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THE WEEK India
MOTHER LODE
Why Mother Mary is having a moment in pop culture
4 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
LECTURES OVER LAGER
What happens when a professor walks into a bar?
4 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
Violence has almost disappeared; ideology hasn't vanished
INTERVIEW - B. Shivadhar Reddy director general of police, Telangana
2 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
Reserved, yet deferred
The constitutional amendment bill might have given the BJP an immediate campaign issue, but the government will be under pressure. The opposition has tasted blood
5 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
PoSH, a question
Serious concerns over corporate India's workplace harassment framework
4 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
Her seat at the table
To understand why the women's reservation bill took so long-and why its passage, even in this form, carries genuine weight-one has to begin in 1975
7 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
Ladies' seats? Why not from 543?
Sigmund Freud died without answering it.
2 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
Healing beyond medicine
At THE WEEK's Ayush conclave, conversations brought about a layered understanding of the opportunities and challenges in integrating traditional knowledge with modern science
10 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
Tehran to Delhi—echoes of defiance
Ironic—should I say Iranic—that a country whose language is so sophisticated that it does not even bother with gendered pronouns, referring to everyone (and everything) with the same universal “oo” has become the site of an invasion ostensibly to “save” its women from oppression by the boorish and bumbling west.
2 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
Front organisations can function if they do not support armed insurgency
The CPI (Maoist) insurgency appears significantly weakened.
2 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
Women's reservation is a no-brainer
Beatriz Merino is one of Latin America's most distinguished feminist leaders and the first woman prime minister of Peru. A respected lawyer, senator and champion of democratic institutions, she has used leadership to advance the rights of women and marginalised communities. Excerpts from an interview:
3 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
Peace endures when it is rooted in everyday life
Chhattisgarh has witnessed the fall of the last of the Maoist strongholds, but Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai says the surrender of the rebels is not the end-point, but a transition.
3 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
PICKING THE PICKER'S BRAIN
In the sixth episode of CEAT Beyond the Scoreboard, Krishnamachari Srikkanth recalls his time as chairman of the BCCI selection committee
3 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
G, gee
How Pirojsha Godrej keeps his 129-year-old family business relevant and credible will be keenly watched
3 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
HYDRAA, unleashed
A new agency is rapidly reclaiming Hyderabad's lakes and public land
5 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
Legal heir
My father gave his life for the movement, I chose the law
2 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
THE LAST GUERRILLAS
THE WEEK decodes the failed Maoist revolution through the eyes of top commanders and ideologues
10+ min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
Forged in fire
Mamata Banerjee, her closest associates say, draws on instinct and grit in confronting a relentless BJP
6 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
Starmer faces credibility crisis
It was a week from hell.
2 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
Redefining care through robotics
For a patient preparing for surgery, the central concern is rarely the sophistication of technology in the operating room.
2 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
Celebrate past, don't canonise it
The intellectual landscape in India today is marked by a dynamic debate over the place of Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) in our contemporary curriculum.
3 min |
May 03, 2026
THE WEEK India
The political narrative and data categories do not match
Q/ The Election Commission says deletions are happening because of duplicate, deceased or absentee voters. Why do you still believe this is a serious issue?
2 min |
April 26, 2026
THE WEEK India
STARTING LATE, PLAYING SMART
Late entrants to the stock market can still build wealth
4 min |
April 26, 2026
THE WEEK India
Keep kids away; prez's speaking
Read my lips,” said George Bush Sr at the 1988 Republican Convention in New Orleans.
2 min |
April 26, 2026
THE WEEK India
EPS in a mess
The AIADMK still has a substantial voter base, but without ideological clarity, its ability to convert this support into seats remains doubtful
4 min |
April 26, 2026
THE WEEK India
Four's a crowd
The DMK-AIADMK duopoly is facing a challenge with the entry of Vijay and Seeman—splitting votes, tightening margins and making local shifts decisive. Although DMK has the edge, the ground is less certain
8 min |
April 26, 2026
THE WEEK India
LAW OF THE STUDIO
When the artist becomes a work of art
4 min |
April 26, 2026
THE WEEK India
The battle is between Tamil culture and BJP's fascism
Clad in a red T-shirt and black trousers, M.K. Stalin has just returned from a long morning walk—meeting people, posing for selfies, and checking whether they had benefited from government welfare schemes.
5 min |
April 26, 2026
THE WEEK India
Future tense
Failed negotiations signal a protracted conflict, which plays into Iran's hands and could be trouble for the US-Israel combine
3 min |
April 26, 2026
THE WEEK India
The cerebellum
He walked in like someone who had forgotten how to trust the ground beneath him.
3 min |