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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.

Yet another hit

A new docuseries on scriptwriters Salim-Javed reveals the untold story of their partnership

Down history lane

India's first sunken museum will transport you back to the Mughal era

Give audiences the freedom to choose

Exclusive: Actor Vikrant Massey on globalising Indian cinema

Maximum fashion

Designers Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla crave the complex, the multi-layered and the divinely detailed

Spin it like Shiamak

The acknowledged guru of modern dance in India—choreographer Shiamak Davar—has made several celebrities dance to his tune over the years.

HEART OF KINDNESS

Dr Ramana Rao has been running a free Sunday clinic near Bengaluru for 51 years. He has treated almost 18 lakh patients, setting a benchmark in rural health care

IT WAS THE PERFECT FAREWELL

To have your jersey number retired from the sport is an honour few receive. P.R. Sreejesh is among those few.

ECONOMICS DOES NOT JUSTIFY CHINA'S INVESTMENT IN GWADAR; THERE IS A SECURITY DIMENSION

Captain Alok Bansal’s Gwadar: A Chinese Gibraltar is the result of 18 years of painstaking research.