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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.Ensuring Social Justice Is A Key Component Of Indian Constitution
By Ram Puniyani Indian society has been riddled with many inequalities. There are some forces who want to do away with the Indian constitution. It is an instrument towards social struggle for equality. On one hand there have been patriarchal values, glorified in the scriptures, on the other the...
Third Term CPI General Secretary D Raja Faces Main Task Of Rejuvenating The Party
By Nitya Chakraborty CPI general secretary D Raja who has been granted his third term at the recently concluded 25th congress of CPI in Chandigarh faces a stupendous task in rejuvenating the stagnating party organisation and steer it with dynamism and vision to play a proper role in building...
Donald Trump’s Wooing Of Shehbaz Sharif And Asim Munir Has Turned Bizarre
By Sushil Kutty US President Donald Trump, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan’s Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, the current power troika in the subcontinent. When two of them meet, Trump and Munir, Pakistanis puff up their chests. What happens when Sharif also gets invited to the...
Revadis And Cash Flows From PM Narendra Modi To Bihar Voters Before Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Democracy in the land of Bihar, which is in the cusp of Vidhan Sabha general election, has just fallen to a new low with revadis (freebies) and cash flowing from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the voters. There was a time in the 6th...
US Economy Navigates Choppy Waters As Growth Rebounds Amid Policy Headwinds
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The American economy’s robust 3.8% second-quarter growth rate, significantly revised upward from initial estimates, presents a deceptively encouraging picture that masks deeper structural challenges confronting investors as the nation navigates an increasingly complex policy landscape. While consumer resilience continues to drive near-term momentum,...
Trump’s 50 Percent Tariff On India Has Had Some Impact On GST Rate Adjustments
By Prabhat Patnaik Trump’s tariff aggression against India will indubitably have a contractionary effect on the Indian economy. Even if Trump reduces tariffs from the 50 per cent he is currently levying, this will only be in exchange for India reducing its tariffs on American goods, especially agricultural goods...
Trump Policies On H-1B Visas Have Potential To Transform India’s High Tech Sector
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When the Indian IT boom began in the late 1990s, the “American Dream” was its rocket fuel. Bright young engineers from Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Pune queued up for the H-1B visa, chasing careers in Silicon Valley. They became coders, data architects, project...
Sangh Parivar-Sponsored Ayyappa Sangamam Kicks Up Controversy
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was cracked up to be a parallel conclave to counter the Global Ayyappa Sangamam organized by the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB). But it ended up kicking up a big controversy and inviting police action against one of the leading participants. Instead of coming up...
Mahagathbandhan Releases Ten-Point Benefits Wooing Bihar’s EBC Voters
By Rahil Nora Chopra In an apparent bid to woo Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs) voters ahead of Bihar assembly polls, the Mahagathbandhan allies in Bihar released a 10-point ‘Atipichhda Nyay Sankalp’, promising several benefits to the EBCs, hitherto considered a dedicated vote bank of chief minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata...
CPI’s 25th Party Congress Elects D Raja As The General Secretary For The Third Time
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Communist Party of India(CPI) concluded its five day Party Congress at Chandigarh on September 25 reelecting D. Raja as the general secretary of the CPI for another three year term. Raja is the first dalit leader to head the CPI in 2019 after the then...
How Three Country Heads Turned Ukraine War Into A Performance Art?
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Welcome to the most expensive theatre production in modern history, where half a million casualties serve as background extras while three aging narcissists swap costumes and pretend yesterday’s betrayals never happened. The Ukraine war has devolved into something far more obscene than mere...
Instead Of Going Into The Root Of Protests In Ladakh, BJP Is Seeing Congress Hand
By Sushil Kutty As is its wont. The BJP always starts with lament. The latest is about violence in Ladakh, allegedly incited by Congress. Apparently Congress councillor Stanzin Tsepang is behind the violence, which reminds the BJP IT Cell of the unrest that brought about regime change in Bangladesh....
Recent Attacks On Independent Media Expose The Desperation Of Ruling Elite
By P. Sudhir In India, bizarre developments have become so normalised that they no longer shock people as they once did. This is striking, given that after the adoption of our Republican Constitution, Article 19 was alive and vibrant, safeguarding the citizen’s right to freedom of expression. India’s Constitution...
When Diplomatic Theatre Meets Actual Theatre In United Nations
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In the annals of American diplomacy, few moments have crystallized the peculiar intersection of spectacle and statecraft quite like Donald J. Trump’s appearance at the 80th United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, where a malfunctioning escalator, a rebellious teleprompter and a traffic-snarled French...
Tokenised Securities Present New Opportunities For Indian Capital Markets
By Arun Kumar Tokenised securities, which are supported by real-world assets and are stored on distributed ledgers, have become a talking point among many around the world. India’s financial system is seeing a growing need for blockchain applications within capital markets. The market of tokenized security in India presents...
How Narendra Modi’s Ego Has Destroyed India’s South Asian Diplomacy In The Recent Past?
By Nitya Chakraborty India’s South Asia diplomacy is proving a disaster as the neighbouring countries of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) are discussing in details the issue of the revival of SAARC which has been lying inactive in the political arena since 2016 due to India’s...
Supreme Court Indicates Shift In Approach Towards Criminalisation Of Defamation
By K Raveendran The tension between freedom of expression and protection of reputation is both inevitable and delicate. Speech rights lie at the core of democratic governance, enabling citizens to critique, dissent, and challenge power. But reputation, dignity, and the risk of false or malicious harm also matter, and...
PM Modi’s Strategic Absence From UN Session Speaks Of India’s Foreign Policy Dilemma
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to skip the 80th United Nations General Assembly session, sending External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in his place, represents far more than a scheduling conflict. Earlier, a provisional list of speakers issued in July had scheduled Prime Minister...
