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THE RETURN OF LALU

Jail, illness and the pandemic may have kept the septuagenarian RJD chief off the political stage, but he is back, energising his party’s cadre as well as the national Opposition alliance

Guardians of the Forest

Zai Whitaker's Termite Fry captures the eternal tussle between urban aspirations and traditional forest communities

ENGINEERING MARVEL

ONE OF THE PREMIER INSTITUTES FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOR LONG, IIT DELHI HAS ALSO TAKEN THE LEAD OVER OTHERS IN NEW AREAS OF INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING, RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY LINKS

Reading the Land

Arati Kumar-Rao's Marginlands is a timely chronicle of India's changing landscapes and climate

OUR COMMON HISTORY

USING ARCHIVAL DATA AND ANECDOTES, THE BOOK PUTS THE SPOTLIGHT ON THE HETEROGENEOUS PAST OF SOUTH ASIAN NATIONS

The Template Is Half Empty

A DRAFT MASTER PLAN IS OPPOSED BY POWERFUL LOBBIES OF POLITICIANS AND BUREAUCRATS

A CRISIS BEFORE KCR

His dream of leading the Opposition alliance in 2024 fast fading, the BRS chief finds himself waging a lonely battle. Can he retain Telangana at least?

MAKING A HABIT OF EXCELLENCE

MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND OUTCOME-BASED EDUCATION AS WELL AS A PUSH TOWARDS INNOVATION PLACE AMITY UNIVERSITY AT THE VERY TOP

A SCRIPT CATCHES FIRE

HARYANA COMMUNAL CLASHES

SURGICAL STRIKE?

Maharashtra has some 1,700 of India’s 13,000 leopards, the third-highest population of the big cat after Madhya Pradesh (3,421) and Karnataka (1,783).

AN ACT OF CONTENTION

ENVIRONMENTALISTS FEAR THAT CHANGES TO THE FOREST CONSERVATION ACT RUN CONTRARY TO ITS STATED OBJECTIVE OF INCREASING INDIA’S GREEN COVER

SAURASHTRA: A SHARE OF THE NARMADA

For as long as one can remember, parched landscapes, bone-dry water taps and blistering heat have dominated the folklore of semi-arid Saurashtra. Even modern history remembers chief ministers—as recent as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Keshubhai Patel in 2000—who, burdened perpetually by drought-like situations in the region, sent goods trains filled with gallons of water to Rajkot for relief.

GEN NEXT HAS A PLAN FOR BSP

It’s never easy to predict the political moves of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati, who is known to hold her cards close to her chest. So much so that her decisions often take her party functionaries by surprise too.

An Inside Job

Just days after Congress leader Sachin Pilot claimed to have buried the hatchet with Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot, the circumstances surrounding his 2020 rebellion have come back to haunt the party, and that too in an election year.

The Burden Of Allies

The BJP ranks have not taken kindly to the party roping in the Ajit Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) into their alliance government in Maharashtra.

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Actor Vijay Varma breaks new ground in his role as a vigilante cop in Kaalkoot, streaming on JioCinema

Southern Sounds

Chennai-based band Many Things is out with their debut album, First Things First

Behind the Scenes

A web series by Vivek Agnihotri, streaming on ZEE5 from August, documents the backdrop to The Kashmir Files

PUNE My LOVE

Veteran actor Mohan Agashe stars in Do Gubbare, a web series that celebrates the city of Pune

Timely Tales

J. DEVIKA HAS COMPILED A NUANCED ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORIES FROM KERALA

TRAVELS WITH THE TUMMY

Zac O'Yeah's travelcum-food memoir is a distillation of eating his way through India over three decades

The Will to Live

The riveting story of Shahbaz Taseer's abduction and five years in terrorist captivity

Pastoral Dream

Shown in public for the first time recently, a scroll painting by Benode Behari Mukherjee celebrates scenes from rural Santiniketan

AN AIR OF ABSTRACTION

A major retrospective at DAG Delhi puts the spotlight back on veteran artist Shanti Dave

A MEETING OF GREAT MINDS

The country's best educators came together to deliberate issues such as the NEP rollout and ChatGPT at the India Today Education Conclave 2023

A DIFFERENT DAWN

Long ignored as a disability, autism finally gets the attention and empathy it deserves, and benefits from new research, improved diagnosis and a growing neurodiversity movement

ALLIANCE OF FOND HOPE

THE TDP, JSP AND BJP MAY COME TOGETHER TO FIGHT THE RULING YSRCP IN 2024, BUT THERE IS MANY A SLIP BETWEEN ENDEAVOUR AND VICTORY

The Navy Gets New Wings

CARRYING THE LATEST AVIONICS AND WEAPONRY, RAFALE-M IS A POTENT MARITIME FIGHTER. THE IMMINENT ARRIVAL OF 26 RAFALE-MS ON THE DECK OF INS VIKRANT WILL BE A SIGNIFICANT BOOST TO THE INDIAN NAVY'S CAPABILITIES

SHAMEFUL BLUNDERS

BY ALLOWING MANIPUR'S WOUNDS TO FESTER, THE STATE AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS HAVE PUSHED ITS PEOPLE TO A POINT OF NO RETURN

HARD LESSONS

Bihar isn’t much known for an abundance of education infrastructure—an endemic scarcity is more like it. Even so, preliminary findings from an official scrutiny of 80,000 state government schools have come as a shocker.