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Caviar caravans on wheels

There's something about Kim-the Jong-un, not the Kardashian. For one, his smiling visage. I do not recall a single picture of him where he is seen as tense, distracted, or scowling. Not even when he met the Donald. There was, I am reliably told, a photographer who once caught him at a bad moment, but then that moment proved to be worse for the photographer.

Art of the sport

On the eve of a festival on Olympic films, two Olympians tell us about their favourite ones, and what the spirit of the game means to them

The artisan as heroine

I first wrote about Monica Shah and Karishma Swali-now known as \"the Chanakya girls\"-in 2019. I was completely fascinated by an embroidery school they had set up in Mumbai's Byculla, formerly part of Girangaon or the textile mill hub that once built the city. The ladies together run The Chanakya School, which invites less privileged women from nearby areas to learn embroidery to upskill them and create employment opportunities.

A SHOT OF TRUTH

In his latest book of aphorisms, Shashi Tharoor is at his wittiest and wisest

The #RagNeeti weekend

A fashion guru friend was invited by a leading TV channel to be on an \"important\" panel. The burning topic of the day was not Manipur. Nor Canada. It was a celebrity wedding in Udaipur. The minutest details of the high profile nuptials involving the young, dashing MP from the Aam Aadmi Party and the accomplished Bollywood actor, were being avidly discussed across media platforms.

WE HAVE LOST THE PLOT ECONOMIC REFORMS ON

Subhash Chandra Garg has let his pen speak his mind far too often. Serving as finance secretary to three finance ministers-Arun Jaitley, Piyush Goyal, and Nirmala Sitharaman-he churned out opposing views, much to Sitharaman's displeasure.

SOUND OF MUSIC

The videos of the new singers mirror their lives-and, to those in Punjab, they offer a glimpse of the glamorous life that is within reach

TRUDEAU SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH KHALISTANIS

INTERVIEW - Ujjal Dosanjh, former Canadian minister

SEPARATISM NOT A CRIME IN CANADA

INTERVIEW - Ward Elcock, former director, Canadian Security Intelligence Service

MAN WITH A LONG SHADOW

India has strong evidence about Gurpatwant Singh Pannun's network in Canada

Friends in the frame

What's behind the Sharad Pawar-Gautam Adani meeting?

TWISTS AND TURNS

A lot of manoeuvring went into bringing MotoGP to India

VROOM WITH A VIEW

MotoGP makes a solid India debut

TONS OF CLASS

The five best World Cup centuries I have seen

BIG FELLAS!

In a World Cup which is expected to be a tropical storm of runs and tall totals fuelled by T20-inspired sixes, you ignore the double-duty, multi-tasking disrupter at your peril. Be it the pure all-rounder or the leaders of either bowling packs or teams themselves, those who can bring their best or bring out the best in their teammates during clutch games will have impact that reverberates through the tournament. Here is the impact player from each team.

IMRAN IN BRIEFS, VICIOUS BUMRAH, AND DANCING WITH RANVEER

Sunny & Sunny discuss the World Cup's thrills and possibilities. THE WEEK presents Yajurvindra Singh (Team India, 1979) in conversation with Sunil Gavaskar (Team India, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1987)

The human race

I don't follow any 'Humans of' pages on Instagram. To me, they seem to be a mix of Reader's Digest's Drama in Real Life series and the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and I find them too on-the-nose or treacly sweet. Besides, I keep getting the feeling that Bollywood story scouts are reading them breathlessly over my shoulder, trying to find plots for the next luridly uplifting 'based on a true story' blockbuster.

Sunak's downward spiral

Pollsters see British governments come and go-usually into oblivion. YouGov's chief polling researcher, Anthony Wells, has analysed several governments, prime ministers and opposition leaders also known as restless prime ministers-in-waiting.

See some evil too, Trudeau

He was Michelangelo's David dressed in a Saville Row suit-handsome face, sharp and a commitment to ... democratic openness\"; one about whom Vanity Fair warned people to \"have a fainting couch on standby as you watch him in action\".

Ultimate goal is to boost regional connectivity

ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu has lauded the US-backed plan to build a rail and shipping corridor linking India with the Middle East, Israel and Europe as the “great cooperation agreement” in Israel’s history.

DEFEATING DEPRESSION

For more than two decades Sarah Reeves battled suicidal tendencies. Now, after undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery in India, the Australian is rediscovering her zest for life

Cold And Sour

Trudeau sacrifices ties with India to save his sagging political career

Don't lose heart

Heart attacks are on the rise in young adults, but they are also preventable

Al will play a major role in drug discovery and development

There are theories about why Hippocrates, the father of medicine, named a cluster of abnormal cells karkinos (Greek for crab). Was it because the tumour felt hard as a rock, reminding him of the crab's shell?

CODE OF COMPASSION

Patients are at the heart of Magsaysay awardee Ravi Kannan's medical philosophy

Weaning woes and ways

THE PROCESS OF weaning a baby off its mother's milk has undergone a sea change. Babyled weaning (where the baby is introduced to solid food that he can eat on his own), breastfeeding till the age of two and gentle weaning (replacing one feeding with semi-solid or liquid food) have become part of the art and science of breastfeeding today.

STAYING FIT WHEN YOUNG COULD REDUCE RISK FOR 9 CANCERS

People with high cardiorespiratory fitness when young have a lower risk of developing nine types of cancer, including head and neck, lung, kidney, bowel, liver, oesophagus, stomach, rectum and pancreas.

Within reach, finally

The 'special' in the special Parliament session was finally revealed. It was not an early election, the announcement of 'one nation, one election, or a move to implement the Uniform Civil Code.

Notting Hill to Kala Ghoda

London's famous Indian bridal wear boutique comes home to India

Going to a drag party

Last weekend I did something I should have done a decade ago. I went to a drag party. It was the most sensational experience I have had in too long, and let me tell you why.