By Nitya Chakraborty

By Nitya Chakraborty I saw last week in Netflix Writer Director Pan Nalin’s latest film “Last Film Show”, ”Chhello Show” in Gujarati. The film has already been nominated by India as its Oscar contender for the 2023 Academy Awards Function scheduled in March. Only last week, Nalin’s film was named as the winner of the […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee has done it again. His third book’ The Song of the Cell’ published this year has once again mesmerized the doctors, scientists and the common readers much more than the impact he had with his first two books ‘The Emperors of all Maladies’ and ‘The Gene’. Mukherjee has come […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The Narendra Modi Government is stooping to its lowest level of propriety to channelize funds to the ruling BJP on the eve of the state assembly elections to Himachal and Gujarat. Himachal polls are due on November 12 and elections to Gujarat assembly are scheduled for December 1 and 5. The centre […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty India’s first Nobel Prize winner in Economics Prof: Amartya Sen has stepped into 89 on November 3 this year. It has been a long innings for him as a proactive global intellectual who has made deep impact on the thoughts of the thinking world wide apart from India covering the areas of […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty   Latest reports that the BJP leadership has offered a few legislators of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti a total of Rs. 1,00 crore has created furore in the state capital Hyderabad and as usual the BJP leaders have denied this. But, this type of move by BJP is nothing new. In […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party begins on October 16 in Beijing. It will chart out the course of action for the next five years in terms of Chinese domestic politics, economy and also foreign policy, with the objective of catapulting the world’s largest populated country with the second […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (CPI) is holding its 24th Party Congress at Vijayawada on October 14 ro 18 this year at a crucial time of the country in terms of both politics and economy. There has been a decisive shift in the political direction of India towards  farright in the last […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The Bharat Jodo Yatra led by the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi completed one month of its march in Karnataka on October 6. With the participation of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the Yatra got massive character boost, attracting thousands of men, women and even children, as also the grassroots party workers. What […]

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  By Nitya Chakraborty The joint opposition rally held at Fatehabad in Haryana on Sunday organized the INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala on the occasion of the birth anniversary of his father Devi Lal has made a good success in facilitating the unity of the anti-BJP political parties to take on the Narendra Modi Government […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the historical city Samarkand in Uzbekistan on September 15 and 16 to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit amidst the continuation of the Ukraine war and the persisting misunderstanding between India and China over the border issues. This will be first in person summit […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Quoting from our great epic Mahabharata on Sunday at an interaction with the law students, Chief Justice of India U U Lalit said “ Our motto in Supreme Court is ”Yato Dharmastato Jayah” meaning whatever is right shall prevail. Gandhari said this to Duryodhan while giving her blessings.CJI said “That’s the kind […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on August 30, 2022, at the age of 91 in Moscow   will be remembered for his role in precipitating   the downfall of the   Communist Party rule in the Soviet Union in 1991 — 74 years after the November revolution in 1917  led by V. I. Lenin. The system […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Just eighteen months are now left for the holding of the next Lok Sabha elections in March/April of 2024. BJP has been talking of a “Congress-mukt Bharat”, while the Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao called for “BJP-mukt India” in Patna on Wednesday in the presence of the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty   In 1984 Lok Sabha elections held during the national wave in favour of the Congress following the murder of Indira Gandhi, the ruling party got the maximum number of seats – 414. The BJP was decimated electorally with only two seats. The 40-year-old Rajiv Gandhi started his tenure with widespread goodwill. […]

The post Decoding My Seventy Two Years In Independent India: Part Three first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Nitya Chakraborty   In 1960, at the global level, the most important development was the World Conference of the   communist parties, the result of which was the 81 parties’ document. The conference laid bare the growing fissures within the once monolithic communist movement, as well as the Communist Party of China’s advocacy of […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu has taken over as the first tribal-origin President of India after causing big cracks in the opposition. The election of the Vice-President is due on August 6. BJP candidate Jagdeep Dhankar is set to win comfortably as the NDA supporters have majority in the Electoral College. Moreover, the […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The Congress high command led by president Sonia Gandhi decided at its Thursday meeting to start its proposed Bharat Jodo yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir within next few weeks and this yatra is scheduled to cover twelve states and two union territories measuring 3500 kms in 148 days. All indications suggest that […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The sale of the 21st tranche of the electoral bonds is on from July 1-10 this year. Earlier this year, the last sale was held for ten days from April 1-10. The Supreme Court Chief Justice N V Ramana gave an indication the same month that the SC would be taking up […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The BJP juggernaut is on the roll. As the second half of the 2022 calendar year begins, the opposition parties remain toothless and rudderless. Right now, BJP has begun its three-day national executive session at Hyderabad. The buoyant leadership is focusing on the next assembly elections in Karnataka due early next year. […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The meeting of the seventeen opposition parties of the country on June 15 at the instance of the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to decide on nominee for Presidential elections due on July 18, has been a big success considering the problems which the regional parties were having with the Congress […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty On May 27, 1964 at 1.44 PM, India’s first Prime Minister and one of the best chroniclers of this great nation’s history breathed his last at his residence Teen Murti Bhavan. Nehru along with Indira Gandhi came back to Delhi on May 26 afternoon after a three day holiday in Dehradun. Nehru […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Eight decades ago, on May 25, 1943, an unprecedented cultural development took place in Bombay at the Sundari Bai Hall. The Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) was founded at a conference of the cultural workers and politico-cultural activists in an atmosphere of electric enthusiasm. It was a real national body of the […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The announcement made in Tokyo on Monday by the United States President Joe Biden about the formation of a new economic block named Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) has signalled the arrival of a new economic arrangement in the India-Pacific region to counter growing influence of China. This block of 13 […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has struck a big blow to the efforts of the opposition parties towards forming a combined front to take on the ruling BJP in the Lok Sabha polls in 2024. Gandhi said in the Congress Chintan Shivir in Udaipur that the Congress is the only alternative to the […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Film lovers in Europe and America observed on May 8the 116th birth anniversary of Roberto Rosselini, touted as one of the originators of the neorealist movement in post-war Italy of 1940s. His Rome, Open City was released in 1945, heralding the beginning ofa new movement in Italy pursued by a band of […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The legend of the Indian cinema, Satyajit Ray, has crossed one more year after his centenary celebrations began on May 2 of last year. The last icon of what is termed as Bengal Renaissance, died at the age of only 71 on April 23, 1992. Though his last film ‘Agantuk’ was released […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Things are heating up in Indian politics as the BJP and the Sangh Parivar prepare for the next phase of assembly elections in the states within this yearend as also in 2023, and, eventually, tobe followed by the Lok Sabha polls in March-April 2024. After the last round of assembly elections resulting […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty It is good that the Chief Justice of India N V Ramana has agreed to take up for hearing a pending petition challenging the Electoral Bond Scheme, 2018 .The 20th tranche of electoral bonds opened on April 1 this year and it will continue till April 10.It would have been better if […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] is holding its 23rd Party Congress in Kerala this month, from April 6 to 10. The delegates attending this five-day session will be deliberating on both the national and international situations, and, on the final day, will be adopting a document which will guide the […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Three weeks have passed since March 10 when the results of five state assembly elections were announced.  From that very day, the winner in four states BJP, is preparing for the next round of elections scheduled in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat by the end of 2022. In both the states, the BJP […]

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