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Om Puri – The Actors Actor Made Indian Cinema Poorer By His Early Death

By Tirthankar Mitra A newcomer with a handsome face needs no recommendation for entry into filmdom. Feted by Hollywood and nearer home at Bollywood to be one of the finest actors to perform before the camera, Om Puri who stood out in a crowd with a pockmarked face was...

Oct 20 · >

Bolivian Government Facing Crisis Due To Infighting In Ruling MAS

By Olivia Arigho-Stiles Bolivia’s governing party and a shining light of the Latin American left, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), is mired in a deep internal crisis. Recently, during the MAS congress in the coca-growing town of Lauca Ñ, President Luis Arce and his vice president, David Choquehuanca, were...

Oct 20 · >

United States Is In Full Complicity With Israel In Its War Crimes Against Palestinians

By P Sudhir If President Biden’s visit to Tel Aviv for a day demonstrated anything, it is the unremitting and blind support for the Israeli settler-colonial State.  The visit underlined what has been the unchanging reality since 1948 – the United States has nurtured and cultivated Israel as its...

Oct 19 · >

For His Electoral Gains, Biden Is Pushing US Towards A Global War

By Arun Srivastava Rightist forces do not empathise with the human and humanity. Humanitarian emotions and sensibilities have been unknown commodities for them. Hitler crushed the humanity and the worst victims of his tyrannies were the Jew. It is ironical that now the same Jews are perpetrating the worst...

Oct 19 · >

Sending Raghubar Das Out Of Jharkhand As Governor May Not Help

By Dr. Gyan Pathak One of the biggest challenges for PM Narendra Modi and the BJP in their way to returning to power after the Lok Sabha election 2024 is infighting in the state BJP units, a fact that is well known by now. No wonder former Chief Minister...

Oct 19 · >

USA And The Other Western Nations Are Not Bothered About Cessation Of War

By Sushil Kutty The Israel-Hamas war is nearly two weeks old. The highlight was a rocket striking a hospital parking lot which killed 500. The tally was later corrected to 471. US President Joe Biden said he was happy that the “other team” was to blame and not Israel...

Oct 19 · >

Modi Government Is Mum On Allegations Against Adani Group On High Price Of Coal Imports

By Krishna Jha ‘…In a more or less developed form, fascist tendencies and the germs of a fascist movement are to be found almost everywhere,’  said  Georgi Dimitrov, while presenting his report in the annual conference of Communist International (Comintern) in 1936, and then, cautioned, “With the development of...

Oct 19 · >

Extent Of Horror And Killings In Hamas-Israel War Stuns Global Celebrities

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav As Israel’s offensive continues against Hamas and Palestine, people who loved peace and relished good times are shocked. With thousands killed and cities flattened, the anger is only growing, promising more of it in the following days. Socialite Jemima Goldsmith, a UK-based Jew from a...

Oct 19 · >

Amal Chakraborti’s Passing Away Is A Big Loss To The Political Journalism Of Bengal

By Tirthankar Mitra 90 years is ripe old age. But when renowned cartoonist nonagenarian Amal Chakraborti passed away on October 18 in the midst of puja festivities in Kolkata , legions of his admirers felt that his exit from the mortals’ company was untimely. Chakraborti’s fans included readers of...

Oct 19 · >

Thousands Of Hollywood Actors Are Still On Strike After Four Months

By Alex N. Press When the entertainment industry’s actors and writers last struck at the same time in 1980, the actors stayed out for ninety-five days. This year’s strike by members of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) looks like it...

Oct 19 · >

Grenada Marks 40 Years Since The Assassination Of Maurice Bishop

By Dennis Laumann The nation of Grenada will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the tragic assassination of its revolutionary hero, Maurice Bishop, on October 19. The government has declared the date a public holiday now known as National Heroes Day. On that day in 1983, Bishop and seven others...

Oct 19 · >

Next Forty Eight Hours Are Crucial For Hamas-Israeli War

By Nitya Chakraborty The Hamas-Israeli war entered its 12th day on Wednesday with the clashes between two sides intensifying leading to all the possibility of being turned into a dreadful regional war. So far more than three thousand Palestinians have been killed, including about five hundred who were killed...

Oct 18 · >

Predictability About Judgments Does No Good To Credibility Of Judiciary

By K Raveendran Four judgments from a five-member bench: that’s enough to indicate the complexities and confusion about the Supreme Court’s decision on the keenly-awaited same sex marriage issue. Overflowing with ‘agreements and disagreements’, the diverse verdicts, however, betray a certain degree of predictability. As Chief Justice D Y...

Oct 18 · >

Emotions Fuel Gaza War, Burying All Hopes Of Resolving Israeli-Palestine Conflict

By James M Dorsey Human beings’ most destructive instincts – survival, anger, fear, despair, and vengeance – dictate Israeli and Palestinian war strategy and policy in the wake of Hamas’ October 7 brutal attack on Israel. The dominance of emotions produces an environment in which one atrocity justifies another...

Oct 18 · >

Hamas’s ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ Brings Israel’s Security System Under Question

By Girish Linganna One of the saddest days in contemporary Israeli history happened during the Simchat Torah festival on October 7, 2023. Hamas militants launched an air, land and sea attack on the territory of the Jewish state exactly 50 years to the day after the Yom Kippur War,...

Oct 18 · >

Lying And Dividing People In Sharp Focus In Rajasthan Election

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The issue of lying and dividing people is in sharp focus in the Rajasthan election campaign. The Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge has accused the BJP and PM Narendra Modi of lying and dividing people. PM Modi, in all-out attack, said that Congress government under CM...

Oct 18 · >

Barking Dogs In Mahua Moitra’s Life, Only One Of Them A True Friend

By Sushil Kutty All those who watch Sansad TV know Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra. Even Rajya Sabha Members of Parliament. But Lok Sabha MPs get to see her in action first-hand, which is like watching the Gaza Strip skyline at night. Sparks fly every other minute and then the...

Oct 18 · >

American Law Makers Losing Their Standing As House Disfunctioning Continues

By Tirthankar Mitra Without going into the veracity of the statement that whether America sneezes, the world catches cold holds good now, the existing affairs indicate that all is not well in the US Senate. It finds itself immobilised in an internal dissension. The resulting dysfunction could not have...

Oct 18 · >
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