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CUP OF WOES
The tea industry in West Bengal contributes 26 per cent of India's total production but it is struggling with depressed prices and falling exports. Insiders debate how and whether it could script a recovery
Bollywood IS BACK!
AFTER A LONG POST-COVID WINTER, HINDI FILMS ARE HAVING THEIR MOMENT, WITH 2023 SET TO BECOME THEIR BEST YEAR EVER
THE NEW DANGER ZONES
The unprecedented destruction caused by landslides in Uttarakhand this year puts a huge question mark on the Rs 12,000 crore Char Dham project. Can India find a way out, protect its infrastructure while also minimising the impact on the mountains?
'KCR IS NEVER WORRIED. WE WILL WIN A THIRD TERM'
His sprawling farm on the outskirts of Hyderabad is something of a sanctum sanctorum for Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR). As he sat down for a 100-minute candid interaction with Group Editorial Director Raj Chengappa and Senior Deputy Editor Amarnath K. Menon, the 69-year-old KCR exuded a quiet confidence about winning a third straight term. Edited excerpts:
TACTICAL SHIFTS
THE CONGRESS AND BJP MAKE LAST-GASP STRATEGY CHANGES, BUT THE CORE CONTEST IS STILL BETWEEN GEHLOT'S GUARANTEES AND MODI, THE FACE OF THE BJP
A Titan Checks Out
A contemporary legend, Biki Oberoi crafted Indian hospitality's stunning response to the world
A NEW HOME FOR THE LIONS
Wildlife tourism in Gujarat is getting a boost with the announcement of W one more wildlife safari park in the coastal village of Naliya-Mandvi in Una taluka of Gir Somnath district, about 50 km southeast of the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary.
SP-CONGRESS: A WIDENING GULF
The rift between two important members of the Opposition INDIA bloc, the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP), is assuming the proportions of a running feud.
STATE VERSUS THE GUV
The running battle between the Left Front government and Governor Arif Mohammed Khan in Kerala has taken a turn for the worse with the state filing two petitions against Khan in the Supreme Court.
STILL IN THE GAME
In a small but striking move on the chess board, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on November 13 named Mahua Moitra to a formal role. Not a big one as party posts go: district president of West Bengal’s Krishnanagar (Nadia North).
How To Eat Right
As awareness about the dangers of unhealthy food habits grows in India, here's the ultimate guide to what's good for you and what's not
A NEW SCRIPT
Fresh from the success of Jaane Jaan, Jaideep Ahlawat has teamed up with Paatal Lok director Avinash Arun again for Three of Us
ON HIGHER Ground
SKY ISLANDS, IAN LOCKWOOD'S EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE WESTERN GHATS AT NCPA, MUMBAI, HIGHLIGHTS A BEAUTIFUL AND EMBATTLED LANDSCAPE
Sculpting A Path
Over half a century of work will be on display at On the Open Road, sculptor K.S.Radhakrishnan's upcoming retrospective at Bikaner House in New Delhi
BOYISH MAN
Irish singer and former Boyzone vocalist Ronan Keating is on a whirlwind India tour this month
CELEBRATING COMMUNITY
The inaugural edition of the month-long Manam Theatre Festival in Hyderabad promises a window into a diversity of performing arts
Playing by the Book
THERE'S A SLEW OF NEW BOOKS ON CRICKET
An Insider's VIEW
Amrit Mathur illuminates key moments in Indian cricket in his unassuming and incisive memoir, Pitchside
Stranger Than Truth
Manjula Padmanabhan's Stolen Hours and Other Curiosities brings all her science fiction stories together in one place
Family Un-Ties
Vivek Shanbhag's latest novel, Sakina's Kiss, is a complex yet subtle critique of middleclass mores
SMALL SECTOR BLUES
The MSME sector contributes 30 per cent to India's GDP but delayed payments-courtesy public and private enterprises have been its bane, impeding efforts to raise capital and scale up
CAUGHT IN A MUDDLE
Ajit Pawar is yet to find his feet after joining the BJP-led alliance government in Maharashtra. His NCP faction bagged crucial portfolios, but the deputy CM is still No. 3 in the pecking order
Azza Pads Up
Stance, style, flick...everything was intact when he won from UP's Moradabad in 2009 wearing Congress colours.
OMG!
It's an almighty coalition between spiritual and temporal. Yagnas, chanting purohits, mahants, fakirs, bhajan singers-like always in India, all the beadyeyed shades of the divine can be spotted in the electoral arena. The other day, Telangana CM K.
DIYAS FOR DIYA KUMARI
Diya Kumari has taken to Vidyadhar Nagar constituency in Jaipur like fish to water.
So Who's Soorma Bhopali?
Vast, open prairies overrun by dacoits with bad teeth, a scriptwriter from Indore in Salim Khan, a teenager getting ajob in a bidi factory in Jabalpur.....though it was never mentioned explicitly, Madhya Pradesh is writ all over the 1975 blockbuster Sholay.
THE PATIENT CRUSADER
WILL FORTUNE FINALLY TURN FOR SURGUJA'S EX-MAHARAJA, T.S. SINGH DEO, WHO CONTINUES TO BE A CM HOPEFUL?
FALLING OVER BACKWARDS
THE SAFFRON PARTY IS RELYING HEAVILY ON THE OBC VOTE AS A POTENTIAL GAME-CHANGER
'WE'RE WAY AHEAD IN THE RACE'
UNION MINISTER GAJENDRA SHEKHAWAT GIVES THE OPPOSITION BJP'S TAKE IN WHAT IS PROVING TO BE A CLOSELY FOUGHT CAMPAIGN. EXCERPTS:
"Our voters will see the difference we have made"
In an interview with Group Editorial Director Raj Chengappa and Deputy Editor Rohit Parihar, the incumbent chief minister Ashok Gehlot seems confident that there is no significant anti-incumbency against his government and that his bid to win the assembly polls is on track. In a companion interview, BJP leader and Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat expresses equal confidence that his party will form a majority government. Excerpts from the interviews: