THE WEEK India - June 18, 2023

To quit or not to quit

Ever since that little big man Lal Bahadur Shastri quit Jawaharlal Nehru’s cabinet after a train accident, it has become a fashion to ask for the rail minister’s scalp after every accident.

ENGINEERING A RENAISSANCE

IITs ARE EXPANDING THEIR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES PROGRAMMES. A LOOK AT HOW THE ARTS FIT INTO THE ENGINEERING OUTLOOK

Himalayan slip

India can emulate the British model and offer Gorkha soldiers from Nepal a longer tenure

INNOVATION INCOMING

STEM-SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS IS EXPERIENCING A REVIVAL THANKS TO EXPECTATIONS OF BETTER JOB PROSPECTS

Where Buddhism meets Hinduism

India, from time immemorial, has been sharing the values of Buddhism with the world

Anurag Thakur needs to do more

Our residence in a SoBo neighbourhood is totally unaccustomed to the sight of VVIP convoys speeding into the complex with cops and random political workers swarming around the lobby

The BCI notification is bad in law

INTERVIEW: Lalit Bhasin, president, Society of Indian Law Firms

Steadfast spirit is in the air

BACK IN MAY-JUNE 1989, when tanks rolled out on Tiananmen Square to crush the movement of the Chinese youth for political reforms, their hopes for change were high, in view of the normalisation of relations with the Soviet Union during Mikhail Gorbachev’s visit after a freeze of 30 years

Clout cover

How Brijbhushan Singh taps his popularity and religious-caste identity

I will not cower... will not bow down

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: BRIJBHUSHAN SHARAN SINGH