Tirthankar Mitra

By Tirthankar Mitra At a time when Trinamool Congress supremo, Mamata Banerjee is announcing her intent of going alone in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, she seems to have overlooked that the company of Congress can help her regain some constituencies in north Bengal. The outfit she founded after breaking away from Congress way back […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Democratic governance, backed by popular mandate is the sole path towards political stability, rule of law and much needed reforms. It is a contention none has any quarrel with. Imran Khan, who led Pakistan to a victory in World Cup cricket final in 1992, founded a new party in Pakistan and became […]

The post Imran Khan Is At War With Pakistan Election Commission, Army, US Agency first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra The legendary Kolkata based music maestro Ustad Rashid Khan’s untimely departure to the way of all flesh is not only an occasion for mourning for all those who love music and life. It cuts a link between the traditional and modern space; style was the man who had also brushed the gaps […]

The post Maestro Ustad Rashid Khan Was A Phenomenon In Indian Classical Music first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Famous as the first ‘Showman’ of Indian cinema, had Raj Kapoor been alive today, he would have celebrated in grand style his turning 100 this month. Facing the movie cameras after putting on the grease-paint and an attire which was a take on that of the inimitable Charlie Chaplin, he essayed the […]

The post Raj Who Played ‘Raju’ Would Have Been ‘100’ This Month first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra There are not too many leaders who are looked upto by his/her followers and political opponents even when they are no more. Late prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee belongs to this distinguished group. A great consensus builder whose 99th birth anniversary is being observed today, December 23,  he cobbled together a coalition […]

The post Atal Bihari Vajpayee – Shining Star Of Building Consensus first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Come winter, a season of mellow fruitfulness, Kolkata springs up pleasant surprises. A three day festival on Sahir Ludhianvi, whose lines of love and protest are still hummed began on December 15 at Dhana Dhanyo stadium. Tributes are paid to an individual’s memory usually on his/her birth anniversary or the day he […]

The post Kolkata Remembers The Legendary Lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi Through Three Day Festival first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Trinamool Congress has found itself in a political whirlpool ever since the cash for teaching jobs case unfolded in West Bengal leading to several senior Trinamool Congress ministers and leaders marking time behind the bars and CBI and ED grilling some others. As the cup of woes of the ruling dispensation of […]

The post Old Versus Young Debate In Bengal Trinamool Congress On Lok Sabha Polls Eve first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Making no secret of any love being lost for each other, Trinamool Congress seeks to upstage BJP on what the saffron camp considers to be its sole preserve – religion. An outfit stated to be close to the ruling dispensation of West Bengal has planned to organise a Chandi Path programme days […]

The post BJP And TMC Competing In Bengal Over Gita Path And Chandi Path Before Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra The Bengal unit of BJP is in dire straits now as the leadership has no face to face its supporters after the big flop of the party rally addressed by the Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday afternoon. All the earlier big hype made by the big guns of the party came […]

The post Bengal BJP’s Morale Is Further Down After Amit Shah’s Flop Rally first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra It is a morning knock but is no less sinister than a midnight one as Dublin microbiologist Eilish Stack comes face to face with state’s totalitarianism as powers that seek to interrogate her trade unionist husband Larry. It is in this way Paul Lynch, an Irish author begins the book ’Prophet Song’ […]

The post Booker Prize Winning Book ‘Prophet Song’ Is A Reflection Of Current Era Of Violence first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra A fish curry is a meal while macherjhol is a emotion that will find widespread support in West Bengal. Its residents who swear by the taste of hilsa would in all likelihood be foxed by Gujarat’s choice of Ghol as the state fish. Black spotted croaker or ghol is considered to be […]

The post Gujarat Govt’s Choice Of Ghol As A The State Fish Leads To Murmurs In Bengal first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra The veteran Hollywood film director Martin Scorsese’s life is apparently somewhat reminiscent of the great American dream of a new kid on the block overcoming odds and gaining material success, a humble background notwithstanding. But as one looks at the vast body of his works in celluloid one is left in no […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Politics makes strange bed fellows. But eyebrows were certainly raised when Subhendu Adhikari, a state leader of BJP which makes no secret of his outfit’s affinity for Hindutva recently spoke of supporting a representative from another political outfit at Lok Sabha constituency of Diamond Harbour to defeat Trinamool Congress’s Abhishek Banerjee. Peopled […]

The post Bengal BJP Not Averse To Supporting Naushad Siddiqui Against Abhishek first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Her acting is a combination of vivacity which gels completely with her natural acting style. This has earned Aparna Sen a place of honour among the greats of Bengali cinema. Here is a heroine turned director whose co-actors have ranged from Uttam Kumar, Soumitra Chattopadhyay to Shatrughan Sinha and Amitabh Bachchan (during […]

The post Aparna Sen Is Still Enthralling Bengali Viewers With Issue-Based Cinema first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Time was when Calcutta as it was known then glorified itself in the title of ,”City of Palaces” owing to majestic buildings be it offices or grandees’ mansions dotting it. Lamenting those glorious gone by days when merchant princes from the city ran the economy of the country and beyond stop during […]

The post Bengali Youth’s Innovative Skills Come Out In Its Best During Durga Puja Festival first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Come late September and October, kash flowers are in bloom in parts of Maidan in Kolkata together with a few more spots in the city yet to be invaded by concrete jungle heralding the arrival of the biggest festival of West Bengal – Durga Puja. Yet the fact remains preparations for the […]

The post Trinamool Congress Is Getting Maximum Political Mileage From Puja Festival In Bengal first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is on a mission to rebrand the Conservative Party. Time is running out for him in his bid to reach this goal as the elections are due in January 2025 in Great Britain. But there are shadows of doubt over the Tories electoral prospects. The Conservative Party […]

The post Conservatives At Crossroads Before 2025 Election first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Size matters, so do strength. But it was something more than these physical attributes which helped Soumendu Roy, the most appreciated film cameraman after Subrata Mitra, having carried a heavy Mitchell camera on his shoulders and run in the sets of Pather Panchali cameraman of Bengali films as a cinematographer in twenty […]

The post Soumendu Roy Was A Master Cinematographer Collaborating With Satyajit Ray first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra A self effacing man with a deep commitment to egalitarianism who worked as a welding apprentice in Indian Railways, Shailendra would have been just another man in a crowd whose birth and passing do not deserve a mention had he not given vent to his penchant for poetry which Hindi screen legends […]

The post Decoding The Work Of The Great Film Lyricist Shailendra Who Mesmerised Common Viewers first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Time was when Cuttack was a city in Odisha whose resident’s footprints in the Indian literary scene were nothing home to write about. One of its residents, Jayanta Mahapatra, an Indian poet writing in English changed the notion and more. To say that Mahapatra’s passing at the age of 95 in Cuttack […]

The post Jayanta Mahapatra Has Left A Lasting Legacy Of His Poems On Pain And Longing first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Much water has flown down Hwang Ho river since the July day of 1971 when US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited China and met People’s Republic of China’s first Premier Zhou Enlai to broker an understanding between two ideologically incompatible nations which would irrevocably change the economy behind the Bamboo Curtain […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Manipur is passing through the worst of times. The border state in one of the hinges of India’s North East needs special treatment from the centre. Bordering Myanmar, after having witnessed one of the bloodiest battles of freedom struggle where Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose led Indian National Army fought with British forces, […]

The post Suffering People Of Manipur Need Concrete Action On Ground, Not Lipservices first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra   In the aftermath of Wagner rebellion Sino-Russian relations is not what it used to be earlier.. It was a “bromance” between two most powerful authoritarians, President Xi Jingping of China and President Vladimir Putin of Russia and the uprising was the most significant to the latter’s authority in the past two […]

The post India And China Can Start The Process Of Active Engagement In Geopolitics first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra   KOLKATA: Having flexed all its organisational muscles in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP secured 18 MPs from West Bengal; with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister, Amit Shah making almost daily trips to the state before 2021 Assembly elections, the saffron camp had 77 victorious legislators. Falling far short […]

The post BJP Bid To Organise More Durga Pujas In Bengal This Year May Lead To Tensions first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By Tirthankar Mitra   KOLKATA: Congress national leadership has a tough task ahead of it to make some of its West Bengal unit leaders cooperate with Trinamool Congress in 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Given earlier intra-party differences coupled with panchayat election clashes, the bonhomie between Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee and former Congress chiefs […]

The post Bengal Congress In Utter Confusion Over Mamata’s Olive Branch To The Party first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra   Be it Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha elections, political parties participate in them to add to their number and traction within the two Houses and beyond it. The choices of nominees of BJP and Trinamool Congress in the recent Rajya Sabha elections indicate that both the outfits of divergent ideologies have […]

The post Trinamool Congress’s New Rajya Sabha Nominees Are Useful For 2024 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra A redoubtable politician, a no-nonsense administrator, a poet whose works often finds place in bestsellers list (a fact which her detractors take with a pinch of salt), West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee wears many hats. But though she has never staked a claim for managerial skills, her campaign technique in the […]

The post Mamata Banerjee Aims Her Charm Offensive At Rural BJP Supporters first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra A crisis brings oddballs together. Having nothing in common, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) joined forces closed ranks against Imran Khan- led PTI government. The government led by the former cricketer ace was removed and as the coalition partners awaited PTI’s dissolution, cracks in the uneasy alliance came […]

The post Cracks In Pakistan’s Ruling Coalition As PML-N And PPP Fight Openly first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Fissures have appeared in Congress-Left Front alliance less than a month before panchayat elections are scheduled in West Bengal. CPI(M) has unilaterally declared candidates in Murshidabad, of all places, an area known to be the stronghold of state Congress chief, Adhir Ranjan Choudhury. As of now, out of 78 Zilla Parishad (ZP) […]

The post Rift In Congress-Left Alliance Before Rural Polls In West Bengal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Declaration of the schedule of 2023 panchayat election has come during the Jan Jowar Yatra of Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee which apparently gives TMC a leg up in West Bengal rural polls scheduled to be held on 8 July. The polling date can be rescheduled to July 14 if Calcutta High […]

The post Trinamool Congress Is Advantageously Placed To Face Rural Polls This Month first appeared on IPA Newspack.