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Highlights of India Today –14th June 2021 issue:

The cover story this week is an exclusive interview with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the unenviable task of reviving the economy post Covid.

The issue also features top economists weighing in on what it will take to get the things back on track.

Mamata Vs Modi, Part 2

It has been a stormy first month in office for Mamata Banerjee in her third term as West Bengal chief minister. The BJP top leadership seems to have taken the election defeat to heart and has kept up the pressure on her government. Multiple central teams have descended on the state to “review the law and order situation” and investigating agencies seem to have suddenly woken up to scams that have dragged on for years.

5 mins

Covid-hit Villages Are Poll Battleground

On May 22, for the first time ever a chief minis­ter who was not from the Samajwadi Party (SP) vis­ited Saifai, the native vill­age of party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. Yogi Adityanath, the chief min­ister of the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, is the chancellor of the Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences in Saifai in Etawah district.

7 mins

Can Amarinder ride out the storm?

PUNJAB CONGRESS

5 mins

“The Economy Is A Big Challenge But We Are Up To It”

The Indian economy could again be in the ICU after the second wave of Covid, but Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman sounds confident that the government has it under control. In an exclusive interview to Group Editorial Director Raj Chengappa and Business Today Editor RAJEEV DUBEY, she outlines the revival plan.

10+ mins

HOW TO KICKSTART THE ECONOMY

THE DEADLY SECOND WAVE OF COVID BATTERED AN ALREADY BRUISED ECONOMY. INDIA NOW NEEDS POLICY VISION OUT OF THE ORDINARY TO RESTORE CONSUMER CONFIDENCE, BUSINESSES AND LIVELIHOODS

10+ mins

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

Rural India’s desperately inadequate health infrastructure is common knowledge. But official estimates understate the crisis, which makes the battle against the pandemic even harder

9 mins

THE TRIAL ISN'T OVER

The Goa government challenges the acquittal of journalist-author Tarun Tejpal in the sensational case of an alleged sexual assault. Why the landmark case is going into a fresh loop

7 mins

THE DANGAL JUNGLE

The fall of an icon exposes the seedy underbelly of Indian wrestling

6 mins

TRUTH AND DARE

Salman Rushdie’s latest volume of non-fiction bristles with candour and courage

4 mins

Salman Rushdie - LANGUAGES OF TRUTH

LANGUAGES OF TRUTH Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie HAMISH HAMILTON

4 mins

Call Her By Her Name

The gospels often relegate women to the periphery. Jeet Thayil’s new novel brings them to the centre

2 mins

LONG LIVES THE QUEEN

These reminiscences of Begum Akhtar show that her personality sparkled as much as her voice

2 mins

WRITING IN PAST CONTINUOUS

By his own admission, British writer Sunjeev Sahota’s novels “tend to come down to a few brown people living in north England or India”. But within this framework, Sahota wove richly detailed lives and unique voices in his first two novels: Ours are the Streets (2011) and The Year of the Runaways (2015), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

2 mins

There Is No Offline

Patricia Lockwood’s delightful and disconcerting novel gives the web a whole new spin

2 mins

AT THE PRINTER'S

Novels to hold your breath for

1 min

CONAN DOYLE DOES A SHERLOCK

Shrabani Basu’s book tells the story of how Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective knowhow once came to the rescue of a beleaguered Parsi lawyer

2 mins

THE WORLD WITHIN THE WORD

WITH A NEW BOOK, PEGGY MOHAN HAS HELPED CREATE A BRIDGE BETWEEN HOW WE SPEAK AND WHO WE ARE

2 mins

AT THE CRITICAL POINT

T.M. Krishna’s prose is often as piercing as his music. With a new collection of his writings releasing this week, the vocalist says that, for him, nothing, not even his own work, is set in stone

1 min

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