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The winning combo

With the force of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's charisma behind him, Nitish Kumar may yet buck anti-incumbency to win another term as chief minister, finds a Lokniti-CSDS opinion poll.

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One Eye On The Future

Shabana Azmi on her film Kaali Khuhi, empowering women to break stereotypes and foreseeing the streaming boom.

Gruelling & Gorgeous

The series A suitable boy, the novel by Vikram Seth adapted for the screen by Mira Nair, unfolds at the pace of a marathon

Raising the bars

A round-up of recent hip-hop singles in which rappers use language and length to set themselves apart from the competition.

India's Indie Music Outliers

New releases from some of India’s Independent music scene’s most creative artists.

A Single-Minded Focus

Photographer Hemant Chaturvedi is racing against time to document India’s struggling single-screen cinemas

Taking the festivities online

With the pandemic raging on, Film festival organisers are making the most of the digital space.

UPFront

The Festive Season Challenge

The daily number of active cases is declining, but with the festive season upon us, India is bracing itself for a second wave.

The Age of Ed-tech

The closure of schools and colleges hit the finances of thousands of educational institutions.

A new power play in J&K

The last J&K assembly was dissolved on November 21, 2018, five months after the collapse of the BJP-PDP government.

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India's Best B-Schools

The 2020 India Today Group-MDRA survey, more robust than ever, finds that Indian B-Schools are in the midst of a fundamental transformation partly to adjust to a post-Covid world, but also to improve infrastructure, pedagogy and career outcomes.

Interview

We are between the devil and the deep sea

On September 10, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, was made president of the party's West Bengal unit. A bitter critic of Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, his appointment apparently ends the prospect of a grand alliance of non-BJP parties in the upcoming state election. In an exclusive interview with Deputy Editor Kaushik Deka, Chowdhury talks about plans to take on two formidable adversaries, the ruling TMC and a rising BJP and why he is not a BJP mole, as alleged. Excerpts:

Defence

Raising a swarm

The armed forces, behind the curve on weaponised drones, are rushing to fill the gap through imports. The tougher ask, though, is to develop an indigenous ecosystem for these must-have platforms.

States

A grim battle ahead

The AIADMK has sounded the poll bugle, but it has quite a battle on its hands even internally keeping a fragile truce between the EPS and OPS factions, managing an increasingly assertive partner in the BJP, and keeping an eye out for the wily Sasikala.

Whiff of a third front

With the congress and left parties hinting at joining forces, and a rising BJP already snapping at her heels, Mamata Banerjee's worries may have just increased.

The CM vs. the judges

Jagan Reddy takes on the top judiciary, alleging bias and corruption.

Editor's Note

From the Editor-in-Chief

India Today Editor-in-Chief Aroon Purie talks about the Bihar election as the first poll to be held in the pandemic and Nitish Kumar's performance as the CM of the state.