THE WEEK India - October 24, 2021

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

STYLE AND SUBSTANCE

Manoj Bajpayee has now reached a space where the bigwigs of Bollywood are keen to work with him

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.