Sushil Kutty

By Sushil Kutty The day after the Supreme Court’s split verdict on the hijab, things are falling into place for a better understanding of the verdict. One, it has become clear that after failing with the essential religious practice (erp) as the raison d’etre for the ‘hijab’ in classrooms demand, advocates for the hijab petitioners […]

The post Decoding The Split Verdict Of Supreme Court On Hijab Ban Issue first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty At the heart of politics is cowardice. Okay, foolhardiness. Take demonetization, for instance. It was a reckless display of authoritarianism, unbridled power, when the BJP-led NDA Government tipped its hat to its Prime Minister and forgot that in a democracy, collective decisions are the norm and the decision to demonetize was patently […]

The post Election Commission Is Functioning In A Bizarre Manner In Shiv Sena Symbol Issue first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Uddhav Thackeray grew up jostling with a rival for his father Balasaheb Thackeray’s pats and “well-dones”. Cousin Raj Thackeray was finally gone and the years thereafter erased the memory of living with a ‘resentment’. But, irony of all ironies, whoever would have thought that a grown-up Uddhav Thackeray would be challenged by […]

The post Uddhav Thackeray Is Emerging As A Principled Leader In His Battle Against Shinde first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi turned national on Dussehra and is now the ‘Bharat Rashtra Samithi’ with Rao its prime mover and shaker, also the man who will replace Narendra Modi if a “BRS-led Opposition” wins big in 2024. With that K Chandrashekar Rao announced his decision to […]

The post Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Has Finally Gone National first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty One opinion poll places the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the Congress and AAP in the forthcoming Gujarat assembly elections, slated for December 2022, with the BJP reportedly all set to beat both anti-, and pro-incumbency; perhaps, even another altogether different strain of incumbency if there’s one, in the state where Narendra  […]

The post BJP May Again Sweep Gujarat In The State Assembly Polls By Year End first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Congress ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ has been in Karnataka since September 30. It rolled in from Gudalur in Tamil Nadu to Gundlupet in Karnataka. Add the third ‘G’, ‘Rahul Gandhi’, and it will be like the stars were in alignment. Rahul Gandhi started the Karnataka leg of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ from Mysuru […]

The post Bharat Jodo Yatra In Karnataka Is Crucial For Congress Before Assembly Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty There was Sir C Sankaran Nair, the only Malayali Congress president in a 100 plus years. He was elected in 1897. Nair rose from obscurity to prominence and left behind a big family and a sprawling estate. A grandson was Lt. Gen. Candeth, the liberator of Goa. Those early years, the attrition […]

The post Tharoor Vs Kharge – It Is A Battle Between Change And Continuity In Congress first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Shashi Tharoor and Ashok Gehlot will contest the Congress president’s post election and Tharoor will walk into it already sidelined. Gandhi family loyalist Ashok Gehlot is naturally a hot favourite. Tharoor is not going to get the advantage of being fellow Kerala MP to Rahul Gandhi. In fact, if a poll to […]

The post Ashok Gehlot Starts As Winning Candidate In Congress Presidential Poll first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Thursday morning nationwide crackdown on the Popular Front of India (PFI) begs the question “Why now, why today, why this morning?” It can’t be that the PFI was found engaging in “terror-funding”, and “terror activities”, just the night before? Terrorists and their handlers take time to set up terror factories, so […]

The post Simultaneous Central Raids Against PFI, Waqf Board, Madrasas Raise Questions first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Iran’s ruling clerics are up to their necks in protests for defending a piece of cloth they insist women should wear to keep their dignities intact. What’s wrong with that? The ‘hijab’ is such an innocuous wraparound. And it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, not when top justices of the topmost court […]

The post Many Questions Remain Over The Demand For Use Of Hijabs By Muslim Girls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Has Rahul Gandhi’s persistence prevailed? The Gandhi scion has always wanted an elected Congress president, and it seems he is getting his wish fulfilled: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has given her consent to Thiruvananthapuram Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to contest the party’s presidential election, and Congress leaders claim there couldn’t be […]

The post Ashok Gehlot Versus Shashi Tharoor Will Be An Interesting Fight first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 72 on September 17 and the country celebrated how fast an African Cheetah can run in the Indian wild? Not faster than its destiny, right? Talking of which, Modi is not ‘Destiny’s Child’, he is just another man-sized Gujarati with the ability to turn into child’s play […]

The post Our Prime Minister Gets Strength Through Disruption And Controversies first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty On the one hand we have a politician on a ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ and, on the other, there’s the politician who divides along linguistic lines. And the manner in which this is being done couldn’t be more untimely. In the sense, why give Hindi a bad name by raising the highly contentious […]

The post Union Home Minister Amit Shah Should Not Push Hindi In His Own Policing Way first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Some of the headlines make it sound like there was a fair bidding between Maharashtra and Gujarat for the Foxconn-Vedanta semiconductor project and Gujarat won the project, as well as the fair-play trophy, fair and square! Far from the truth! The fact is, Maharashtra never stood a chance, not when Gujarat is […]

The post Gujarat Is A Favourite Of Centre When Mega Projects Are Involved first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Either the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) thinks Prime Minister Narendra Modi doesn’t read newspapers or there must be another reason why the BJP cannot keep its national spokesperson Shazia Ilmi in check. It rankles the VHP no end that an “import to the BJP” can be so bold as to find fault […]

The post The Curious Duel Between VHP And Shazia Ilmi On Remission To Killers first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ of the Congress was in the “land of Kamaraj” when Rahul Gandhi met two people, a teenage girl of about “12/14”, and a Catholic “father” of no mean controversies. If the girl’s curiosity was a welcome diversion for Rahul Gandhi, the Congress leader’s curiosity was fodder for the […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Has To Be Careful In Meeting Right People During Yatra first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty In the United States former presidents continue to be ‘President’ for the rest of their lives. And so, ‘President Trump’ gave an interview to NDTV and but for the fact that seven seas separated India from the United States, Trump wouldn’t have agreed to the interview for the simple reason that within […]

The post NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain Allowed Donald Trump To Play On His Own Terms first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Is INS Vikrant Indian made? Question modified: Is INS Vikrant made with Indian knowhow? Like the Chinese asking their government whether its aircraft carrier Liaoning, which traces its shipyard to Russia, made with Chinese knowhow? INS Vikrant does not carry a similar foreign baggage. But to say that it is made with […]

The post Our Indian Engineers And Public Sector Ship Builder Can Take Credit For INS Vikrant first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Bilkis Bano’s 11 rapists were given the benefit of remission, their horrible crimes set aside like so many cookies in the jar. Now, they are back to roaming the streets. And we also have a second case of remission, this one for an IAS officer who had once been detained under the […]

The post Modi Government Applying Rules For Bureaucracy To Suit Its Convenience first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Thiruvananthapuram Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor might run for Congress president. A final call is awaited. The last time the 70-year-old fought a non-parliamentary election, he aimed for the moon! But the moon was out of his orbit. This time, if he does contest, and he was still mulling the decision, he […]

The post The Congress Presidential Elections Process Has Been Turning Bizarre first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty “Towers of corruption demolished”, the shrill voice rising above the plumes of billowing dust. Somebody called it “spectacle demolition”, no less symbolic than the 1992 demolition of a 500-year-old mosque. The voice had its roots in Uttar Pradesh. The Supertech Twin Towers of corruption were brought down at the Supreme Court’s intervention. […]

The post Demolition Of Twin Towers In Noida Is A Height Of Corruption In New India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty   Monday, the eleven   persons   who gang-raped Bilkis Bano during the 2002 Gujarat communal riots walked free. The panel that let them off called it “remission”, which is different from “relapse”. And, with these ’11’, you never know when they’ll have a relapse. Anything is possible with a rapist on the loose. […]

The post Release Of The Eleven Imprisoned Rapists Of Bilkis Bano Is Atrocious first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty   Two headlines stood out. One in an Israeli newspaper, ‘No one will any longer dare offend Islam: The 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie’. And the other in a New York daily, ‘NJ man, Hadi Matar, with sympathies toward Iranian government ID’d as suspect in Salman Rushdie stabbing’. The second emphasized on […]

The post Stabbing Salman Rushdie In Open Stage By A Fanatic Gives Ominous Signal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Sushil Kutty   Droupadi Murmu has taken oath on July 25, the 15th President of India. Her salary: Rs 5 lakh per month, plus perks. But why talk of the President’s salary? That is because there’s a big gap between what Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s picks for high office earn and what the […]

The post India Has World’s Highest Number Of ‘Extremely Poor’ Denizens first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty   Men and women in black. The women outdoing the men in scaling police barricades. Especially Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The nationwide protests were against price rise; unemployment, and GST on “dahi and dhood” and other food items. Not surprisingly, the presser earlier in the morning made no mention of price rise, unemployment […]

The post Congress Is Under Seige By The Modi Government And It Will Continue first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty If a Karnataka lingayat seer is to be believed, Rahul Gandhi will be prime minister in 2024. With that taken for granted, the Congress can set its eye on winning the 2023 Karnataka assembly elections. The lingayat seer is invested in Rahul Gandhi. He also happens to be from the lingayat mutt […]

The post Just Okay By Lingayat Seer Is Not Helping Rahul Gandhi To Win Karnataka Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The prime-time anchor couldn’t hold back his happiness. He wanted to know from the anti-corruption crusader exactly where the “case” stood. The anti-corruption crusader was happy to oblige. Both had tried and found Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi guilty. The anchor spelled out the verdict and the anti-corruption crusader said there was […]

The post Hounding Out The Main Opposition Party By ED And Delhi Police Has Crossed All Limits first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Destitution, bankruptcy, mass famine! Some rightwing folks desperate to see the back of Joe Biden are predicting this for America. They do not like the President’s “dementia” and are not hailing Speaker Nancy Pelosi for taking on the People’s Republic of China in its own backyard. One of them has come up […]

The post Price Rise Of Essential Commodities Has Led The Poor Gasping In India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Actors Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan are getting “brutally trolled”, along with Laal Singh Chadda. On Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. And people are loving the word ‘brutally’. Especially sub-editors, and headliners. Aamir and Kareena can only “block” the trolls. But that is fraught with risk. The next thing will be the […]

The post Aamir Khan Is Being Haunted By Trolls For His Film ‘Lal Singh Chadda’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Forget about the 56” chest; forget about ‘vishwaguru’, answer just this one question: “What was the National Security Advisor of the Prime Minister of India doing at an inter-faith meet talking national security matters with a bunch of clerics, asking their permission to ban the radical Popular Front of India, if at […]

The post NSA Ajit Doval Meeting Sufi Clerics And Seeking Their Intervention, Is Ominous first appeared on IPA Newspack.