In this issue

How the Narendra Modi government is changing the bureaucracy.

Also read about the tussle for Tawang, why India need not panic about Covid wave in China, and about the Kochi Biennale.

These and much more in the latest issue now on stands.

Kathmandu's house of cards

Kathmandu is famous for its casinos. Biki-ni-killer Charles Sobhraj, recently freed from a Nepal prison and flown to Paris, used to pick up his cash-rich victims—both blondes and baccarat-playing billionaires—from there.

2 mins

WAY OF THE DRAGON

China’s latest provocation in the Arunachal frontier has serious implications

5 mins

Why China Is Looking East

China’s economic woes and security obligations in the east along with India’s resoluteness in the west could moderate intrusion attempts by China’s army

6 mins

MAKING MERIT COUNT

The Modi government's decision to implement the 360-degree performance appraisal has shaken up India's grand old bureaucracy. The remodelling of governance is forcing civil servants to figure out how to stay relevant in a world where technology is taking over jobs

10+ mins

We are moving towards citizen-centric governance

INTERVIEW Jitendra Singh, minister of state, prime minister’s office

3 mins

The challenges never end

I WAS BORN in a middle-class family of agriculturists in Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh. In our family, my father was the first to be formally educated. He became an advocate. I am the first to be in government service.

4 mins

Covid-19 In China - India Need Not Panic

While India need not panic about the Covid wave in China, it should up surveillance and genome sequencing

5 mins

Keep our anger aflame

At the end of February 2022, my best friend and I were comparing notes. Both of us had had a rocky start to the year. She was being stalked, harassed and criminally intimidated by an ex-boyfriend, and I had just undergone an awful reality check with a relationship coming to an abrupt, painful, bitter end.

3 mins

CHASING CHARLES

Two people from Hyderabad crossed paths with Charles Sobhraj. One loved him; the other got him arrested

3 mins

LAND-ING IN TROUBLE

Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Agriculture Minister Abdul Sattar face the heat for allegedly giving government land to private players

4 mins

The peace of the graveyard

I think the lowest point in the Gujarat campaign came when Union Home Minister Amit Shah proclaimed that “such a lesson was taught in 2002” that it has since led to “akhand shanti (eternal peace)” in Gujarat. Yes, the peace of the graveyard.

2 mins

An epic strategist

Celebrating the BJD’s silver jubilee, Naveen Patnaik recharges the party for elections 2024

4 mins

VANE GLORY

Meet India’s independent weathermen, whose precise and timely predictions are all the rage on social media

9 mins

THE WAY OF WATER

At the Kochi Biennale, artist Sahil Naik pays tribute to a submerged Goan village that resurfaces for a month every summer

3 mins

Swings and roundabouts

A gripping cricket fiction is a rarity, and how about some familiarity! In K.N. Raghavan’s Reverse Swing one cannot help but spot the uncanny similarities between the lead protagonist, Shankar—a cricketer from Kerala who finds himself caught in a match-fixing imbroglio—and a former Indian pace bowler from Kerala who had a mighty fall from grace after being accused in a match-fixing scandal in 2013.

1 min

Click and buy

Yahoo may have lost to Google in the war for the internet, but a term coined by it in 2005—social commerce—has become the buzzword. Social commerce is defined as the use of social media platforms to facilitate the buying and selling of products and services.

1 min

CRUSADERS FOR CHANGE

A new book shines light on the men and women who continue the legacy of the Mahatma

2 mins

My mother's saris

I don’t remember ever bemoaning the end of a year as I have 2022. I think it has been quite the annus horribilis. The Russia-Ukraine war has plunged the world into economic gloom, especially at a time when it was struggling to come out of a brutal pandemic.

2 mins

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