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Highlights of India Today 27th February 2023 issue:- Pathaan comes as redemption not just for the actor himself but also for Bollywood and is a fitting retort to the hashtag boycott culture.

A FLEET FIT FOR THE MAHARAJA

A year since it bought the beleaguered state-owned carrier Air India, the salt to-software Tata Group has taken the first major step to script the airline’s revival.

5 mins

COPY, AND BE JAILED

Local news channels were still discussing the alleged police high-handedness in dealing with violence that had erupted during the student protests against recruitment scams and paper leaks in Uttarakhand when something else came along: an ordinance from Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami with extraordinarily stringent measures to curb cheating during exams.

2 mins

THE POLITICS OF THE BASTAR MURDERS

It’s not uncommon in India to see the run-up to an election being marred by violence. But Chhattisgarh, which goes to the polls at the end of the year, is recording a variation on the theme.

3 mins

MAHA FIGHT IN CONGRESS

For a party that was seen as lacking the spunk to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nana Patole's appointment as president of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) in February 2021 was expected to pump some belligerence into the Grand Old Party's rank and file in the western state.

3 mins

ADANI IN TRANSMISSION TANGLE

How one of India's mightiest industrialists has fallen in Mamata Banerjee's esteem!

4 mins

SANGMA VS SANGMA

MEGHALAYA POLLS

4 mins

THE BADSHAH IS BACK

Pathaan comes as redemption not just for the actor himself but also for Bollywood and is a fitting retort to the hashtag boycott culture

10+ mins

DOLES AND TOLLS

Elections can bring on peculiar behavioural modifications even in the most fiscally prudent politician. Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, ruled by bitterly opposed parties like the Congress and BJP, could be mirror images of each other in how its chief ministers have rolled out what could count as lavish gift vouchers.

10+ mins

THE LONG ROAD TO REDEMPTION

Nitish Kumar’s statewide Samadhan Yatra was a rehearsal for the 2024 general election campaign even as ambitious ally RJD and an aggressive BJP wait in the wings

7 mins

BEING THE CHANGE

A Yale graduate channels the power of youth to transform the lives of less privileged children and the needy via education and teaching them to pay it forward

3 mins

Drugs - The Menace Of Meow Meow

Gujarat is in the grip of a new drug threat. Not only is Mephedrone passing through the state, it is also being manufactured in its abandoned factories

8 mins

THE SPINNER OF YARNS

In his new novel Victory City, Salman Rushdie offers a crowd-pleasing variation on his greatest hits

4 mins

PARADISE LOST

Tsering Yangzom Lama's debut novel tells the story of Tibetans, whose nation survives in exile

2 mins

THE MONK AHEAD OF HIS TIMES

A new biography sheds light on Swami Vivekananda's life in India and the US, and the nonsectarian cosmopolitanism that made him an icon

2 mins

A NOVELIST OF IDEAS

Vineet Gill's book on Nirmal Verma focuses on the pioneering Hindi novelist's essays, travelogues and diaries

2 mins

Striking a Universal CHORD

AUTHOR-SINGER AMIT CHAUDHURI IS BACK WITH A NEW ALBUM AFTER 13 YEARS

3 mins

Let the Music Play

Upcoming music festivals across India

1 min

THE LOVE FACTORY

In a four-part docuseries on Netflix, Smriti Mundhra looks at the different avatars of romance in movies by Yash Chopra and his legendary studio

2 mins

Life At Sea

In a documentary that was lauded at Sundance, Sarvanik Kaur crafts a bleak portrait of a community whose traditional livlihood is in peril

2 mins

Q + A SAYING IT LIKE IT IS

Actor Saif Ali Khan who has never been shy of trying new things now lends his voice to a Marvel character in a new Audible podcast

1 min

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