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2023: A Love Story

With its first same-sex marriage, Nepal’s queer community expects it to be a beacon of hope for sexual minorities from across the world

Terrorists in twilight zone

Wanted men are felled, but it is too early for India to lower its guard

Baba blamed himself for Gandhi family's impact on Congress

They would wonder how and when they would become public.

Devolution of power will resolve a lot of problems

On a sunny day after Cyclone Michaung wreaked havoc in Chennai, calm prevailed on the swanky Greenways Road.

Cashiering for queries

Voltaire said, judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Mahua Moitra wouldn’t agree. She would want a person to be judged by her answers. Meenakshi Lekhi wouldn’t agree.

America's Biggest Threat Is Debt

The US rises higher and higher—not in international status, but in its debt crisis.

Cool trends

Impact of Al on health care dominated discussions at THE WEEK Best Hospitals Awards 2023

Randeep's non-Bollywood wedding

The talented actor and eligible bachelor Randeep Hooda married his girlfriend Lin Laishram last week.

A striped tale

Gargi Rawat's first book marries romance, Bollywood and her love for the wild

From Munro to Murakami

In a new anthology of stories, Twinkle Khanna experiments with her craft and broadens her horizons

SEOUL MUSIC

Indian K-pop idol Aria on performing in India and how she taught herself to sing

TIMELESS OPULENCE

As the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel turns 120, it continues to earn its place in history

Rise of cards

Indians are getting more and more credit cards and swiping them more often than ever

The need of the hour is intellectual capital factories like IIMs

Raghuram Rajan revels in his post-RBI governor status as a sort of conscience-keeper of India’s political economy, ignoring trolling and allegations of ‘Modi bashing’.

The brunt of 'animal' passion

Action-drama is a loved genre in India cinema. Over the last seven or eight decades, a steady stream of angry young men and women have fought bloody battles against the demons of corruption, lust, greed and power, to loud whistles, claps and coin-throwing from an enthusiastic audience.

PARADIGM SHIFT

Zoram People's Movement opens a new path in Mizoram's political landscape

SHOCK EXIT

The loss in Chhattisgarh leaves the Congress reeling, but it might not undermine Bhupesh Baghel's political standing

THIRD TIME'S THE HARM

Ten reasons the BRS could not score a hat-trick in Telangana

REVANTH WAS READY

How Revanth Reddy won a battle of personalities against K. Chandrashekar Rao to become chief minister

LOTUS MUSCLE

BJP might introduce aggressive governance in its pursuit to remain in power for a long time

WANT TO SERVE PEOPLE TILL MY LAST BREATH

THERE ARE SEVERAL names in contention to be chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, but many political analysts feel there is no option other than Shivraj Singh Chouhan taking on the post for a fifth time. Commoners feel the same.

THE GROUND FORCE

The BJP is already moving towards its goal of 51 per cent vote share in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls

HEARTLAND HEARTACHE

The Congress finds itself in the unenviable situation of reworking its entire strategy for the Lok Sabha polls

FRIENDS, INDEED

The Pannun case will remain a mere blip in the surging India-US ties

We do not investigate movements or ideologies

THE STORM IN INDIA-CANADA ties refuses to abate with rising threats from pro-Khalistani extremists on Canadian soil.

Other militant outfits will now follow suit

We have been trying to bring all insurgent groups into the mainstream for quite a long time. In May 2017, the Manipur cabinet increased the monthly stipend of surrendered militants from ₹4,000 to ₹8,000.

Talk time

The peace pact between the Manipur government and a separatist UNLF faction serves the interests of both parties in the short term

Idea of India, bhavna of Bharat

There is one electoral record that Narendra Modi wants to equal in 2024; there is another he aspires to break. Both are currently held by the Nehru-Gandhis.

The Art Of Electoral War

At The Heart Of The BJP's Strategy To Score A Hat-trick Victory In 2024 Is A Military Philosophy That It Successfully Tested In The Assembly Polls Campaign-the More You Sweat In Peace, The Less You Bleed In Battle

The Great American Fall

It is said that when America sneezes the world catches a cold. If Donald Trump becomes -president, then the world would get pneumonia.