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Cover Story | Ratan Naval Tata (1937-2024)

The Legend and the Legacy

Moinak Mitra
Moinak Mitra

Ratan Naval Tata
| Ratan Naval Tata (1937-2024)

An Unusual Man

Suhel Seth

With each passing day he renewed his conviction that there’s much goodness in the lives of others

Ratan Tata boarding a Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet in Bengaluru
| Ratan Naval Tata (1937-2024)

The Reformer

Bakhtiar K Dadabhoy

Ratan Tata dismantled the imperial hierarchy of the house he inherited

Ratan and JRD Tata

Cover Story | Ratan Naval Tata (1937-2024)

The Leaders’ Leader

Minhaz Merchant

He expected others to keep their word. He always kept his

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at BJP headquarters, New Delhi, October 8, 2024

Politics | Assembly Elections 2024

The Great Rebound

Rajeev Deshpande

BJP regains momentum with its historic hat-trick in Haryana, allowing Modi to renew his attack on Congress as a party driven by a divisive agenda, while Jammu & Kashmir delivers a pro-development verdict

Zalmay Khalilzad, former US envoy to Afghanistan, and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, leader of the Taliban delegation, Doha,

Essays | Open Essay

The Meth Supremacy
Iqbal Chand Malhotra

How the ISI deceived America to protect the Afghan drug trade and enable the Taliban’s return

Congress is lost between the bizarre and the banal

Columns | Byline

Such a Bad Loser
MJ Akbar

Congress is lost between the bizarre and the banal

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini

Politics | Assembly Elections 2024: Haryana

The Quiet Path to History
Siddharth Singh

Congress’ populist rhetoric comes a cropper as BJP wins a morale-boosting third term

Politics | Assembly Elections 2024: Jammu & Kashmir

The Unbearable Lightness of the Proxy

Rahul Pandita

Why the independent candidates failed to deliver in Kashmir

Abhay Singh Chautala, Ranjit Singh Chautala, Dushyant Chautala

Politics | Assembly Elections 2024: Haryana

The Fall of Tau’s Clan

Amita Shah

Devi Lal’s heirs deluded themselves into believing farmers would never let them down

Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, September 30, 2024

Columns | Comment

Xi’s Permanent Struggle

Harsh V Pant

Ideology can hardly cover the imperial mindset of China at 75

Sonam Wangchuk (centre) on a hunger strike at Ladakh Bhawan, New Delhi, October 7, 2024

Politics

Dangerous Delusion

Rajeev Deshpande

Sonam Wangchuk’s demand for Sixth Schedule status for Ladakh is misplaced as the strategically sensitive region needs more, not less, integration with the rest of India

Mansukh Mandaviya

Columns | Insider

A New Provident Fund Deal

Open

Ministry officials are now drawing up plans to overhaul the IT system to improve options for employees whether it is withdrawals or tracking the value of their contributions

Columns | Game, Seth and Match

Beyond Elections

Suhel Seth

The carpet of democracy is stained and sullied

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Line 3 of Mumbai Metro

Features | Transport

A Train Runs Through It

Lhendup G Bhutia

A new Metro across Mumbai’s most congested stretches could take the load off suburban trains

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