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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
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From The Editor-in-chief
For a state that does not always make it to the mainstream of news, it is tragic that it took near-civil war conditions for Manipur to register on the national consciousness. The scenes playing out now in the Imphal valley and the high ranges surroun
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Tough To Swallow
Consumers are used to seasonal changes in the prices of vegetables, but this one was particularly hard to stomach. In a matter of just two months, retail prices of tomatoes soared to Rs 200 a kg in several parts of the country from as low as Rs 30 a
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Neurosurgeon Extraordinaire
It took a mother to discover the healer in her son. Her 8 year old son managed to cure her with some paracetamol tablets, when her husband was away and there were no doctors nearby. Her words of admiration surely seem to have worked. The seeds were f
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An Inside Job
Just days after Congress leader Sachin Pilot claimed to have buried the hatchet with Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot, the circumstances surrounding his 2020 rebellion have come back to haunt the party, and that too in an election year. Stirring
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The Burden Of Allies
The BJP ranks have not taken kindly to the party roping in the Ajit Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) into their alliance government in Maharashtra. For one, the party had to relinquish crucial portfolios like finance, cooperation
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To Make Common Cause
In the midst of a heated debate in the Karnataka assembly on July 13, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah half-taunted Janata Dal (Secular) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy, asking if the latter was siding with the BJP of late. Kumaraswamy retorted that if he had wan
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Hard Lessons
Bihar isn’t much known for an abundance of education infrastructure—an endemic scarcity is more like it. Even so, preliminary findings from an official scrutiny of 80,000 state government schools have come as a shocker. Especially the fact that Rs 1,
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His Master’s Voice?
Ajit Pawar’s chief ministerial ambitions have always been an open secret, so much so that after joining the alliance government in Maharashtra, he had joked that he’d already been deputy CM five times, so it was perhaps time to get a promotion. Rumou
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School Is Out
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi regime in Telangana has ‘banned’ private donations of any kind to the poorly equipped state-run schools. It seems images of children without books and classrooms without furniture—used by rival party leaders while announcin
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Mind the Feet
Though Chirag Paswan paid his respects and touched the feet of estranged uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras at the dinner hosted for NDA parties in Delhi on July 18, the warmth was short-lived. Both have staked claim to the Hajipur LS seat and also indicate
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A Steady Comeback
Former Gujarat home minister Gordhan Zad afia’s rehabilitation continues in the BJP with his appointment as 2024 poll in-charge for central Gujarat. A protégé of ex-CM Keshubhai Patel, Zadafia was once a bitter Modi critic, even orchestrating a rebel
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Healing Touch
The monsoons have gained strength over Kerala, the ideal time for elephants (domestic) and people alike to undergo the ‘Kar kadaka chikilsa’, a demanding Ayurvedic regimen peculiar to the season. This year, Congress leader and ‘disqualified’ Wayanad
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Shameful Blunders
Nestled in the verdant Naga Hills, the picturesque district of Churachandpur was a tranquil backwater. Today, it is a tragic battleground in the bloody civil war that has engulfed Manipur over the past three months. Dominated by the Kuki tribe, Chura
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‘I Am Against Illegal Immigrants, Not The Kukis’
Q. Why is Manipur still burning? I did not create this environment. There has been a constant attempt to destabilise our government. Illegal immigrants are trying to create unrest in the state, a situation I had predicted 10 years ago. Poppy cultivat
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The Navy Gets New Wings
At last, after nearly a year of deliberations, the matter of selecting fighter aircraft for India’s newly inducted indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, has been settled. On July 13, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on his way to Paris for a
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Alliance Of Fond Hope
If you can’t beat him, join others who can. At least that seems to be the strategy of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and actor Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena Party (JSP) as they plan to take on the ruling Yuvajana
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Walking The Talk
With his ‘Yuva Galam’ or Voice of Youth yatra, 40-year-old Nara Lokesh, national general secretary of the Telugu Desam Party and son of the party supremo Chandrababu Naidu, is hoping to do one better than anyone else, including his father. He will be
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Top 8 Emerging Indian Personalities
Dushyant Sinha, the Founder, and Director of ICCPL, is an outstanding communication specialist who brings a wealth of experience to his company. As a master at crafting and shaping the public image of his clients, he has worked with prominent names i
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New Research And Therapies
➘ It can be genetically inherited: It was assumed that genes that cause autism are not inherited. In 2022, the largest sequencing study of ASD identified four genes in autistic persons that are also present in parents. It confirmed that the genetic c
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A Different Dawn
Rakesh B.S., 36, from Thiruvananthapuram, was 34 when his wife scheduled a therapy intervention for his situational mutism—an anxiety-driven fear of social interaction, where he found it difficult to speak on select occasions. It was then that he dis
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Broken Thread
Autism is a developmental condition caused by differences in the brain. It is not one disorder but a combination of symptoms. And no two autistics have the same symptoms ➘ Avoidance of eye contact ➘ Delayed speech ➘ Speech regression ➘ Repetitive beh
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The Hope, And The Challenge
➘ Some schools are investing in special education teachers for the inclusion of autistic children in classrooms and intervention for their needs ➘ Organisations like Action for Autism help autistic persons develop skills and find employment ➘ A growi
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A Meeting Of Great Minds
The India Today Group Education Conclave 2023, presented by the Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, was a robust affair attended by some of the leading lights in Indian academia. Up for discussion on the day were critical issues facing th
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Knowledge Reboot: The Learning Curve Of The National Education Policy 2020
“For the first time in India, we have developed an institutional mechanism for early childhood education—for children aged three to six” “India’s many languages are our strength. The CBSE recently gave school administrators the option of [allowing in
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New-age Teacher: Chatgpt In Classrooms
CEO & Co-founder, 21K School “Students have to be allowed to use ChatGPT; it’s a fantastic tool for learning…I don’t think kids are using it for writing assignments. They can’t because the way the NEP is progressing and everyone is upskilling, it’s g
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How Can India Produce Globally Top-ranking Universities?
Chancellor, K.R. Mangalam University “Universities should redesign their curriculum—not just their syllabus—around the needs and challenges of society and of the nation. Make it trans-disciplinary. Make sure your pedagogy is driven by collaborative p
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Skilled India: India’s Path To Demographic Dividend
Vice Principal, Shiv Nadar School, Gurugram Students need to be world-ready and not just job-ready… skills are what we have deeply embedded in our curriculum…. Digital literacy is going to be very important. You need students to develop skills such a
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State Of Mind: How To Make Studies Stress-free
Family therapist & Co-founder, Children First “Follow the ‘You-Me-We’ strategy while communicating with children: I listen to you even though I may not agree; I explain my point of view; and we find out how we can manage this together” Author, Youth
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Transforming School Education
Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy “We have 26.4 crore children going to 14.89 lakh schools, being taught by 97 lakh teachers…and their examination system is being governed by 60 school boards. These are the numbers we are [dealing
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Principals Speak Out : How To Foster Excellence In Institutions
Dean of Academics, AIIMS, New Delhi “We are finding our undergraduates are not keen to attend classes any more… want to hook on to [online] platforms to accrue knowledge. It’s a big challenge… they don’t know what is good or bad. They need to be hand
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Prayagh Nutri Products Tasting Sweet Success
Prayagh Nutri Products is an enterprise that has thrived on the passions of a father son duo. The Managing Director, Preetam Lalwani used his versatile networking skills to build an enormous distribution network in a short span of time to craft the c
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Harshita Jain India’s Metro Lady
Harshita Jain is acknowledged as one of the most dynamic entrepreneurs in the infrastructure industry. She is the Director of Consulting Engineers Group Limited (CEG), one of the largest Indian owned infrastructure consultancy companies in India prov
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An Air Of Abstraction
“Throughout my career, I have always been a rebel,” says Shanti Dave. “When the Air India people contacted me, they said they needed murals before certain offices of theirs would be inaugurated. Now, most artists like Husain sahab would take two-thre
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Pastoral Dream
Where should you witness the brilliance of Benode Behari Mukherjee’s just-discovered, 44-footlong scroll painting? In the pale, yellow-orange glow of neon spotlights in a gallery in Kolkata? Or in the soft, golden-green sunlight filtering in through
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Travels With The Tummy
It is a good thing that I picked up this book after a soul-satisfying meal, so I wouldn’t drool. Or at least that’s what I repeatedly told myself while turning the pages of Zac O’Yeah’s newest book. Digesting India is a wild ride across the subcontin
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The Will to Live
Five years of being abducted and held by terrorists couldn’t break Shahbaz Taseer. The story he tells of his captivity is riveting, horrifying and life-affirming. The author’s late father, Salman Taseer, was the Governor of Punjab (Pakistan) and a di
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Timely Tales
The pressure cooker was not amused. In the short story ‘Rules for Drivers’, the writer Santhosh Aechikkanam tells you that “the cooker was female”. It’s a detail that baffles Ravichandran, philosopher and writer, who has been abandoned to fend for hi
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PUNE My LOVE
MOHAN AGASHE’S LATEST WEB SERIES Do Gubbare (streaming on JioCinema) unfolds in familiar territory, one that also happens to be his home—Pune. A Puneri all his life, Agashe chose to stay in the city even while pursuing a career in Hindi films in Bomb
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Behind the Scenes
Vivek Agnihotri isn’t done with Kashmir yet. A year after the release of The Kashmir Files, the polarising filmmaker is preparing to release The Vaccine War, his big-screen account of the Indian government’s efforts to deliver a Covid-19 vaccine—but
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Singin’ In The Rain
The monsoon is now in full swing, which means—for most Indian musicians at least—that it’s time to take a break from the road and hit the studio. The rains make large, open-air concerts practically impossible, while even smaller club gigs run the ris
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Southern Sounds
Aravind Murali and Maarten Visser have known each other for more than 20 years. Both composers, Visser on the saxophone and Aravind on bass, joined Manukrishnan on drums to form the band they call Many Things. The name, like their music with minimal
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Good Cop, Bad Cop
Q. Finally, a role without greys. How did that feel? Actually, I do not approach roles with the idea of whether they are black, white or grey. It should excite me and make me feel like I may not be able to pull it off. I know it’s strange, but it sho

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