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Orbiting in Ideas

Nandini Nair

In India, young nonfiction writers are telling us vital stories, of moving beyond presumptions, and widening the public discourse

Stars on Fire: Cast of Characters

Kaveree Bamzai

Some performances go directly into the mass mind, and linger there long after credit lines

Super Intelligence

Ullekh NP

Businesses latch on to AI to stay profitable

Indifferent Strokes

Aditya Iyer

A tumultuous year for India, Djokovic and the England football captain

Over to Trump

Sudeep Paul

After a strategic roller-coaster of a year, the world awaits January 20

The New Game

Rahul Pandita

Security forces face a renewed challenge in Jammu & Kashmir

Populism At Play

Siddharth Singh

A year of many elections saw India’s freebie fetish push state-level expenditures beyond margins of safety

Missed Call

Rajeev Deshpande

Internal drift and worn-out themes have shrunk Congress and kept the party from capitalising on the Lok Sabha results while a defining idea to counter BJP still eludes the Opposition

Foreword

S Prasannarajan

Modernisation with a cultural accent is a national project further validated by the India of 2024

The Open-Ascension Centre For Research and Analytics (ACRA) study ranks India’s B-Schools on six vital parameters and a unique distance-to-frontier benchmark that shows how far an institute is from the leading business school