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Play Footsie

LET YOUR FEET DO ALL THE TALKING AS YOU WALK AND DANCE. FIVE THERAPIES TO KEEP THEM IN PERFECT SHAPE

Family Matters

Political ambitions clash within the Chautala clan, leading to the break-up of the INLD.

Congress Looks Upbeat In The State

For the first time in decades, the Congress looks upbeat in the state.

Ranveer Singh- The Ultimate Showman

A bundle of nervous energy, a man in touch with his feminine side and the flamboyant half of the #DeepVeer power couple, Ranveer Singh is: the new hit man in tinseltown.

Fixing The Blame

The crash of a newly upgraded Mirage-2000 trainer aircraft, which killed two test pilots of the Indian Air Force, is the newest pain point between the air force and public sector undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

Still Far From Feeling Appeased

Dalit Groups Are Not Impressed With The Measly Incentives To Woo Them.

Paying A Price For Diversion

The state government is under fire for repurposing contingency funds.

Southern Toehold

The BJP has an ally in the state, but it might need more to thwart the DMK-Congress combine.

A New Court Is In Session

With approaching elections and a pile-up of high-profile cases, the year ahead brings formidable challenges for the court of new CJI Ranjan Gogoi, but in tow comes the opportunity to assert the centrality of the apex court

The Price Of Profligacy

Can the governments intervention to save systemically important IL&FS shore up its prospectsand prevent a larger NBFC meltdown?

Trashing Waste

When Avinash Pratap Singh, 26, started noticing trash piles in pristine mountain trails, forests and river banks, he knew something had to be done to reverse this ecological eclipse.

Army Return Fire?

In the clutch of highly sensitive cases the Supreme Court is currently hearing is one challenging any dilution in the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act or AFSPA. Last August, the court admitted this petition by nearly 700 serving military personnel.

Manufacturing A Drought

The Marathwada region is again battling a water crisisand its man-made

Tinsel Times In Andhra

Naidu offers big sops to Telugu film industry to make Vizag its new hub

Bollywood: A Conspiracy Of Silence

When actress Tanushree Dutta reminded Indians of the alleged sexual harassment she suffered at the hands of Nana Patekar a decade ago on the sets of Horn Ok Pleassss, Bollywood professionals didn't respond with #MeToo but #IBelieveHer.

Fact Finding

The tiger adorns every tourism poster, millions have been spent trying to protect it, and dozens of tigerbooks have been written based largely on casual observation and anecdote.

Jailhouse Pudding

Lalu’s legal woes continue, but an apparent overture from a potential ally gives hope to the RJD

Mean Machine

The new BMW X5xDrive 30d is perfect not just to negotiate city roads but to strut your stuff on the highway too

Train Spotting

Management professional Deepak Sapra’s debut novel is all about the chaotic beauty of train journeys in India

The RBI Vs North Block Tug Of War

Discontent brews between the RBI and the government as the central bank stamps its independence through policy prescriptions on critical economic issues

Why The UAPA Must Go

On August 26, the Pune police arrested five persons—Arun Ferreira, Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Varavara Rao and Vernon Gonsalves—ostensibly in the course of a probe into incidents at a public meeting on December 31, 2017.

A Sea Change

A Sea Change The Centre plans big changes in the coastal regulatory zone rules. Fishermen, green activists are up in arms

A Leaf Out Of The BJP Book

The Congress plans to beat the incumbent party at its own game by borrowing its electoral strategy under state in-charge Kamal Nath

A Burning Issue

In June this year, when fuel prices in India shot up after global crude prices crossed $80 a barrel, Union minister for oil Dharmendra Pradhan said there was little that the central government could do, but states should look at lowering the value-added tax (VAT) on fuel.

Is India Ready For Section 377?

The landmark 377 judgment has ushered in a new sexual morality in India. But the battle between progressive and regressive social mores looms.

The Travails Of Same-Sex Love

Striking down the 158-year-old law, Justice R.F. Nariman quoted from a poem by Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas, Oscar Wilde’s lover. From Two Loves, he picked the last line: “I am the love that dare not speak its name.” Over endless cups of tea and in phone calls from across the country, gay people told us stories of their once-forbidden love. Of their loneliness, estrangement and invisibility in popular culture—and in their everyday life. They spoke of the trauma, the fear and the persecution. For all the people of privilege, the Suneet Varmas and Ayesha Soods of these intimate portraits, who grew up in families that accepted their sexuality, and for whom Section 377 was a “sad fact” that didn’t really cast a shadow on their lives, there are also thousands like Davinder Rajput, 27, from Jalandhar, who was ostracised, even beaten up daily, for being gay. But it doesn’t always have to be that way. The two couples featured here speak of their committed love for each other, the single gay man in a big city about his search for companionship and the rustic hunk of his grit in walking his own path to be with his lover. Maybe these stories of hope and courage and love will make it all a little more socially legit. Because, as the court said, love is love.

Selling A Pipe Dream

A Gujarat government company once credited with the ‘biggest ever’ natural gas reserve find in the country is now burdened with a Rs 13,000 crore debt and desperately needs a bailout.

To Lead Or Not To Lead!

Rahul Gandhi, it appears, is still intent on resigning as Congress president, stung by the scale of his party’s electoral defeat.

Mamata Begins A Purge

The West Bengal chief minister is going after ‘traitors’, both in her party and the state administration

There Were Always Challenges, But We Did Not Run Away From Them. We Fearlessly Faced Each And Every One Of Them

When he took over as Maharashtra chief minister in October 2014, the highest post DEVENDRA FADNAVIS, 49, had held till then was that of Nagpur mayor. But the four-time BJP MLA and former party president has proved equal to the task despite multiple challenges, such as the widespread agrarian distress in the state, the Maratha agitation, the Dalit uprising and the constant sniping by alliance partner Shiv Sena. However, keeping the BJP-Sena alliance intact for the Lok Sabha earned a rich dividend—41 of the state’s 48 parliamentary seats. Fadnavis and the alliance are now frontrunners in the assembly poll due in October. In an exclusive interview to Group Editorial Director RAJ CHENGAPPA and Senior Associate Editor KIRAN D. TARE in Mumbai, Fadnavis spoke on a range of issues. Excerpts: