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India Today

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BLIGHTED HARVEST

THE LAND PANGS

TAKING STOCK

ON A WING AND A PROTEST

CHECK OR CURB?

ROARING AND RISING

THE ‘JIHAD’ CARD

NOT QUITE ABOVE BOARD

SAFFRON SCALE-UP

#BUCKLEUP

VARIOUS STATES OF THE NATION

THE ROVING CMs

LALU’S EX-STUDENTS

Vanishing Act

Poll Prescription

Govt vs the Guv

Assam’s RISING WOMEN POWER • The Orunodoi scheme has emerged as a tectonic shift in the way the fruits of good governance are delivered and poverty alleviation programmes are run in the country. Its impact has been acknowledge in several academic exercises within and outside the country.

EDITING HISTORY • Selective deletions of significant passages in textbooks on Indian history in the name of rationalisation of school curricula once again stoke fears of the politicisation of education

GANDHI ASSASSINATION DELETIONS

EMERGENCY EDITS

COMMUNAL RIOTS DELETIONS

MUGHAL HISTORY REVISIONS

CUTS IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND CASTE ISSUES

HOW PAST GOVERNMENTS REVISED HISTORY • Governments of all persuasions have been guilty of trying to rewrite the history textbooks in the past

Earlier changes by the Modi government

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT • There is no need to resort to the excuse of Covid-19. The deletions relating to the Mughals, the RSS and the Gujarat riots are justified in themselves. Schoolchildren mustn’t be burdened with complexities

NO SELECTIVE NARRATIVES PLEASE • It is time the discipline of history is left to the historians and not dictated by narrow-minded politicians with a worm’s eye view of the world

BRAND CONSCIOUSNESS • Whether with the people associated with the company or the environment, Samsonite India CEO Jai Krishnan states that being responsible and responsive drives success.

BJP’S BIG OBC PUSH • The OBC vote has been a significant part of the BJP’s success since 2014. Will the demand for caste census in states and its inherent dangers upset the party’s plans?

THE OBC GAMEPLAN • What the Modi regime has done since 2014

THE REGIONAL FOCUS • How the BJP is tackling the OBC quagmire in crucial states

CLASH OF AMBITIONS • THE CONGRESS SEES A WINNING CHANCE IF IT PLAYS ITS CARDS RIGHT, BUT THE COMPETING CHIEF MINISTERIAL DREAMS OF SIDDARAMAIAH AND D.K. SHIVAKUMAR COULD TURN SPOILSPORT

SPARKLING REVOLUTION • A CHEAPER, GREENER ALTERNATIVE TO MINED DIAMONDS, THE LAB GROWN DIAMOND IS EXCITING DIAMANTAIRES ACROSS THE WORLD AND IN INDIA. GOVERNMENT PUSH AND THE ENTRY OF NEW PLAYERS OPEN UP A BRIGHT UNIVERSE OF PROFITABLE OPPORTUNITY

A CUT ABOVE • The processes involved in producing lab diamonds, India’s growing role in their production and export, and their uses

PLAYING THE NETA • AS ELECTION SEASON DRAWS NEAR, CINEMA BECOMES A VEHICLE TO SHOWCASE POLITICAL ICONS AS EITHER HEROES OR VILLAINS

WHEN OTT WENT POLITICAL

THOSE WERE THE DAYS • A celebration of the golden era of Hindi cinema, Vikramaditya Motwane’s Jubilee is much more...