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RAHUL’S NEW GAMBIT • The Congress leader decides to renew his fight in UP, but this time from another Gandhi pocket borough, Rae Bareli. Can he overturn the 2019 disappointment?

DELAYING THE CAA EMBRACE • Mindful of the TMC’s unrelenting attacks on the CAA and the inflexible, must-have domicile proof requires by its rules, the Matua leadership decide on a watchful wait

Clarification: Use Of Antibiotic In Venky’s Chicken

A FRACTURED CONSTITUENCY • Statehood, and coverage under Sixth Schedule: two clear demands fog up the BJP’s windscreen on its Ladakh drive

THE FEMININE PULSE: HOW WOMEN’S VOICES WILL RESHAPE THE FUTURE OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY IN ELECTIONS

PADMAJA REDDY CONQUERING RURAL HEARTS WITH MICRO FINANCE • Padmaja Reddy knows the magic that timely finance can do. A domain expert, she has seen how rural and small entrepreneurs miss out opportunities because they are up against the challenge of liquidity. She took over as the Promoter and Managing Director of Keertana Finserv in April 2022. Prior to that, she served as the Managing Director of Spandana Sphoorty Financial Limited, the second largest MFI in India. She shared her thoughts answering questions that were posed to her.

INDEPENDENT ATTACK • The new Nayab Saini regime is in crisis, but the BJP’s immediate concern is the LS vote

POLI PAHILWANS

A Li’l Shindig

The Forbidding Fruit

NO RETURN GIFTS

Boss In Da ’Hood

AYODHYA, VIA LUDHIANA

THE SILENT REVOLUTION • A GROWING FORCE, THE WOMAN ELECTOR IN INDIA IS REALISING THE POWER OF HER VOTE AND USING IT TO DIRECT HER OWN AND THE NATION’S DESTINY

A RISING TIDE • MORE WOMEN ARE REGISTERING FOR THEIR VOTE AND TURNING UP IN HIGHER NUMBERS TO CAST IT

Mixed Blessings • The gender gap remains huge in employment, literacy and internet access despite government efforts

MOOD OF THE WOMEN • Female opinion on relevant issues in the INDIA TODAY MOTN poll in February

WHAT WOMEN WANT • While political parties give them schemes and promises based on their gendered roles, women across the country tell INDIA TODAY what they really expect—jobs, education, development—the same things that men desire

Teach Your Girl Children Well

Feeling the Pinch

A Widow’s Lament

Inflation Pain

A Mantra Called Self-reliance

For Stability’s Sake

WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

Ease Our Living

DOUBLE MINDED

ONE WINDOW, TWO VIEWS

For ‘Greater Good’

A QUOTA FOR HER KINSMEN

AN EQUAL WORLD

Full Marks for Performance

A WOMEN-FIRST OUTLOOK

Good Intent Is Not Enough

Don’t Blame God or Modiji

The Local Roadblock

Give Us Just the Bare Minimum

Spare Our Religion

Back to Firewood

THE CHARM OFFENSIVE • THE UNION COMMERCE MINISTER STEPS INTO THE HURLY BURLY OF ELECTORAL POLITICS IN HIS MAIDEN ATTEMPT TO WIN A LOK SABHA...