Start dialogue with wrestlers

I think Indians, irrespective of political leanings, were dismayed to see the country’s top wrestlers break down in tears, as they sat in a huddle by the riverbank, all set to immerse their medals in the Ganga river.

SIZE MATTERS

A new type of car buyer is changing the rules in the Indian auto industry

The truth about tanning

It is that time of the year when I turn into a fish. With temperatures in Mumbai, where I live, touching 40 degrees, and the city’s famous clammy humidity slapping you in the face, the only way to survive is underwater.

PMO to UNSC

A calm, composed and unruffled diplomat stands up with elan in Centres of Power

GAL PALS TACKLE CRIME

Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti's latest heroine is a police officer as feisty as themselves

Speak up, my fellow Indians

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” says a minor character in Shakespeare’s iconic play Hamlet, expressing a sense that the affairs of the kingdom are no longer being ethically conducted, and that even the highest authority in the land is sullied by some moral turpitude. More than 400 years after Shakespeare wrote the play, citizens are so jaded that we are no longer surprised at any kind of abuse of power by government. We are too used to scams and the favourite response of the middle-class and educated Indians when critiquing politics is to quip, “All politicians are the same.” Or, “Politics is a dirty game.”

The promising land

A tribal activist in Madhya Pradesh gives away property worth crores of rupees to start a social experiment

THE INEVITABLE AUTHORITARIAN

If anything defines Erdogan's ideology, it is the pragmatism that he embraces in every crisis

LAST MAN STANDING

Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not win the presidential elections in Turkey, the opposition lost it

When the jungle comes to town

As human deaths from animal encounters rise, the Wildlife Protection Act is being criticised for making people more vulnerable

GAME PLAN

Winning the Karnataka assembly polls has given the Congress a template to improve its Lok Sabha tally from the state

UNEASY PACT

Congress needs to develop the tenuous truce between Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot into a working relationship

GLIMMER OF HOPE

As the Congress tries to replicate its Karnataka success in other states, it should keep in mind that the BJP has also learnt its lessons

CONNECTIVITY ISSUES

The Congress will have to iron out the initial bumps in its '5G’ promise way ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls

Point of no return

This is the best chance for Indian sport to set up independent grievance redress mechanisms for its athletes

Long bout

The wrestlers have to win. Otherwise, even if he goes, some other Brijbhushan Singh would take his place

Valley vs the hills

The Biren Singh government failed to prevent the Manipur violence. It makes the job of restoring peace all the more difficult

Majoritarianism in Manipur

While Manipur is no stranger to violence and ethnic clashes, the communal rioting seen this year is essentially the consequence of the majoritarian authoritarianism that characterises the BJP’s approach to “forced assimilation”.

COURTING TROUBLE

Kashmir braces as NIA seeks the death penalty for Yasin Malik

Mystery of the affair of the sceptre

Lefties and libtards are miffed with the sceptre ceremony that marked the opening of the new Parliament House. They should read Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm. He wrote in 1983 about how invention of tradition is part of the growth of new nationalisms. We saw it happening.

The Modi Paradox

The prime minister's legacy could be defined by how he reconciles two of his major inspirations-Golwalkar and Gandhi

Highway Through Hell

Desperate migrants risk death and depredations in their journey through the unforgiving Darién jungle in search of the American dream

The Epoch Maker

Modi is entering his 10th year as prime minister. THE WEEK looks at how he has already left his imprint on India's history, forcing a shift in how politics is practised and governance is delivered

What Manipur Needs

The land of gold is burning and it is time to put the fire out

When Rani Mukerji tells her story

When I ran into Rani Mukerji at an award show last month, I had not watched her latest film-Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway.

ITALY, SERVED HOT

Michelin star chef Massimo Bottura never customises his food to please anyone. One does not ask Picasso to change his 'Guernica', he says

Bye-bye, passwords

Passkeys are safer and more convenient

LOVE ON THE SLOW LANE

Modern Love Chennai lacks the passion that its central theme seems to demand

Luxury goes to Bollywood

In 2013, Alia Bhatt graced the cover of Harper's Bazaar India wearing Gucci from top to toe, and the headline went: \"Alia Bhatt Steps Into A New Role\". It had to be prescient, because here we are, 10 years later, with the young and talented movie star just announced as the global brand ambassador for the Italian luxury fashion label.

Skirting the issue

Fair & Lovely is now sensitive enough to be Glow & Lovely, but the bronze dancing girl of Mohenjodaro; she of the bejewelled, brazenly nude body, the thick hair and the famously insouciant hand-on-hip stance-an image any school-going Indian child can recognise in a heartbeat-has just been rendered pinky-fairer, vulgarly curvier and distinctly unlovelier by the custodians of Indian sanskaar.