In this issue

Once a sprawling conglomerate of about a hundred companies, Tata Group is in the middle of a consolidation drive to become a future-ready, tech-savvy business group

ALSO READ: The spectacular rise of bridge brands and homegrown luxury labels

Defection and disaffection

Power tussles and the absence of a decisive leadership plague the BJP in West Bengal

5 mins

CORONATION PARTY

Xi Jinping’s ideology has emerged as the priority solution to China’s economic and security concerns. Foreign policy and military superiority, however, will remain major challenges for him

5 mins

Meeting Xi’s father

Xi Jinping is unlike any other princeling I knew in China. He was born in Beijing but he grew up in the countryside where he got brainwashed by Mao Zedong’s ideology. Today, he is the only second-generation princeling who can be called a modern-day Red Guard. It is the biggest qualification that sets him apart and could help him get a third term, if not life term, as president.

2 mins

SHOW OF HANDS

After a hotly contested election with a predictable outcome, Mallikarjun Kharge faces the difficult task of engineering a Congress resurgence

5 mins

Forward march

The remarkable success of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in poll-bound Karnataka has unnerved the BJP and re-energised the Congress

4 mins

The New Tata

Once a sprawling conglomerate of about a hundred companies, Tata Group is in the middle of a consolidation drive to become a future-ready, tech-savvy business group

10+ mins

LUXE REDUX

2022 has been a phenomenal year for India’s luxury industry, thanks to the wealthy that went on a spending spree. The real story, however, is the spectacular rise of bridge brands and homegrown luxury labels

9 mins

NEW HOME RULES

The surge in demand for luxury homes was shaped by the pandemic

2 mins

A MATTER OF TIME

Limited-to-India watches—one telling indication of how luxury watchmakers are viewing India

2 mins

BAT, BALL AND BELIEF

Hardik Pandya has become the all-rounder India has always wanted him to be, in time for the T20 World Cup, and for other challenges ahead

5 mins

My top teams are India, Pakistan and Australia

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Brett Lee former Australian pacer

2 mins

Govinda is an OG

In keeping with his reputation of coming late to sets, Bollywood star Govinda made it to his seat across the aisle from me on a flight to Jaipur in the nick of time. We were meeting after decades, and it took me a while to recognise him minus his peach lip colour and brown eyeliner. His hair was sparser and he was several kilos lighter. But once he broke into a smile, every passenger on the packed flight knew who he was.

2 mins

Reimagining romance

How a theatre adaptation of Mughal-e-Azam recreates the magic of the classic film

4 mins

COURAGE ON TAPE

Through her award-winning documentary, Kavitha Lankesh wants  her sister Gauri’s voice to live on

2 mins

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