CATEGORIES

TEST OF TRUST

Government battles fallout from controversy over question paper leaks, as hundreds of people have been arrested and crores of rupees seized

Agonies over Macaulay's 2 Ls

Thomas Babington Macaulay was endowed with an encyclopaedic memory—could recite Paradise Lost and Pilgrim’s Progress eyes closed; recalled 40 years later the entire lines of two poems penned by a country versifier that he had read at the age of 13 in a weekly paper on way to school. As a child he was precocious, and had a hunger for books and words. Once a servant spilled hot coffee on his legs; when the hostess asked him a while later how he was feeling, the four-year-old replied, “Thank you, madam; the agony is abated.”

Lies, Damned Lies, And Statistics

First things first. This column owes its all to two explanatory articles by Udit Mishra of The Indian Express published sequentially in the wake of Prime Minister Modi's assertion before the US Congress that India was already at position five in the size of its GDP, and then after Modi assured the nation at the inauguration of the Bharat Mandapam in July that "during the third term of our government, India will be among the top three economies of the world"

The Republics Of Bharat

Historians say there is evidence of primitive forms of democracy in ancient India: non-monarchical states that governed by committee, kings bound by a council of ministers, and ascetics who convened the world's first parliament. Their ancient ideals, steeped in spirituality and culture, tell us that there is more to democracy than mere elections

Ocean of opportunity

Oceans play a pivotal role in sustaining life on earth and are of immense importance to humanity

Real men can dance

My favourite scene in Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani-and it is a film with many amazing moments-is when Ranveer Singh's Rocky Randhawa emerges from behind Tota Roy Chowdhury's Chandon Chatterjee, both men performing the highly expressive kathak to 'Dola Re

TWISTS AND TURNS

New Telugu web series Dayaa makes a mark with its strong characterisation

SPACE MASTER

Sameep Padora, the new dean of CEPT, feels it is important to make an impact that outlives you

PLUSH PINKS & PROUD GAYS

Whether it is channeling Barbiecore or making a case for inclusivity, fashion is all about feeling good for Falguni and Shane Peacock

Abreast of breast cancer

At the 'Expanding Breast Cancer Care for Indian Women' (second edition) by THE WEEK, experts talked about healthy life practices to beat the disease

Money and the mat

THE WEEK-Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund seminar looked at the similarities between yoga and financial planning

The Pune bubble

Growing up in a self-proclaimed microcosmic Pune

Madras mail

How the sights and sounds of Chennai gradually stole my heart

Turban-charged

Your inner Punjabi-ness lies deep within you, hardcoded in your DNA

Bong, with a gong

The Bengali love for all kinds of sound and food

God's own brandy

Here is what happens when a Malayali Man meets the bottle

Saving the earth, penny by penny

The Gujju guide to being economical and ecological

DIVIDED COLOURS OF UNITED INDIA

SCIENTISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS OF THE WORLD ARE STILL HOW THE WONDERING NUMEROUS CULTURES, COMMUNITIES, LANGUAGES AND CONTRADICTIONS OF INDIA CAN MERGE INTO ONE GIANT CONTRADICTION THAT IS OUR NATION

When the fire comes home

India is a land of all kinds of hereditary privilege

Learnings from Jeddah

Ukraine gradually shapes the peace it wants, similar to its careful and steady military counteroffensive regaining occupied territories

PAUSE AND EFFECT

Opposition fears that the government plans to delay national elections due later this year

It will be myopic of India to use only 75 years of its experience

A BANKER-turned-political thinker, Shaurya Doval has been part of concerted efforts in the past nine years to build an intellectual environment on nationalistic foundations

If there is anything that is safe in India, it is democracy

The term 'mother of democracy' is in fact a technical term that has been around for a long time

What evidence tells us

Ancient India had long and vibrant non-monarchical traditions. But they were very different from modern Indian democracy, which is based on principles of freedom and social and political equality

Bills and a coup

Scheduled tribes status to certain groups in Jammu and Kashmir invites criticism; move seen as BJP's electoral strategy

Messy, but not menacing

The uncharacteristic disorder in Gujarat BJP is noteworthy, but it is unlikely to affect it electorally

Dharmasthala's Manjusha Antique Museum: A Timeless Journey of Discovery and Preservation of heritage

Dharmasthala, a spiritual haven nestled in Coastal Karnataka, has beckoned pilgrims from across the nation for over eight centuries

IN A FIX

Ajit Pawar's entry has created a wave of resentment among local leaders of the BJP and the Shinde faction of the Sena

LOOK, DON'T TOUCH

Tamil Nadu BJP president K. Annamalai's fondness for bulls and goats is public knowledge

The sceptre of the sea lords

Who can forget Alec Guinness as Colonel John Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, going around with a twisted twig in his hand as if it were a cane of command? We see him swinging it with a swagger, using it as a pointer, holding it in his right hand and tapping its other end on his open left palm with a \"well, gent'men!\"