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LONG LIVES THE QUEEN
These reminiscences of Begum Akhtar show that her personality sparkled as much as her voice
Call Her By Her Name
The gospels often relegate women to the periphery. Jeet Thayil’s new novel brings them to the centre
CONAN DOYLE DOES A SHERLOCK
Shrabani Basu’s book tells the story of how Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective knowhow once came to the rescue of a beleaguered Parsi lawyer
AT THE PRINTER'S
Novels to hold your breath for
THE WORLD WITHIN THE WORD
WITH A NEW BOOK, PEGGY MOHAN HAS HELPED CREATE A BRIDGE BETWEEN HOW WE SPEAK AND WHO WE ARE
Salman Rushdie - LANGUAGES OF TRUTH
LANGUAGES OF TRUTH Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie HAMISH HAMILTON
Mamata Vs Modi, Part 2
It has been a stormy first month in office for Mamata Banerjee in her third term as West Bengal chief minister. The BJP top leadership seems to have taken the election defeat to heart and has kept up the pressure on her government. Multiple central teams have descended on the state to “review the law and order situation” and investigating agencies seem to have suddenly woken up to scams that have dragged on for years.
THE TRIAL ISN'T OVER
The Goa government challenges the acquittal of journalist-author Tarun Tejpal in the sensational case of an alleged sexual assault. Why the landmark case is going into a fresh loop
TRUTH AND DARE
Salman Rushdie’s latest volume of non-fiction bristles with candour and courage
THE DANGAL JUNGLE
The fall of an icon exposes the seedy underbelly of Indian wrestling
HOW TO KICKSTART THE ECONOMY
THE DEADLY SECOND WAVE OF COVID BATTERED AN ALREADY BRUISED ECONOMY. INDIA NOW NEEDS POLICY VISION OUT OF THE ORDINARY TO RESTORE CONSUMER CONFIDENCE, BUSINESSES AND LIVELIHOODS
Can Amarinder ride out the storm?
PUNJAB CONGRESS
Covid-hit Villages Are Poll Battleground
On May 22, for the first time ever a chief minister who was not from the Samajwadi Party (SP) visited Saifai, the native village of party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, is the chancellor of the Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences in Saifai in Etawah district.
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
Rural India’s desperately inadequate health infrastructure is common knowledge. But official estimates understate the crisis, which makes the battle against the pandemic even harder
AT THE CRITICAL POINT
T.M. Krishna’s prose is often as piercing as his music. With a new collection of his writings releasing this week, the vocalist says that, for him, nothing, not even his own work, is set in stone
...And Now Black Fungus
Mucormycosis
THEIR CONTENT IS KING
Raj & DK have cracked the formula to OTT success with the shows and films they write, produce and direct
THE BURDEN OF GEN-COVID
WITH SCHOOL AND SOCIAL LIVES HAVING MOVED ONLINE AND PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS DOWN TO ALMOST ZERO, INDIA’S CHILDREN ARE IN DISTRESS
KEEPING THE FAITH
Releasing next month, Suresh Raina’s memoir, Believe, tells a tale of grit and determination, highlighting a never-say-die attitude he inherited from cricketing greats
THE AGE OF FEAR
COVID’S DEADLY SECOND WAVE HAS SPARKED OFF A ‘FEARODEMIC’. PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF DYING, OF LOSING THEIR LOVED ONES, OF BEING ALONE, OF LOSING THEIR JOBS—ANXIETIES THAT ADD A NEW DIMENSION OF MENTAL-HEALTH ISSUES TO THE ONGOING CRISIS
PROFITEERING IN THE PANDEMIC
SHORTAGES AND BOTTLENECKS IN THE DELIVERY OF CRITICAL DRUGS AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES HAVE LEFT DESPERATE FAMILIES OF COVID PATIENTS EXPOSED TO A RAPACIOUS BLACK MARKET
Pinarayi's New Stormtroopers
KERALA
FATAL LAPSES AT SEA
Cyclone Tauktae left 86 people dead in India’s worst-ever offshore disaster. Making matters yet more tragic is that early warnings made this entirely avoidable
JOB THREAT REDEFINED
JAMMU & KASHMIR
CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE?
SOCIAL MEDIA WARS
The Imminent Return Of Rahul
At the May 10 Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, party president Sonia Gandhi announced that the Central Election Authority (CEA) of the Congress was ready with the schedule for the presidential election.
Republic Of Self-Help Medical Care: Airborne Aid
A pilots' group in Ahmedabad has been providing funds and medical supplies to those in need
The Cost Of Covid Control?
Inflation
INDIA'S BACKYARD
Shivshankar Menon’s book is a complexly woven discourse on how India has seen itself, Asia, and the great powers for the past 75 years. But this is no primer: Menon has spent his entire adult life studying China; he was ambassador there, as well as to Israel, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan, and was Foreign Secretary and National Security Advisor. This experience, combined with wide reading of extant literature, makes for a cerebral and deeply rigorous treatment.
HOPE FLOATS
A TRADITIONAL SHIKARA CONVERTED INTO A WATER AMBULANCE HAS BEEN HELPING THE RESIDENTS OF DAL LAKE GET TIMELY MEDICAL AID