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Food stocks buffer India against global shortages

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The war in Ukraine has disrupted global supplies of foodgrains but it will not affect India directly as the country is self-sufficient

A Moveable Feat

Lhendup G Bhutia

With some creative skills and good old-fashioned jugaad, an informal industry lifts your home and sometimes shifts it too

Street-Smart

V Shoba

Advanced driver assistance technology, together with awareness and training campaigns, is helping make Indian roads safer

Terminal Questions

Madhavankutty Pillai

More men than women, more illiterates than graduates, more daily labourers than farmers, nylon ropes—suicides have unusual characteristics in India

‘I have written on Ambedkar in good faith’

Ullekh NP

Shashi Tharoor’s latest book, Ambedkar: A Life, dwells on the scholar-politician’s trials and tribulations, achievements and associations, and his differences with leaders of the stature of Gandhi and Nehru

PFI: The Long War on Terror

Rajeev Deshpande

The ban on PFI is the beginning of a period of legal grappling with an organisation and its associates believed to share their agenda with the Islamic State

Anil Chauhan: A Thinking Soldier

Rajeev Deshpande

The new CDS will have to deliver on military reforms

Out of the Veil in Iran

Deepika Saraswat

Iran’s youth have been reeling under an economy marred by decades of US sanctions, corruption and the pandemic. The attempts to tighten the noose on social freedoms and the state’s heavy-handedness have therefore invited an almost instant and massive pushback