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Up beat

After years of neglect, Malayalam hip-hop is making its way into the mainstream with strong themes

Happy feet again

Travel industry goes all out to woo domestic tourists with short stays and road trips

BADASSES IN BURQAS

A new Pakistani show reveals the dark underbelly of Karachi through four women out to expose cheating spouses

Dream Come True

Shabana and Baba Azmi fulfil their father’s wish to shoot a film in his village

Asymptomatic infection may lead to greater immunity

Monica Gandhi, professor of medicine and infectious diseases specialist, University of California San Francisco

Assets, imagined and real

The dystopian world of artificial intelligence that we imagined would unfold in the future is already here.

A thrilling ride

Book Review

Best Colleges 2020

The Indian education sector was not prepared for a pandemic, but the country’s top colleges have reacted fast

Lankan labyrinth

A man dies in Coimbatore and leaves a trail leading to Colombo. The R&AW and the Tamil Nadu Police seek to establish if he was history-sheeter Angoda Lokka

Trust deficit

Muivah wants the interlocutor sacked

EVER THE SEEKER

Filmmaker Anand Gandhi’s next project will revolve around the pandemic and delve deeper into questions of human identity and existence

We want space flight to be as cheap as air flights

We want space flight to be as cheap as air flights

The silver lining

The fallout of the pandemic powered the much-needed systemic change in education. The time is ripe for innovation

Space craft

A startup in Hyderabad wants to be the world’s most affordable small satellite carrier

Adapt and deliver

Colleges in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are developing new strategies to deal with the Covid-19 situation

Dhoni inspired generations to pick up the bat

I FIRST SAW Mahendra Singh Dhoni in 2004, in his ODI debut series in Bangladesh. Before that, people had spoken about him, but I had not seen him at all. There was a general buzz about him—that he can hit big in domestic cricket. But whether he could hit the same way in international cricket was yet to be seen.

A JUGALBANDI OF MINDS

Bandish Bandits employs music, tradition and love to tell a contemporary story

Thug of Hindustan

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, heroes of the past are falling by the wayside. In a similar move, prominent Indians have been protesting the glorification of the man who led the loot of the country and paved the way for the British empire—Robert Clive

Sky's the limit

A film on Gunjan Saxena, the first woman pilot in the Indian Air Force, brings out her inner strength and vulnerability

Trade winds

Indians are falling in love with the equity markets. As in every relationship, they must keep their eyes open

Winners take all

With their commanding victory in the parliament polls, the Rajapaksas cement their grip over Sri Lanka

Script gone sour

Political controversies muddy investigations into the actor’s death

Line of defence

Herd immunity could slowly kick in across big cities, but vaccinations will be the safer bet, given the uncertainty around antibodies

Knotty ties

Ally trouble hits both coalitions as Bihar gears up for assembly polls

Creativity in uniform

These civil servants are excelling in areas as diverse as music videos and mountaineering

I have not asked for any position

Congress leader Sachin Pilot is back in Jaipur after a month-long standoff with his bête noire, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.

Access denied

Covid-19 has given the Trump administration the perfect opportunity to achieve its anti-immigration objectives

I See Challenges As Creative Opportunities

In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire. That is the title of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale’s fifth edition. Its curator, Shubigi Rao, says in her curatorial note: “There is optimism even in the darkest absurdity, and this is what leavens the direness of our time.” When KMB 2020 released its first list of artists on July 21, it was indeed a breath of fresh air amid the gloom of the pandemic.

SUITED TO STARDOM

Juggling an international career and mainstream Hindi films could overwhelm many. But Ishaan Khatter is doing it in style

RITES OF RETURN

Rahul Gandhi gets repackaged as a leader with intellectual rigour, empathetic to the poor and willing to consult the best minds on crucial issues as a crisis-ridden Congress waits for him to make up his mind