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Will The Uttar Pradesh Polls Mark The End Of The BJP's Multi Caste Hindutva Vote Base?
The exodus of OBC allies from the BJP camp has led to this question: Will the assembly polls mark the end of the ruling party’s multi-caste hindutva vote base
Difficult To Emulate Virat, The Born Leader
Draws were not good enough for Virat Kohli, and this helped him deliver the wins he needed to take India to the top of Test cricket
FREEING THE FILMMAKER
Filmocracy, a Kerala collective, is making cinema a possibility for many young indie filmmakers
No alternative to privatising banking sector
INTERVIEW ARVIND PANAGARIYA, economist
MOTHER IN VERSE
In translating Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s poetry from Bangla, Nandana Dev Sen understood her mother a lot better and also found a place of refuge
TAKING FRESH GUARD
Virat Kohli’s decision to step down as Test captain was an emotional one, but not one taken in haste. A change of guard in the BCCI and lack of communication led to India’s most successful Test captain walking away. The silver lining could be the return of the champion batter
Weaponised drones will be next-gen terror tactics
INTERVIEW M.A. Ganapathy director general, National Security Guard
WATER BOOSTER
An abruptly ended march might have triggered the Congress’s political redemption in Karnataka
Weaponising space not ISRO's mandate
INTERVIEW: S. SOMANATH, chief of ISRO
By March, Covid Will Become Endemic
Interview DR D. NAGESHWAR REDDY, Chairman, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad
A TALE OF TWO INDIAS
Two years of living with the virus have changed the way many Indians earn their livelihood
Alt option
The Aam Aadmi Party’s campaign is based on the firm belief that Punjabi voters want change this time
Bird that soared
Lal Bahadur Shastri might have irreversibly established secularism
I FEAR FOR MY LIFE
Interview ALINA CHAN, Researcher
CHILDHOOD PAUSED
In the long term, kids may be the biggest victims of the pandemic—having suffered losses in learning and at psychosocial and developmental levels
CARE ON CALL
Apollo Hospitals played a pioneering role in mainstreaming telehealth services during the Covid-19 pandemic
NO CHILD'S PLAY
Tamil Nadu’s ambitious scheme is helping children fall back in love with learning
MAKE HEALTH CARE A NATIONAL PRIORITY
Interview DR PRATHAP C. REDDYChairman, Apollo Hospitals
Upgrading for the challenge
Even as hospitals in India battle Omicron and a surge in Covid-19 cases, they are building a health care system that will make them pandemic-proof
The lion and the lamb
His reign began with one crisis, and ended with another—not personal or political crises, but national crises that changed not only the discourse of Indian politics, but the polity itself.
Shifting school
Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru left an indelible mark on the country’s polity, defining the contours of its political, economic, social and cultural life.
On the right track
Two recent books look at hindutva, but each has a different take. While Christophe Jaffrelot’s latest talks about how Hindu nationalism turned India into an Israel-like ethnic democracy, Ram Madhav’s book puts forward a homegrown ideology that aims to be different from isms of the west
Silver linings playbook
India has hit upon a bevy of services and products for the elderly
RRR is emotionally more hard-hitting than Baahubali
INTERVIEW: S.S. Rajamouli, filmmaker
Poll positioning
The Shiromani Akali Dal is bringing in more Hindus, including dalits, and wants to position itself as the sole regional party for Punjabis
Masters, anew
In its most ambitious undertaking, the Delhi Art Gallery is laying out a banquet of the rarest finds in Indian art
Law And The New Low
In an “ambush” on December 4, a unit of 21 Para Special Forces killed six innocent, un-armed miners in broad daylight in Mon district of Nagaland under the impression that they were armed cadres of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang-Yung Aung) faction.
Inside Story Of Attacks On Our Banks, Airlines, Railways... And The Fighback
Cyberattacks by criminals and rival states like China on critical infrastructure sectors have become a major threat to national security. THE WEEK explains how India fights back by beefing up its online defences and making rapid strides in hacking techniques, cryptography, reverse engineering and forensics
Work at play
When video games become jobs, are they still worth playing?
INDIA SHOULD BE SEEN AS SAFE DESTINATION FOR GLOBAL IT CAPABILITY CENTRES
INTERVIEW RAMA VEDASHREE CEO, DSCI