IPA Special
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
