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.Bangladesh: Battle Of The Two Begums
By Barun Das Gupta General elections are scheduled to be held in Bangladesh by the end of this year, though the poll schedule is yet to be announced by the Election Commission. As in the previous elections, so in the coming elections, too, the main battle will be...
Modi A Loner Among The World’s Most Influential
By K Raveendran It has been a season of extraordinary handshakes. Clips of President Donald Trump and French President Emmnuel Macron shaking and grabbing each other’s hands vigorously and landing kisses on the cheeks have been flashed on TV screens across the world. North Korean strongman Kim Jong-un...
Of Impeachment And A Crisis Of Judiciary
By Harihar Swarup Knowing well that its impeachment motion against Chief Justice of India (CJI), Dipak Misra, will be rejected by Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu, the Congress went ahead with the motion. Expectedly, the motion was rejected by the Vice-President and now Congress proposes to go to the Supreme...
Xi-Modi Plan Joint Project In Afghanistan
By Sushil Kutty The Japanese tea-drinking routine is by far the more elaborate. It overawes with ceremony. Modi and Xi just stood at a table next to a lake in Wuhan and sipped the brew from tiny China cups. This after Modi poked his nose into ceramic jars,...
Speak Up To End Nuclear Arms Race And Save Life On Earth
By Dr. Arun Mitra The recently held campaigners meet of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate organisation, the ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), at Geneva has appealed to the world leaders to have a wake up call of the threat the nuclear weapons pose today. Their...
Make Time For Marx, Not Just Market
By C.J. Atkins Make time for Marxism. That’s the advice Chinese president and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping gave his members this week. On Monday, while presiding over what Xinhua News Agency described as “a group study session of the Political Bureau,” Xi stressed the importance of The...
Xi’s Sideshow To Trump Donald
By Sushil Kutty The two big world news that’s caught the attention of the remote today are North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un getting a shot at giving himself a sheen of respectability and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s lifetime President Xi Jinping sitting down to diagnose...
Left Consolidation Efforts Get A Big Boost At CPI Congress
By Nitya Chakraborty The call for more united action of the Left parties with special focus on the reunification efforts of the CPI and the CPI(M) was the highlight of the 23rd congress of the CPI which began its session at Kollam in Kerala on April 26.The deliberations...
Wuhan Summit Creates A New Template For Economic Engagement
By Subrata Majumder A perpetual border settlement between India and China is untenable. Then, why not use economic engagement to soothe the relation. Against the backdrop of US trade war against China, Prime Minister Modi’s reciprocation to Beijing’s urge for amelioration of ties is a timely step for...
Tragedy In A Town Named Kushinagar
By Aditya Aamir To wake up to the headline ‘Tragedy in Kushinagar’ doesn’t give anybody ‘Kushi’. Add to that the number ‘13’ and ‘superstition’ drops anchor. Last heard, ‘13’ was still an unlucky number. And 13 children died in Kushinagar when their school bus was blown off the...
Congress Plans Big Anti-Modi Rally
By Rahil Nora Chopra Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee is organising a Jan Aakrosh Rally in Ram Lila Maidan in New Delhi on 29 April, hoping to bring at least one lakh people from Delhi and neighbouring states. The rally‘s aim is to expose the Narendra Modi government’s work...
Appointment Of Judges: War Without An End
By Sushil Kutty The war over judges continues unabated. If the battle lines are drawn, the canvas of the battleground is widening by the day. Now, it has extended to appointments of judges in the Supreme Court. While one judge has been appointed with acceptance from both the...
FICCI Report Unveils Multi-Pronged Agenda To Reinvigorate BIMSTEC
By Nitya Chakraborty The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has made far-reaching recommendations for the creation of a new ‘BIMSTEC’ by strengthening infrastructure linkages, deepening regional transport connectivity, facilitating cross-border trade, investment and tourism, protecting the environment and promoting sustainable use of shared natural...
Asaram gets ‘life’ till god calls his ‘man’
By Sushil Kutty The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a sea of swirling plastic waste in the middle of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas and thrice that of France, is difficult to remove. Similarly, human garbage, trash like self-styled ‘god-man’ Asaram Bapu, is hard to get rid...
Modi And Xi Need To Focus On Trade Issues
By G. Srinivasan India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President in perpetuity Xi Jinping summit parleys sans aide but with interpreters in Wuhan on April 27-28 to take advantage of their mutual chemistry in cementing bilateral relations have not come a day too soon. Soon after Modi’s...
CPI’s Kollam Congress Has To Chart Programme For Revival
By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India’s four day 23rd Congress at Kollam in Kerala beginning April 26, has got a tough task in preparing the Party to be a prominent participant in the current battle of the opposition parties against the NDA government at the centre...
Real People, Real World, Real Poetry
By Chip Grim Poetry on the Picket Line might sound a little unlikely, but it works. It’s a squad of writers prepared to turn up on picket lines and read poetry — something a little different and, usually, it goes down pretty well. It started off by accident...
Us Rejoining TPP To Put Further Pressure On China
By Subrata Majumder The US-China trade war has taken a new shape after Trump administration evinced interests for re-joining the TPP (Trans – Pacific – Partnership). Seemed to have been flattened by Chinese bellicose and domestic lobby by US farmers, Trump administration is likely to shift pressure on...
