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THE WEEK India
Identity assertion is still largely Limited to political and social spaces
Normally, no—it’s definitely a later construct.
2 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
Made to measure
Madhav Agasti's memoir, like the clothes he has stitched for actors and politicians, is a 'fitting' tribute to his life—simple yet powerful
4 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
The bullshit detector
You don’t know how to use ChatGPT?” Ekya asked incredulously, her eyes wide as saucers. “Nana, everyone uses AI. I even got Waldo to help with some of my class assignments.”
3 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
Rabindranath Tagore's legacy is lived, felt and practised in our daily lives
Rabindranath Tagore's legacy is lived, felt and practised in our daily lives
5 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
What we have today is 'maha jungle raj'
What do you think is the biggest issue in this election?
1 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
WHEN HEALER TURNED FIGHTER
A Padma Shri surgeon who spent 1,301 days in prison recalls his battle against the American justice system
6 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
We will make sure no one from Bihar needs to migrate
AFTER WEEKS OF BACKROOM negotiations, the grand alliance announced Tejashwi Yadav, 35, as its chief ministerial candidate, making him the principal challenger in the Bihar assembly election. The RJD's star campaigner and inheritor of his father's social justice legacy, Tejashwi has broadened his appeal to include jobs and development—what he calls “economic justice”.
6 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
When life gives you DDLJ
No creativity-enhancing pill in the market can do the trick as well as watching Hindi films without subtitles
2 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
THE PAST IS PRESENT
From Ashoka to Jarasandha, ancient emperors and mythic heroes are being recast through caste lines
5 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
The cortex
The cortex is the brain’s stage and its spotlight, a wrinkled sheet of grey matter where everything that makes us human performs. It is thin, standing only a few millimetres tall, and yet, it holds our language, laughter, memories, dreams, passwords, and grudges. Beneath it lies machinery; above it, personality. It's the surface that thinks. If the brain were Mumbai, the cortex would be South Bombay—dense, opinionated, elegant, and convinced it runs the place.
2 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
Ritual of inquiry
Commissions set up in the aftermath of tragedies rarely bring about reform
4 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
GOING FOR THE KILL
New assault gun underlines change in Indian military's operational doctrine
6 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
Conmen and other lovable rascals-II
A year ago, this column discussed why we love felons. That was after two convicts escaped by scaling the walls of a Haridwar jail, wearing monkey costumes. The jailers sat and watched, thinking they were watching Ramlila. As discussed then, there is a charming ingenuity about such rascality. Look at the number of films that have been churned out about jewel thieves, jail-breakers, conmen, train robbers and bank robbers—from the old wagon heists of the American Wild West and The Great Train Robbery of England to our Dev Anand’s Jewel Thief, MGR’s Ninaithadhai Mudippavan, Dharmendra’s Shalimar, Bachchan's Mr. Natwarlal, Sholay, and several recent Akshay Kumar films. The heroes conned tycoons, hoodwinked landlords, sneaked out of prisons, robbed banks, stole jewels and our hearts. All men of ingenuity and a lovable streak of daredevilry.
2 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
MANDAL VERSUS MILLENNIAL
As Bihar heads into a crucial election, Tejashwi Yadav is wooing the restless youth with promises of employment, while the ruling NDA banks on Nitish Kumar's loyal base of women voters to see him through what many believe could be his last political battle
9 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
Gandhi family is India's Gabbar Singh; in Bihar, it is Lalu Prasad's family
AMONG THE CURRENT breed of BJP leaders in Bihar, Samrat Choudhary stands the tallest.
5 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
Old ways, new roads
An emerging generation of leaders attempts to build politics around development, while still navigating caste realities
2 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
Halting immigration, hunting talent
This month, the Henley global passport index, which ranks the clout of nations' citizenship, offered a quiet but telling signal about shifting global soft power. For the first time in two decades, the United States passport slipped out of the world's top ten, and is now ranked twelfth—alongside Malaysia. The US economy is robust, its military reach unmatched, and its diplomacy visible from Gaza to the Indo-Pacific. Yet something deeper has changed—an erosion of the magnetism that once made US citizenship the world's most powerful.
2 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
Unemployment, as an issue, is often exaggerated
Q Nitish Kumar has promised one crore government jobs. Unemployment remains a major election issue. How do you see that?
2 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
LEFT WITH A RIFT
ON OCTOBER 27, 1946, coir workers and agricultural labourers from the rural hamlet of Vayalar in present-day Alappuzha district—mobilised by the Communist Party of India (CPI) and armed with rudimentary weapons—rose against the might of the Travancore princely state. They were protesting against the autocratic rule of diwan Sir C.P. Ramaswamy Iyer, the de facto ruler who sought to keep Travancore out of the Indian Union.
5 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
Cleaning the cabinet
With ministers courting controversy, Fadnavis gets ready for a tough review of his team
3 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
UTTAR PRADESH FESTIVAL, FAITH, & TRADITION
Uttar Pradesh resonates with a civilizational evolution for millennia on the banks of the holy rivers like the Ganga, Yamuna, Saryu and it is tributaries. Led by Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath, the state has launched a slew of initiatives for preserving, protecting and promoting the state's invaluable tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The world watches this incredible renaissance of soft power with awe.
3 min |
November 09, 2025
THE WEEK India
THE NEW PSYCHOSIS
Al-driven digital environments like chatbots and virtual reality games have become a part of our daily life, and their excessive use is putting those vulnerable to psychiatric disorders, and children and adolescents, at greater risk. But certain safeguards can turn AI into an ally
10+ min |
November 02, 2025
THE WEEK India
Writing the next bestseller is the main thing on my mind
It took Ken Follett just weeks to write his first novel—a thriller about drug dealers published under the pseudonym 'Symon Myles' in 1974. The book was not a success, but the modest advance was enough to repair his car. Then a young journalist, he realised through this experience that his future might lie in books rather than newspapers.
8 min |
November 02, 2025
THE WEEK India
Past is over, but where's the future?
More than 15 years after the civil war, THE WEEK reports from the site of a mass grave in Jaffna, where more skeletons are being found. A lot of the youth in the area, though, would rather focus on stable internet and better jobs
6 min |
November 02, 2025
THE WEEK India
Sages through the ages
From forests to feeds, India's eternal enigma—the ascetic—is again on display
4 min |
November 02, 2025
THE WEEK India
The great Indian fightback
When businesses bounce back, there are lessons to be learnt
3 min |
November 02, 2025
THE WEEK India
A week for Diwali, weak on diversity
The assiduousness with which right-wingers fan the embers of religious differences in our country would put street-side bhutta-wallas to shame. Like, they literally never give it a rest—not even during the holiday season. In fact, especially during the holiday season.
2 min |
November 02, 2025
THE WEEK India
Core concern
Three standing ab exercises as alternatives to planks
4 min |
November 02, 2025
THE WEEK India
RULES OF CAUTION
With the National Litigation Policy Plan, the government shows its intent to shift from being the country's most prolific litigant to its most disciplined one
4 min |
November 02, 2025
THE WEEK India
Even the rich are taking gold loans
Q/Gold loans are seeing good traction. How do you see the trend?
2 min |