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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 […]

The post U.S. Curbs On High Tech Transfer To China May Boomerang On Pentagon Itself first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

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.

By Tirthankar Mitra Pakistan seems to be teetering on the edge of an abyss of crisis with none its political parties offering a policy prescription of course correction. Uncertainties abound even as industrial sector contraction is likely to rise, former prime minister Imran Khan despite being bogged down in a number of litigations not asking […]

The post National Elections In Pakistan In October This Year May Not Ensure Stability first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Bairan Biswas, the lone Congress legislator from Sagardighi, Murshidabad, defecting to Trinamool Congress does not send a signal of unity in the coming days. The defection comes just ahead of a crucial meeting of Opposition parties at Patna to set the stage for an anti-BJP front in 2024 Lok Sabha elections. It […]

The post Bengal Congress Making Too Much Noise Over Sole MLA’s Defection To Trinamool first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Self help is the best help. Irked by the West Bengal unit seeking its help on issues big and small, national BJP leaders have asked the state unit to follow this time tested adage, sources in state unit said. But the real reason of the state unit being asked to pull up […]

The post National BJP Leaders Ask Bengal Unit To Take Care Of Party Without Looking To Delhi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra It has been many summers since Mamata Banerjee floated Trinamool Congress in 1998, thus leaving the Congress a pale shadow of its former self in West Bengal, and no longer a political force to be reckoned with in the eastern state. However, post Congress’s decisive victory in Karnataka assembly elections, Chief Minister […]

The post Mamata’s Olive Branch To Congress Has Many Significant Dimensions first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Window dressing is going places. It has travelled from the confines of the books of accounts to the ranks of the saffron brigade in West Bengal which have been allegedly inflated to impress the BJP top brass, according to sources in state BJP. But the leaders to impress whom the number of […]

The post Central BJP Leaders Cast Doubt On Bengal Unit’s Organisational Clout first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Time was when hearts beat faster whenever Imran Khan charged in to bowl or looked the way the red ball moving at him as he raised his bat to send it to the ropes or outside the stadium. One does not recall too many occasions when the outstanding all rounder was stumped. […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Pep talk and tall talk are separated by a wide gulf. Unofficial number two in Trinamool Congress hierarchy Abhishek Banerjee’s recent claim of his party bagging 40 out of 42 seats from West Bengal in next year’s Lok Sabha elections will be taken as pep talk by many among his party faithful; […]

The post Abhishek Banerjee’s Claim On Trinamool Getting 40 Seats In Lok Sabha Is Not A Tall Talk first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra An open air gymnasium being set on fire at Churachandpur merely 60 kilometres away  from  Manipur capital, Imphal followed by chief  minister, N Biren Singh being advised not to come to the trouble spot are some of the ominous signs indicating that things  are not at all shipshape for the BJP  in […]

The post A Year Before Lok Sabha Polls, BJP Walking On Thin Ice In Manipur first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Trinamool Congress leaders were irate on hearing Union home minister Amit Shah’s call to his party activists to ensure victory from 35 constituencies in Lok Sabha elections next year and usher in a BJP government in 2025. But had these Trinamool leaders taken a little pause and watched Shah’s subsequent words, the […]

The post Amit Shah’s Claim Of 35 Lok Sabha Seats In Bengal In 2024 Poll, Is Meant To Soar Up Sagging Morale Of State BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge is walking a tightrope in trying to amicably resolve an intra-party feud between veteran Ashok Gehlot and young Turk Sachin Pilot in  Rajasthan. Working out a compromise formula by Kharge seems to be asking for the moon as both the feuding  leaders seem to possess a winner takes […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Any activist and leader of West Bengal unit of CPI(M) will face strong disciplinary action in the event of any understanding with BJP in the panchayat elections The riot act being read out at the recently concluded state committee meeting of the CPI(M) is a clear pointer to the growing murmurs in […]

The post CPI(M) Bengal Leadership Faces A Big Dilemma Over Strategy In Panchayat Poll first appeared on IPA Newspack.