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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 […]

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

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 […]

The post Navigating Opposition Unity Through Uncertain Times Of Indian Politics first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Not Bharat Jodo Yatra – Congress Should Campaign On BJP Gujarat, Himachal Choro first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Supreme Court Is Still To Give Its Final Decision On Electoral Bonds first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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. […]

The post BJP Juggernaut Is On The Roll – Where Is The Congress? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post June 15 Meet Of Opposition Parties Is A Positive Step Towards 2024 Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Remembering Jawaharlal Nehru On His 58th Death Anniversary first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post IPTA Turns 80: Heralding The Biggest Cultural Movement In India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post U.S. Sponsored IPEF Is A Counter To Just Not China But To BRICS Also first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Has Damaged The Cause Of Opposition Unity With Udaipur Statement first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Remembering The Maestro Satyajit Ray On His 101st Birth Anniversary first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Prashant Kishor, A Ray Of Light At The End Of Tunnel For The Opposition first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Supreme Court Has To Take An Early Decision On Electoral Bonds first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post CPI(M)’s 23rd Party Congress Must Help Unite Seculars Against Saffrons first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post M K Stalin Is Now The Best Choice To Head A Revamped UPA first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Karl Marx died in London on March 14, 1883. Three days later on March 17,  Friedrich Engels in his speech at the grave of his best friend and partner in their bid to change the world, said: ‘On March 14, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The results of the assembly elections to the five states – Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur – have shown that the Grand Old Party the Congress is on the decline. The Party has not only lost its ruling state Punjab miserably to the Aam Admi Party (AAP) but also done […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The maverick film director of Bengal Mrinal Sen, the second most important member of the famous troika in the cinema world that included Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, will step into his 100th year on May 14, 2023. Significantly, Ray was born just two years before in 1921, on May 2, the […]

The post Remembering The Debate Between Satyajit Ray And Mrinal Sen Over ‘Akash Kusum’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The massive victory achieved by Trinamool Congress in the latest elections to 108 civic bodies in Bengal covering all the districts is a continuation of the trend which was evident at the assembly elections in 2021.In all the subsequent elections held in the state, first Kolkata Municipal Corporation, then polling in four […]

The post Decoding Trinamool Congress’s Massive Victory In Latest Civic Polls In Bengal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty The confrontation over Ukraine between Russia and the United States has reached a decisive stage with President Putin recognizing the two breakaway regions Donetsk and Luhansk and soon after President Joe Biden announcing strong sanctions aimed at crippling the leading Russian banks and the financial institutions. The U.S. and the NATO aim […]

The post 2015 Minsk2 Agreement Is The Only Basis Now For Averting War On Ukraine first appeared on IPA Newspack.