally Upholds Right To Die With Dignity
By Amritananda Chakravorty In a pathbreaking judgment, the Constitution Bench of 5 judges of Supreme Court has recognised right to die as a fundamental right, thereby paving the way for passive euthanasia and living wills to be legal. The Court categorically held that “all adults with capacity to...
Congress Must Come Out Of Reclusiveness
By Arun Srivastava Sonia Gandhi reaching out to the opposition parties and their leaders has been an astute move. Her dinner diplomacy reminisces her initiatives that had culminated in the formation of the UPA against the NDA. It was expected of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi that he would...
Hail President Xi Jinping, Emperor Of China
By Sushil Kutty There is a slight change in the status of President Xi Jinping’s folk singer wife – she will remain First Lady for the duration of his life, not just for two terms, unless with the vast powers vested in him as China’s President for Life,...
Tripura In Bag, BJP Sets Sights On Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A buoyant BJP, flush from its success in Tripura, has now set its sights on capturing the last of the red forts: Kerala. And the strategy the BJP has hit upon is the same which it tried in Tripura successfully: engineer defections from...
Economic Imperialism, Free Trade And Protection
By Nantoo Banerjee Had the Friedmans, Milton and Rose, the last of the laissez-faire doctrine proponents, been alive today, they would have probably called the capitalist realtor-turned US president, Donald Trump, a pseudo socialist. In true capitalism, there is no place for government interference in economic affairs beyond...
Making common cause with targeted killing
Sushil Kutty When death is an inevitable there cannot be such a thing as a right to die. All life on the planet is destined to die. Human beings prefer to live than die. Right to life takes precedence. Besides, as long as the debate/belief on/in ‘God/Creator’ is not...
