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LUXE REDUX

2022 has been a phenomenal year for India’s luxury industry, thanks to the wealthy that went on a spending spree. The real story, however, is the spectacular rise of bridge brands and homegrown luxury labels

Forward march

The remarkable success of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in poll-bound Karnataka has unnerved the BJP and re-energised the Congress

SHOW OF HANDS

After a hotly contested election with a predictable outcome, Mallikarjun Kharge faces the difficult task of engineering a Congress resurgence

Meeting Xi’s father

Xi Jinping is unlike any other princeling I knew in China. He was born in Beijing but he grew up in the countryside where he got brainwashed by Mao Zedong’s ideology. Today, he is the only second-generation princeling who can be called a modern-day Red Guard. It is the biggest qualification that sets him apart and could help him get a third term, if not life term, as president.

CORONATION PARTY

Xi Jinping’s ideology has emerged as the priority solution to China’s economic and security concerns. Foreign policy and military superiority, however, will remain major challenges for him

Defection and disaffection

Power tussles and the absence of a decisive leadership plague the BJP in West Bengal

Revisiting The China War 1962

When the 1962 war ended, not only had India been defeated, but also abandoned by the world. The Chinese victory was complete, while India's prestige was a shambles

Where is the outrage?

This past week, two events triggered different political and media responses in India’s capital. And what happened should give us pause. At a meet organised by the Vishwa Hindu

What the sari said

What a delight it was to see Congress leader Sonia Gandhi join her son Rahul for the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' Rahul was in Mandya district of the BJP-governed Karnataka on the 27th day of his padyatra across India.

Verse as weapon

Meena Kandasamy, who recently received Germany's Hermann Kesten Prize, says that her pen gives her psychological relief

Cruel intentions

The new true-crime series on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer does not offer anything new

LET THERE BE LIGHT!

Where can you find a tiger the size of 1,060 football fields or a ship on the iceberg where it was wrecked? Ask Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter

SKY ROCKETS!

Suryakumar Yadav is perhaps India's most important batter heading into the T20 World Cup

Behold, Lusail

The World Cup final is being hosted by a historic settlement turned futuristic city

Tours and travails

Visa delays in the UK are likely to hit the Indian tourism industry hard

Outreach and a breach

The death of 66 children in The Gambia is being attributed to Indian medicines. It does not augur well for India's strategic goals in Africa

HEALING THE HATE

A group of Asian Americans is fighting hate crimes by going beyond documenting violence and ensuring that the community's contributions get proper, visible representation

Global Headwinds May Hit India

India is unlikely to go into a recession, but it will not emerge unscathed if the world goes into one

Exclusive: Boy Wonder. Next Pele?

Endrick Felipe is a nice kid, a good son, and an extraordinary striker. Many believe he is football's next big thing, a worthy successor to the legendary Pelé. THE WEEK chases the boy and his story

An underdog can always spring a surprise

Shashi Tharoor admits that he is the underdog in the Congress presidential election. But, he is confident that while Mallikarjun Kharge, his opponent, might have the support of senior leaders he has the backing of the ordinary party worker.

BATTLE BEFORE BALLOT

With local body elections just a few months away, the faction feud in the Shiv Sena will only intensify

Let's go beyond her beauty

Less than a month from now, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will turn 49. I watched her in Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus, Ponniyin Selvan: 1, and was mesmerised by her luminous beauty once again. Rai plays queen Nandini in this historical, which has generated a great opening weekend collection… but left me cold.

CONTINUITY VS CHANGE

Most party leaders acknowledge Kharge as the frontrunner, but Tharoor's candidature is generating some much-needed buzz within the party

GHOSTS OF SRI LANKA’S PAST

Shehan Karunatilaka tells a haunting tale in his Booker short-listed The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

THE KING AND THE PRINCE

Filling Ronaldo's boots is not an easy task, but it can be done

KICKING TO CONQUER

Why people think Endrick is destined for greatness

THE MAKING OF THE PREDATOR

The three men who shaped the super striker

I want to be known for my story

Sports commentators have variously described him as a “force of nature”, “the newest jewel of Brazilian football”, and in moments of extreme excitement, “the future of world football”. They are overawed by his skill with both the right and the left foot, and his precision shooting. The world sat up and took note when he became the breakout star of Brazil’s Copinha (Under-20 championship) cup early this year. Endrick Felipe Moreira de Sousa has that effect on you. At 16, he is so skilled yet so grounded and focused, something uncommon among teenagers in Brazil, where the pleasures of life are there for you to pluck.

Peace, Putin! Please

These westerners are crazy. Through the last seven months of the war in Ukraine, they had been putting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the dock. Now they are patting him on the back.

New Relationships - Modern Love Blooms

Post pandemic, love is being redefined. THE WEEK looks at alternative romantic partnerships that cherish the big, bold spaces between them