The Vicktrina wedding kept paparazzis at bay. How are Mumbai’s paps coping as more and more stars control access and narrative.

TOI's Chidanand Rajghatta, journalist Snigdha Sur and author-journalist Anita Raghavan weigh in on what Parag Agrawal's elevation to Twitter CEO reveals about Indians in the US and in the world of tech

Retired Air Vice Marshal Manmohan Bahadur and defence analyst Rahul Bedi weigh in on the chopper crash that killed Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and 12 others and the tenure of India's highest-ranking military official.

TOI diplomatic editor Indrani Bagchi explains the significance of Vladimir Putin's visit at a time when India is moving closer to US and Russia to China, and why India-Russia relations need nurturing

Nearly three decades after the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition, journalist and author Nilanjan Mukhopadhay explains how the event shaped the BJP's politics and why the building of the Ram temple won't alter its course

The pandemic crushed India's multi-crore wedding industry in 2020, but this year it's back with a bang. But the big Indian weddings have changed, perhaps forever

Badminton legend Pullela Gopichand on what it takes to create winners and how he overcame his own challenges as a player and coach

What does a new, possibly highly transmissible variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 mean for India just as it opens up? Eminent virologist Dr Shahid Jameel explains what to worry about and what we need to do

After the recent defection of 12 MLAs in Meghalaya to TMC — a look at how the party in Bengal is expanding its footprint. In this episode, editor Patricia Mukhim, political analyst Neelanjan Sircar and TOI's Sunando Sarkar weigh in

Two deeply-researched reports reveal exactly how the narrative was influenced and controlled by social media on the farmers' protest and the Aryan Khan case