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From The Editor-in-chief
So the “semi-finals” have given us an unambiguous answer, with the Narendra Modi juggernaut devouring the landscape as usual. The clean sweep of the three heartland states was so emphatic, it belies the fact the BJP victory came against the odds. Its
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The Nomination Games
Four years after the BJP-led government annulled Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, it moved an amendment bill in the Lok Sabha on December 5 to reserve seats for Kashmiri migrants (KMs) and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashm
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Bigger House
↘ Total seats in House up from 83 to 90 (seats in Jammu go up from 37 to 43; in Kashmir, from 46 to 47) ↘ Two members, including a woman, to be nominated for assembly from ‘Kashmiri migrant’ community (defined as persons who migrated from J&K after N
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Bjp Revamps Team K
For six months after its drubbing in the May 2023 assembly polls, the BJP party unit in Karnataka remained in a sort of limbo. As the main Opposition party, its leaders were vocal in their criticism of the ruling Congress, but two nagging issues rema
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Only Eknath
Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde may have turned a corner politically, and a significant one. He still has in front of him the delicate task of walking a tightrope between the politically influential Marathas and the increasingly resurgent Ot
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Canid Shots
A dog may be man’s best friend, but a spate of canine attacks in India in recent months have sort of undone that adage for many. A handful of states—Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh—had thus far been the source of most stray dog
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The Shola Warrior’s Path
Over the past 31 years, retired professor Dr Johnykutty J. Ozhukayil has been trying hard to convince people in Kerala’s picturesque hill district Idukki to become more “conscious of nature”. He has also led by example, setting up a nature park, Hill
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Diplomacy With A Sense Of Humour
Mani Shankarr Aiyar’s Memoirs of a Maverick is the first of three books on his life that are slated to be published by Juggernaut in the coming months. Anyone who takes a hasty look at his bio-data—born in a well-to-do Brahmin family; educated at the
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The Grandmaster
Two women-oriented welfare schemes—Ladli Behna, launched in January this year in Madhya Pradesh, and Mahtari Vandan, a poll promise in Chhattisgarh—are being credited for the BJP’s massive victory in these heartland states. The buzz is that the brain
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A Good gamble
Revanth Reddy isn’t the only Congress leader gloating over the party’s stupendous victory in the Telangana assembly election. Manickam Tagore, whose role as AICC in-charge for Telangana was cut short in January, also has an I-told-you-so glow on his
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Man Of The Moment
With the late A.B. Vajpayee’s 100th birth anniversary just weeks away, Atal season has begun in earnest, at least in entertainment. Pankaj Tripathi will be playing the poet-politician and ex-prime minister in Main Atal Hoon, which will hit the big sc
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Treasure Trove
When NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s trusted aide Praful Patel broke ranks in July, most people were confounded considering the camaraderie between the two. Since then, Patel has been dropping hints about how his former boss had kept lines open with the BJP
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Colour Me Saffron
It looked like the victorious BJP had started showing its ‘true colours’ from day one in Rajasthan. On December 4, a mace-wielding Mahant Balmukund Ach arya, who won the Hawamahal seat in Jaipur by just 974 votes, went around the Muslim-populated are
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2024 Bjp In Pole Position
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, like all successful political leaders, has a panoptic vision, which, accompanied by an inspiring narrative, helps him identify key battles. He then draws up deft strategies of attack, strikes at the most opportune moment
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Why The Congress Needs India Now
On December 3, as news of the Congress rout in the assembly elections in the three heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh started drifting in, party president Mallikarjun Kharge called for a meeting of the partners of INDIA, o
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Bucking The Trend
Look at the post-vote counting heat map depicting party-wise victories in saffron and blue on the Election Commission of India’s website, and you encounter a sea of saffron. From Jaora on the Rajasthan border in the west to Chitrangi on the Uttar Pra
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Saffron Sweep
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A Celebration of DANCE
Every winter, aficionados of Indian dance gather at the enchanting Shore Temple complex in Mamallapuram to witness some of the greatest exponents of Indian classical and folk dance forms, showcasing their fine craft in an array of splendid performanc
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The ‘Rivaaz’ Effect
History was on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s side. But that didn’t stop Prime Minister Narendra Modi from going all out to secure a win in Rajasthan, a state known to vote for change every five years. That has been the case for the past 25 years and h
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The Windfall State
Every once in a while comes an election in India that tests the limits of psephology. The Chhattisgarh verdict is one such, where not a single survey gauged the mood of the people correctly. The comfortably placed Congress led by Bhupesh Baghel, whic
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Battle Landscape
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Reddy, Steady Go
Riding a crescendo of anti-incumbency against two-term chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and his party, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), the Congress mounted an aggressive charge. The campaign, orchestrated by poll strategist and newly-appointed A
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Turnaround Man
No sooner had it became clear on December 3 that the Congress was about to capture power in Telangana than state Congress chief A. Revanth Reddy announced that citizens have free access to the state secretariat, entry to which the outgoing CM K. Chan
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Rural Blitzkrieg
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A New Force In Aizawl
On December 4, the declaration of results of the assembly election in Mizoram heralded a new era of power politics in the northeastern state. The Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) stormed into power, winning 27 seats in the 40-member assembly. For the fi
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Fresh From Northeast
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A Threat Called Disease X
IT WAS IN NOVEMBER 2022 THAT THE LAST COVID WARD was dismantled in the national capital. The largest of Delhi’s 11 pandemic wards, the space in LNJP Hospital used to be overrun with anxious families, breathless patients and frantic doctors. Today, it
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The Zoonotic Viruses Omen
COVID-19 The respiratory illness has claimed 770 mn lives globally so far CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER Tick-borne virus causes life-threatening hemorrhagic fever. Case fatality rate (CFR) of 10-40% EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE AND MARBURG VIRUS DISEASE Bot
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Roar Of The Tiger
When his debut film Heropanti (2014) released, it earned Rs 72.6 crore, unheard of for a newcomer. The Baaghi series (2016—) has been a blockbuster too, having collected 524 crore. Jai Hemant Shroff started being called ‘Tiger’ by his father Jackie,
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The Joy of BEING QUEER
A “romantic documentary series” is not a description you see every day, but that’s how Amazon Prime Video is presenting Rainbow Rishta on its homepage. The six-episode series tracks six stories of LGBTQIA+ individuals trying to find love or have thei
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Chronicle Of Interesting Times
Altaf (born Altaf Mohammedi, in 1942) was an Indian painter of the same generation as Nilima Sheikh, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Vivan Sundaram and Nalini Malani. Whereas older Indian artists, including many from the group called the Progressives, made the
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Black Beauties
Since time immemorial, artists have been drawn to horses, from nameless Palaeolithic cave painters to Western artists like Eugène Delacroix and George Stubbs and, closer home, the likes of M.F. Husain and Sunil Das. There’s something about the muscul
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Culture in the Capital
The first-ever India Art, Architecture and Design Biennale (IAADB) has begun at the Red Fort in New Delhi on December 8. The week-long Biennale (to be held until December 15) has been organ-ised by the Ministry of Culture. A host of Indian and intern
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An Ode To Urdu
For most people, a love affair with Urdu is linked with their fascination for shayari or poetry. After all, poets like Mirza Ghalib, Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Mir Taqi Mir were instrumental in contributing to the literary richness of the language. However,
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In Search of Greener Pastures
The 2023 JCB Prize for Literature was awarded to Perumal Murugan’s Aalandapatchi, translated into English as Fire Bird by Janani Kannan. The prize money of Rs 25 lakh will be split between author and translator. Murugan had previously been shortliste
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Uniting India
The story of the integration of the Indian princely states is well known, but John Zubrzycki in retelling it adds animation with flesh and blood to make this book a compelling read. In retrospect, the integration appears almost automatic—in a sense a
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Zens And Sensibility
Zen, the latest work of fiction by Shabnam Minwalla, is named for its main protagonist, a young girl living in modern-day Mumbai. Minwalla, who has written several titles in the young adult genre, is pitch perfect while portraying the issues characte
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Busy As A Bee
Q. Your appearance in Made in Heaven S2 brought you back into the limelight. What was the experience of the show like? It proved to be an extraordinary journey. Collaborating with Zoya Akhtar was an aspiration I had long cherished. I also had the ple

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