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SAFFRON FEELS THE SHRINK

Jharkhand becomes the fifth state to slip out of the BJP’s grip in the past one year, calling into question Modi-Shah’s regional strategy. Can the party arrest the slide?

READING BETWEEN THE LINES

On December 9, taking part in the Lok Sabha debate over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, Union home minister Amit Shah said: “Maan ke chaliye NRC aane wala hai (accept that the NRC is coming).”

Uttarakhand - Temple Takeover

The BJP state government’s move to secure the management of Uttarakhand’s big temples faces a backlash from Sangh outfits and godmen

Champions Of Change

Unheralded crusaders who have heeded the call of their conscience to bring about a change in the lives of others

CAA - Has The Ruling BJP Lost Control Of The Script?

Protests erupt countrywide as the implications of the Citizenship Amendment Act sink in. Has the ruling BJP lost control of the script?

WILDLIFE WARRIOR

K.S.BHADORIA, 58 Field Director, Panna Tiger Reserve, MADHYA PRADESH

When Bollywood Eats For Two

The Soon-To-Release Good Newwz Is One Of Many Hindi Films That Is Taking Pregnancy As Its Theme

THE SWACHH YOGI

Parameswaran Iyer was in Hanoi, Vietnam, watching television with his wife Indira, when Narendra Modi delivered his maiden Independence Day address in Delhi in 2014, calling for a Swachh Bharat (Clean India) mission.

STRENGTH OF A SINGLE WOMAN

Widowed at 23 and blamed for the misfortune, Nirmal Chandel spent a year in a dark corner of her in-laws’ home. “I thought of ending my life once, but life had some other role for me in mind,” says Chandel.

SPREADING SUNSHINE

MERA GAOPOWER, 2010 UTTAR PRADESH

NYUKUNG SINGS A LULLABY

KEEPU T.LEPCHA, 79 Social activist, LEPCHA COTTA G E

Nothing To Lose

After his steady ascent, table tennis star Sathiyan Gnanasekaran is focused on the Olympics next year

Midas of the Farmland

Midas of the Farmland

LIGHT MAN OF KERALA

LIGHT MAN OF KERALA

GOING BACK TO NATURE

GOING BACK TO NATURE

BODY OF LANGUAGE

BODY OF LANGUAGE

A VOICE OF AND FROM THE MARGINS

Manoranjan Byapari, the celebrated Dalit Bengali writer, has taken on many odd jobs in life—as a rickshaw-puller, a sweeper, watchman, cook or whatever else came his way.

A Nose For Innovation

He was in his fourth year of college at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi when he began looking for ways to help his mother who was suffering from asthma.

Telecom Distress Call

Cut-throat competition and regulatory uncertainty have scarred the telecom sector. The recent tariff hike may rescue telcos for now, but subscribers will bear the brunt

Sussanne Khan Reveals Her Best Kept Festive Design Secrets

Celebrity designer Sussanne Khan, known for larger-than-life, edgy designs, recreates the spirit of the season and reveals her best kept festive design secrets

2010 - 2019 The Breakaway Decade

The old order yielded to a radically new and unsettling reality

The Decade of Data

No, wait, data is not ‘the new oil’. Nor gold. Data is the new sex, a sanskari strain. Everyone wants it, wants to control it and make money of it

Surrender of the Institutions

Public institutions such as the courts and media, guardians of our civil liberties, have faced unprecedented obstruction and bullying

The Coming of Reason

How even the liberalising winds of change forgot the dark Dalit quarters of India

Soaring Hopes, Deepening Anxieties

Nations succumbed to nationalist and nativist urges at a time when the world needed global responses

SIREN OF THE EAST

CONVERSATIONS AT THE INDIA TODAY CONCLAVE EAST 2019 WERE WIDE-RANGING, BUT CITIZENSHIP REMAINED THE HOTTEST TOPIC

How Do You Like Us Now?

Misinformation and hate have soured our great social media dream

Cricket and Then Some

India’s exploits in cricket were inarguable, but its successes in other sports were sporadic. Tokyo 2020 will be an opportunity to set that record straight

A Roller-Coaster Ride

The Modi government did reasonably well in its first two years. Then came the twin shocks of demonetisation and GST and the Indian economy never looked the same again

2010-19 THE BREAKAWAY DECADE

THE OLD ORDER YIELDED TO A RADICALLY NEW AND UNSETTLING REALITY