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UPFRONT
BRICS: FRIENDS AGAIN,
FOR NOW PG 3
BOOKS: THE UNRESERVED
BANKER
PG 5
INSIDE
LEISURE
TELL ME A
TALE PG 65
GRAPPLING
WITH TRAGEDY
PG 72
SOCIETY & TRENDS
58
20
BY
DESIGN
Meet the young crop of designers
who are defying tradition and
creating a new vocabulary of design
C OV E R S T O RY
Reversing
the Slide
With growth
slipping for five
consecutive
quarters, and
demonetisation
and GST making
it worse, the
economy needs
desperate
measures to
revive. Does
the government
have a plan?
CABINET R ESHUFFLE
34
DEFENCE
IS BEST
ATTACK
I N D I A- J A PA N T I E S
43
The PM’s
surprise pick
for defence
minister, Nirmala
Sitharaman,
ticks all the right
boxes
BEYOND
BULLET TRAINS
Shinzo Abe’s visit will
be an opportunity to
put bilateral economic
and defence ties
back on track
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