April 5, 2021

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The Tipping Point
When India entered its Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020, it was evident there would be major economic repercussions. While GDP growth, which crashed to -23.9 per cent in the first quarter of fiscal 2021, headlined the damage report, a less visible and
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Of Faith, Tourism Crores And Good Sense
The Mahakumbh Mela, celebrated in roughly 12-year cycles at four locations, is perhaps the largest religious gathering in the world. The 2019 Mahakumbh Mela saw about 5.5 million pilgrims visiting Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj every day between January a
India Today3 min readCrime & Violence
From The Editor-in-chief
Even the most seasoned Bollywood scriptwriter couldn’t have crafted the political thriller now playing out in Mumbai. A rogue cop who plants an explosives-laden SUV outside the house of India’s richest individual and then investigates the same case.
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Wooing The Women
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has often been attacked by the opposition for his failure to ensure women’s safety in the state. So, on March 20, the CM formed three women Pradeshik Armed Constabulary (PAC) battalions—the Veerangana Uda
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Repeat Performances
The absence of coordination within the Congress was evident during the campaign rallies of Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi in Assam. On March 20, Rahul addressed a rally in Jorhat. The next day, the Congress held another rally in the same town, but this ti
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Bombgate
Reality frequently outpaces fiction in Mumbai, home to the world’s largest film industry. On February 25, even as Mumbai grappled with the fear of a second wave of infections following the biggest spike in coronavirus cases in over four months, one o
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Mired In The Tapes
The phone-tapping controversy that has kept Rajasthan politics on the boil since the failed coup against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in July 2020 threatens to embattle him yet again after his government’s admission in the legislative assembly that ph
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On the Wrong Foot
The new Uttarakhand chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat has barely completed two weeks in office but has already embarrassed the BJP multiple times. After being pulled up by party president J.P. Nadda for his remarks on women wearing ripped jeans, he p
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Down The Rabbit Hole
1 NOVEMBER 2020 Mansukh Hiran, a Thane-based businessman dealing in automobile spare parts, loans a light green Mahindra Scorpio to assistant police inspector Sachin Vaze, an acquaintance of his 2 FEBRUARY 5, 2021 Vaze returns the Scorpio to Hiran
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The Dark Net
1 Sachin Vaze joined the Shiv Sena at party chief Uddhav Thackeray’s residence in Mumbai in 2008. Abhijit Panse, a student leader from Thane, was instrumental in this project. Panse told INDIA TODAY that he and Vaze were good friends and had gone to
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“We Want The Mining Act To Be Amended”
Two years ago, on March 18, 2019, the 47-year-old PRAMOD SAWANT, an ayurvedic doctor-turned-politician, had the difficult task of stepping into the very big shoes of Manohar Parrikar, who had passed away the previous day. At the time, the BJP was in
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Stripped of Power
Ramesh Jarkiholi, the “architect” of the BJP government in Karnataka, has been a key player in the state’s politics. But with allegations of sexual harassment against him, Jarkiholi has been rendered powerless. Except for a few functionaries, no majo
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Viral Surge
From 1.6% in February, the positivity rate jumped to 5% on March 22 At 3%, Punjab has nearly double the national case fatality rate (CFR) 13 states have a higher positivity rate than the <5% benchmark set by WHO Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Ta
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The Canine Cops
The Madhya Pradesh police dog squad has some new, young inductees—10 pairs of indigenous breed puppies. The addition to the canine force was apparently inspired by one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann ki Baat radio broadcasts in August, in whic
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The Looming Credit Crisis
₹ 9.4 LAKH CRORE Total NPAs in the Indian banking sector as of June 2019 13.5 PER CENT Gross NPA ratio for the Indian banking sector in September 2021, up from 7.5 per cent in September 2020, according to the RBI ₹ 10 LAKH CRORE Estimated NPAs resu
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Keeping It Short
While campaigning in West Bengal and Assam, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been having some fun with acronyms. The first shot from his campaign arsenal came when he called the Congress an “SRP” (sarp, or snake in Hindi) party
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The Rss Family
DR MOHAN BHAGWAT Promoted, he replaces Suresh ‘Bhaiyyaji’ Joshi (Both based at RSS’s Nagpur HQ) DR MANMOHAN VAIDYA Based in Bhopal Responsibilities: Seva, Sampark, Prachar; the RSS Prachar and Sampark wings reports to him KRISHNA GOPAL Based
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The Continuing Mystery
Q. What was the motive for the bomb scare at Antilia? The NIA has not yet found out why explosives were planted outside Antilia, presumably by Sachin Vaze. One theory is that Vaze was looking to be seen as a hero by pretending to have demolished a t
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The Second Wave
IN the first week of November, even as India recorded 47,000 new cases within 24 hours and the total active cases stood at 500,000, the country’s health establishment let out a collective sigh of relief. This was the first time since the pandemic beg
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High Stakes In Upper Assam
On March 19, at an election rally in Doom Dooma in upper Assam, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “liar” for not fulfilling the promise he had made in 2016 to tea garden workers to raise their daily wages. The next da
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Poll Bonanza
Both the BJP and Congress are seeking votes by raking up identity politics and offering doles No implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, in Assam 500,000 jobs ₹ Monthly allowance to 2,000 housewives ₹ daily wage to tea garden 365
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Why Tea Garden Votes Matter
The tea garden communities comprise around 17 per cent of Assam’s total population of 31 million. They are mostly employed in the nearly 800 tea gardens of Assam. Their votes will have a direct impact on the outcome of at least nine assembly seats an
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A Handful Of Problems For Pinarayi Vijayan
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is confident the upcoming assembly election, scheduled for April 6, will see his Left Democratic Front (LDF) government return to power. If the LDF does win a consecutive term, it will be a political first—over the pas
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Game’s Afoot
Even as West Bengal prepares for the assembly election, to be held in the state in eight phases between March 27 and April 29, a new symbol for the Trinamool Congress is dominating party’s hoardings—a cartoon of a plaster-clad foot, poised for a kick
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History Lessons
Assam has been witnessing a fierce battle between the BJP and Congress over which party can better honour the state’s historical icons. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was slammed for referring to 17th century Ahom general Lachit Bor
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A Paradigm Shift
When Ashok Soni, the Madhya Pradesh zone chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), on March 20, proposed the name of sah sarkaryavah (joint general secretary) Dattatreya Hosabale for the post of sarkaryavah (general secretary), it became clear
India Today1 min readPolitical Ideologies
The CAA Spanner
Ahead of the assembly poll in Tamil Nadu, the AIADMK has been promising to press the BJP-steered NDA government to withdraw the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA. Party leaders, including CM E.K. Palaniswami, have been highlighting this promise—now
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She’s All That
The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, the UK’s first female prime minister, had once said: “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” In a Covid-stricken year, as the world went into a lockdown, global economies suf
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Making Myth Modern
As Krishna lies fatally wounded, he sees before him the women who have defined him—Rukmini, Satyabhama, Draupadi and Radha. The author uses these recollections to reinvent the story of Krishna. The first part of a trilogy, this novel picks from the
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Down On Its Luck
The BJP’s 2021 assembly poll journey in Kerala is turning out to be quite the roller coaster. Initially, it was able to shake up the LDF government by ressurecting the Sabarimala temple issue, but then RSS ideologue and BJP leader R. Balashankar alle
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The Last Leg
T HE GAME IS ON, AND HOW. As Bengal inched towards the first phase of an assembly election that has implications not just for the state but for the entire country, all stakeholders brought out their heavy artillery. In an indication of how big the Be
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Amish Does ‘Self-help’
Gargi and her husband Nachiket sit down to eat with her parents, Lopamudra and Dharma Raj. They havewinewiththeir missal pav.As they banter, they quote Sigmund Freud and Jaggi Vasudev. There’s something artificial about the way they speak, something
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Belly Up To Bollywood
In January this year, actor Janhvi Kapoor had social media transfixed with a video that saw her belly dance toKareenaKapoor’s‘SanSanana’from Asoka (2001). Sanjana Muthreja, the choreographer responsible for those flawless moves, credits the actor for
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Teachers To The Stars
It has been a long journey for Kuldeep Shashi. The 33-year-old started out as a young parkour enthusiast in Faridabad. Watching him demonstrate his acrobatic skills on his YouTube channel ‘KuldeepParkourist’, choreographer Shruti Merchant decided to
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Star Power
The nippy Fijian is a nuisance for any opposition. Though he missed out on winning his second final, his 14 goals and eight assists were the most in the league, winning him the player of the tournament award. The Senegalese was rock solid in defence
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The Poll Plot Thickens
TMC turncoat Sovan Chatterjee and Baisakhi Banerjee quit the BJP on March 15 after both were denied tickets. The two have made headlines in the past for their close friendship. They had joined the BJP together in August 2019 and have repeatedly threa
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Between Friend And Enemy
While Audrey Truschke has recently been subjected to grievous trolling, threats, and intimidation by national and international factions of the Hindu right, her latest book, The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Muslim Pasts, proves her sch
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The Ace Hustler
After picking up silver at the Asian Championships in February 2020, the pandemic slowed Bajrang Punia’s training considerably. The freestyle wrestler had to train without a sparring partner and with his Georgian coach, Shako Bendinitis, screaming in
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A Tale of Two Spaniards
Before the seventh season of the Indian Super League (ISL), Antonio Lopez Habas and Sergio Lobera had two trophies each in their cabinet. It soon turned out to be a battle of wits between the crafty Spaniards—Habas, working with his old Atletico de K
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Duty And The Beast
Q. Bahubali, The Ghazi Attack and nowHaathi Mere Saathi. You lean towards multilingual projects… When I was young, I never had an issue watching films in different languages. I began my career by doing films in whatever language they came to me. Wit

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