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India, as we all know only too well, is home to a million culinary delights from a variety of food cultures. It’s Diwali, the festival of prosperity and abundance, and chances are that some of those delights are temptingly within reach. Perhaps it’s

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For sharp analysis on topical issues by the editors of INDIA TODAY, log on to www.indiatoday.in/india-today-magazine-insight Why the Modi government is extending its food security programme By Anilesh S. Mahajan Even as the Union cabinet is yet to ap

More than 500 people turned up for a special screening of the India vs South Africa match that West Bengal governor C.V. Ananda Bose hosted at the Raj Bhawan. There was no doubting the political colour of the meeting. Bose announced a Governor’s Cent

AAP MLAs are getting caught in legal troubles, and not just in New Delhi. Now, the party’s tribal face in Gujarat—Chaitar Vasava—has been charged with firing in the air during a showdown between tribals and forest department officials, who claim that

For long building a Hyderabad vs Bengaluru narrative, BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao (KTR) has dialled up the volume closer to the state polls on November 8. Alleging a Congress conspiracy to shift industry to Bengaluru to bleed Telangana, KTR s

Going by what had been sowed last season in the bighas that make up Indian politics, one would have expected a full harvest of Mandal by now—waving in the fields, ready to be reaped in time for the voting. But one does not see caste as the main cash

The ruling Congress promises hike in paddy MSP to Rs 3,000 per quintal from existing Rs 2,640—already Rs 600 above the central MSP. The BJP manifesto lists it at Rs 3,100. The Congress revises it to Rs 3,200. The state is the third largest contributo

Q. If you win, you will be chief minister for a record fourth time. But there is also talk of huge anti-incumbency. How do you rate your chances? A. We are doing our best to win. There is some anti-incumbency against MLAs at the local level. But our

Q. The BJP seems to have enlisted a surfeit of leaders in Rajashtan. Isn’t it better to have a CM face? A. It does help to have a CM face, but then it may also result in intra-party rivalry. We will win Rajasthan comfortably. It is not just anti-incu

➘ The party is positioning itself as a champion of the OBCs and is promising to appoint a member from the cohort as Telangana’s next chief minister ➘ It has nominated 37 candidates from the backward classes, which may even surpass the number fielded

Tribhuvaneshwar Saran Singh Deo, 71, the deputy chief minister of Chhattisgarh, recalls the time when he used to accompany his father on hunts, sitting at water holes, waiting for the quarry to arrive. The experience, says Singh Deo—or Baba as the ‘M

Vast, open prairies overrun by dacoits with bad teeth, a scriptwriter from Indore in Salim Khan, a teenager getting a job in a bidi factory in Jabalpur… though it was never mentioned explicitly, Madhya Pradesh is writ all over the 1975 blockbuster Sh

Becoming a dependable alternative demands some complex political manoeuvring. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have perfected it into a fine art elsewhere, but not when it comes to challenging two-term chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) an

It’s an almighty coalition between spiritual and temporal. Yagnas, chanting purohits, mahants, fakirs, bhajan singers—like always in India, all the beady-eyed shades of the divine can be spotted in the electoral arena. The other day, Telangana CM K.

Carb comparison (based on 100 gm values) 76.3 gm 364 kcal 2.7 gm 65 61 gm 348 kcal 11.49 gm 70 72 gm 328 kcal 3.6 gm 70 75 gm 361 kcal 6.7 gm 70 71.5 gm 343 kcal 10 gm 40 80.3 gm 359 kcal 2.77 gm 60 76.7 gm 366 kcal 4.3 gm 50 73 gm 354 kcal 17 gm 60

Food’s 3 musketeers: fats, carbs & protein The most efficient source of energy, with each gram of fat containing 9 calories, compared to 4 each for carbs and proteins Which foods provide fats? Fats are of four kinds. Saturated fats: Found in beef, po

➘ Ajit sets up parallel unit to review the progress of key infrastructure projects in state. Doesn’t go down well with allies ➘ Files approved by Pawar will now be routed to CM Shinde via deputy CM Fadnavis for final approvals ➘ BJP and Sena legislat

➘ All government buying agencies should report pending arbitration cases every quarter and the amounts due to MSME vendors ➘ The Arbitration Council should choose from a panel of qualified arbitrators. Currently, a conciliator acts as an arbitrator ➘

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Walking through the sculptor K.S. Radhakrishnan’s studio in Delhi is a heady experience. You see works from across five decades, the familiar bronze figures of Musui and Maiya (the artist’s twin muses, based on a young Santhal boy who posed for him a

As a student of Kodaikanal International School (KIS) in the 1980s, Ian Lockwood spent his formative years in the Palani Hills, which ignited a lifelong love for the region and its ecology. Now an educator in Colombo, he has been photographing the hi