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CONAN DOYLE DOES A SHERLOCK

Shrabani Basu’s book tells the story of how Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective knowhow once came to the rescue of a beleaguered Parsi lawyer

AT THE PRINTER'S

Novels to hold your breath for

THE WORLD WITHIN THE WORD

WITH A NEW BOOK, PEGGY MOHAN HAS HELPED CREATE A BRIDGE BETWEEN HOW WE SPEAK AND WHO WE ARE

Salman Rushdie - LANGUAGES OF TRUTH

LANGUAGES OF TRUTH Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie HAMISH HAMILTON

Mamata Vs Modi, Part 2

It has been a stormy first month in office for Mamata Banerjee in her third term as West Bengal chief minister. The BJP top leadership seems to have taken the election defeat to heart and has kept up the pressure on her government. Multiple central teams have descended on the state to “review the law and order situation” and investigating agencies seem to have suddenly woken up to scams that have dragged on for years.

THE TRIAL ISN'T OVER

The Goa government challenges the acquittal of journalist-author Tarun Tejpal in the sensational case of an alleged sexual assault. Why the landmark case is going into a fresh loop

TRUTH AND DARE

Salman Rushdie’s latest volume of non-fiction bristles with candour and courage

THE DANGAL JUNGLE

The fall of an icon exposes the seedy underbelly of Indian wrestling

HOW TO KICKSTART THE ECONOMY

THE DEADLY SECOND WAVE OF COVID BATTERED AN ALREADY BRUISED ECONOMY. INDIA NOW NEEDS POLICY VISION OUT OF THE ORDINARY TO RESTORE CONSUMER CONFIDENCE, BUSINESSES AND LIVELIHOODS

Can Amarinder ride out the storm?

PUNJAB CONGRESS

Covid-hit Villages Are Poll Battleground

On May 22, for the first time ever a chief minis­ter who was not from the Samajwadi Party (SP) vis­ited Saifai, the native vill­age of party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. Yogi Adityanath, the chief min­ister of the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, is the chancellor of the Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences in Saifai in Etawah district.

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

Rural India’s desperately inadequate health infrastructure is common knowledge. But official estimates understate the crisis, which makes the battle against the pandemic even harder

AT THE CRITICAL POINT

T.M. Krishna’s prose is often as piercing as his music. With a new collection of his writings releasing this week, the vocalist says that, for him, nothing, not even his own work, is set in stone

...And Now Black Fungus

Mucormycosis

THEIR CONTENT IS KING

Raj & DK have cracked the formula to OTT success with the shows and films they write, produce and direct

THE BURDEN OF GEN-COVID

WITH SCHOOL AND SOCIAL LIVES HAVING MOVED ONLINE AND PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS DOWN TO ALMOST ZERO, INDIA’S CHILDREN ARE IN DISTRESS

KEEPING THE FAITH

Releasing next month, Suresh Raina’s memoir, Believe, tells a tale of grit and determination, highlighting a never-say-die attitude he inherited from cricketing greats

THE AGE OF FEAR

COVID’S DEADLY SECOND WAVE HAS SPARKED OFF A ‘FEARODEMIC’. PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF DYING, OF LOSING THEIR LOVED ONES, OF BEING ALONE, OF LOSING THEIR JOBS—ANXIETIES THAT ADD A NEW DIMENSION OF MENTAL-HEALTH ISSUES TO THE ONGOING CRISIS

PROFITEERING IN THE PANDEMIC

SHORTAGES AND BOTTLENECKS IN THE DELIVERY OF CRITICAL DRUGS AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES HAVE LEFT DESPERATE FAMILIES OF COVID PATIENTS EXPOSED TO A RAPACIOUS BLACK MARKET

Pinarayi's New Stormtroopers

KERALA

FATAL LAPSES AT SEA

Cyclone Tauktae left 86 people dead in India’s worst-ever offshore disaster. Making matters yet more tragic is that early warnings made this entirely avoidable

JOB THREAT REDEFINED

JAMMU & KASHMIR

CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE?

SOCIAL MEDIA WARS

The Imminent Return Of Rahul

At the May 10 Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, party president Sonia Gandhi announced that the Central Election Authority (CEA) of the Congress was ready with the schedule for the presidential election.

Republic Of Self-Help Medical Care: Airborne Aid

A pilots' group in Ahmedabad has been providing funds and medical supplies to those in need

The Cost Of Covid Control?

Inflation

INDIA'S BACKYARD

Shivshankar Menon’s book is a complexly woven discourse on how India has seen itself, Asia, and the great powers for the past 75 years. But this is no primer: Menon has spent his entire adult life studying China; he was ambassador there, as well as to Israel, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan, and was Foreign Secretary and National Security Advisor. This experience, combined with wide reading of extant literature, makes for a cerebral and deeply rigorous treatment.

HOPE FLOATS

A TRADITIONAL SHIKARA CONVERTED INTO A WATER AMBULANCE HAS BEEN HELPING THE RESIDENTS OF DAL LAKE GET TIMELY MEDICAL AID

THE OXY WARRIORS

A QUICK-THINKING SOCIAL HELP GROUP BEAT SHORTAGES TO RUN AN INNOVATIVE LANGAR SUPPLYING FREE MEDICAL OXYGEN

REPUBLIC OF SELF-HELP

SUPERHEROES OF THE PANDEMIC WHO ARE GOING BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY TO HELP FELLOW CITIZENS BATTLE COVID AND STATE APATHY