By Sushil Kutty

By Sushil Kutty Sri Lanka has a social media. And these days Modi is trending. For Sri Lankans, Indian bigwigs trending in their social media is welcome diversion from the island nation’s woes. At least Modi is not Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s President who is still at the centre of storm after the resignation of […]

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By Sushil Kutty Agnipath and Madhushala! Two poems of Harivansh Rai Bachchan, actor Amitabh Bachchan’s father. Agnipath is about ‘hope’, while Madhushala spells ‘drunken despair’. But, with “Tu na thakega kabhi / Tu na rukega kabhi / Tu na mudega kabhi / Kar shapath, Kar shapath, Kar shapath / Agnipath agnipath agnipath”, is the Modi […]

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By Sushil Kutty The President of India’s post is where quite often a key politician is put to pasture. The news cycle in the last couple of days moved from Prophet and Nupur Sharma to rioting and bulldozer, and Rahul Gandhi. Now, there is Sharad Pawar, tapped for the President of India’s post, and the […]

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By Sushil Kutty “Of course, you were not spreading rumours, the charge is you were spreading facts.” That’s the blurb on an RK Laxman cartoon of 1962, 60 years ago. Today’s cartoonists should take a kerchief out of Laxman’s pocket-cartoons. Lampooning is serious business. It should tickle the cerebral cells. The sarcasm should be biting, […]

The post Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Is A Judge, Jury And Executioner In Uttar Pradesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Lopping off anybody’s head in the best of Islamist traditions isn’t for India. And no amount of rioting can change that. But frustration has to spill. And so it did. High up in the sky, above Bengaluru, a grotesquely strung up Nupur Sharma effigy, hanging from an overhead cable, pointing an accusing […]

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By Sushil Kutty It starts with “Dear Congresspersons…” and doesn’t stop till the last vestiges of the Congress party’s confidence in the Gandhi family haven’t been ridden to the ground, the Gandhis painted in mud colours. Who were the people behind this exercise is still not apparent to the eye, but what’s being spoken isn’t […]

The post Anti-Gandhi Dynasty Congressmen Getting Active In States Once Again first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Finally, much to the delight of millions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not the Invincible! Little Qatar in the Gulf brought the Modi Government to its knees even as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Iran weighed in. Modi’s ‘Arabian Nights’ stands curtailed because Modi is no Xi Jinping. Also, the BJP’s ‘Naya […]

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By Sushil Kutty RSS ‘sarsangchalak’ Mohan Bhagwat thinks he speaks for the Hindus of India, and AIMIM solo head Asaduddin Owaisi wouldn’t be given a chair to sit by the vast majority of Muslims. But Bhagwat can’t get it round his head, and the AIMIM head refuses to heed his head that Muslims look on […]

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By Sushil Kutty What’s with the Modi Government, why are AAP leaders being arrested? After Satyendar Jain, it could be Manish Sisodia. ‘Satyendar’ translates to ‘honesty’, the gospel ‘truth’. Yet, the enforcement directorate arrests Satyendar, health minister in the Delhi Government, and architect of the famed “mohalla clinics”. Kejriwal worried Thursday about the likely arrest […]

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By Sushil Kutty The Congress is 137 and in a hurry to turn fossil, led by the nose into old age. Some liquefied high fliers in the party, sensing atrophy in the bones, have already flown the coop. Others haven’t, out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the party, if not for the family, […]

The post Congress High Command Has Again Messed Up The List Of Rajya Sabha Nominees first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty These days spanning a month are an essay of our times. That said, it took less than 75 years for India to start unravelling. Some will set the date closer by decades; like eight years to date—from May 26, 2014 on, from the time the BJP won a majority in the Lok […]

The post All These Eight Years, Narendra Modi Has Compelled The People To Listen first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Actually, it shouldn’t have been breaking news. The clean chit to Aryan Khan was on expected lines. Nothing on earth could have overturned the outcome. The only two questions remaining were ‘Who in his sound mind chose to slam-dunk Aryan Khan s/o Shahrukh Khan with a narcotics charge? Look at what happened […]

The post Aryan Khan Episode Exposes The Working Of Narcotics Control Bureau first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty After the newspaper report with the picture showing the IAS couple watching the dog take a walk in the stadium, the Ministry of Home Affairs transferred Sanjeev Khirwar to Ladakh, and Rinku Dugga to Arunachal Pradesh, separating the couple, and punishing the dog for being the reason for their separation. The decision […]

The post Is Arunachal And Ladakh The Dog’s Life For IAS & IPS? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Eight years of Narendra Modi, and the lament is “there are still two more to go.” May 26, 2014 Narendra Modi stuck his thumb out at the naysayers and took oath. From that day on, the people of India haven’t been given reason to forget that the man rules their lives. And, […]

The post Despite Loss Of Jobs And High Price Rise, Narendra Modi Is Comfortable first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty One can be forgiven for coming to the hasty conclusion that External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is another Modi-bot in the long line of them. For when Jaishankar writes “As the world marks Africa Day today, it may be appropriate to assess how much the India-Africa partnership has grown on Narendra Modi’s […]

The post Africa Day On May 25 Is A Reminder That India Has Not Done Enough For This Continent first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Whenever Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal get into a huddle for opposition unity, the first thought that breaks the reverie is which of the two will dump the other for a shot at the PM’s chair come 2024? A similar thought strikes when KCR or […]

The post TRS Supremo K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s Moves On Presidential Poll Make Sense first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The #MeToo movement was also about correcting the ‘wrongs of history’ in which powerful men got to get their comeuppance for bad deeds done decades ago. Those out of the ambit of #MeToo cheered and clapped, and the #MeToo survivors a sense of justice, and closure— happy ending to a lingering chapter. […]

The post Gyanvapi Masjid/Mandir Issue Is More Complex And Volatile Than Ayodhya first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Sitting abroad and lashing out at the government, is not going to help the Opposition win the people at home over to its side. The ploy will boomerang even before the opposition leader tightens his seat belt on the return flight. Similarly, a pair of journalists writing anti-Modi pieces in the New […]

The post Winning The Hearts Of Foreigners Abroad Is Not Going To Help Rahul Gandhi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharati was named after the infamous Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA). The dreaded MISA was invoked to send many to jail before it was consigned to the pages of history. Lalu himself has had several jail visits, and it was only recently that he stepped out […]

The post Behind The Bars: Time Looms For Sidhu, Karti And Even Lalu Prasad first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Coming on the heels of the Udaipur Chintan Shivir, Hardik Patel’s exit from the Congress is a matter of ‘chintan’ for the Grand Old Party. Reports that Acharya Promod Krishnam had also quit the party was another setback. Earlier, on the first day of the chintan shivir, Punjab Congress leader Sunil Jakhar […]

The post Hardik Patel’s Exit From Congress Shows The Sordid State In Gujarat Unit first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Who hasn’t heard of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb? Those who did not are being fed a healthy diet of Aurangzeb these past few days, ever since the fate of the Gyanvapi Mosque of Kashi/Banaras/Varanasi became a subject of intense strife and discussion in a country where places of worship are bones of contention. […]

The post ‘Gyanvapi’ Aurangzeb Alamgir Refuses To Rest In Peace first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Media has been writing and talking of “KCR’s gambit” from way before the Telangana state was born. That first gambit succeeded and, today, Telangana is India’s youngest state. It is said that KCR led the way for the formation of Telangana from the front from the word ‘go’. Then, in the year […]

The post BJP Is Going The Whole Hog In Unseating KCR From CM’s Chair In Telangana first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The mood in Uttar Pradesh is different from what it was before the last assembly elections. Things are on an unprecedented boil. Kashi, Mathura, Agra… Things happening with far-reaching implications. Before the elections, there was AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi making a pitch for the Muslim vote, claiming he alone cared for the Muslims […]

The post Confusion Over The Exact Role Of Mayawati After Assembly Polls Remains first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty What is Elon Musk, a masking perfume, an electric car or a spacecraft that is not rocket science? He is none of these, but has strong links to spacecrafts and electric cars. Elon Musk is a South African with a Canadian link and sports a “settled in America” label. He is the […]

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By Sushil Kutty Some people with their antics make you run to the dictionary. Like the Ranas, Navneet and Ravi Rana. They liked their stints in jail. They want to go right back to its precarious safety. Navneet Rana in Byculla jail for women, and Ravi Rana in Navi Mumbai’s Taloja correction unit. In fact, […]

The post The Amarawati Ranas Are Back To Their Mindless Showboating first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The whole idea and ideal of secularism came decades later, but the day India decided to be a pluralistic society, with Hindu-Muslim-Sikh-Isai, all living under the same sky, that day India ensured it would be a communal cauldron for all times to come. Dr. BR Ambedkar was practical. He wanted to make […]

The post Sangh Parivar Is Bracing For Next Round Of Battle After Ayodhya first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The other day in Denmark Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in one of those unguarded moments, found himself ambushed by the media! The next thing you hear is Modi with a “Oh! My God!” and every media reporting how startled, vulnerable and panicked the Prime Minister appeared and sounded, followed by the question: […]

The post Narendra Modi’s Aversion To Live Pressers Transcends Continents first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty May 4, Wednesday 5 am, the loudspeakers started blaring. One began, and the other followed. The first one with the ‘azaan’, the second one with the ‘Hanuman Chalisa’. It was Raj Thackeray going ahead with the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ challenge to the Maha Vikas Aghadi government on its refusal to […]

The post Raj’s War Against His Cousin Uddhav Is Leading To Turmoil In Maharashtra first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his MVA government are getting boxed in by the machinations of the BJP-MNS combine which is busy giving oxygen to the perception that the Shiv Sena is no longer the Hindutva force it used to be during the time of Hindutva icon Balasaheb Thackeray, and that […]

The post Shiv Sena In A ‘Hindutva’ Muddle As BJP-MNS Taunt It Of Being ‘Secular’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Harassment is the name of the game, pure and unalloyed harassment. It is a dangerous game, driven by a vindictive streak. Arrest a person and slap charges on him/her, from the nasty to the draconian, and let life behind bars teach him/her a harsh lesson. Doesn’t matter how humiliating, only the odd […]

The post Rana Couple And Jignesh Mevani’s Arrests Signal A Dangerous Trend In States first appeared on IPA Newspack.