Cover Story
- Covid survivors from within India today's workforce on fighting the virus, what got them through it and the realisations the disease brought with it.
- India's optimistic vaccine strategy seems to have been exposed by a deadly second wave of covid. What went wrong and how to get it back on track.

Glasshouse
Here's this week's glasshouseIn Punjab, the total market charges for trade in agricultural produce is about 9.5 per cent of the crop value, including the 2.5 per cent commission paid to arthiyas.Locals say the standing oak trees are also burning this time, besides the pines, which catch fire more easily. Pilot is of the Gurjar community, and in a close election, caste-based voting could prove decisive.The Valmiki community in Shivpuri, while welcoming the decision to halt the culling of pigs, is not on the same page as Dogra when it comes to waste management, as they fear the loss of livelihood.The rift runs deep in Yadav citadel
The tussle within the Saifai clan has intensified since Mulayam’s niece Sandhya Yadav declared herself a BJP candidate for the district panchayat member’s post from Mainpuri on April 7.
Links in the food chain
In?Indranee?Ghosh's memoir, food becomes a metaphor for inclusion.A group show in Mumbai illustrates the short trajectory of Indian abstract artKabir Bedi has written a memoir he hopes will earn him the recognition and roles he was denied here in India.Artist Kartick Pyne never enjoyed the fame his cousin Ganesh did. A Kolkata gallery is changing that.Only some of the courses in this anthology of food writing satisfy the appetiteSanya Malhotra has travelled from the periphery of Bollywood to its centre by doing her own thing.Bollywood's Green Card Holders
Foreigners getting a foot in the Hindi film industry door are intent on making the most of it.
India's nuclear sharks
A long-delayed project nears CCS clearance even as India's submarine force gets long in the tooth. Why the N-powered attack submarine project has taken so long
From the Editor-in-Chief
India Today Editor-in-Chief Arron Purie here talks about the second wave of Covid-19 gripping India.
Time to say Tata
With Cyrus Mistry losing the legal battle against the Tatas, all eyes are now on the drama of the separation, how the SP Group will restructure its debt and how the Tatas will buy out the Mistry stake
A different league
They are not your typical neta. An army veteran, an economist, a Dalit writer, film stars with big fan followings and student leaders who dare to dream of a better, more egalitarian world. Meet a handful of Bengal's unlikely candidates.