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THE WEEK India
ZOHO SO GOOD
How a tech giant transformed a sleepy Tamil Nadu town into a hub of innovation and opportunity
5 min |
October 19, 2025
THE WEEK India
India's Maritime Leap from 'CHIP TO SHIP'
Long before India dreamt of reaching the stars, it learned to read the winds and tides. From the ancient docks of Lothal to the modern shipyards of Kochi, the sea has always whispered possibilities. Today, those possibilities are turning into a grander purpose. India is scripting a maritime revival, one that could define the nation's next great economic leap.
4 min |
October 19, 2025
THE WEEK India
Reimagining Residential Schools
A Hypothetical Futuristic Model of Modern Joint Families System
4 min |
October 19, 2025
THE WEEK India
THE SHOWGIRL MUST GO ON
She is one of the richest and most successful musicians in the world. She is also the best friend you never had. The paradox of being Taylor Swift
4 min |
October 19, 2025
THE WEEK India
Winning ways
Indian white-ball dominance was in focus at the 2025 CEAT Cricket Rating Awards
3 min |
October 19, 2025
THE WEEK India
Let the truth bombs explode
So Dusshera has come and gone, and we're now gearing up for the annual ODI (On Diwali, Inevitably) clash between the pataka party and the antipollution brigade. RWAs and schools are printing circulars begging people to keep it clean, while environmentalists and animal lovers strategise hectically to protect the air, the trees and all creatures great and small, even as right-wingers get busy cooking up their annual toxic rasedaar aaloo-tamatar stew of religious fervour, performative patriotism, brutal bullying and vulgar displays of wealth.
2 min |
October 19, 2025
THE WEEK India
The Arachnoid
Beneath the toughness of the dura lies a layer called the arachnoid mater. Transparent and delicate, it drapes the brain like the finest of veils. One of my favourite writers, Maria Popova, once wrote that the brain \"is a cathedral built of gossamer threads\", and nowhere is that truer than in the arachnoid. Under the microscope, it looks less like a membrane and more like spun sugar, or a spider's web catching morning dew. It is beautiful, but it is also treacherous. When blood seeps into it, the cathedral darkens.
2 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
Grow old along with me
As a kid, I hung around our neighbourhood temple—less out of devotion, more for the prasad. It was not a grand temple, but it certainly had the grandest pujari, who was addressed as Pujariji.
3 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
Signals in the noise
Nepal's Gen Z made their point; perhaps time has come for India to pay more attention to the social and technological changes that are a lived reality for its own youth
6 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
RTI has gradually been weakened, both in letter and spirit
How did Devdungri become a focal point for the RTI move- ment? How has the movement transformed the village?
5 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
TRADITION GOES HIGH-TECH
Artificial intelligence is bringing alive Kolkata's Durga Puja pandals
2 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
Mistress of spices
Vegetables: The Indian Way is a lavishly produced coffee table book, which announces itself as “a definitive collection of recipes from the simple to the special”. It is not a book designed just for die-hard vegetarians. Au contraire, meat eaters need it the most! It is a comprehensive compendium, packed with nutritional information one rarely finds in similar volumes.
2 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
Watchful and wary
The Karur tragedy has political parties, including the ruling DMK, making cautious moves
3 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
A tale of two Sonam Wangchuks
Two Sonam Wangchuks have done India proud in recent times—one a soldier, the other a civilian. Both have fought, or been fighting, battles to save their native Ladakh for India. One got a Maha Vir Chakra and retired as a colonel. The other got a Magsaysay and is in jail.
2 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
Our resolve is firmer than ever
Your husband has been accused of inciting violence during the September 24 protests.
2 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
TAKING FRESH GUARD
At 100, RSS is trying to present itself as more inclusive, even as the assertion of hindutva identity remains prominent in the political environment
4 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
50 shades of loneliness
Booker-shortlisted author Kiran Desai on the soul-nourishing delights of solitude
5 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
States versus citizens
From Dhaka to Colombo to Kathmandu, youth-led uprisings are not just outbursts of anger, but deliberate responses to unemployment, inequality and systemic exclusion
4 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
Beyond numbers and borders
THE 100-YEAR journey of the RSS has a unique feature. For most of its history, its legitimacy remained contested by the Nehruvian state and the left-liberal intelligentsia. Instead of discourses on the perspectives the RSS stands for, there has been a perpetual political war against it.
5 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
Fire on the mountain
The killing of protesters and Sonam Wangchuk's arrest have brought Ladakh statehood talks to a standstill
4 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
SPRING OF YOUTH
South Asia's Gen Z warriors are seeking to draft a new social contract to ensure that future generations may not hopelessly wait for promises to get fulfilled
4 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
We are bringing global best practices to India
India has some 50 mutual funds now. What is BlackRock bringing to the table?
2 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
New frontiers
Mukesh Ambani plays disruptor again, but it might take more than that to dominate the financial services sector
6 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
GST 2.0 ignites economy's afterburners
For 70 years after independence, India was one nation but never truly one market. A bewildering web of state-level taxes and barriers made the simple act of moving goods across state borders both time-consuming and costly. It was often cheaper to ship iron ore to China, get it value-added there, and then bring the finished product back to India, rather than attempt the same exercise domestically.
2 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
Nothing but backdoor entry for Marathas
CHHAGAN BHUJBAL, Maharashtra minister for food, civil supplies and consumer protection, is known as a firebrand leader.
5 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
THE NEW NORMAL
Cricket has changed and sportsman spirit has to exist within social and political realities
4 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
The village that wanted the truth
Those who led the historic Right to Information movement recall the struggle
4 min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
RIGHT GONE WRONG
Twenty years of the RTI Act have seen more than 100 :ransparency activists killed, with the criminal justice system largely apathetic to their plight. Yet, activi: ts continue their fight
10+ min |
October 12, 2025
THE WEEK India
We need more investment for lasting growth
Sri Lanka has restored economic stability, recording steady growth and investor confidence, yet challenges remain, says Deputy Minister for Economic Development Anil Jayantha Fernando in an exclusive interview. Foreign reserves have risen and inflation has eased, while industrial growth has reached nearly 10 per cent. Fernando, however, says lasting prosperity depends on continued reforms, new investments and stronger export markets. Edited excerpts:
3 min |
October 05, 2025
THE WEEK India
AROUND THE WORLD IN 238 DAYS
Lieutenant Commanders Dilna K. and Roopa Alagirisamy—the first Indian women to circumnavigate the globe in a double-handed (two-person) sailing mode—say the distance we must travel now is not geographic, but social
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