The Rise of the Rest

Captain India

Rohit Sharma’s determination to win the T20 World Cup and his willingness to experiment have ended the team’s title drought

Public Square

Salman Rushdie | Venki Ramakrishnan | Shaktikanta Das | S Somanath | Sudhanshu Mani | Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Ram Madhav | Swapan Dasgupta | William Dalrymple & Anita Anand | Mukesh Ambani | Gautam Adani | N Chandrasekaran | Satya Nadella | Adar Poonawalla | Gita Gopinath | Kangana Ranaut | Vikram Sampath | Tridip Suhrud | Bindu Reddy | Karthik Muralidharan | Sunita Williams | Ashok Elluswamy | Abha Narain Lambah | Joyeeta Gupta | Arghya Sengupta

Editor’s Note

Soft Power

Payal Kapadia | Vikram Seth | Zakir Hussain | Diljit Dosanjh | Deepika Padukone | Kiran Rao | Kapil Sharma | Anasuya Sengupta | Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant | Shivendra Singh Dungarpur | Chidambaram | Neeraj Chopra | Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty | Aneeth Arora | Myna Mukherjee | Madhumita Murgia | Gukesh D | Shruti Vora | Ankur Tewari | Ranveer Allahbadia | Smriti Mandhana | Sabyasachi Mukherjee

Making India Climate Smart

The economy can sustain high growth even as new technology is adopted against extreme weather conditions

Under Heat

Severely high temperatures across northern and eastern India extract a great human cost and reinforce the need to reset urban planning

The Message from the Modi Cabinet

The Prime Minister gets ready to work at full tilt with overwhelming support from his allies

Rising In the South

NDA makes massive inroads into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and opens its account in Kerala

The Juggernaut

BJP ends the Patnaik era with a landslide