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Pelé - God's Own Player

If football is the beautiful game, then Pelé was the beautiful player. Arguably the best ever, the Brazilian artist was much more than what he did on the field. After his death at age 82, THE WEEK looks at the legacy he leaves behind

WIDE-ANGLE SHOT

Excelling on both sides of the camera, this Malayalam actordirector is becoming a formidable presence in cinema

Politics of a punk queen

Before Alexander McQueen—that brilliant, subversive, iconoclastic British designer—there was Vivienne Westwood. All the adjectives that apply to him fit Westwood as well, perhaps even better since she lived until 81, while he died young in 2010, at the age of 40.

REVENGE, SERVED RIGHT

Heist is at the heart of Kaleidoscope, but there is so much more

SENSE AND SENSITIVITY

Conflicted between the purity of the art and commercial obligations, Babil Khan just wants to make people laugh and remain happy

In awe, in Vegas

It was late October, 1994. I was at a Cuban restaurant in an open mall off Tropicana Avenue in Las Vegas. I looked up from my conversation and noticed other customers becoming excited almost one by one and suddenly rushing to surround someone I could not see. The restaurant was not full, it was not dinnertime, but there was definitely something going on. Everyone else had stopped eating.

Harbinger of change

Pelé represented human possibility not just on the individual and collective level, not just economically and politically, but in a certain sense even spiritually

Virtue of The King

When Max Prado met Pelé, he invited him home, and the \"humble and uncomplicated\" great actually showed up

When I marked Pelé

When we first heard that we would be playing against Pelé, we had to pinch ourselves to make sure it was not a dream. We were thinking, “Is this for real? Is Pelé really going to play against us?”

Football's Einstein

On the field Pelé did everything modern players do now, and much more

TRIPLE WHAMMY

Negligence shown in preserving evidence adds to the mystery surrounding the death of Russian tourists in Odisha

FUSION IS THE FUTURE

Fusion technology is slated to be a complete game changer in the field of nuclear energy

BITING THE BULLET

The terror strike in Rajouri district poses fresh challenges to security forces in Jammu

Remembering KK, a Tata legend

To some, it may seem a little sad to begin the new year with a column on an individual who is no more. R.K. Krishnakumar aka KK, who passed away aged 84 on New Year’s Day, was not just a business stalwart in the Tata group, but a deeply venerated corporate professional. Such was the respect for the reticent man—known to be Ratan Tata’s confidant— that it seems totally appropriate to acknowledge his contribution and bid him an affectionate farewell.

The road ahead

After the Bharat Jodo Yatra ends, it will be a long haul before the Congress benefits from it

Net is caste

Shifting dynamics in Vokkaliga heartland could decide the poll outcome in Karnataka

Unfriendly fire

Internal strife remains a major concern for both the BJP and the Congress as they prepare for assembly elections coming up later this year

Free lunches is good economics

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch,” say economists. No one offers anything free for an entry pass into heaven, they say. There are hidden costs behind any good or service offered free.

Covid-19 In China - India Need Not Panic

While India need not panic about the Covid wave in China, it should up surveillance and genome sequencing

Why China Is Looking East

China’s economic woes and security obligations in the east along with India’s resoluteness in the west could moderate intrusion attempts by China’s army

My mother's saris

I don’t remember ever bemoaning the end of a year as I have 2022. I think it has been quite the annus horribilis. The Russia-Ukraine war has plunged the world into economic gloom, especially at a time when it was struggling to come out of a brutal pandemic.

CRUSADERS FOR CHANGE

A new book shines light on the men and women who continue the legacy of the Mahatma

Click and buy

Yahoo may have lost to Google in the war for the internet, but a term coined by it in 2005—social commerce—has become the buzzword. Social commerce is defined as the use of social media platforms to facilitate the buying and selling of products and services.

Swings and roundabouts

A gripping cricket fiction is a rarity, and how about some familiarity! In K.N. Raghavan’s Reverse Swing one cannot help but spot the uncanny similarities between the lead protagonist, Shankar—a cricketer from Kerala who finds himself caught in a match-fixing imbroglio—and a former Indian pace bowler from Kerala who had a mighty fall from grace after being accused in a match-fixing scandal in 2013.

THE WAY OF WATER

At the Kochi Biennale, artist Sahil Naik pays tribute to a submerged Goan village that resurfaces for a month every summer

VANE GLORY

Meet India’s independent weathermen, whose precise and timely predictions are all the rage on social media

An epic strategist

Celebrating the BJD’s silver jubilee, Naveen Patnaik recharges the party for elections 2024

The peace of the graveyard

I think the lowest point in the Gujarat campaign came when Union Home Minister Amit Shah proclaimed that “such a lesson was taught in 2002” that it has since led to “akhand shanti (eternal peace)” in Gujarat. Yes, the peace of the graveyard.

LAND-ING IN TROUBLE

Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Agriculture Minister Abdul Sattar face the heat for allegedly giving government land to private players

CHASING CHARLES

Two people from Hyderabad crossed paths with Charles Sobhraj. One loved him; the other got him arrested