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IIM Bangalore: Building Values

Mukta Kulkarni

Uses of flexibility in the digital age

The Hindu Quotient

Sandeep Balakrishna

The BJP campaign returned to its cultural core and it paid off

Welfare Wins

Siddharth Singh

Judiciously implemented anti-poverty programmes make a big difference

Hemant Soren Comes of Age

Amita Shah

The Jharkhand chief minister has secured the loyalty of tribals and grown into a good communicator and an even better listener

Modi at Full Throttle

Rajeev Deshpande

The Maharashtra result marks a watershed for the state and bolsters the Modi government, validating its ideological agenda even as Jharkhand hails the rise of Hemant Soren

The Nowhere Alliance

PR Ramesh | Ullekh NP

Congress still doesn’t know why India has not accepted I.N.D.I.A.

The Shaken and the Starred

PR Ramesh

The latest round of elections shattered many reputations while consolidating others

The Tao of Winning and Losing

S Prasannarajan

Rahul's failure to gauge the growing distance between his world and the India that indulges Modi

Under the Sacred Light

Priyanka Dalal

Fifty lakh devotees throng Tiruvannamalai for the Karthigai Deepam festival when a lamp is lit atop the Arunachala hill. Travelling solo, Priyanka Dalal experiences the sublime

A hundred years ago, EM Forster, in his most celebrated novel A Passage to India, wrote about the Marabar Caves. Tansy Troy travels to Bihar’s Barabar Caves, the inspiration for Forster’s fictional setting