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FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
India Today
IS A THIRD WAVE COMING?
OMINOUS SIGNS
NITISH: AN ALLY AND A REBEL
BITING THE BULLET
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
ROOTING FOR A THACKERAY
The Outsider
KNOW YOUR TONGUE
OF GRIT, PERSEVERANCE AND DREAMS • Ex-armyman Sanjeev Kumar’s entrepreneurial journey is a story to take inspiration from
Don’t Tamper with Hallowed History
ECONOMY THE BIG WORRY • LACK OF JOBS AND PRICE RISE EMERGE AS MAJOR CONCERNS, BUT PEOPLE STILL BANK ON MODI TO STEER THE NATION OUT OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
PROJECTED RESULTS IF THE LOK SABHA ELECTIONS WERE HELD TODAY
TRACKING THE PUBLIC’S MOOD • Projections of seat shares and vote shares in previous and current MOTN polls
Methodology
DISTRESS SIGNALS • THE PANDEMIC RESULTED IN DEPLETED SAVINGS, SLASHED INCOMES AND JOB LOSSES LEADING TO ECONOMIC DISTRESS AND WIDESPREAD DISAPPOINTMENT WITH THE CENTRE’S MANAGEMENT OF THE ECONOMY
UNABLE TO MAKE A DENT • DESPITE THE COVID WOES THAT BEFELL THE COUNTRY, THE MOTN DEEMS THE OPPOSITION’S PERFORMANCE AVERAGE AND SEES MERIT IN THEM UNITING TO TAKE ON MODI
ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE • YOGI ADITYANATH RETAINS HIS POSITION AS INDIA’S NO. 1 CHIEF MINISTER; KEJRIWAL AND MAMATA FOLLOW
MOST POPULAR CMs IN THEIR HOME STATES
STRICKEN REPUTATION • THE DEVASTATING SECOND WAVE OF THE PANDEMIC SEVERELY UNDERMINED PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE CENTRAL AS WELL AS STATE GOVERNMENTS
CONSENT AND DISSENT • A MAJORITY ARE IN FAVOUR OF A UNIFORM CIVIL CODE, A TWO-CHILD POLICY, AMENDING FARM LAWS AND REGULATING SOCIAL MEDIA, BUT THERE ARE MANY WHO ARE SCARED TO PROTEST AND OPINION OVER WHETHER DEMOCRACY IS IN DANGER OR NOT REMAINS DIVIDED
ON A GOOD WICKET • THE GROWING COLLUSION BETWEEN CHINA AND PAKISTAN POSES THE BIGGEST FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGE FOR INDIA. MOTN RESPONDENTS BACK THE GOVERNMENT’S FIRM HAND ON CHINA-PAKISTAN ISSUES
STREAMING AHEAD • THE PANDEMIC IMPACTED BOLLYWOOD’S BIG NAMES, WHILE OTT STARS GAINED. A MAJORITY WANT CENSORSHIP FOR OTT PLATFORMS
THE MAKING OF A CHAMPION • THE INSPIRING STORY OF HOW NEERAJ CHOPRA BATTLED INJURY AND OTHER ODDS TO GIVE INDIA ITS FIRST ATHLETICS GOLD IN OVER A CENTURY OF PARTICIPATION AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES
NEVER OUT OF PLACE • AMARTYA SEN’S ACCOUNT OF HIS FIRST 35 YEARS IS BOTH ILLUMINATING AND CHARMING
KEEPING IT ALL ON RECORD • The economist Kaushik Basu brings to his memoir the same love for detail that defines his scholarship
STILL IN SCORING POSITION • A.R. Rahman looks back at his journey, from Rangeela to Mimi
Scaling Up • All that’s keeping A.R. Rahman busy
THE CALCUTTA CHROMOSOME • Aditya Vikram Sengupta returns to the Venice Film Festival with a feature that is part-ode, part-lament
Taking Us Abroad • Indian films travelling the festival circuit
A Class Apart • Irfana Majumdar recently took her affecting film about childhood and inequity to the Locarno film festival
KEEPING IT REAL • Now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Sidharth Malhotra’s Shershaah is based on the life of Kargil hero Captain...