Hustling at the hustings

The BRS wants to make a statement, the BJP wants to expand and the Congress wants to retain its seat—the story of a byelection in Telangana

BIG GUNS DEPLOYED

Though favourites in Gujarat, the BJP is not taking anything for granted and Modi and Shah are both on the ground

New India is rising

Transformational changes in the realm of welfare delivery mechanisms, application changes in institutional frameworks for enhancing productivity in economic activities and governance, and making India a destination for next-generation technological research and global manufacturing have been the hallmarks of the eight years of the Narendra Modi government.

The guilty military of 1962

On October 20, 1962, the Chinese launched a pre-emptive counterattack to the threat held out to them by the Indian prime minister eight days earlier that he had ordered the Army to “throw the Chinese out” of the Thagla Ridge. Within a month, they had conquered all of NEFA; then, as their troops stood poised on the edge of the Brahmaputra Valley, the Chinese suddenly undertook a unilateral withdrawal from the territories they had conquered, including even Tawang.

HIGH AND LOWS

Guarding the Line of Actual Control not just takes a physical toll on jawans from the IndoTibetan Border Police, but more so a mental one

Get real with Rishi, folks

David Cameron had foretold this, once in the presence of Narendra Modi—that there would soon be a day when the monarch calls a Singh or a Patel as “my prime minister”.

The New Tata

Once a sprawling conglomerate of about a hundred companies, Tata Group is in the middle of a consolidation drive to become a future-ready, tech-savvy business group

The business of fashion week

It has been two years since we have had a full-blown fashion week and I have missed it, honestly. Just having much of the community under one roof at the same time, savouring the fruits of their labour and partaking of the excessive beauty of Indian fashion is truly an exciting space to be in.

COURAGE ON TAPE

Through her award-winning documentary, Kavitha Lankesh wants  her sister Gauri’s voice to live on

Reimagining romance

How a theatre adaptation of Mughal-e-Azam recreates the magic of the classic film

Govinda is an OG

In keeping with his reputation of coming late to sets, Bollywood star Govinda made it to his seat across the aisle from me on a flight to Jaipur in the nick of time. We were meeting after decades, and it took me a while to recognise him minus his peach lip colour and brown eyeliner. His hair was sparser and he was several kilos lighter. But once he broke into a smile, every passenger on the packed flight knew who he was.

My top teams are India, Pakistan and Australia

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Brett Lee former Australian pacer

BAT, BALL AND BELIEF

Hardik Pandya has become the all-rounder India has always wanted him to be, in time for the T20 World Cup, and for other challenges ahead

A MATTER OF TIME

Limited-to-India watches—one telling indication of how luxury watchmakers are viewing India

NEW HOME RULES

The surge in demand for luxury homes was shaped by the pandemic

LUXE REDUX

2022 has been a phenomenal year for India’s luxury industry, thanks to the wealthy that went on a spending spree. The real story, however, is the spectacular rise of bridge brands and homegrown luxury labels

Forward march

The remarkable success of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in poll-bound Karnataka has unnerved the BJP and re-energised the Congress

SHOW OF HANDS

After a hotly contested election with a predictable outcome, Mallikarjun Kharge faces the difficult task of engineering a Congress resurgence

Meeting Xi’s father

Xi Jinping is unlike any other princeling I knew in China. He was born in Beijing but he grew up in the countryside where he got brainwashed by Mao Zedong’s ideology. Today, he is the only second-generation princeling who can be called a modern-day Red Guard. It is the biggest qualification that sets him apart and could help him get a third term, if not life term, as president.

CORONATION PARTY

Xi Jinping’s ideology has emerged as the priority solution to China’s economic and security concerns. Foreign policy and military superiority, however, will remain major challenges for him

Defection and disaffection

Power tussles and the absence of a decisive leadership plague the BJP in West Bengal

Revisiting The China War 1962

When the 1962 war ended, not only had India been defeated, but also abandoned by the world. The Chinese victory was complete, while India's prestige was a shambles

Where is the outrage?

This past week, two events triggered different political and media responses in India’s capital. And what happened should give us pause. At a meet organised by the Vishwa Hindu

What the sari said

What a delight it was to see Congress leader Sonia Gandhi join her son Rahul for the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' Rahul was in Mandya district of the BJP-governed Karnataka on the 27th day of his padyatra across India.

Verse as weapon

Meena Kandasamy, who recently received Germany's Hermann Kesten Prize, says that her pen gives her psychological relief

Cruel intentions

The new true-crime series on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer does not offer anything new

LET THERE BE LIGHT!

Where can you find a tiger the size of 1,060 football fields or a ship on the iceberg where it was wrecked? Ask Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter

SKY ROCKETS!

Suryakumar Yadav is perhaps India's most important batter heading into the T20 World Cup

Behold, Lusail

The World Cup final is being hosted by a historic settlement turned futuristic city

Tours and travails

Visa delays in the UK are likely to hit the Indian tourism industry hard