January 29, 2024

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From The Editor-in-chief
Bad news usually goes viral, while good news tends to be buried in the welter of negative developments that are churned out with metronomic regularity. So, in 2016, we at INDIA TODAY decided to break the dominance of gloom by annually bringing out an
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CHAIRMAN AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Aroon Purie VICE CHAIRPERSON AND EXECUTIVE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Kalli Purie GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Dinesh Bhatia GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Raj Chengappa CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Manoj Sharma GROUP CREATIVE EDITOR: Ni
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Presenting India Today Insight
How military withdrawal from Maldives will impact India’s strategic interests By Pradip R. Sagar President Mohamed Muizzu’s aggressive posturing imperils decades of India-Maldives defence cooperation and gives expansionist China more opportunity to m
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The Republic Of Happiness
The pursuit of happiness has always been a collective aspiration. There may have been civilisational differences in how happiness is perceived, but the yearning for joy, contentment and a sense of well-being has been a universal phenomenon. And then,
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Drive For Gender Diversity
A diverse workplace is not just a better workplace but also an attractive one. It is this wisdom, as enunciated by their chief sustainability officer, Anjalli Ravi Kumar, that has become a guiding principle at food aggregator major Zomato. “Diverse c
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Unbottling Happiness
What brings you happiness in life? Is it savouring a hot cup of coffee while reading a book on a cold winter morning, or dedicating time to catch up with friends? Happiness, with its diverse meanings truly comes alive through the joy of sharing. Life
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Bend It Like Bicharpur
It’s 8 am on a foggy and cold day in Bicharpur, a nondescript village in Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol district. But around 70 kids from the ages of four to 18 have lined up to train and play football—a sport that has given Bicharpur a separate identity.
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Music For The Deaf
Last month, Indian classical dance witnessed a path-breaking moment in Thiruvananthapuram. As Mohiniyattam exponent Methil Devika started her performance at the Ammaveedu, a heritage hub of music and dance, an excited group of hearing- and speech-imp
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Acharya Of Natural Farming
A new elixir of life is changing the lives of 900,000 farmers in Gujarat. Called Jivamrut, it is a no-expense fertiliser made by processing cow excreta, essential pulses, jaggery and earthworms. And pushing its use is none other than the governor of
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Factory Of Start-ups
As Archana Kushwaha walks across the giant computerenabled embroidery machine, overseeing the transfer of intricate designs onto the fabric displayed on the monitor, she places a call to the automobile service station where she had sent her car the d
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Transport With Care
Eight-year-old Anita Solanki’s tryst with education began on a hot summer day last year when a bright yellow-coloured bus rolled into her poor neighbourhood in Ahmedabad. The daughter of an auto-rickshaw driver who was struggling to make ends meet, t
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Leading The Charge
Women cops on bikes? In Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh? Incredulous as it may sound, ‘bikewali police didis’ are now a common enough sight in this small town of western UP. Women police officers here ride what are locally called ‘phantom’ bikes, or vehic
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Natural Instincts
A decade ago, when his gated villa community in Bengaluru’s Whitefield locality was grappling with a clogged drain, Tharun Kumar, 54, an IT security specialist, began looking for ways to set up a zero-maintenance sewage treatment method that could pr
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From Ragi To Riches
In 2019, just before Covid caused worldwide disruption, Minati Sabat, a homemaker from Ward No. 37 under the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, decided she wanted to do “something better” with her life. And so she brought together 13 women to form th
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A Nursery For Champions
Nestled in the sugarcane fields of Satara, about 250 kilometres south of Mumbai, is a gurukul unlike any else. Students wake up at 6 am, recite prayers and, an hour later, converge on the ground, where, wielding bows and arrows, they start aiming for
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Time For Bovine Intervention
➔ Primary Sedimentation Chamber ➔ Mesophilic (organisms growing in moderate temperature) anaerobic reactor to break down water pollution ➔ Upflow baffled reactor chambers ➔ Stage 1 wastewater passes through active bacteria chambers ➔ Attached growth
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Conducting A Tech Symphony
Have you ever wondered how the size of your smartphone has grown bigger over the years but the fast charger that keeps it going is still a compact little device? Thank Gallium Nitride (GaN). It’s a semiconductor compound more efficient than silicon w
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Uplifting A Community
Sikhs in the South have a history going back 300-odd years. The first of them came with Guru Gobind Singh, on his Deccan expedition in the early 18th century. Around 1832 came the Lahori Fauj, a Sikh contingent that was sent as a peacekeeping force b
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Fruits Of A Jugaad
When a bureaucrat is a numbercruncher, the warp and weft of digits throw up solutions to problems that would pass others by. Subrata Gupta, who has a PhD in electronics and telecommunication from IIT Kharagpur, is additional chief secretary in the go
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A Village Of Viral Youtubers
Just over an hour’s drive from capital Raipur, a few kilometres before Tilda-Neora railway station, you enter Tulsi village, home to about 4,000 people, in central Chhattisgarh. Walking through its narrow lanes and open spaces, don’t be surprised if
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The House Is In Order
The winter session of the Uttar Pradesh assembly came to a close on November 30, and it created a record of sorts. Since the Yogi Adityanath-led government started its second term in March 2022, a total of seven assembly sessions (including one speci
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Cooking Up Change
The air is filled with the aroma of grilled chicken. The pleasant whiff of mushrooms and dal being cooked in stock pots is no less tantalising. Over a dozen women donning chef caps walk briskly across the 1,000 square foot kitchen, some busy stirring
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The Seeds Of Hope
A 120-year-old seed farm on the banks of the Periyar river has become a “role model for survival” at a time when climate change and the perils of global warming are on everyone’s minds. The 5.32 hectares of land in Aluva in the suburbs of Kochi becam
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Empathy To Altruism
The greatest forms of charity give succour to the most vulnerable. Retired clerk Balram Chandra, 61, a resident of Gurugram, spent much of his hard-earned provident fund on weekly dialysis at a private hospital. “Within two years, I spent Rs 5 five l
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Seasoned With Safety
In 2018, the 15th century Kankaria Lake in Ahmedabad became the country’s first ‘clean street food hub’, certified so by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). The area has 60-odd vendors serving extensive fare—pav bhaji, samosa, d
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A Jumbo Effort
No man or beast can ever dare to come in the way of an elephant herd when it goes foraging along its chosen route, or corridor, of migration. Except the mechanical beast called the locomotive, which, bound by fixed tracks, cannot play by those rules.
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Pulling At The Heartstrings
Almost 20 years after the release of her debut album as a composer, Rise in 2005, sitar player Anoushka Shankar feels people finally get it. “The change I’ve noticed in the last few years has been quite humbling in the way people call out certain son
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We Will Rock You
In 1991, American alternative rock act Jane’s Addiction were contemplating the end of the band’s short but hugely influential first run. Frontman Perry Farrell put together a farewell tour—named Lollapalooza after an American idiomatic phrase meaning
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Framing the Divine
It is only appropriate that the first double spread in this sumptuous exploration of the jali is the carved arch from the Sidi Sayyid Mosque in Ahmedabad. This swirling emanation, crafted stone brought to vegetal life as a kalpavriksha or a Blessed T
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What the Palate Remembers
As we learn from the preface, Forgotten Foods is an anthology of essays, anecdotes and meditations on South Asian Muslim food and one that is generously garnished with recipes. Indeed, the best aspect of the book is that along with the rich informati
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Food For Thought
This ode to cooking with vegetables harks back to Bhogal’s Edenic childhood in Nairobi where her beloved Bhaji (grandfather), who had migrated to Kenya from Punjab, had tended a barren plot of land into a thriving vegetable patch. Cut to the present
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Arabian Nights
Q. Tell us about your international debut? I play the protagonist Ashish’s mother in Blue 52. The entire experience has been amazing because of the mix of so many different cultures. The different milieus gave me a chance to explore a challenging cha
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ISpy
Inspired by architectural visionary such as Antoni Gaudí and fashion designer Alexander Mcqueen, interior designer Saachi Marwah Rana created a range of furniture. Each piece of furniture is crafted in bronze and draws parallels to the mathematical c
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“Sustainability Is Going To Be A Lot More Stylish”
This year is all about integrating with the existing landscape; screening and allowing filtered light in different ways within each space and infusing volumes with light and shadows to transform differently at different times. And a perfect example o
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“The Inside Goes Outside And The Outdoors Are Coming Indoors”
Conceptualising a residence and harmonising with nature was the initial vision for the nature-loving clients, Sanjay and Nikita Shah. The objective was to craft an immersive experience where indoor spaces seamlessly beckon the outdoors to merge into
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“Edgy Design Will Now Have A Sophisticated Vibe”
The 3,300 sq ft sea-facing apartment, owned by a 36-year-old affluent, well-travelled man with a keen eye for a trendy lifestyle, presented a unique design challenge. Despite his lack of specific interior preferences, I took the initiative to concept
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“Forward-thinking, Multi-functional Spaces Will Rule The Design Books”
While the term bachelor pad typically brings to mind leather, metal, and glass, the project presents a distinctive design interpretation. The challenge involved striking a delicate balance between a sleek, uncluttered bachelor pad and a potentially o
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“It’s Going To Be All About Hyper-customisation And Collectible Design”
All projects are a labour of love and the coming together of the client’s dream and the architect’s vision. However, sometimes the synergy is so vibrant that it leads to a space that is forward-thinking and trend-setting (even though one doesn’t inte
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Setting The Stage
A home is so much more than the sum of its parts. A home is where the heart is, something Asian paints has been proving to all of us, time and time again. The seventh season of Asian Paints’ Where the Heart Is continues to give us an up close and per
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Meditative Designs
Nepal served as the connecting point and muse for two design enthusiasts. The result of which has been meditative, craft-driven and gorgeous furniture called the Dhyan Collection. But, we are getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s rewind to the lockdown,
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Eco Conscious Luxury
Over the years, innovative design has become a defining tenet for sustainable development in varied architectural typologies. With more and more people shifting away from standard building structures and instead opting for a sustainable yet practical
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For The Love Of Luxe
Even though Aux Home, the brainchild of Chitvi Kaur and Harpreet Singh was launched in 2011, it has always been in the news for housing iconic and new brands such as Molteni & C, GlasI talia, Alex Turco, Flos, and Luceplan, to name a few. Recently it
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On the Rocks
Sometimes you are meant to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. Founder and principal architect at Kunal Maniar and Associates, Kunal Maniar found himself there when he saw boulders emerge from the ground during a construction excavation. The re

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