Lie - Different Truths

May 14, 2018
IPA Service
Exploitation, Marxism, Subalterns

Marxism is a Living Science 200 Years Later: Its Revolutionary Ideas are Guide to Action

Marxism is a revolutionary theory. Without it, protests against capitalist exploitation and oppression are limited to demands for reforms, to efforts to alleviate symptoms, without curing the disease. Here’s...

May 14, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues

Mutual Consent Paramount in Adult Relationships: Latest Supreme Court Decision is of Great Significance

If to exercise the basic rights of choice and intimate relationships, one has to knock on the doors of the highest court of the country every time, then the...

May 12, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, World

PPP, PTI Adopt Tactical Truce to Remember Black Day: Pak Right Wing Parties Try to Exploit Rift

On this day during the regime of Pervez Musharraf, nearly 50 people were killed, with hundreds injured due to a sanguinary riot between the political activists of Musharraf-backed Muttahida...

May 2, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy

Farm Crisis: Solution Lies in Raising Farm Income, Technology-Driven Smart Agriculture

Where we have gone wrong and why is it agrarian crisis keeps recurring in India. The answer is simple: Despite big strides in farming, India is yet to develop...

April 25, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, Legal Issues

Asaram Gets Life Imprisonment: Vote Loss Fears Hold Political Parties from Hailing Verdict

The Dongi Guru, who uses the crazy Bhagwan Dada-style dance routine to get into the head of devotees, is a master of the possible. He injects himself into minds...

April 23, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues, Politics

Media in the Times of Impeachment: Opposition Politicians, Mutineers Speak Same Language

Ideologies are basically left of centre and right of centre. Governments are ideological. The judiciary has to be above politics. And media has to walk the tightrope. So, when...

April 15, 2018
Tapati Sinha
Economy, History & Culture

Financial Frauds Continue Since Ages…

Financial frauds are perhaps as old as human civilisation. Tapati traces the antiquity of the swindle, as recorded in various ancient civilisations. Kautilya lists forty kinds of misappropriation of...

April 13, 2018
Anumita Roy
Food

Dhoka, the Savory Lentil Dumplings

Anumita, our Managing Editor, shares a traditional Bengali vegetarian cuisine, Dhoka r Dalna (gravy of Lentil Dumplings). There are numerous vegetarian recipes in the Bengali cuisine, quite contrary to...

April 10, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Smriti Irani is in Choppy Internet Seas: Packs Online Media Panel with Babus

Smriti Irani tried to hang the mainstream media with the accreditation sword citing fake news. But ‘fake news’ is double-edged. It bites both ways and Irani got bitten hard....

April 5, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, Legal Issues, Wild Life

Salman Khan Finally Attains Veergati, Goes to Jail: A Serial Offender who always gets his Freedom

To date, “serial offender” Salman Khan has been convicted in several cases but in all of them, he eased to freedom as easily as a worm from a sticky...

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