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Lit fest, literally

A first-of-its-kind book festival in Srinagar

HEAD OVER WHEELS!

Be it a double-decker bicycle or one with a car seat, Uday Thapar is a master of creating quirky rides

A maestro's many faces

A new book deconstructs actor Kamal Haasan's rare combination of intellectual prowess and popular appeal

Unsolved mystery

A new book seeks to shake the dust off the Nagarwala case files

WARRIOR OF LIGHT

National award-winning cinematographer Ravi Varman loves to experiment with techniques that others avoid

Immune to the Hindenburg variant

The economic landscape of a nation is never a stranger to turbulence.

Lakshya needs to focus on training his mind

SOON AFTER LAKSHYA Sen lost the bronze medal match at the Paris Olympics to Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia, Prakash Padukone issued a statement that divided the sporting community.

Hope in the midst of havoc

A Telugu community in Bangladesh, with a history dating back more than 150 years, faces multiple challenges. They want the new government to lend them a patient ear

BALANCING ACT

Modi's Ukraine visit has thrown open the question whether India has effected a subtle shift in its strategic posture by aligning more closely with the west

I TOLD PM MODI ABOUT INDIA HOSTING THE PEACE SUMMIT

IT WAS WHILE answering questions from THE WEEK at the press meet that Zelensky said he had told Modi about India hosting a peace summit.

A HISTORIC VISIT IN A HURRY

Modi-Zelensky meet: what really happened

The Kursk bombshell

At its best, high-cost victory. Once again, Russia’s southwestern Kursk area is a battlefield fraught with ominous omens. Ukraine has launched a cross-border offensive into Kursk—the first invasion of Russian territory since World War II.

This industry is a cesspool of molesters

INTERVIEW-Chinmayi Sripada, singer and voice actor

Most men are decent

My work today is focused on mental health, and I’m pleased to see significant progress for women in the film industry.

Women must speak up then and there

INTERVIEW-Khushbu Sundar, actor and BJP leader

I don't want juniors to have the same experience as I did

The R.G. Kar incident showed how little the authorities care about women. The Hema Committee report gave me confidence that this is the right time to begin this discussion in the Bengali film industry as well.

Criminals have their bhais, messiahs and patrons

INTERVIEW-Tanushree Dutta, actor

Delay in justice amounts to apathy

She has captivated audiences through numerous characters over a career that spans nearly two decades.

Cinema has been reduced to gossip

Their (of the women who are speaking out) information, their thoughts and their feelings are added ingredients in the formulation of the film policy.

This isn't about one person; it's about a broader issue

If you start unmasking, I am sure 90 per cent of the people would end up behind bars. This behaviour has become normalised, as if people think they have to give something to get something.

THEATRE OF OUTRAGE

A shocking report on abuse and exploitation in Malayalam cinema has unleashed a revolution for gender justice. Will the heroic struggle, led by a group of courageous women, succeed?

Blast from the past

Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy cries foul as the illegal mining-related case against him gathers pace

The rapist vote bank

I am sensing some ennui in the reportage around the horrific rape and murder at the R.G. Kar Medical College. Perhaps it is just me, but it seems that the media, while putting on their grimmest faces and asking—‘how many girls will have to die horrible deaths before we fix ourselves as a society?’—seem to be mouthing this often-repeated line a little mechanically.

MEDIA SENSATIONALISM CANNOT DETERMINE THE NARRATIVE OF A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION

MAMATA BANERJEE HAS never shied away from a political challenge. But the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata seems to have put her government in West Bengal on the back foot.

HOP & WIN

Assembly polls may not be a straightforward MVA versus Mahayuti affair; ambitious second-rung leaders could switch parties or contest as independents, upsetting calculations of major alliances

Of hugs, handshakes, folded hands

Two years ago, the whole world was coming down on Narendra Modi like a tonne of bricks for not having condemned Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, and for buying the bad guy’s oil. So Modi flew to Samarkand, pulled aside the big bad Russian to a corner at the Shanghai gang-up, and told him bluntly—look here big boy, \"Today's era is not of war.”

In 2023, I Was Thinking Of Another Career

In a largely lacklustre Olympic campaign in Paris, Manu Bhaker was one of the few bright spots for India.

Paddy in Kashmir's killing fields

My job is to install an elected chief minister in Srinagar,” Paddy told us on an August evening in 1996.

Lessons from Bangladesh

The ‘Monsoon Revolution’ of August 5, 2024, was not about Bangladesh’s relations with India but about the relationship of Bangladesh with Bangladeshis.

How not to react to rape

The rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata has been an inflection point for the country.