IPA Special
A New International Forum Of Radical Artists Has Been Formed In Britain
By Ben Lunn Almost since the day the fight for socialism became organised, artists in Britain have looked for ways to use their talents in the aid of this great vision. In the 1930s Alan Bush founded the William Morris Music Society as an organisation for artists to discuss...
Parliament’s Winter Session Is Having The Same Fate As Last Two Years
By Kalyani Shankar Former President Pranab Mukherjee, as leader of the House, vexed with the unruly behaviour of the Opposition (then it was BJP), observed that only three ‘Ds’– Discussion, Debate and Dissent – have a place in Parliament and not the ‘fourth ‘D’ -Disruptions. Unfortunately, both the houses...
Both China And U.S. Are Fighting In Bangladesh For Political Loyalties
By Ashis Biswas It’s official. In Bangladesh, China backs the ruling Awami League (AL) firmly Western countries, led by the US and the EU, are becoming increasingly more supportive of the main opposition outfit, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Ironically, it was during the BNP’s tenure in 1991 followed...
Anatomy Of The Governor-Government Standoff In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The standoff between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government headed by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan over ‘political cronyism’ in university appointments is most unfortunate. What is causing grave concern is the fact that the government-Governor spat is occurring with...
Lockdowns In 2020 Could Not Contain Crimes In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Lockdowns and containment measures imposed in 2020 to contain COVID-19 had greatly impacted all sectors of the country except crime which registered and increase. Crime like theft accounted for 76.6 percent of all offences against property, perhaps driven by a pressing need to fill the...
Our Prime Minister Is Forgetting Some Omicron Is On Prey In Varanasi Also
By Sushil Kutty The friendly neighbourhood coronavirus ‘Omicron’ has claimed its first kill in the developed West—an unfortunate person in the United Kingdom, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced this in London when in India Prime Minister Narendra Modi was setting an example by going mask-less in the company...
Narendra Modi Government Caught In A Dilemma Over Crypto Bill
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The Narendra Modi government seems to be caught in a dilemma over the crypto bill that is scheduled to be introduced during the ongoing winter session of parliament. It has maintained a rigid posture throughout the current year by letting out that a ban on...
Gauhati High Court Setting Aside Many Decisions Of Foreigners Tribunals
By Gauri Anand The Gauhati High Court has set aside multiple orders of Foreigners’ Tribunals in the span of one month. The tribunals had declared individuals to be foreigners in all of these cases in an erratic manner, with little substantiation of its process, indicating the need for a...
U.S. And NATO Play With Fire In Their Latest Anti-Russia Campaign
By John Wojcik Major media, led by the New York Times and MSNBC, are stepping up a campaign that could result in military action by NATO and the U.S. against Russia. They apparently want to add an anti-Russia campaign to their ongoing attacks on China. If these corporate press...
India Needs Strong Military-Industrial Manufacturing Base
By Nantoo Banerjee Russia’s continuing support to help India build modern military ware, from guns to fighter jets, missiles and submarines, despite its growing critical defence supplies and technology tie-ups with China, is a clear example of the fact that the Indo-Russian relationship is unshakable by changing global power...
Rahul Gandhi’s Positioning As Hindu As Against Hindutva Has Been Timed
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is not afraid—the ‘Hindu’ in him has taken over, and he is not scared of ‘Hindutva’. Gandhi travelled to Jaipur to clarify this division. Some would call it a “division of Hindu votes”, but Rahul Gandhi was on a larger point—the Gandhi...
Poor Can Hope For A Piece Of Bread, And The Rich Crores
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The two pieces of news – first, Modi government made provisions for merely five kilogram cereals for 800 million individuals per month who were not able to even get food on their own during the pandemic, and second, they written off over 2.03 lakh crore...
All Senior BJP Ministers Given Charge Of Regions Before Polls In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor Finding tough challenge from main rival Samajwadi Party in the coming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior BJP leaders have sharpened attack against former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his party. The massive crowd at the public meetings of Akhilesh...
Trinamool Congress Opting For Fair Elections In Kolkata Civic Polls
By Ashis Biswas With the Kolkata city civic elections scheduled on next Sunday, citizens’ opinions remain divided over the possibility of reasonably free and fair polling on December 19. Trinamool Congress (TMC) General Secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee has set conversational mills rolling with a public appeal to party...
Chile Set For Its Most Divisive Presidential Poll Run-Off On December 19
By Satyaki Chakraborty Chilean voters are witnessing the most intensive campaigning by both the Far Right Jose Antonio Kast and the Leftist Gabriel Boric in the run off to the Presidential elections scheduled on December 19. In the first round on November 21, Kast got 28 per cent votes...
When Karl Marx Was Interested In ‘Nothingness’ Of Buddha
By Sankar Ray Lay readers in the SAARC region may be pleasantly surprised to learn that Karl Marx read and commented on the ‘concept of nothingness (Sanskrit: Śūnyatā; Pali: Suññatā; Vietnamese: Không)’ of Gautama Buddha in two letters, written on 18 and 20 March 1866. While staying as a...
For The Opposition Parties, The Problem Is Not Congress, But Rahul Gandhi
By Harihar Swarup “There is no UPA now”. With these words, Mamata Banerjee seems to have set an interesting cat among pigeons. She made the statement standing besides Sharad Pawar after a high profile meeting with the opposition’s most experienced stalwarts. Pawar did not refute Mamata’s statement. He had...
Decoding The Historic Victory Of The Farmers Against Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty “Farming is a profession of hope,” said someone and passed on, never to take up ‘hope’, and because of that he lived a long life and didn’t have to escape debt by hanging himself from the tree next to the tube-well. The farmers are leaving Delhi’s...
