China Is Our Primary Front Now

Exclusive Interview - General Manoj Pande Chief Of Army Staff

Gast from the past

Our childhood heroes are increasingly walking on to our screens, jokes and superpowers intact

SAY CHEESE!

Tikam Chand's adventures with his 1860s vintage camera

Costume is character

Last week’s Amazon Prime Video drop Made in Heaven Season 2 has a scene where a middle-class character, Jazz (played by Shivani in Heaven Season 2 has a scene where a middle-class character, Jazz (played by Shivani Raghuvanshi), speaks of her office: “You can’t do fashion here”. It is such a great moment, almost as if she is addressing the show’s makers themselves. Take us seriously, don’t just dress us up. And yet, it is the dresses that speak louder than the stories. After all, this is India, where the lehenga matters more than the wedding, perhaps even the groom.

Pakistan's A-bomb bank

Iqbal Chand Malhotra’s thoroughly researched book—The Bomb, the Bank, the Mullah and the Poppies—has laid bare the agenda of Pakistan’s ‘deep state’ and the murky world of how money was acquired from the heads of States and billionaires.

Meeting Mohan again

Veteran, award-winning psychiatrist-actor, Mohan Agashe, has a bone to pick with me.

I AM NOT HAPPY WITH ANY OF MY PERFORMANCES

INTERVIEW WITH Abhishek Bachchan, actor

Elephants in the room

In the last decade or so, we have seen a strange new genre of Hindi film emerge. Kicked off by 2012’s Vicky Donor, a film about the stigma around sperm donation set in a middle-class milieu, it quickly expanded to comment on fat-shaming, erectile dysfunction, late-age pregnancy, gay love, menstruation, open-air defecation, lesbian love, trans-love, surrogacy, male pattern baldness, more fat-shaming, more homosexuality, sex education, asexuality and masturbation.

PEP THE PIPER

Total domination is the mantra as Guardiola’s all-conquering Manchester City start a new season

BALANCED SHEET

Strong credit demand and low NPAs help banks make record profits; but there are many challenges ahead

Waves of wisdom

Choosing Zanzibar for the first IIT campus outside India honours the pioneers who crossed the seas and spread the warmth of Indian knowledge and culture

Will and grace

India has the will to become an electronics manufacturing hub, but it needs the grace of videshi companies for the tech to make it

DISCIPLINING OUR JUDGES

It must be appreciated that high court judges are not subordinate to either the Supreme Court or the Supreme Court collegium

"SEDITION" TO GO; SCARS STAY

Citizens charged with it await relief and demand compensation

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT NEW EDITION

An overhaul of the criminal justice system is under way, but a lot depends on the implementation

THEATRE OF TRANSFORMATION

India is going ahead with a landmark reorientation of its armed forces, aiming to alter their operational, tactical and strategic posture

FOR THE SECOND TIME IN JHARKHAND'S HISTORY

Adivasi Mahotsav was organised

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