In this issue

Highlights of India Today –23rd August 2021 issue: The cover story this week brings out Mood of the Nation based on a survey by India Today highlighting concerns such as inflation, unemployment, rising fuel prices and a dipping economy amidst Covid slowdown.

Is A Third Wave Coming?

Covid-19

6 mins

NITISH: AN ALLY AND A REBEL

BIHAR

5 mins

BITING THE BULLET

RETROSPECTIVE TAXATION

5 mins

Economy The Big Worry

Lack of jobs and price rise emerge as major concerns, but people still bank on modi to steer the nation out of the economic crisis

8 mins

DISTRESS SIGNALS

THE PANDEMIC RESULTED IN DEPLETED SAVINGS, SLASHED INCOMES AND JOB LOSSES LEADING TO ECONOMIC DISTRESS AND WIDESPREAD DISAPPOINTMENT WITH THE CENTRE’S MANAGEMENT OF THE ECONOMY

5 mins

UNABLE TO MAKE A DENT

DESPITE THE COVID WOES THAT BEFELL THE COUNTRY, THE MOTN DEEMS THE OPPOSITION’S PERFORMANCE AVERAGE AND SEES MERIT IN THEM UNITING TO TAKE ON MODI

3 mins

ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE

YOGI ADITYANATH RETAINS HIS POSITION AS INDIA’S NO. 1 CHIEF MINISTER; KEJRIWAL AND MAMATA FOLLOW

2 mins

STRICKEN REPUTATION

THE DEVASTATING SECOND WAVE OF THE PANDEMIC SEVERELY UNDERMINED PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE CENTRAL AS WELL AS STATE GOVERNMENTS

4 mins

CONSENT AND DISSENT

A MAJORITY ARE IN FAVOUR OF A UNIFORM CIVIL CODE, A TWO-CHILD POLICY, AMENDING FARM LAWS AND REGULATING SOCIAL MEDIA, BUT THERE ARE MANY WHO ARE SCARED TO PROTEST AND OPINION OVER WHETHER DEMOCRACY IS IN DANGER OR NOT REMAINS DIVIDED

1 min

ON A GOOD WICKET

THE GROWING COLLUSION BETWEEN CHINA AND PAKISTAN POSES THE BIGGEST FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGE FOR INDIA. MOTN RESPONDENTS BACK THE GOVERNMENT’S FIRM HAND ON CHINAPAKISTAN ISSUES

3 mins

Neeraj Chopra - The Making Of A Champion

The inspiring story of how Neeraj Chopra battled injury and other odds to give india its first athletics gold in over a century of participation at the olympic games

7 mins

NEVER OUT OF PLACE

AMARTYA SEN’S ACCOUNT OF HIS FIRST 35 YEARS IS BOTH ILLUMINATING AND CHARMING

3 mins

KEEPING IT ALL ON RECORD

The economist Kaushik Basu brings to his memoir the same love for detail that defines his scholarship

2 mins

STILL IN SCORING POSITION

A.R. Rahman looks back at his journey, from Rangeela to Mimi

4 mins

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