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Back To Masjid Vs. Mandir?

A court-mandated survey of the historic mosque leads to further escalation with contested claims of a hidden lingam being discovered. Could Kashi be the new Ayodhya?

Yogi's New Neutral Avatar

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath is into his second term and one of the changes he is ringing in is a softening of the ardent Hindutva warrior image that he has been cultivating all these years.

Tomas Cup - How India Made History

The Indian Men’s Badminton Team Won Glory By Clinching The Thomas Cup For The First Time. What Went Into The Big Win And Where Do We Go From Here?

Cryptos On A Crash Course

Cryptocurrencies have been tumbling worldwide as the Ukraine war prolongs and the spectre of still higher crude prices and inflation haunts countries.

Why Marital Rape Qualifies as Rape

In the second week of May, the Delhi High Court passed a split verdict on the issue of whether the marital rape exception engrafted in Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was constitutional or not.

WHY JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS ARE DELAYED

Tardiness driven by a tangle involving collegiums and the Centre characterises the filling up of vacant positions of high court judges. And pending cases pile up inexorably

WHAT ‘IS' INDIAN POETRY?

A milestone and a doorstopper, this ambitious anthology brings together 94 poets whom India can claim as its own

THE CASTE CALCULUS

A NEW MOON BECKONS? CM Nitish and RJD's Tejashwi at the latter's iftar party in Patna, April 22

SORENS IN A MINEFIELD

Jharkhand chief minister Hem­ ant Soren has some real fire­ fighting to do in the coming days if he wants to continue in his post. Everything seems to be going wrong at once.

Q+A IN ON THE ACT

One of Indian fashion's brightest stars, Masaba Gupta, 33, is living her childhood dream of acting. This time, she has a part in the Amazon Prime anthology Modern Love: Mumbai

NEW RESOLUTION, OLD CONGRESS

On May 16, a day after the Congress ended its three-day-long Nav Sankalp Shivir in Udaipur, the party witnessed a formal gesture.

BETTING ON THE HINTERLAND

BHUPESH BAGHEL KICKS OFF HIS 2023 RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN BY UNDERTAKING A SWEEPING TOUR OF RURAL CHHATTISGARH AND ASSESSING GOVERNMENT WELFARE SCHEMES

BAFFLING BAN

Foreign governments and our own farmers are angry about India’s sudden ban on wheat exports. But high inflation, lower-than-expected yield and procurement forced New Delhi’s hand

Against the Stream

Bengali OTT entertainment has taken off, but it sadly remains a prisoner of its own predictability

BLACKEST OF BOARDS

Around 30,000 vacancies in state-run schools—for the youth of employmentparched West Bengal, it was a once-in-a-decade opportunity.

DOWN TO THE LETTER

DISPLAYED AT AN EXHIBITION IN KOLKATA, SATYAJIT RAY’S LETTERS TO A YOUNG FRIEND MAKE HIS WARMTH CONSPICUOUS

LAYING DOWN THE LAW

SHOWS LIKE GUILTY MINDS ARE PROOF THAT OTT PLATFORMS HAVE FOUND A WINNER IN GRITTY LEGAL DRAMAS

LIVING it up

If there’s one thing the pandemic taught us, it’s that you only live once. And Indians are making the most of it, travelling, chasing a new job or hobby, exercising or savouring a moment of pure joy

What Is The Difference Between Stocks And Mutual Funds?

The Big Question

How To Choose Your Investment Mindset

Emotions and biases often dictate our investment decisions. We must understand and control them to achieve better financial outcomes

Covid Deaths In India: Is The WHO Right?

A WHO report on Covid-related deaths suggests that the toll in India was far larger than the official numbers, but as both sides lay out their arguments, one truth stands exposed—the lack of transparency and accuracy of data

Congress: Now Or Never

The writing has been on the wall for eight years, but the congress has been wilfully blind. With oblivion threatening to become a very real possibility now, the party's Udaipur conclave becomes the first step in a long journey to avert a certain demise

The Long Shadow of Khalistan

THE ATTACK ON THE PUNJAB POLICE INTELLIGENCE HQ IS A REMINDER THAT THE KHALISTAN ISSUE IS STILL SIMMERING. THIS TIME THE SEPARATISTS ARE USING GANGSTERS TO DO THEIR DIRTY WORK

THIS DOG IS HAVING ITS DAY

Lean and mean, the Caravan and Pashmi are becoming prized as guard dogs and bringing their breeders a tidy profit in the villages of Latur in Maharashtra

THE JOYS OF SORROW

Pakistani Grammy Award-winner AROOJ AFTAB is helping us find pleasure in the plaintive

ONE STEP IN THEIR SHOES

THE PASSERBY, A PHOTO EXHIBITION OF INDIAN STREET SCENES, SHOWS US THE WORLDS WE ARE WALKING PAST

Player of our Heartstrings

No instrumentalist has done for their instrument what Pandit Shivkumar Sharma did for the santoor

STILL IN THE GROOVE

From playing an old-school romantic in Never Kiss Your Best Friend (ZEE5) to the profit-driven head of an app in Escaype Live (Disney+Hotstar), Jaaved Jaaferi is showing he hasn’t lost his touch

REDRAWING THE MAP

J&K DELIMITATION

Photo Synthesis

Having just released a new book of photographs, Sunhil Sippy says the camera saved his life