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GRAND GESTURES

Earlier this month, nearly 1,500 dancers from across India and 10 countries descended on Raipur for the National Tribal Dance Festival. It was a gala affair with a host of folk performances, music and a variety of food stalls.

A BELLWETHER BYPOLL

If there is one key takeaway from the recent assembly bypolls across six states, it is the continuing decline of the Congress as the fulcrum of the opposition in national poli­ tics.

The Pastors Of Punjab

Pentecostal preachers find a fertile ground among Punjab's most oppressed castes to spread their faith and expand their flock

BRINGING THEN TO THE NOW

Photos of rural Bengal and ruins are a well-worn theme, but Sarker Protick’s work again makes it new

Partners in High Places

Jaimin Rajani’s talent lifts his debut album, but so do his collaborators

GETTING BETTER

Out with their third album, dream-pop duo Parekh Singh are after improvement, not adulation

KEEPERS OF THE LOST CITY

Nazia Akhtar’s book acquaints us with women Urdu writers who brought alive 20th-century Hyderabad

Heaven on Earth

In this long poem, we see Banaras was many things for Mirza Ghalib-sanctum, paradise, trap

GOING UP NORTH

Director Mathukutty Xavier is making his Hindi-language debut with Mili, a re-rendering of his Malayalam hit, Helen

I'M NOT IN ANY RACE

With a new film about to release on Netflix, actor Rajkummar Rao says he competes only with himself

LET'S TALK ABOUT HOPE

Even as Anupam Kher gears up for the November Tl release of his latest film, Uunchai, the actor is busy preparing questions for his latest YouTube chat show, Manzilen Aur Bhi Hain

EARNING OUR WINGS

Ever since it emerged that India had signed a deal in September 2021 with Airbus Defence and Space, SA, Spain, to procure and manufacture 56 C-295 medium-weight transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force, speculation was rife about the location of its plant in India. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying the foundation stone of the manufacturing unit in Vadodara, in poll-bound Gujarat, on October 30, that matter has been put to rest.

Silent Treatment

The precipitous has become the protracted in Jharkhand. And with it, the fate of the state's chief minister, Hemant Soren, continues to hang in the balance.

A BOTCHED OPERATION?

A political storm hit Telangana just over a week before the crucial Munugode byelection on November 3. Its epicentre: a farmhouse in Moinabad, about 30 kilometres from state capital Hyderabad. During a raid at the farmhouse on October 26, the Cyberabad police arrested three men-alleged to be \"agents\" of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-for trying to \"poach\" four MLAs of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). All four had switched over to the TRS from the Congress after the 2018 assembly election.

THE UPSET APPLECART

A curious irony is growing in the apple orchards of rural Kashmir these day. In the daytime, you would be hard-pressed to find anyone outside their orchards. They are all hard at work, picking a bumper crop.

A SAFFRON FACELIFT

A new state unit chief. A new A leader of opposition. A new incharge of the state. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has seen radical changes in its organisational structure in Chhattisgarh since August, with three new men commandeering its efforts to bring the party back into power as the state prepares for the assembly election scheduled in a little over a year.

MAPPING CHINA'S MIGHT

The two books under review offer important new perspectives on China's rise since 1989. In the two decades under Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, China achieved spectacular economic growth, while keeping a relatively modest international profile in accordance with Deng Xiaoping's injunction to \"hide our capacities and bide our time\". That period came to an end when Xi Jinping decided that the time was ripe for China to follow a \"proactive\" foreign policy, conducting itself as an assertive, and even aggressive, superpower.

GOVERNORS VS CHIEF MINISTERS

TUSSLES WITH THE GOVERNMENTS OF KERALA AND OTHER STATES REIGNITE OLD DEBATES OVER THE GOVERNOR'S ROLE IN INDIA’S FEDERAL STRUCTURE

UPHILL BATTLE

AS THE POLL CAMPAIGN ENTERS THE FINAL STRETCH, WILL HIMACHAL BUCK THE TREND AND GIVE THE BJP A SECOND TERM, OR WILL THE CONGRESS FIND REDEMPTION?

NAIL THE VILLAINS

FIXING CULPABILITY IN THE MORBI TRAGEDY IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS. QUICK ACTION NEEDS TO BE TAKEN TO PUNISH THE GUILTY.

CANINE CONUNDRUM

The rising incidence of street dog attacks across India reignite the touchy issue of human-canine coexistence

Enemy In The Shadows

With a new case registered every hour, india has become a hotbed of stalking incidents. It’s time the authorities took a hard look at the law and its implementation t0 enhance deterrence on the ground

The Rishi Raj Challenges & Pitfalls

Even as india celebrates one of its own moving into 10, downing street, rishi sunak faces the daunting challenge of pulling the uk economy back from the brink

Fearless Commissar

Left politics has given this country many a stalwart, and one entered his 100th year this October 23.

WALKING THE EXTRA MILE

Call it the yatra effect. The Congress's Bharat Jodo Yatra had just about exited Karnataka this month when the ruling BJP set out on its Jana Sankalpa' rallies, with Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and party stalwart B.S.Yediyurappa (BSY) leading the charge in a counter-offensive to prepare the ground for state elections in May 2023.

FOR LAND, AND IDENTITY

No strident raising of slogans, no loud banners castigating political opponents, no mainstream media following the marchers.

“NO QUICK SOLUTION TO THE RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR”

The United Nations has rarely been more rele­ vant than in the contemporary world—riven by conflict and polarisation, buffeted by waves of natural disasters driven by climate change, its economy teetering on the brink of recession. In such a scenario, UN secretary general ANTONIO GUTERRES plays a crucial mediatory role. Recently in India on a two­day visit, Guterres spoke about the war in Ukraine, the fight against terrorism, possible UN Security Council reforms and more in an exclusive interview with GEETA MOHAN, the foreign affairs editor, India Today TV. Excerpts:

THE LONG ROAD TO DELHI

Since everyone is on a yatra, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, who made his national ambitions evident by renaming the Telangana Rashtra Samithi TRS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi BRS) on Dussehra, is not one to be left behind.

THAKUR & THE REBELS

Celebration was not the first thing on BJP national president J.P. Nadda's mind when he arrived at his native Vijaypur village in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur district just before Diwali.

FROM ONE HIT TO ANOTHER

Cricketer Shikhar Dhawan, the man Team India looks to when it needs a senior player to stand in as captain, will soon be seen on the big screen, playing a cameo role in the film Double XL