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BITING THE TAX BULLET
India moved closer to its ambition of One India, One Tax, even if it has far to go in making it truly good and simple
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January 12, 2026
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THE WELFARE BUFFET
From gas connections to piped water, Jan Dhan to health insurance, there seemed to be a scheme for every aspect of citizens' lives
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January 12, 2026
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THE AATMA NIRBHAR MANTRA
Empowering individuals and enterprises, unleashing the animal spirits of the economy and cleaning up the business environment...these were the targets for the decade, some met, others still work in progress
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January 12, 2026
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WORLD CHAMPS
Indian sport moved faster, reached higher and grew stronger-breaking free of cricket's shadow and carrying its momentum toward bigger arenas
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January 12, 2026
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MASTERS OF THE GAME
The Modi-Shah duo have transformed the party into an electoral juggernaut, powered by astute strategy and relentless effort
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January 12, 2026
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BETTING ON FRESH FACES
Breaking old satrapies, the BJP's national leadership elevated a series of surprise picks to run key states
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January 12, 2026
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HIT, HIT HURRAY
In-flight entertainment? Yes, all of a sudden in the mid-'90s, Indian pop culture was all global in look, feel, conception and theme, Bollywood took an outbound flight. And Bhangra was blaring on the world's public address systems
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January 12, 2026
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THE RECORD BREAKERS
Sunny, Kapil, Azhar, Sachin, Usha, Vishy-names that came to be forever etched in India's sporting history
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January 12, 2026
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FROM PROVINCES TO POWERBROKERS
REGIONAL LEADERS TURNED STATE-LEVEL DOMINANCE INTO NATIONAL LEVERAGE, WEAKENING DELHI'S AUTHORITY, RESHAPING COALITION POLITICS AND FORCING THE CENTRE INTO DEPENDENCE
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January 12, 2026
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BAPTISM BY FIRE
Born when free speech was manacled, India Today hit the ground running. Its fearless, objective journalism revolutionised the media industry
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January 12, 2026
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THE REPUBLIC OF PROTEST
From the Jat and Maratha quota agitations to the farmers' rally opposing agri laws, ordinary Indians took to the streets to demand their due or decry injustice
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January 12, 2026
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THE EARTH TREMBLED
Tsunami. Supercyclone. Monster quake. Coastal India was the worst hit in a series of natural disasters that exacted a devastating toll from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. The only positive: governments learnt to hone their emergency response systems
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January 12, 2026
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THE NATIONAL SHAME
Repeated crimes against women triggered public outrage and tougher laws, but entrenched power structures, weak enforcement and social attitudes ensured that legal reform outpaced real safety and lasting justice
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January 12, 2026
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ENTER THE KHANS
Times were changing, romance was in the air, and in came a flotilla of new dreamboats, all dew-fresh and dimpled, changing the look and feel of Hindi cinema
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January 12, 2026
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THE ANSWER TO TYRANNY
Socialists, Hindutvists, pro-farmer and pro-business parties and Congress dissidents all united to hand Mrs Gandhi a devastating blow
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January 12, 2026
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READY FOR THE ENDGAME
The Narendra Modi government's war against Left-wing Extremism is entering what it sees as its endgame.
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January 12, 2026
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TRUE GRIT
The golden team forged under Ganguly's captaincy fought opponents on green pitches, and fought them on dusty bowls. Unlike past greats, it never surrendered easily
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January 12, 2026
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THE HEAVY HAND OF THE STATE
From press censorship to extra-judicial custody and torture to forced sterilisation, oppression took many forms-as did acts of resistance
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January 12, 2026
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THE TRAGIC COST OF NEGLIGENCE
A newsman recalls his experience covering one of India's most haunting man-made disasters
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January 12, 2026
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HELLO, FUTURE
Once that first mobile call was made—and the enter button pressed on the first internet search—there was no looking back for India
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January 12, 2026
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THE COLOURFUL ENTRY OF THE SMALL SCREEN
In television, 1982 was the watershed year: the start of both a unified, national DD network as well as colour broadcasts. Soon, Hum Log enraptured a national audience
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January 12, 2026
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THE GREAT OPENING
Structural reforms did more than just drag India's economy back from the brink. In a virtuous segue from Rajiv's prelude on telecom and IT, the Rao-Manmohan duo wrote the opening act of a new script
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January 12, 2026
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THE VISHWA MITRA
Despite Trumpian setbacks and isolation over its military response to Pakistan, India has held its ground, widening its outreach while continuing its engagement with world superpowers
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January 12, 2026
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MANDAL VS MANDIR
Both causes seemed to erupt all of a sudden—in one year—on the long-static canvas of Indian politics. Both infused new idioms and unlocked new energies, in ways that still define us
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January 12, 2026
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GLOBAL WARNING
Repeated disasters exposed India's climate vulnerability even as global climate leadership grew, but weak governance, reactive planning and diluted enforcement ensured awareness did not translate into meaningful mitigation
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January 12, 2026
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INDIA'S ROAD TO RIGHTS
In this decade, India transformed welfare into legal entitlements through RTI, MGNREGA, Aadhaar and food security, expanding citizenship rights but failing to dismantle caste and minority disadvantage
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January 12, 2026
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ARCHITECTURE OF VIOLENCE
A former prime minister was not the lone victim of an assassination in a decade of cataclysmic rage. A nation's intrinsic tendency to peace and order lay bloodied, too, amid riots, terror and insurgency
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January 12, 2026
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ENDING THE AMBIGUITY
The abrogation of Article 370 made Kashmir's integration into India complete, bringing it directly under central supervision
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January 12, 2026
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AGE OF SATRAPS
If the centre cannot hold, things fall apart-goes the line. But the colossal figures who rose across the Indian map were a sign of a rainbow nation, a democracy speaking many languages
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January 12, 2026
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LIGHT THAT FAILED
What raised expectations after a righteous democratic triumph collapsed from within, its moral centre splintering into petty dissonance
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