CATEGORIES

THE BELEAGUERED DECACORN

The story of Paytm, once described as one of the biggest start-up stories in India’s financial services sector, appears to have become a cautionary tale of everything that could go wrong after an IPO.

REFRESH AND REVIVE

Let spring in with these home textiles. Not only will it give your interiors a much-needed facelift, it will make your space shine.

Plane Ambition

AFTER LOSING A NEW AIRCRAFT WORTH Rs 67 CR. AND SPENDING Rs 23 CR. IN LEASING, MP WANTS TO BUY A Rs 120 CR. JET

How to Win Despite Losing

Pushkar Singh Dhami may have lost the election but retained the big prize at the Uttarakhand BJP legislators’ meet.

EXODUS THE TRUTH

Why did they flee? Who was respon sible? Where are they now? What needs to be done?

Breaking the Gandhian Knot

The poll debacle stirs calls for change in the Congress. The rebels and others want unbiased organisational elections and an ‘accountable leadership’. Will the Gandhis give way?

ENVIRONMENT VS REALTY

On March 15, in the state assembly, Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao announced his intention to repeal a 1996 government order— GO111—which creates a 10-km-wide buffer zone around the Himayatsagar and Osmansagar reservoirs outside Hyderabad.

AN OPEN PLAN

This apartment in Ahmedabad fuses two different design styles to give rise to a sun-kissed, light and airy home

A TIGER IN EVERY FORT?

When the CBI on March 11 arrested Balya Bawaria, last of the accused in two cases of tiger poaching in 2003-04 in Sariska, it brought back memories of big cats being wiped out from the tiger reserve in Alwar, Rajasthan.

A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP DEEPENS

Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida’s two-day visit to India, the first in-person summit since prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Japan in October 2018, has succeeded in further consolidating the Special Strategic and Global Partnership in a year that marks 70 years of diplomatic ties.

A Tech-tonic Shift

The Audi Q7 facelift is a modest luxury saloon that wouldn’t break a sweat in the outdoors

A QUESTION OF METTLE AND ORE

On March 21, 11 days after the BJP won 20 of the 40 assembly seats in Goa (one short of a simple majority), the party ended the suspense and announced that incumbent chief minister Pramod Sawant would continue to lead the state government.

Punjab: New CM, Old Problems

CM Bhagwant Mann and aap broke the shackles in Punjab politics. Can they do the same for the economy and the people of the state?

Hiab Ban: Upholding Bigotry?

Hijab Controversy

The Lady And The Yogi

Who Is The Mystery Man Who Gamed The Bourses And Made The NSE Director His Willing Proxy?

Government Jobs - The Hunger & The Mess

A lacklustre economy is driving millions of indians to seek scarce government jobs, but the recruitment process remains daunting and chaotic

WOOING WOMEN

MADHYA PRADESH

When Populism Begins to Pinch

WEST BENGAL

When Less Was More

A NEW BOOK AND A MAJOR EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK EXAMINE ARCHITECTURAL MODERNISM AS AN EXPRESSION OF SOUTH ASIAN DECOLONISATION

THE WAR GETS NASTY

MVA VS BJP

The Mayawati Mystery

UTTAR PRADESH

PUTTING LADIES IN THE LEAD

Vidya Balan has been at the vanguard of a new wave of Hindi cinema that puts women first

GOODBYE, BIG CITY

The desire for a simpler, cleaner, stress-free life is driving people to invest in second homes far from the metros’s madding crowds

IN SHIVA HE TRUSTS

At 91, Dr Karan Singh is equally devoted to politics and scholarship, but editing the recently released Shiva: Lord of the Cosmic Dance was for him an expression of a more personal piety

Casting the Net Wide

TWO MAHARASHTRA POLICE OFFICERS CRACK BIG CYBER OFFENCE CASES AT A TIME WHEN THE FORCE IS ON THE DEFENSIVE

Communal Catharsis

In telling the story of the Pandits’ brutal expulsion from the Valley, Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files ends up caricaturing voices of dissent

BOVINE DEVOTION

RAJASTHAN

How UP Was Won

The BJP took the lead on the development and law & order narrative, and used social schemes to overcome caste divides

Modi + Yogi = BJP's New Winning Formula

IF THERE WAS A TURNING POINT behind the historic back-to-back victories of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, it came late last year and under the most unusual of circumstances.

THE WINNING HABIT

A strange sort of veneration confronts you when you mention Naveen Patnaik in Odisha. Biju Janata Dal MP Amar Patnaik gets a little emotional when he says, “He is like family: a grandfather to children, father to many, brother to women.”