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CHHATTISGARH: A SHOT AT PEACE
CAN THE STATE BE PERSUADED TO HOLD TALKS WITH MAOISTS WHEN IT FINALLY HAS THE UPPER HAND?
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March 15, 2021
India Today
KCR's Backward Classes Challenge
In a last-minute rejig, Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) chose Gadwal Vijayalakshmi as the mayor of Hyderabad on February 11, and named frontrunner Mothe Srilatha Reddy as her deputy.
5 min |
March 08, 2021
India Today
Will BMC Get The Control Key?
While presenting the Rs 39,039 crore budget of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for 2021-22—the largest ever in the corporation’s history and 17 per cent higher than the previous year—on February 3, commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal brought up a longstanding demand of Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray.
3 min |
March 08, 2021
India Today
The Temple Run
Temple- and ashram-hopping are, of course, de rigueur for BJP leaders anywhere, but the fervour and commitment are hitting new levels in the Bengal poll campaign.
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March 08, 2021
India Today
THE CZAR OF SCARS
Arjun Raj Gaind’s The Anatomy of Scars is written in the first person. It starts just as the tumultuous events of 1984 roll out—Operation Blue Star, Indira Gandhi’s assassination and the mindless horror of the anti-Sikh riots. The protagonist is a young Sikh boy. We witness those heart-searing events through his eyes, then follow him through the years of his own personal tumult. The author speaks to India today:
2 min |
March 08, 2021
India Today
God Save This Queen
There is very little that redeems Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s latest historical novel
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March 08, 2021
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Who Is An Enemy Of The State?
Ordinary citizens face the peril of draconian laws increasingly invoked by the state to stifle dissent
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March 08, 2021
India Today
THE OTT GENERATION
OTT PLATFORMS HAVE SHOWCASED FRESH TALENT AND OFFERED NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO A LARGE CAST OF ACTORS WHO HAD BEEN WAITING IN THE WINGS
6 min |
March 08, 2021
India Today
THE NEED FOR SPEED
Calls for roping in the private sector grow as India’s Covid vaccination drive—being extended to senior citizens in March—runs way behind target
7 min |
March 08, 2021
India Today
The Dolomite Minefield
On January 22, the Madhya Pradesh government notified an amendment to the Madhya Pradesh Minor Mineral Rules, 1996.
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March 08, 2021
India Today
Detente At The Roof Of The World
After a 10-month haul, India and China have begun pulling their troops back from the brink in eastern Ladakh. How significant this is and what it does to change the situation on the ground
8 min |
March 01, 2021
India Today
The Art of Collecting
Nothing adds to the thrill of discovery more than an unexpected find, especially if they find happens to be priceless pieces of art. Sotheby’s New York sale of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art narrates an intriguing collecting story about American physicist Robert Marshak and his wife Ruth. A leading American scientist, who was part of the Manhattan Project, Robert Marshak was brought to India in the 1960s as part of a mission to create peace after the atomic bomb.
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March 01, 2021
India Today
OPENING SCENES
Debashree Mukherjee tells the story of how the Hindi film industry came of age in pre-independent India
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March 01, 2021
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Bringing Horror Home
Sonia Faleiro’s new book is thorough in its reporting and often harrowing in its effect
2 min |
March 01, 2021
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Shot In Their Arms
Should forest guards be armed with lethal weapons? Sporadic attacks on foresters prompt a reassessment of inconsistent regional regulations
9 min |
March 01, 2021
India Today
Is The Worst Over?
The covid graph may be falling and the vaccines are cause for cheer. But given the threat of a fresh wave of infections and the emergence of new more virulent strains, the pandemic is still with us
10+ min |
March 01, 2021
India Today
The Outsider Gambit
Mamata is now tweaking her Bengali sub-nationalism pitch— her bid to foil the BJP’s Hindu polarisation
6 min |
March 01, 2021
India Today
THE RETURN OF RAJE
Former chief minister Vasundhara Raje is such an enigma in Rajasthan that any political move she makes is keenly dissected. She has been lying low after being voted out in December 2018, and with the high command rewarding leaders antithetical to her, a perception has gained ground that relations have soured between her and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his deputy Amit Shah.
4 min |
March 01, 2021
India Today
THE PERFECT MATCH
From the wallpaper and the motifs on the dining chairs to the vibrant art, this multigenerational home in Bangalore is a celebration of carefully curated motifs and forms
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March 01, 2021
India Today
The Marque of Magic
The incredibly agile Mercedes AMG GLC 43 is made in India, for India.
2 min |
March 01, 2021
India Today
The Gold Standard
Nothing signs off on emotion more evocatively than a bauble; here are some trends that will summon that eternal allure to a gift box.
2 min |
March 01, 2021
India Today
Food made Good
The ground between a better meal and a better world can no longer afford to be a conflict zone. Here is why the clarion call for sustainable dining is an urgent one, more so now than ever before.
7 min |
March 01, 2021
India Today
A STORMY FLIGHT AHEAD
India’s airlines are staring at aggregate losses of a staggering Rs 1.3 lakh crore by the end of the next fiscal year. The fare hike will bring some relief but not quite enough
5 min |
March 01, 2021
India Today
Farmers: The BJP's Jat Headache
Rakesh Tikait’s impassioned appeal has resuscitated the farmers’ movement and given the Jats a leader to rally around, making the government’s task that much more difficult
8 min |
February 22, 2021
India Today
Uttarakhand Disaster - A Rude Wake-Up Call
A devastating flash flood in the Himalayan state highlights the urgent need to protect the region’s fragile environment and review unbridled development activity
5 min |
February 22, 2021
India Today
A HALF-OPEN WINDOW
An honest critique of former vice-president Mohammad Hamid Ansari’s autobiography, By Many a Happy Accident, is difficult.
3 min |
February 22, 2021
India Today
Tamil Nadu - The Great Poll Opera
It’s Tamil Nadu’s first assembly election without its towering leaders. But the contest is still very much between the Dravidian heavyweights DMK and AIADMK. The national parties are likely to be bit players
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February 22, 2021
India Today
THE THIRD DIMENSION
A broad ‘secular’ alliance is in the works in the run-up to the West Bengal assembly election, with the Congress-Left combine warming to influential Muslim cleric Abbas Siddiqui and his Indian Secular Front (ISF), launched on January 21
6 min |
February 22, 2021
India Today
THE FIREARMS TRAP
India’s armed forces suffer due to crippling dependence on whimsical global weapons manufacturers. Behind the crisis is the country’s flawed firearms production-acquisition policy and low R&D
8 min |
February 22, 2021
India Today
Pinarayi in Poll Position
The local body election results have injected new life into the Left Front election campaign. Can the CPI(M) chief minister ride them to victory?
7 min |