November 9, 2020

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India Today4 min readCooking, Food & Wine
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Referring to reforms, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is supposed to have once told somebody that “India is a long freight train which has to be turned carefully, otherwise it will overturn”. I can’t confirm whether he said it, but the analogy could not
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CHAIRMAN AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Aroon Purie VICE CHAIRPERSON: Kalli Purie GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Raj Chengappa GROUP CREATIVE EDITOR: Nilanjan Das; GROUP PHOTO EDITOR: Bandeep Singh MANAGING EDITORS: Kai Jabir Friese, Rajesh Jha EXECUTIVE EDITORS: S
India Today4 min readMedical
An Election Placebo
Promises are free, and those made in the heat of electioneering best not taken at face value. The October 22 announcement of Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, offering a free Covid vaccine to all residents of poll-bound Bihar, is one such pr
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A Vaccine For All?
BIHAR (*104 MN) ₹ 4,680 cr. TAMIL NADU (72 MN) ₹ 3,240 cr. KARNATAKA (61 MN) ₹ 2,745 cr. ASSAM (31 MN) ₹ 1,395 cr. *Population; @ Rs 450 per person ■
India Today3 min readCrime & Violence
Deal or No Deal?
Responding to a plea from global e-tail giant Amazon, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) recently threw a spanner in the works of one of the biggest deals in the Indian retail space in recent times. Through an interim order, the SI
India Today5 min readPolitics
An Air Of Anti-incumbency
Laluji ke raj mein gareeb seena taan ke babusahab ke saamne baithta tha (In Lalu Yadav’s time, the poor could hold their own with the [mighty] babusahabs).” This remark by RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal) leader Tejashwi Yadav, while campaigning in Rohtas
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The Season Of Smoke Signals
The onset of winter marks several familiar events. For Indians across the country, this is the beginning of the festival season, with Dussehra and Diwali around the corner. For farmers, it marks the end of the kharif harvest and preparations for plan
India Today2 min readInternational Relations
Comrades In Arms
India and the US have never been closer, militarily speaking, and that must count as one of the most remarkable features of bilateral ties under US president Donald Trump. Regardless of the outcome of the November 3 US presidential elections, the bil
India Today1 min readPolitics
Tying In The Militaries
General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) Year: 2002 Allows sharing of classified information between US government and Indian state-owned firms Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) Year: 2016 Allows armed forces to
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Friendly No-show
Political circles in Madhya Pradesh were all primed for a clash between the Gandhi siblings, Rahul and Priyanka, and Jyotiraditya Scindia during the state bypoll campaign. Scindia quit the Congress in March, with 22 other rebels in tow, bringing down
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Luv Story
Shatrughan Sinha’s son Luv Sinha had a brief but unsuccessful attempt at Bollywood stardom. Two forgettable films later, he is following in his father’s footsteps to plunge into the same second career—politics. Luv is the Congress candidate from Bank
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Mending Fences
Harish Rawat, the All India Congress Committee general secretary in charge of Punjab, has been reaching out to party rebels in the state. He recently met a sulking Navjot Singh Sidhu on his birthday and cut a cake with him. The next day, he had a one
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Left Upper Cut
For once, it wasn’t the Mamata Banerjee-Jagdeep Dhankhar rivalry that was in the news. The West Bengal governor came in for flak when he chose to share pictures of the frail, bed-ridden former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee after he visited h
India Today5 min readEarth Sciences
The City Goes Under
Flash floods following pounding rain in mid-October (a record 320 mm in 24 hours on October 14), and sluggish relief work have dented Hyderabad’s image as a growing metropolis. Ten days on, 185 lakes and tanks in the city were still overflowing and s
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Running On Empty
Even though he was expecting a “small opening”, Sanjeev Bijli, joint managing director of PVR Ltd, was disappointed when he heard the collection figures for October 15. On that day, cinemas had reopened after seven months, but at only 50 per cent sea
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Ott Releases
Gulabo Sitabo (Amazon Prime) Budget: NA Acquisition cost: ₹65-70 cr Dil Bechara (Disney+ Hotstar) Budget: ₹25 cr Acquisition cost: NA Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (Netflix) Budget: ₹25-35 cr Acquisition cost: ₹45-50 cr Laxmmi Bomb (Disney+ Ho
India Today15 min readAgriculture
Agriculture farm Revolution 2.0
INDIA’S FARM SECTOR IS a plateful of paradoxes. Chew on this, to begin with: We are the world’s largest producer of milk, oilseeds, pulses, cotton, mangoes, papayas and bananas. There’s more: Globally, India is the second-largest producer of rice, su
India Today4 min readPolitics
“Only The People Can Judge Me”
I may look young but my soul is old,” says newly minted BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia to a 3,000-strong crowd that has assembled on a sunny late October morning in Dholagarh, a mofussil 85 km from Gwalior, to see and hear him campaign for the Madhy
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Finally, An Uptick
The festival season, starting with Dussehra and continuing till the New Year, is usually boom time for retailers and manufacturers alike. Everything from cars to consumer durables, clothes to mobile phones is in demand. This year, there’s even greate
India Today1 min readPolitics
The Building Blocks
In August 2019, she sent six AICC secretaries to all districts in the state to scout for prospective candidates for district and city Congress presidents In the next three months, she met these 1,500 candidates in Delhi, Lucknow and Raebareli and sh
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Congress Comeback Plan Rides On Nath
On October 25, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath wrote to sitting and former Congress MLAs tasked with managing the by-elections in ‘mandals’, or clusters of 10-12 booths each. The letter said Nath would be sharing a post-results analys
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Points Of Good Cheer
Sales in 2020 as a percentage of sales in the same month last year 57% Drop in home sales in the July-September quarter this year compared to the same period last year—this indicates the sector's precarious position *In the top eight cities: NCR,
India Today3 min readPolitics
A Bitter Harvest
Why is Punjab, a champion of the Green Revolution, one of the fiercest opponents of the new agriculture laws? Being a champion of the Green Revolution, which made India self-sufficient in foodgrains production, Punjab is perhaps the last state one e
India Today9 min readPolitics
Taking The Lead
AT THE END OF DIWALI,as winter begins to set in on the plains, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi plans to move base to Lucknow, capital of the state she is in charge of: Uttar Pradesh. In anticipation of her arrival, the state Congress headq
India Today5 min readPolitics
Rainbow Campaign
WITH CAMPAIGNING for the November 3 Madhya Pradesh by-elections in its final phase, the ruling BJP’s strategy has undergone a visible change in structure and pitch. The bypolls, which are being touted as the biggest in the state’s history, will deter
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The Priyanka Workbook
High visibility whenever there is a case of atrocity against the underprivileged, and display of empathy Has left her personal mobile number with nearly 5,000 workers who provide her ground feedback Equally vocal on social media, mounting an almost
India Today1 min readPolitics
Prestige At Stake
Constituencies: Agar (SC), Hatpipalya, Badnawar, Sanwer (SC), Suwasara Constituencies: Mandhata, Nepanagar (ST) SWOT for Scindia: The BJP’s chances depend on support from Kailash Vijayvargiya and Thawar Chand Gehlot Constituencies: Joura Sumaoli,
India Today7 min readMedical
Not Quite Over Yet
On October 26, India recorded 45,000 new daily cases, the lowest in three months. Maharashtra, the worst-hit state, recorded 6,417 cases on October 24, a decline of 66 per cent from its peak in September. Mumbai’s daily new cases fell to below 1,000
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A Global Crisis
The US recorded 88,000 new cases on October 26, its highest daily Covid count yet Europe is adding over 200,000 cases daily now—in July the number was a manageable 15,000 cases The Netherlands had its patients airlifted to Germany as it ran out of be
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How India Can Avoid A Second Wave
Shed complacency: Even if cases are on the decline, it is too soon to assume that the virus has been eliminated. It takes only a handful of people to send the numbers spiralling again Restrict mobility: Students, returning to campus after the end o
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A Reason To Travel
MUNNAR Pinarayi Vijayan Chief Minister, Kerala RANTHAMBORE NATIONAL PARK, SAWAI MADHOPUR JAIPUR Ashok Gehlot Chief Minister, Rajasthan STATUE OF UNITY Vijay Rupani Chief Minister, Gujarat GOA DUDHSAGAR WATERFALLS & TAMBDI SURLA WATERFALLS TR
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Waking The Dread
Released in 1999, The Matrix made literal a well-worn philosophical belief—the world around us is only a simulation. In one of its most iconic scenes, Neo, a messiah for the internet age, is asked to choose between two pills, one blue and the other r
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An Enchantment
The narrator of Susanna Clarke’s book, a young man whose name might be Piranesi, speaks to us with endearing directness. He lives alone, he says, in soaring marble halls, surrounded by clouds, tides and beautiful statues. His closest companions are t
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Buff Bharat
MUSCULAR INDIA Masculinity, Mobility & the New Middle Class by Michiel Baas CONTEXT ₹699; 313 pages While the country suffers under notions of a certain machismo,of56-inchchests, bahubalis and pseudo-anchors peacocking in military fatigues, another
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Thug Life
On the face of it, there isn’t a lot to Twilight in a Knotted World by Siddhartha Sarma. The author has taken an episode usually given just one line in school history texts and magnified it into something bureaucratic rather than the kind of magnific
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The Criminal Code
The Gangster’s Gita by Agni Sreedhar, a former gangster from the Bengaluru underworld, who since his reformation has gone on to receive many literary awards, does not take the easy route of offering neat redemption or predictable comeuppance. What se
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Digital Goals
Before obsessive sports fans were fed this relentless diet of crowd-free sport, we had to make do, as heroin addicts make do with methadone, with documentaries on streaming sites. Most recently, Amazon Prime’s All or Nothing sports documentary series
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Club Stories
Every week, the English Premier League throws up a manufactured controversy to keep its armchair fan-base piqued. In the process, the bigger picture is nearly always obscured. Sunderland and its importance in the lives of largely working class fans i
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When Less is More
To celebrate 15 years of his label, Manish Malhotra decided to create a collection that deviated from what he is best known for—glamour. “All the sequins and the glitter is in my design DNA, but I wanted to go into a world that I have always been int
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On Top of Her Game
Q. How does it feel to have a Barbie modelled after you? It feels great that I am only the second Indian to get a one-of-a-kind honorary Sheroes figurine modelled after me. From the wheatish complexion and the messy pony tail to the prosthetic leg,

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