In this issue

How the British loot of Indian wildlife helped a family in Mysore build the largest taxidermy business in the world.

Also, an exclusive interview with ISRO chairman S. Somanath, India's G20 challenges, and how artist S.H. Raza's links with India and his love for spirituality never faltered.

All these and much more in the latest issue now on stands.

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.

2 mins

TRANSFORMING LIVES, THE UST WAY

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

6 mins

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”.

2 mins

Order and chaos

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

5 mins

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

4 mins

India's G20 Challenges - Why Russia Spoiled Delhi's Party?

The future course of the Ukraine war could shape India’s G20 presidency—it will force New Delhi to make tough choices

6 mins

WE SEE A POSITIVE SHIFT IN INDIA'S ATTITUDE

Lin Fei-fan, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy

3 mins

We are working on 1,500 new technology areas

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

4 mins

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

3 mins

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

10+ mins

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

3 mins

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

3 mins

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

5 mins

Queer couture shows the way

When couture designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla host a party, any evening is a weekend. You may as well drop what you are doing and ready yourself (in sparkling clothes, always) for an all-night banger. If it is a Tuesday or a Thursday night, they are not sorry. And neither will you be.

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