By Prabhat Patnaik All fascistic outfits have one common characteristic: they reject outright all evidence that goes against the narrative they spin; and the Hindutva elements in power in India are no exception. Their narrative presents India as the fastest growing economy in the world where the people never...
By Sushil Kutty How the Bharatiya Janata Party has transformed the upcoming assembly polls into Modi Vs. Congress by sidelining state-level leaders is the flavour of this election season running up to and right into general elections 2024. The fact of the matter is there’s no doubt that it...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: As the electioneering picks up heat, political parties are using abusing language against each other. The BJP calls Congress leaders Ravana, the Congress too pays in the same coin. The position is worst at local level. Meanwhile finding BJP propaganda somewhat weak RSS has...
By Rahil Nora Chopra After tensions between the Congress and Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party over seat-sharing for Madhya Pradesh, Congress has been looking for an option and exploring the possibilities for an alliance with the BSP in UP for the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha elections. According to sources, both...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, has announced the end of her nearly 10-year relationship with her partner, Andrea Giambruno, following explicit off-air remarks he made on a TV show. Giambruno, a TV host, faced controversy after his comments, including flirtatious remarks to a female colleague...
By Tirthankar Mitra Pablo Ruiz Picasso cannot be pinned down. Even as his 142nd birth anniversary passed by early this week, legions of his critics, detractors and of course his fans have been unable to categorise him. The reason is not difficult to see. There is so much of...
By Alexey Sakhnin Last week, the Financial Times quoted a “senior European Union official” calling the escalating war in the Middle East “a gift from heaven” for Vladimir Putin. He suggested that Western governments’ support for Israel is turning Global South countries into Moscow’s allies. As an unnamed Arab...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “All farm loans will be waived, as we have done in the past, immediately after the Congress returns to power,” promised CM Bhupesh Baghel in Chhattisgarh in a repeat of 2018 election promise. It was among the four key promises made by the Congress on...
By Arun Srivastava This is not the first time that the JD(S) has entered into an alliance with the BJP. In 2006, with the tacit blessing of the senior JD(S) leader, the former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, the JD(S) had brokered an alliance and his son HD...
By P. Sudhir The speech of the RSS chief at the annual Vijayadashami rally in Nagpur is supposed to contain the authoritative pronouncements of the Sangh. In the rally last Tuesday, Mohan Bhagwat’s speech continued with the theme of the last few Vijayadashami speeches, where the Sangh totally identified...
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...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A concerted attempt by the Congress in Kerala to drive a wedge between the CPI(M) and the Muslim community has come a cropper. The Congress saw a chance to weaken the Muslim community’s support to the CPI(M) in a statement purportedly made by former Prime...
By Anjan Roy India has been seeking to attract foreign investment, particularly in the manufacturing industries. As such, India is growing robustly and this in itself is attracting the attention of major multinational corporations. But then, the actions of the Chinese authorities could be a pusher of investments into...
By Ashis Biswas In Mizoram, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) faces its most difficult political battle in the coming Assembly elections because of its irrefutable failure to control the worst ethnic riots in neighbouring Manipur state. Its main political backers in the state, the Mizo National Front (MNF) will...
By Dr Arun Mitra As per the statement emanating from the Palestinian Health Ministry in its update on October 24 , the number of children killed in Gaza rose to more than 2360 out of 5791 total number killed due to Israel’s bombardment and dropping of 12000 tonnes of...
By Jouke Huijzer In October 2012, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to the European Union since it had “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.” A decade later, a new...
By Debabrata Biswas from Boston, USA After eighteen days of the surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, the return onslaught against Gaza strip continues. The Hamas attack resulted in the killing of 1400 Israelis and abducting of more than 200 others, leading the Israeli govt. to declare war on...
By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat does not enjoy the dubious reputation of speaking lies. But on Dussehra, in his annual sermon, when he tried to dig out the ghost of the “foreign powers” for putting the blame for the unabated six-month-long violence in Manipur, one could not...