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India, Pakistan Must Show Common Sense On Afghanistan

ZAMIR KABULOV is Russia’s top diplomat in Afghanistan. He served as Russian ambassador to Kabul from 2004 to 2009 and is now President Putin’s special representative in Kabul. With extensive experience in the region, he is at the heart of the Kremlin’s attempts for peace in the region. In an exclusive interview with THE WEEK, Kabulov says the west is trying to foment trouble in Afghanistan and that India has a key role to play in bringing peace to the country. Excerpts:

Adani - No More Business As Usual

If the controversy around the industrialist drags on, the government will have to work hard to shift the focus back to its agenda in what is an important year

Post commotion

Two recent appointments have created discord in police and bureaucratic circles in Maharashtra

Musharraf & his three little Indians

Pervez Musharraf died last week, unmourned in India save by Shashi Tharoor. Tharoor’s tweet extolling Musharraf’s peace bids is being trolled by BJP diehards. They forget that it was Atalji Vajpayee who taught the commando-general the value of peace.

Let JPC probe Adani

As a member of the joint parliamentary committees (JPCs) set up to enquire into the Harshad Mehta stock market scam of the early 1990s and the Ketan Parekh stock market scam of a decade later, I am disturbed that the current government has not promptly moved to set up a JPC to enquire into the hammering Adani stocks have received in the wake of the Hindenburg report detailing what it calls “brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud”, and “poor corporate governance” in the conglomerate.

Whither #PeeGate?

News cycles are short-lived, fast-spinning wheels of information. Here today, and poof gone tomorrow. Now, we are caught up in the drama of Gautam Adani’s battle with Hindenburg Research and its political tremors. So, it is hard to feel there is any other headline worth tracking.

Giving jeans the boot

It is that time of the year again. The one week, or perhaps fortnight, when I want to feel all warm and snuggly.

SHADES OF INDIA

Two art books take you through the country’s ancient and modern history

Car rides over caviar

Perhaps, it is time to write an obituary for the traditional dinner date

LOVE, ACTION, COMEBACK

Pathaan, an out-and-out action film, has become a love story between Shah Rukh Khan and the people of India

Rising from the rubble

The 2001 earthquake crushed Bhuj and nearby villages. More than 20 years on, they have worked their way up and out of the disaster

SHOULDN'T TAKE AN AMERICAN FIRM TO WAKE US UP

When the Hindenburg airship went down in 1937, the disaster was especially dramatic for a couple of reasons. The German passenger airship’s trip was being closely followed by the public and the media when it caught fire over Boston.

COURSE CORRECTION

Adani companies are unlikely to be able to do business the way they used to

Crashing the party

About 3,000 registered unrecognised political parties exist in India. Most of them are sham entities which rarely take part in any democratic exercise, but misuse legal exemptions offered to them and perpetuate huge scams ranging from income tax evasion to money-laundering, running into thousands of crores of rupees

Russia - Life In The Shadow Of War

With Putin's invasion of Ukraine about to complete a year, opinions are divided in russia about the war. Russians, however, stand united fighting western sanctions, which they feel are an attempt to isolate and humiliate them. The week reports from Russia

Water-tight on the Indus dams

Two deals between India and Pakistan have survived military’s wars, terrorists’ bombs and diplomats’ joint statements. One is about sharing the Indus waters; the other is about telling each other about their atomic assets.

The crowd response has been amazing

INTERVIEW | R. Vineel Krishna, commissioner cum secretary, Odisha sports and youth services department; special secretary to the chief minister

Reading between the lines

If you look past the highlights of the budget, the poll-centric calculations become clear

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

The government’s gamble of spending big might pass the electoral test. But the economic test will be a different ball game

Amazed by the resilience of our people

Rahul Gandhi answers THE WEEK’s question at Hoshiarpur, on how the Bharat Jodo Yatra has changed him and the Congress

MILES TO GO

The Bharat Jodo Yatra has shown that the Congress has the capability to carry out a sustained outreach. But there is quite some distance before Rahul can challenge Modi

Bollywood is our 'grandmother'!

Back in the day we used to have proper, old school grandmothers. The sort of grandmothers poet Maithili Sharan Gupt invoked in his popular poem “Ma Keh Ek Kahani (Mother, tell me a story”.)

Ticket to Zanzibar

Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah on writing as resistance, remembrance and release

Nari Hira aka Mr Stardust

January 2023 marked two milestones in the colourful, glittering life of Nari Hira—bossman of Magna Publishing Co. Ltd. His birthday on the 26th. And grand celebrations on the 28th, to mark 50 years of his iconic film magazine—Stardust. He remains my first and only boss—five decades after we launched Stardust, with a bang, and changed film journalism in India forever.

Cross-cultural cocktail

Comedy duo JordIndian says everything is grist to their humour mill

GHOST BUSTERS

Lockwood & Co. is right up the alley for fantasy fans who like a touch of noir

Going 'wild' in Paris

CHIC MAGNET

Smartwatches Have Grown From Fancy Showpieces To Useful Devices

Smartwatches have grown from fancy showpieces to useful devices

WINNING ACT

Anshuman Jha was adjudged best actor, for his role in the recently released Lakadbaggha, at the South Asian International Film Festival in New York.

REVENGE TRACK

Shakira's new song 'BZRP Music Sessions #53' is trending at No 1 on YouTube's weekly Top 100 Music Videos Global.