In this issue

Women's Day Special: The New Woman is bold, outspoken and knows what she wants. But she is paying a price for it.

Also read, an interview with Wuhan lab leak theorist Yuri Deigin, and how a woman is fighting for the release of her Pakistani husband from jail.

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

The Khadi Movement...

Homegrown, sustainable and cultural - a yarn that weaves them all together

9 mins

LOVE SANS FRONTIERS

An Andhra woman is fighting for the release of her Pakistani husband from jail.Supporting her are relatives and friends on both sides of the border

7 mins

LIKE A FLAMING TORCH

Uddhav Thackeray and the Shiv Sena UBT) are preparing for a do-or-die battle

7 mins

Final pitch for power

Siddaramaiah, in his last electoral outing, is going all out to ensure he gets the top seat a second time

6 mins

NEW HEAD, OLD HAND

The expectation in the Congress was that the Raipur session would provide a new deal that would inspire party workers. But by the end of the three-day exercise, it was felt that the party under Kharge had chosen to stick to the old way of doing things

9 mins

Wuhan Created A More Dangerous Virus Than The Covid-19 One

Late last month, US Senator Rand Paul asked the Joe Biden administration to declassify documents that reportedly show that the US department of energy had, with “low confidence”, informed the White House and key members of the Congress that the Covid-19 virus probably originated in a Wuhan research lab in China.

4 mins

Dangerous liaisons

Intelligence agencies blame the rise of Amritpal Singh Sandhu on the vacuum created by warring political parties in Punjab; they are worried about the organised forces behind him

6 mins

A DOGGED DESIRE

Mudhol hounds find new friends

3 mins

Making freebie promises is an insult to voters

FEROZE VARUN GANDHI'S first book, A Rural Manifesto: Realizing India's Future Through Her Villages came out in 2018 when farmers were protesting the agrarian crisis.

6 mins

Women's Day Special - The Brave New Woman

Young women are more liberated than ever, but they are paying a price for it

10+ mins

A WORKFORCE TO RECKON WITH

Tamil Nadu accounts for 43 per cent of women factory workers in India. The state's socio-economic status and high education levels have contributed to this, but much remains to be done

6 mins

FAIR SHARE

More women are entering the workforce, and they have started taking control of their finances

2 mins

BRAIN GAIN

The urban-rural divide in women's education is fast disappearing

2 mins

MS MARVEL

The way cinema treats womenreal and reel-is changing, and that change is largely driven by women in all roles

2 mins

THE MARK OF SUCCESS

IT WAS WHILE filming Cuttputlli (2022), a big-budged Bollywood film starring Akshay Kumar, that Sargun Mehta, 34, first “grasped” the magnanimity of a Hindi film set.

2 mins

CLAIMING RESPECT

Shweta Tripathi Sharma, Hindi cinema

2 mins

LEADING THE NARRATIVE

Mukta Barve, Marathi cinema

2 mins

EXACTING CHANGE

Subhashree Ganguly, Bengali cinema

2 mins

THE SASS MACHINE

Booker-prize winner Marlon James on the long-winded path to writing the 'African Game of Thrones'

4 mins

A life on edge

Pakistani actor Adnan Siddiqui on faith, films, family and more

5 mins

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