Swing States | The Big Battle for Survival

After a defeat in the previous election, Jyotiraditya Scindia is determined to win back Guna, once his family pocket borough

Digvijaya Singh makes a comeback to the Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency after 33 years as the Congress candidate, employing a grassroots-style campaign. The contest is expected to be fierce

Changing tack, the Assam CM is steering clear of religious rhetoric and reaching out to Muslim voters to take the BJP tally to a record high in the northeastern state

With PM Modi’s shining armour as their beacon, the BJP seems poised to sweep the state again. Inflation matters, voices asking for jobs are lost in the Opposition vacuum

Vignettes from the states going to the polls

Loyalties in the family bastion of Baramati are divided as the feud between Sharad Pawar and nephew Ajit sees Supriya Sule pitted against sister-in-law Sunetra

The West Bengal chief minister faces a BJP onslaught on issues like corruption and women's safety. Unwilling to yield an inch, the TMC is building a narrative that the saffron party is 'anti-Bengali'

The voluble Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury fights with his back to the wall in his bastion of Baharampur

In Bihar's fervid political atmosphere, The RJD chief's youth-centric message battles a BJP relying on PM Modi's appeal and a much diminished Nitish Kumar

T.C.A. Raghavan’s 'Circles of Freedom' follows three young Muslims drawn into the freedom struggle

With its excellent translations, 'Songs of Tagore' makes Rabindrasangit accessible to the non-Bengali reader

Kashmiri musician Faheem Abdullah’s debut album 'Lost; Found' is a collaborative effort

Artist and music composer Gingger Shankar’s latest single combines South Indian music with Inuit throat singing

A seminal exhibition of K.G. Subramanyan’s works in his birth centenary year at Emami Art, Kolkata takes an imaginative and immersive curatorial approach

Etchings by the colonial Flemish artist F. Baltazard Solvyns are getting a new lease of life in an exhibition at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai

Badminton player Ashwini Ponnappa, 34, is off to her third Olympics, this time with a new partner, Tanisha Crasto

Seventeen-year old D. Gukesh has become the youngest player to win the Candidates chess tournament