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CALL ME QUEEN!

Grammy-nominated Indian-American rapper Raja Kumari describes her music as a sonic bridge between the east and the west

World's Oldest Mother On Losing Her Husband, Raising Her Twins

Last September, she and her husband became the world’s oldest parents. This September, she lost her husband. A peek into the life of Y. Mangayamma and her twins

US Presidential Elections - Red, Blue And Bad Blood

A deeply divided America seems to have denied Donald Trump a second term, but it has also refused to fully endorse Joe Biden and the Democrats. Protracted legal and political battles will follow the outcome of the 2020 elections and possibly decide the future of the United States

THE TIBET WATCHER

For Claude Arpi, one of the foremost Tibetologists in India, border issues and conflict can go hand in hand with a spiritual life

Selling the dream

The Making of Aadhaar: World’s Largest

PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

In her new book, Tahira Kashyap Khurrana writes about overcoming the insecurity of being married to one of the most talented actors in Indian cinema

PATNA PUZZLE

After an election season dominated by “aspiration” rather than caste equations, Nitish Kumar is banking on his track record to pull him through

Blue print

Taking a stand against Trump’s policies and statements, women and people of colour pick Biden for president

Seeing red, feeling blue

The deep-seated divide in the US has come to the fore this election, threatening its identity as a democratic republic

Left turn ahead

Pramila Jayapal and her three Indian American Democratic colleagues were re-elected to the congress on November 3, demonstrating the growing political heft of the community

Vote of no thanks

With a religious leader jumping into politics and complaints of Mamata not doing enough for the community, will Muslims desert her?

A spirited campaign

It was an all-out last battle for Joe Biden, but it is just the beginning for Kamala Harris

2020 has been crazy

BEN STOKES HAS a larger than life image in English cricket: A superhero who has won England its first-ever World Cup, followed by an Ashes victory; a cricketer who can do almost anything on the field, be it with the bat or ball. Over the last year and a half, Stokes’s cricket career has seen not a single blip.

How Digital Fashion Weeks Are Paving The Way For A Rejig Of The Industry

How digital fashion weeks are paving the way for a rejig of the industry

Best B Schools - How We Train Managers To Cope With The Unknown

B-Schools have a key mandate: Create future-proof managers who can oversee our foray into the unknown

Covid-19 & Winter - Worries Of A Second Wave

A second wave of infection may be coming, and if India is not careful, it could lose all its recent gains against Covid-19

New CEO Will Be Orchestrator Of Experiments

By the time India confront-ed Covid-19 in mid-March, IIM Bangalore had completed all its degree-granting programmes. Only the convocation remained. The immediate decision was to cancel the event and replace it with a small ceremony to recognise the award winners. We did not have enough time to visualise an online event with digital avatars that has now become the default convocation practice at most institutions. We have, however, promised to host a grand physical event for the 2020 graduating class, when conditions permit one!

WIDENING GAP

Beyond the economy and the pandemic, the Centre-state tussle could continue to be vexing

Tight embrace

Encouraged by strong bipartisan support from Washington, India commits to closer defence cooperation with the US

SUITED FOR CHANGE

Innovation and flexibility are the buzzwords for b-schools in these testing times

Strength in numbers

Parties in Jammu and Kashmir join hands to restore the former state’s special status, but the Centre has other plans

Managers as plumbers

Managers are increasingly working in volatile environments. This requires that they focus on the big picture and pay attention to detail. As MBA graduates enter the real world, theoretical knowledge equips them to think through the problems at hand. But, they also learn which analytical models and theories do not give much guidance.

Light comes alive

Fireflies took Mumbai girl Aishwarya Sridhar to the podium in the 56th Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition

Labour pains

Severe unemployment and anti-incumbency could dampen Nitish Kumar’s bid for another term in Bihar

Cashbacks Are Not Sustainable

Rahul Chari, cofounder and chief technology officer of the company, talks about the opportunities, challenges and intense competition in the segment and what the future holds for the digital payment platforms.

Bihar Elections - Brash Tejashwi Woos Youth

While Nitish Kumar & Co are confident of retaining power, an assertive Tejashwi Yadav is causing some concern

Katie Comes To Party

A professor-politician mom with a lethal whiteboard looks like a future president

The Great American Election Heist

Donald Trump discredits mail-in votes, undermines the postal service, encourages far-right hooligans, fast tracks his nominee’s supreme court confirmation, ignores Covid protocols to hold raucous rallies and remains reluctant to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power. Democrats fear the president plans to unleash mayhem to stay on in the White House even if he loses the November 3 election

Too many cooks

A clutch of agencies is investigating the Hathras case, but there is no assurance of speedy delivery of justice

Personal purposes

The bypolls are about Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s popularity, Jyotiraditya Scindia’s prestige and Kamal Nath’s survival