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India Today is the leading news magazine and most widely read publication in India. The magazine’s leadership is unquestioned, so much so that India Today is what Indian journalism is judged by, for its integrity and ability to bring unbiased and incisive perspective to arguably the most dynamic, yet perplexing, region in the world. Breaking news and shaping opinion, it is now a household name and the flagship brand of India’s leading multidimensional media group. Additionally, the weekly brings with it a range supplements like Women, Home, Aspire, Spice and Simply which focus on style, health, education, fashion, etc. and Indian cities.

FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

India Today

MUMBAI CONFIDENTIAL

CAMPAIGN CRED

Holes in Your Facebook Wall

THE SGPC TAKES AIM AT THE RSS

Returning Soon?

IN THE PIPELINE

HOW TO STOP COVID’S SECOND WAVE • A combination of new strains, vaccine hesitancy and Covid-denial among people at large has led to a potent second surge of cases in India. We must do more than step up the vigil and ramp up the ongoing vaccination drive

MUTANT STRAINS OF COVID-19 • Although all viruses undergo mutations, changes in Covid-19’s spike protein, the key it uses to enter human cells, is a matter of concern

‘WE NEED VACCINE SATURATION’

WILL OUR JABS OFFER ENOUGH PROTECTION?

COVAXIN

VACCINE STRATEGIES OF OTHER COUNTRIES

THE BIJAPUR BLOODBATH • As they close in on the last redoubts of the Maoists in Chhattisgarh, the security forces come under a deadly attack. Lessons from past ambushes remain unlearned

SIX AMBUSHES, SIMILAR STORIES • Security forces have repeatedly been ambushed by large groups of Maoists using very similar tactics over the years. Why does it continue?

SOP FOR AVOIDING AN AMBUSH

COVERING ALL THE BASES • Mamata Banerjee is still counting on a decisive mandate even while keeping the door ajar for a post-poll alliance, if needed

BJP’s Bengal Regiment

ALL THE KING’S MEN

DIVISION OF LABOUR • The BJP has divided the state into five zones with a special in-charge deputed for each zone

MISSING IN ACTION • Rivals in Kerala, allies in Bengal—is the Congress’s dual relationship with the Left keeping the Gandhis from joining the campaign against Mamata?

SEEKING A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE • Notes from the campaign trail as assembly polls near the halfway mark

TIME UP FOR THE DON • Gangster-neta MukhtarAnsari’stransfer to an Uttar Pradesh jail from Punjab is seen as a victory for the Yogi government. How will the politics play out?

MUKHTAR’S LEGAL WRANGLES

THE SULTAN OF STRING • For sitarist Anoushka Shankar, music can make you both feel and heal

THE SUBALTERN CAN SING • HAVING COLLECTED AND DIGITISED EARLY RECORDINGS FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE GLOBE, JONATHAN WARD HAS WRITTEN AN ALTERNATE HISTORY OF THE WORLD’S MUSIC WITH EXCAVATED SHELLAC

REBUILDING THE WORLD • The Covid-19 pandemic has transformed the way we live, but is it also going to change the way we build and design in the future? Architects weigh in

LEAVING THE CITY BEHIND • Architects are freeing homes from the urban bustle

JOINING HIS DOTS • A new Sayed Haider Raza biography makes sense of the abstract in him and his art

The Leading Role • Mixing fact and fiction, Kishwar Desai’s new novel shows how Devika Rani laid the foundations of Indian cinema’s future

THE OTHER VIRAL FEVER • AS SHORT, FUNNY, HOMEMADE CONTENT BECOMES OUR STAPLE ONLINE DIET, ITS MAKERS ARE MAKING MOST OF THEIR NEW CELEBRITY

Perfect (Comic) Timing

MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES • NOT ONE TO CONFORM TO THE BOLLYWOOD MODEL, EMRAAN HASHMI MARCHES TO HIS OWN TUNE