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India is currently caught in a deadly pincer. On one side is the burgeoning health crisis and on the other is the precipitous decline of the Indian economy. Both are humanitarian crises. One is a matter of life and death, and the other of livelihood.

Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje does not lack detractors in her own party, some big names in the central leadership among them. But despite attempts to sideline her, she keeps bouncing back. Her loyalists have now set up a free food d

Maharashtra tourism minister Aaditya Thackeray is a Mumbai heritage buff. In 2018, he had got the historic Flora Fountain repaired. This year, on May 30, he inaugurated the restored Fitzgerald fountain, a 153-year-old cast iron structure. But social

For sharp analysis on topical issues by the editors of INDIA TODAY, log on to www.indiatoday.in/india-today-magazine-insight The initial euphoria has given way to uncertainty. Educationists see it as an opportunity to overhaul the education system ht

CHAIRMAN AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Aroon Purie VICE CHAIRPERSON: Kalli Purie GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Dinesh Bhatia GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Raj Chengappa CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Manoj Sharma GROUP CREATIVE EDITOR: Nilanjan Das; GROUP PHOTO EDITOR

The misguided and undemocratic impulse of the controversial Draft Lakshadweep Development Authority Regulation, 2021 (LDAR 21) has shaken the conscience of people in Kerala, all of India and, of course, the islands themselves. The LDAR 21 faithfully

1,730 million Total doses needed for 18 years and above 216 million doses administered 1,514 million doses required to vaccinate entire population above 18 136 DAYS Since vaccination began (on Jan. 16) 1.6 MN/ DAY Current rate of vaccination 214

77 % UP’s rural population (Census 2011) 250 seats (of 403 overall in UP assembly) where the rural vote is critical 59,000 Pradhans elected to gram panchayats, whose support will matter in 2022 assembly polls 312 Seats the BJP had won in the 2017

Q HOW BADLY IS THE ECONOMY HIT? AND WHAT IS THE MEDIUM-TERM OUTLOOK, ESPECIALLY IF UNLOCK 2.0 IS GRADUAL? › RAJNISH KUMAR: The second wave of Covid has slowed down the pace of economic recovery that had picked up. However, since the second lockdown

Sources: Rural Health Statistics, 2019-20; Ministry of Health and Family Welfare ■

Nov. 7 & 8, 2013 Tarun Tejpal, editor-in-chief of Tehelka allegedly sexually assaults a young colleague in a hotel elevator in Goa Nov. 19 Tejpal writes an informal apology letter to the victim Nov. 20 Formal apology letter from Tejpal to victim an

Cars with rechargeable batteries were widely used for urban transport from the late-1800s till the 1920s. Here, a 1921 Slaby-Beringer While cheap oil defeated electrics for terrestrial transport, the battery-powered Lunar Rover arrived on the moon o

2008 Sushil Kumar wins a bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics 2010 First, and still the only, Indian to win a World Championship gold 2012 A silver at the 2012 London Olympics; the only Indian to win a medal in an individual sport in consecutive G

₹577 (Kindle); 368 pages Hailed by critics as “the first great millennial novelist”, Sally Rooney is set to build on the success of Normal People with a new novel in September. Her characters, we hear, will again be young and Irish. They will again w

My father, who is well into his 70s has a quaint, endearing habit of sending texts that follow the linguistic rules of handwritten letters. They begin, “Dear Tanu”, line break, the message and end “Love, Pa”. Even when we are texting back and forth,

After his award-winning Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India, Akshaya Mukul returns with a biography of the poet Sachidanand Hiranand Vatsyayan Agyeya. By analysing his unconventional views and unorthodox life, Mukul tells us the story of a liter

Amit Chaudhuri is an acclaimed writer and a gentleman singer, a regrettably quaint way of describing a serious singer who hasn’t made it his profession. Perhaps it’s a blessed perch that affords a sweeping yet personal view of a complex subject. Hind

Begum Akhtar never lacked patrons, and her fan following was legendary—it included aspiring poets, teachers, impresarios, clerks, corporate types, ex-cricketers. Only a few were musically inclined; some had a nodding acquaintance with Urdu verse. Con