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PM MODI AND THE BJP PULL OUT ALL THE STOPS AS TEJASHWI AND A RESURGENT RJD THREATEN A FIGHTBACK

Economy: The Festive Season Uptick

While some sectors of the economy have seen improved demand and sales in recent months, businesses are hoping the festive season sets a lasting favourable momentum

Covid-19 - The Festive Season Challenge

The daily number of active cases is declining, but with the festive season upon us, India is bracing itself for a second wave

The Season Of Smoke Signals

Reports of the NCR’s terrible AQI (air quality index) numbers have already begun making the news.

An Enchantment

Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi is a meditation on personal history, loyalty, trust and truth

Farm Revolution 2.0

How to make the spate of farm reforms by the Modi government work

Waking The Dread

With his unputdownable sixth novel, Hari Kunzru brings to life our worst nightmares

RUNNING ON EMPTY

Even though he was expecting a “small opening”, Sanjeev Bijli, joint managing director of PVR Ltd, was disappointed when he heard the collection figures for October 15.

An Election Placebo

Promises are free, and those made in the heat of electioneering best not taken at face value.

TAKING THE LEAD

Come Diwali and Priyanka plans to make UP her home and battleground in an effort to create a template for Congress revival

“ONLY THE PEOPLE CAN JUDGE ME”

I may look young but my soul is old,” says newly minted BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia to a 3,000-strong crowd that has assembled on a sunny late October morning in Dholagarh, a mofussil 85 km from Gwalior, to see and hear his campaign for the Madhya Pradesh by-elections.

THE CITY GOES UNDER

Flash floods following pounding rain in mid-October (a record 320 mm in 24 hours on October 14), and sluggish relief work have dented Hyderabad’s image as a growing metropolis.

NOT QUITE OVER YET

THE ONSET OF WINTER AND A LAX ENFORCEMENT OF COVID PROTOCOLS COULD USHER IN A SECOND COVID WAVE. INDIA NEEDS TO TAKE HEED

CONGRESS COMEBACK PLAN RIDES ON NATH

On October 25, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath wrote to sitting and former Congress MLAs tasked with managing the by-elections in ‘manuals’, or clusters of 10-12 booths each.

AN AIR OF ANTI-INCUMBENCY

RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal) leader Tejashwi Yadav, while campaigning in Rohtas district on October 26, had the crowd erupting in loud cheers.

The Age Of Ed-Tech

India is already the second-largest market for e-learning after the US and, according to IBEF, the sector is expected to reach $1.96 billion (Rs 14,308 crore) by 2021, with around 9.5 million users.

Bihar Assembly Polls - Why Nitish Needs Modi

With the force of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charisma behind him, Nitish Kumar may yet buck anti-incumbency to win another term as chief minister, finds a Lokniti-CSDS opinion poll

A New Power Play In J&K

District development councils

THE CM VS. THE JUDGES

JAGAN REDDY TAKES ON THE TOP JUDICIARY, ALLEGING BIAS AND CORRUPTION

RAISING A SWARM

THE ARMED FORCES, BEHIND THE CURVE ON WEAPONISED DRONES, ARE RUSHING TO FILL THE GAP THROUGH IMPORTS. THE TOUGHER ASK, THOUGH, IS TO DEVELOP AN INDIGENOUS ECOSYSTEM FOR THESE MUST-HAVE PLATFORMS

‘Gruelling & Gorgeous'

THE SERIES A SUITABLE BOY, THE NOVEL BY VIKRAM SETH ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN BY MIRA NAIR, UNFOLDS AT THE PACE OF A MARATHON

WHIFF OF A THIRD FRONT

WITH THE CONGRESS AND LEFT PARTIES HINTING AT JOINING FORCES, AND A RISING BJP ALREADY SNAPPING AT HER HEELS, MAMATA BANERJEE’S WORRIES MAY HAVE JUST INCREASED

One Eye on the Future

Shabana Azmi on her film Kaali Khuhi, empowering women to break stereotypes and foreseeing the streaming boom

A GRIM BATTLE AHEAD

The AIADMK has sounded the poll bugle, but it has quite a battle on its hands even internally—keeping a fragile truce between the EPS and OPS factions, managing an increasingly ‘assertive’ partner in the BJP, and keeping an eye out for the wily Sasikala

MP Byelections: The Game Is Wide Open

Less than two years after the assembly election that marked the Congress’s return to power after a gap of 15 years, Madhya Pradesh is headed for crucial by-elections to 28 assembly seats on November 3, with the outcome set to determine the fate of the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP government.

2020: The Challengers

Nothing tests the true mettle of leadership better than adversity. If the already slowing economy were not enough, the Covid pandemic and the lockdown further crippled businesses and left millions unemployed. GDP contracted 23.9 per cent in the first quarter of this fiscal. It is in this light that we need to see India today’s annual Power List this year. The 50 personalities featured here have one trait in common: rising above the ordinary in extraordinary times. Corporate czars like Mukesh Ambani or K.M. Birla are thinking ahead at a time when new-age enterprises threaten traditional businesses. Others, like Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Zomato’s Deepinder Goyal or Byju Raveendran are using the crisis as an opportunity to grow their business. Superstars such as Amitabh Bachchan or corporates like the Tatas are doing their bit by donating funds, arranging meals for the needy or spreading awareness to tackle Covid. Voices like those of Rajiv Bajaj or Kiran Mazumdar Shaw or Prashant Bhushan are keeping our moral compass steady. The power these men and women wield furthers not just their own cause but also illuminates the lives of others. That has been the one bright silver lining to the dark clouds of Covid that have eclipsed a greater part of 2020.

Tales of Cocktails

From crimson hues to course pairing and exotic infusions, cocktail stories are trending.

IN A MOOD TO CELEBRATE

Riding on the high of winning an international award for her directorial debut film, and ready to move into her new house in London, actor Radhika Apte, shares her style quotient, love of acting, and why she is big on small celebrations.

MAKEOVER MOVES

Home renovation can be daunting. Don’t worry, help is here. Three design studios share before-after pictures of real homes along with ideas and quick tips.

SHIFTING SANDS

On October 11, in Bihar’s Gaya district, two senior BJP leaders—national president J.P. Nadda and state president Sanjay Jaiswal—obliquely addressed a simmering problem in the run-up to the state assembly election.