CATEGORIES

UCC and the Rajiv precedent

Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising the highly controversial issue of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is obviously a dog whistle aimed at rallying the faithful to his standard divisive agenda on the eve of the general elections scheduled for 2024, when the INDIA alliance threatens to derail his long run of electoral victories.

Forgiving spirit

Accepting THE WEEK's apology, Bajrang Dal leader decides to withdraw case against the magazine

Fix accountability in Manipur

Accountability or being responsible for one’s actions, of being answerable, are basic tenets, not just of a democracy, but any civilised society. In the absence of accountability, chaos, anarchy and injustice will follow. And those in positions of power may misuse their authority in any way they please.

Tales of terror

Kuki women refuse to work with Meitei women to restore peace in Manipur

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OPPOSITION UNITING BECAUSE BJP IS TOO STRONG TO BE DEFEATED

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - NITIN GADKARI MINISTER OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

Mystery of the red diary

The 1978 Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Don had an edge-of-the-seat stunt scene set in a Christian cemetery, where the villains try to snatch a red diary from the hero. The diary, we are told, contains the names of all the baddies inhabiting Mumbai’s underworld.

How Το Make A Champion

My New Wimbledon Is To Have A Much Healthier Indian Race

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Stitch perfect

Ritu Kumar began making clothes 55 years ago. After almost a decade, she will be showing at the India Couture Week

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Pink dresses, greenbacks

I was not the first girl in school to own a Barbie. A few girls already had one before me, and had quickly formed a little can’t-sit-with-us cult.

Barbie's day out

As a Greta Gerwig fan, it was magical to meet her at Barbie's Pink Carpet premiere

GUILT TRIP

Amitav Ghosh's new book examines how opium trade contributed to the rise in wealth across continents

NO COUNTRY FOR CHEETAHS?

As cheetahs brought to India continue to die, international experts feel the situation is alarming; authorities say it will get better

Raining solutions

We need to prepare urban river management plans, recognising water and rivers as key resources

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Numbers say Djoker is the GOAT

I AM VERY PRIVILEGED to have not only played with and against three of the greatest players of all time, but to also be part of that era.

PASSION AND COMPASSION

The story of Oommen Chandy's evolutionfrom a restless young radical to a beloved Congress patriarch-is the story of Kerala politics as well

Expansion mode

Responding to opposition unity efforts, BJP initiates plans to revive the National Democratic Alliance

Unity in diversity

The process of naming the opposition alliance reflected the keenness of the parties to come across as a united force despite inherent differences

Mutual funds sahi hai!

When you are new to investing and do not have the appetite to play the stock market, a word of advice you often hear is to invest in Mutual Funds. Now what are these and how are they different from stock market investments? Let us try and understand.

Shringla, unshaken

There is absolutely nothing “accidental” about the steady and impressive rise and rise of a self-effacing powerhouse, who has steered India’s policy in all the right directions from the time he joined the Indian Foreign Service (preferring the rigours of diplomacy to the cushioning of a corporate job) aged 22 and became the youngest Indian consul general to Vietnam at 26.

Future tense

A problem with the future is that no one has been there. So, there are no stories, no research, no evidence on what it is like out there. We step into the future with neither guides nor maps. As philosopher of history R.G. Collingwood warns, “The future leaves no documents.”

FIRE AND BRIMSTONE

India has developed and inducted top-secret Directed Energy Weapons, a military technology of game-changing potential

BJP Trying To Turn India Into An Autocracy

INTERVIEW - M.K. STALIN, chief minister, Tamil Nadu

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July 23, 2023

An artist never ages

Is it a coincidence that both Zeenat Aman and Rekha-two gorgeous movie stars of the 1970s and 1980s-find themselves on the cover of two fashion magazines within weeks of each other? It is indeed serendipitous as both actors have propelled each others' \"comeback\"-on to magazine covers, if not quite into major roles as yet.

July 23, 2023

Verse, ablaze

Varavara Rao: A Life in Poetry is a collection of poems in English by the Telugu poet and activist, edited by Meena Kandasamy and N. Venugopal. Below, an excerpt from Kandasamy's introduction