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ONE THOUSAND DAYS OF RESISTANCE

UNCERTAINTY LOOMS LARGE IN UKRAINE AFTER RUSSIA'S AGGRESSIVE PUSH, TRUMP'S RE-ELECTION AND EXHAUSTED SOLDIERS ON THE FRONTLINE

Press one for conferences

Today, as I pen this article, my city stands cloaked in a dense and grey shroud of smog T and unfulfilled promises. This ritual of waking up to grey winter mornings has become an unwelcome norm, with each year worse than the last. Every year, Delhiites endure the endless press conferences from the chief minister of the AAP government, yet any tangible solution to this pollution crisis remains elusive.

In gold we trust

Most Indians are chrysophilists. There was good news for them a few days ago. The object of their love, which had been getting dearer, suddenly got cheap.

Bully In White House Isn't Bad News

Most of us claim to be nice people. We work hard, we give to charity, we love our families, we don’t cheat, we pay our taxes, we are kind, we respect teachers, we don’t jump red lights, we respect other faiths, we read to children, we believe in democracy, we cheer free speech, and we hate Donald Trump. We think all nice people do all these things.

Don 2.0

Trump returns to presidency stronger than before, but just as unpredictable

Olympics, 2036: Host And Ghosts

The Indian Olympics Association (IOA) has sent the International Olympics Committee (IOC) its ‘letter of intent’ to host the Olympics in 2036—appositely enough the centenary of the very year, 1936, when Adolf Hitler hosted the Games in Berlin!

The female act

The 19th edition of the Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival was of the women and by the women

A SHOT OF ARCHER

An excerpt from the prologue of An Eye for an Eye

MASTER OF MAKE-BELIEVE

50 years. after his first book, Jeffrey*Archer refuses to put down his'felt-tip Pilot pen

Smart and sassy Passi

Pop culture works according to its own unpredictable, crazy logic. An unlikely, overnight celebrity has become the talk of India. Everyone, especially on social media, is discussing, dissing, hissing and mimicking just one person—Shalini Passi.

Energy transition and AI are reshaping shipping

PORTS AND ALLIED infrastructure development are at the heart of India's ambitions to become a maritime heavyweight.

MADE FOR EACH OTHER

Trump’s preferred transactional approach to foreign policy meshes well with Modi’s bent towards strategic autonomy

DOOM AND GLOOM

Democrats’ message came across as vague, preachy and hopelessly removed from reality. And voters believed Trump’s depiction of illegal immigrants as a source of their economic woes

WOES TO WOWS

The fundamental reason behind Trump’s success was his ability to convert average Americans’ feelings of grievance into votes for him

POWER HOUSE

Trump International Hotel was the only place outside the White House where Trump ever dined during his four years as president

THE SECOND COMING

Trump 1.0 was not an aberration, but a logical sign of shifting political realities and cultures. Simply following the playbook of the first term may not be enough to do business with DONALD TRUMP in his second term

MAJOR GAINS FOR MINORS

THE BIGGEST ADVANTAGE OF NPS VATSALYA IS THAT THE CHILD STARTS SAVING EARLY, AND A HUGE CORPUS CAN BE GENERATED OVER TIME

MATTER OF FACTOR

FACTOR FUNDS CAN COMPLEMENT MARKET-CAP-WEIGHTED INVESTMENTS BY TARGETING SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS

Battle of the biggies

From Thackeray cousins to heavyweight veterans, a look at four hotly contested seats featuring high-profile candidates in the Maharashtra assembly elections

Mahayuti will get 175 seats

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar is facing perhaps his toughest electoral challenge yet.

By- and large

The stakes are high in the assembly bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, which will see a direct face-off between the Samajwadi Party and the BJP

The price of surprise

Rajdeep Sardesai’s new book is a gripping election post-mortem that offers candid glimpses of Indian politics

Mother India, RELOADED

Like her grandmother Indira did in the 1960s, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is channelling her motherly instincts to win her electoral debut, in Wayanad

William Dalrymple goes further back

Indian readers have long known William Dalrymple as the chronicler nonpareil of India in the early years of the British raj. His latest book, The Golden Road, is a striking departure, since it takes him to a period from about the third century BC to the 12th-13th centuries CE.

The bleat from the street

What with all the apps delivering straight to one’s doorstep, the supermarkets, the food halls and even the occasional (super-expensive) pop-up thela (cart) offering the woke from field-to-fork option, the good old veggie-market/mandi has fallen off my regular beat.

Courage and conviction

Justice A.M. Ahmadi's biography by his granddaughter brings out behind-the-scenes tension in the Supreme Court as it dealt with the Babri Masjid demolition case

EPIC ENTERPRISE

Gowri Ramnarayan's translation of Ponniyin Selvan brings a fresh perspective to her grandfather's magnum opus

Upgrade your jeans

If you don’t live in the top four-five northern states of India, winter means little else than a pair of jeans. I live in Mumbai, where only mad people wear jeans throughout the year. High temperatures and extreme levels of humidity ensure we go to work in mulmul salwars, cotton pants, or, if you are lucky like me, wear shorts every day.

Garden by the sea

When Kozhikode beach became a fertile ground for ideas with Manorama Hortus

RECRUITERS SPEAK

Industry requirements and selection criteria of management graduates