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THE MISOGYNY WARS

From online trolling and character assassination to toxic masculinity and workplace harassment, the speakers at We The Women weighed in on what matters to them

Between bindus, a life

Sayed Haider Raza, the most recent volume on the artist, commemorates his birth centenary and chronicles his life through his art

East greets west

Though S.H. Raza lived most of his life in Paris, his links with India and his love for spirituality never faltered

Skin in the game

Hundreds of thousands of animals were killed for sport during British rule. A legendary family of taxidermists in Mysore kept notes of it, while their factory converted numerous carcasses into lifelike trophies. THE WEEK traces the untold story of the family and their controversial legacy

MORE PIE IN THE SKY

In a first, the UAE sent its najmonaut’ on a long-haul space mission. Now, it is eyeing to send more

We are working on 1,500 new technology areas

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - S. Somanath chairman, ISRO, and secretary, department of space

WE SEE A POSITIVE SHIFT IN INDIA'S ATTITUDE

Lin Fei-fan, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy

BASTION BREACHED

The Kasba Peth win gives hope to the Maha Vikas Aghadi that, in a direct fight, it can defeat the BJP-Shinde alliance

Order and chaos

Supreme Court’s intervention could force the Centre to bring a law governing appointments to the Election Commission

Supreme Court's masterclass

The basic structure of our nation is the source of the basic structure of our Constitution. So, in protecting the basic structure of our Constitution, the Supreme Court is protecting the very basis of our nationhood, which is “unity in diversity”.

TRANSFORMING LIVES, THE UST WAY

Its deep domain expertise makes UST stand out ina world of changing technologies

Judges abhor vacuum

What is the biggest mystery about India's elections? That it involves the largest number of electors? The largest number of parties? The largest number of candidates? The largest number of polling booths? Or that this third-world polity of starving millions was the first to introduce universal electronic franchise? All these are. But the biggest is that our electoral system has been working well with little backing of the law.

Wuhan Created A More Dangerous Virus Than The Covid-19 One

Late last month, US Senator Rand Paul asked the Joe Biden administration to declassify documents that reportedly show that the US department of energy had, with “low confidence”, informed the White House and key members of the Congress that the Covid-19 virus probably originated in a Wuhan research lab in China.

Women's Day Special - The Brave New Woman

Young women are more liberated than ever, but they are paying a price for it

MATERIAL GAINS

The world's first scratch-proof watch, created by Rado, gets a modern update

A life on edge

Pakistani actor Adnan Siddiqui on faith, films, family and more

THE SASS MACHINE

Booker-prize winner Marlon James on the long-winded path to writing the 'African Game of Thrones'

EXACTING CHANGE

Subhashree Ganguly, Bengali cinema

LEADING THE NARRATIVE

Mukta Barve, Marathi cinema

CLAIMING RESPECT

Shweta Tripathi Sharma, Hindi cinema

THE MARK OF SUCCESS

IT WAS WHILE filming Cuttputlli (2022), a big-budged Bollywood film starring Akshay Kumar, that Sargun Mehta, 34, first “grasped” the magnanimity of a Hindi film set.

MS MARVEL

The way cinema treats womenreal and reel-is changing, and that change is largely driven by women in all roles

BRAIN GAIN

The urban-rural divide in women's education is fast disappearing

FAIR SHARE

More women are entering the workforce, and they have started taking control of their finances

A WORKFORCE TO RECKON WITH

Tamil Nadu accounts for 43 per cent of women factory workers in India. The state's socio-economic status and high education levels have contributed to this, but much remains to be done

Making freebie promises is an insult to voters

FEROZE VARUN GANDHI'S first book, A Rural Manifesto: Realizing India's Future Through Her Villages came out in 2018 when farmers were protesting the agrarian crisis.

A DOGGED DESIRE

Mudhol hounds find new friends

Dangerous liaisons

Intelligence agencies blame the rise of Amritpal Singh Sandhu on the vacuum created by warring political parties in Punjab; they are worried about the organised forces behind him

NEW HEAD, OLD HAND

The expectation in the Congress was that the Raipur session would provide a new deal that would inspire party workers. But by the end of the three-day exercise, it was felt that the party under Kharge had chosen to stick to the old way of doing things

Final pitch for power

Siddaramaiah, in his last electoral outing, is going all out to ensure he gets the top seat a second time