ALL INDIA PROFESSIONALS' CONGRESS
ALL INDIA PROFESSIONALS' CONGRESS
Defections in politics is a phenomenonas old as the time of tribal societies, witnessed by monarchies,dictatorships,and alsonew age democracies. While historically the power play in tribes often experienced the switching of sides by the second in command of leaders, monarchies have seen immediate family members taking over from ruling family members in bloodied coups or otherwise, dictators have been poisoned or killed by their very own, and democracies have faced overnight jumping of party ships by politicians for material benefits or power or executive office.
In April 2021, the New York Times reported on the devastating toll of Covid-19 on India’s middle class. 1 The report starts with the story of Ashish Anand, a former flight attendant and fashion designer who borrowed money and put his life savings into setting up a clothing shop in outer Delhi. This was in February 2020, just before the pandemic struck India. Two months later, Anand shut his shop down, his dream falling apart. The New York Times published a picture of Anand’s family. In the picture, the beautiful kids are eating a meal.
Democracy promises visibility to every citizen. Visibility provides the opportunity to identify and fulfill the needs of individuals, invest and support their aspirations, design and control policy to address gaps, and protect and promote certain values...
In a democratic polity, elected representatives of people personify the collective voice, will, and thought and aspirations of the people whom they represent in Parliament or State Legislatures....
It is now ten months since India’s vaccination drive commenced. In the context of global efforts to swiftly protect citizens from the pandemic, the period should be sufficient to judge its handling.....
The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6-WG1) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides for the most rationalized physical understanding of the climate system, by combining the latest advances in climate sciences and multiple lines of evidence from Paleoclimate, observations, process understanding and global/regional climate simulations.
This is a summary of points put forward by Shri Manish Tewari, during a discussion on the topic organized as a webinar by AIPC Delhi. The discussion was conducted as a conversation between Shri Tewari and Shri Salman Soz....
The Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown announced by the government have been an unprecedented double whammy for India. While the number of Covid-19 cases is rising every day, the forecast is that the economy is likely to further shrink this year....
Chhattisgarh stands out as a true success story in mitigating the spread of the Covid-19 virus. In medical terms, the infection and mortality rate due to the virus have been low in this state. Importantly, the people−centric and innovative initiatives of Chief Minister Shri Bhupesh Baghel’s governmen....
How soon will we have a treatment for Covid-19? All of us want an answer to this. Dr Shashi Tharoor posed this question to Dr Kiran Mazumdar−Shaw, a leading figure in the pharmaceutical industry and one of the few people with access to information and updates in this regard, during an online public interaction with her on the topic....
Following are extracts from a discussion conducted as a public webinar by AIPC North Delhi chapter on 14 June, 2020. The complete webinar can be viewed on the AIPC Delhi Facebook page, in a post of the said date, and is also available on the Inspire! website.
It has been a few months since the government of India unilaterally banned 59 Chinese mobile applications, including the Indian heartland’s mass market equivalent of Twitter, known as Tik−Tok....
Between 2004 and 2014, the UPA governments oversaw the fastest recorded economic growth in Indian history. This growth overlapped with possibly the most significant poverty reduction epoch of human history, with an estimated 14 crore to 21 crore people moving out of poverty....
The Indian economy is facing two challenges − continuing slowdown that started about two years ago, and the impact of Covid-19 and the lockdowns. With all the four cylinders of the economy’s engine − investment, exports, private consumption, ....
