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A THOUSAND WORDS

Naveen Kishore's 'vocabulary' finds expression through his ongoing photography exhibition In A Cannibal Time

A'Reform' Is Rolled Back

Just days before the new academic session was to begin in Gujarat, the state government made a surprise retreat. It scrapped the ambitious and controversial plan it had drawn up to launch special schools for meritorious students—called Gyan Setu Day Schools.

MAHARASHTRA: PAIN POINTS

It was a scathing statement that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national secretary and former Maharashtra minister Pankaja Munde made earlier this month—one that could only have been a sign of festering wounds growing bigger.

REGULARISING THE IRREGULAR

The poll season has set in over Madhya Pradesh, and it comes bearing pretty presents by parties in the fray looking to woo voters.

Will The Growth Sustain?

India recorded a 7.2 per cent growth in gross domestic product (GDP) in the 2022-23 fiscal—exceeding, if marginally, what most economists had anticipated and the Centre’s own estimate of 7 per cent.

Uttar Pradesh: Corridor For The Faithful

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is betting big on religious tourism to give a facelift to his state, Uttar Pradesh. The success of the Kashi Vishwanath temple corridor, where tourists and pilgrims are descending in hordes, has prompted plans for three new corridors—the Vindhyavasini in Mirzapur, Mathura-Vrindavan and the Nath circuit in Bareilly.

Lessons From The Coromandel Crash

The inside story of how the disaster happened, who is to blame and what needs to be done to improve railsafety

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KNOWING VAJPAYEE

How is it that some political figures loom large in our collective memory and yet remain enigmatic, if not little-known? Atal Bihari Vajpayee is certainly one such figure, one of India’s most consequential politicians, not just for the party he steered for more than five decades, but also for the country he played a part in shaping as a political activist, a lifelong RSS member, a party leader, a parliamentarian, and a prime minister

INDO-US: CIRCLING THE WAGONS

US Secretary of defense Lloyd James Austin landed in New Delhi barely two weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official visit to Washington from June 21. According to a US department of defense statement, Austin is in India \"to reinforce major defence partnership and advance cooperation in critical domains\" between the strategic partners. During his meeting with defence minister Rajnath Singh, a road map for defence industrial cooperation with the goal of fast-tracking technology transfer and co-production was agreed upon.

GOA - THE FIRST GOANS ASK A QUESTION

Tribal communities in Goa are becoming increasingly vocal about their political and social rights. Over the past few months, they have upped the ante on one of their long-pending demands-10 per cent political reservation for scheduled tribes (STs) in the Goa legislative assembly and have threatened to boycott the 2024 Lok Sabha polls if this was not met. In 2003, the Gauda, Velip and Kunbi communities were added to the ST category.

CHEETAHS IN KUNO - A SPOTTY TRAJECTORY

For a plan that took five decades from conception to fruition, the expectations surrounding Project Cheetah—dubbed as the first intercontinental translocation of a large wild carnivore—are bound to be high. But after a promising start, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi releasing eight cheetahs brought from Namibia at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh last September, the fanfare has given way to an appreciation of starker realities. Mortality among the spotted felines has led to a reevaluation of the whole project.

Return of a CRIME THRILLER

Will Gaurav Shukla's Asur 2, sequel to the hit web series from 2020, live up to its 'India's Biggest Crime Thriller' tag?

DIRECTOR IN DEMAND

HANSAL MEHTA'S PENCHANT FOR LONG-FORM STORYTELLING AND GETTING UNDER THE SKIN OF AN ISSUE COME TOGETHER IN HIS LATEST OTT SERIES, SCOOP

Found in Translation

There has been a slew of translations of Tamil books recently, opening them up to a wider audience

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WALKING THROUGH FIRE

Selected for the 2023 International Booker Prize longlist, Perumal Murugan's novel Pyre confronts many burning issues

SOUTHERN STRENGTHS

PROMINENT VOICES FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS GATHERED AT THE INDIA TODAY CONCLAVE SOUTH 2023 TO DISCUSS EVERYTHING-FROM STATE FINANCES, FEDERALISM AND POLITICS TO TOURISM, INDIA'S SPACE GOALS, WILDLIFE AND CULTURE

Guru Cool

Spirituality goes trendy as its practitioners take to social media to reach out to angstridden Gen Z. But do they succeed in teaching them anything deeper than the latest mumbo-jumbo?

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Art by the People

The Shilp Deergha gallery at the new Parliament building celebrates the crafts traditions of India

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HINDUTVA WITH A BENGALI ACCENT

AHEAD OF THE 2024 GENERAL ELECTION, THE BJP IS TRYING A NEW TACTIC TO WIN OVER BENGAL-COOPTING THEMES NATIVE TO THE STATE, RESUSCITATING HALF-FORGOTTEN TEMPLES AND REIMAGINING 'ANCIENT' PILGRIMAGES

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LEST WE FORGET

Apart from invaluable eyewitness accounts, New Delhi’s Partition Museum also links the historic calamity with the city’s evolution

NO CHILD'S PLAY

Actor Nimrat Kaur is back in a web series with School of Lies on Disney+ Hotstar

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POLITICS WITH A HINT OF ROYALTY

SAMBHAJIRAJE WILL HAVE TO CREATE ROOM IN MAHARASHTRA’S CROWDED POLITICAL FIELD

FACT AND FICN IN BIHAR

On the night of May 22, the police in Patna got a tip-off that liquor was being sold out of a flat in Rajaram Apartments in the posh Srikrishna Puri locality. Bihar being a ‘dry state’, the cops quickly arranged a late-night swoop. The raid yielded a lot more than a few liquor bottles—there was Rs 1.8 lakh in counterfeit currency (in Rs 500 and Rs 200 denominations) and banknotes printed on paper sheets, ready to be cut out and circulated. A full counterfeit cottage industry, in fact: printers, paper sheets, a cutting machine and laptop.