23 January 2023

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From The Editor-in-chief
Time is a continuum, like a flowing river. Our calendars put dams on it to assess what has happened and what it may foretell for the future. When looking ahead, there are certain predictable events—elections, for example. In 2023, a series of importa
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Presenting India Today Insight
For sharp analysis on topical issues by the editors of INDIA TODAY, log on to www.indiatoday.in/india-today-magazine-insight DEFENCE | Why India is eyeing Predator armed drones from the US By Pradip R. Sagar Military experts say armed drones will sca
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A Festival Celebrating The Land
An annual festival which acts as a showcase of local folk and classical performance traditions as well as art, Chennai Sangamam - Namma Ooru Thiruvizha is back on a grand scale this year. Last year, owing to COVID, the festival was held as a one-day
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Peril In The Hills
The thought that Joshimath is crumbling under its own weight will make a variety of travellers feel as if a cherished part of the earth is giving way under their feet. The beautiful hill town, perched at a height of 6,000 feet in Uttarakhand’s Chamol
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The Jain Threshold
The last few days of 2022 saw the usually reticent Jain community taking to the roads in protest in many cities of north India. The immediate trigger was two issues—a feeling in the community that the Centre was dilly-dallying on its demand to protec
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Tribal Vs Tribal
South Chhattisgarh, often in the news for Left-wing extremism-linked violence, has been rocked by a series of communal incidents in the past three weeks. Tribal Hindus have allegedly attacked tribal Christian converts in the Narayanpur and Kondagaon
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The Dalit Outreach
Desperate times, they say, call for desperate measures. With the upcoming civic elections becoming a prestige fight and deemed the penultimate battle before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the two rival Shiv Sena factions are outdoing each other to woo Dal
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Makeover Of The Mandal Citadel
On January 5, when Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge kickstarted the Bihar version of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Banka, the man who arranged the logistics, and then walked beside him, was state party president Akhilesh Prasad Singh. Just a month ol
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Any Vacancies?
Looks like Shashi Tharoor, third-term Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram, is building a political life outside the Congress ecosystem after losing the party president election to Mallikarjun Kharge in October 2022. The 66-year-old recently inaugurat
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A Good Word
Gujarat chief secretary Pankaj Kumar’s eight-month extension ends this month. Word is he’d like another extension, for which he is lobbying rather interestingly—promoting the prime minister’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme on radio Kumar is reportedly urgi
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Mutt Ado
BJP national president J.P. Nadda recently went mutt-hopping in Karnataka, meeting seers from the Lingayat, Kuruba, Dalit and Valmiki communities in the Tumakuru, Davangere and Chitradurga districts. The hope was that meeting the pontiffs would pacif
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Net Caste Wide
Nothing like fishing in troubled waters to catch a vote or two. So as the Rajput Karni Sena launched an agitation in Bhopal on January 8 for, among other things, reservations for its cohort, the Congress, with an eye on the Madhya Pradesh election la
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A United Sena?
That all is not well between the BJP and chief minister Eknath Shinde’s Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena (BSS) is no secret in Maharashtra. BSS lea der and school education minister Deepak Kesarkar further set the cat among the pigeons when he said the two w
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High Growth Will Be A Tough Ask
The consensus narrative on the Indian economy is that it is recovering strongly despite an unprecedented confluence of global headwinds, namely Russia’s war and the associated surge in global commodity prices, the sharp slowdown in China, and the agg
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Can India Be The Vishwaguru?
One of the critical questions of 2023 is whether the war in Ukraine will end this year. It was an avoidable war. When Leonid Kuchma was president of Ukraine from 1994 to 2004, he balanced relations with Russia and the West. Viktor Yushchenko, who suc
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Three Challenges And An Opportunity
The year 2022 has drawn to a close, leaving us with a faltering world economy, a seemingly unending war in Ukraine, China swept under a tsunami of Covid infections, nationalism rampant everywhere, geopolitical hotspots turning live and few visible ag
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The Great Wall Of Chinese Antagonism
On the decade following the global economic downturn, the world order has been undergoing gradual change. Emerging powers like India and Japan have sought greater voice in international organisations, including at the United Nations. However, the pro
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India Can Emerge As A Third Pole
India is entering its best geopolitical sweet spot since its independence 75 years ago. What is the geopolitical sweet spot? It’s the opportunity for India to position itself as the world’s only truly independent global power. What has created this g
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Opportunities Despite The Turmoil
The year 2022, like the two years preceding it, proved to be wretched and dispiriting. Although Covid-related mortality levels declined globally thanks to increased vaccinations and rising immunity from previous infections, the world remained stubbor
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Modi’s Big Electoral Hurdles
Narendra Modi created history of sorts when he led the Bharatiya Janata Party to back-to-back victories in the 2014 and 2019 general elections, equalling a feat that was last achieved more than 50 years ago, by Indira Gandhi in 1971. However, when it
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Don’t Lose Sight Of Blockchain
Cryptocurrencies, powered by blockchain technology, generated tremendous excitement over the past few years. Investors and companies dreamt of a future where these digital currencies would power new decentralised use cases and low-latency transaction
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Pitfalls Of The Digital Battleground
The cyber attack that took down India’s top public hospital toward the end of last year showed us what this nation will have to deal with in 2023: digital crime and warfare both crashing into everyday life, and critical facilities and infrastructure
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Lights, Camera, India
It’s never easy to be asked to prognosticate about the media and entertainment industry, because in even relatively stable times, your best predictions can go wildly wrong. It feels even more of a fool’s errand to do so as I pen this article in Janua
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Cash In On The Demographic Advantage
In 2023, as per United Nations demographic projections, India will overtake China to become the world’s most populous country. China crossed the one billion milestone in the early 1980s when India’s population was around 800 million. Since then, the
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Why India Should Lead By Example, Not Exhortation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an important initiative at the Glasgow Climate summit in 2021, entitled LiFE or Lifestyle for the Environment. This seeks to mobilise a worldwide movement for the adoption of a lifestyle that preserves the ecolo
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How 2023 Could Be The Year Of The Ev
Early in 2018, the NITI Aayog released a study which claimed that accelerated adoption of electric and shared transportation could save $60 billion in diesel and petrol costs while cutting down as much as 1 gigatonne of carbon emissions by 2030. But
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Learn From The Lessons The Pandemic Taught Us
The COVID pandemic posed an unexpected and unprecedented challenge for humanity and forcefully brought home the point that good health is central to economic well-being—for countries and for the world as a whole. Not only is it the biggest economic s
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Time To Build An Efficient Health System
China recently opened its long-locked doors to a flood of COVID-19 infections. The US and Canada are experiencing a ‘tripledemic’ of still-around COVID, visiting-again influenza and came-early respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) travelling together. In
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The New Mecca Of Hockey
Rourkela is all dressed up for a carnival of sport. Colourful Pipili appliqué lampshades hang from trees; bright murals of hockey, yoga poses, Odissi dancers, birds, flowers and more adorn walls; the Hockey Chowk, studded with sculptures, lights up a
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‘The Youth Are Crazy About Hockey’
Q What do you think about the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela? I have not played in a stadium as massive as this. It’s a matter of great pride for our state that India’s two best hockey stadiums are in Odisha—Kalinga and Birsa Munda. By giftin
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The Great Indian Thriller
Deepti Kapoor’s new novel, Age of Vice arrives amidst a thrum of fanfare. The Guardian declared it “India’s answer to the Godfather”, it’s been at the heart of intense bidding wars by TV producers, and it sits on several most-awaited-titles lists of
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Anatomy Of A Crime
Nilanjana Roy’s latest novel, Black River (released recently by Context), begins with the grisly death of eight-year-old Munia, who is found hanging from a tree in the (fictional) Teetarpur, a village on the Delhi-Haryana border. After a gripping fir
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Labour Of Love
About two years ago, when Zee Studios stepped in to back Devashish Makhija’s Joram, the indie filmmaker felt as if he was being told “Ja Devashish ja, jee le apni zindagi (go Devashish go, live your life)!” The 44-year-old filmmaker, screenwriter, gr
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A Tragedy Retold
“There’s no word in our language for a parent who has lost kids,” says writer-director Prashant Nair, whose credits include Made in Heaven (2019—) and Tryst with Destiny (2021). The protagonists of Nair’s latest Netflix series, Trial By Fire, are Nee
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Indian Films at IFFR
Shahrukhkhan Chavada describes his directorial debut as one that reflects his “fascination with routine and highlights it as a visual language to weave” the story. Shot in black and white, the film follows a family in a Muslim quarter in Ahmedabad. I
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Dashing Through The Snow
Last month, Bhavani T.N. and her coach, Gianluca, evaluated her performance at the Raiffeisen Langlauf Cup in Dobbiaco, Italy. Her timing of 18 minutes and 3 seconds over the 5-km cross-country skiing course had pleased both. It was a good start to t
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Coming Into His Own
Some may call H.S. Prannoy a ‘late bloomer’. At 30, he had a standout 2022, as he played an instrumental role in India’s maiden Thomas Cup title, a team event equivalent to the World Cup in men’s badminton. It’s one of the many feathers in Prannoy’s
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Striking The Right Notes
Q. Congratulations on receiving the Akademi Puraskar. What does this prestigious recognition mean to you? All artists desire their country’s validation. This is India’s highest music award, and I am extremely honoured to have been bestowed with it. A

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