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THE WEEK India
Elections are injurious to health
With all the political incorrectness I can muster at my age, as well as all the middle class angst at my command, I hereby declare that elections are injurious to my health, and positively fatal for the Indian urban middle class household.
3 min |
May 10, 2026
THE WEEK India
A requiem for AAP
Three score and more years have passed since Daniel Bell predicted the end of ideology.
2 min |
May 10, 2026
THE WEEK India
The truth about tumbles
While minor tumbles and falls in infants are benign rites of passage, constant supervision and a safe environment can prevent high-impact accidents
3 min |
May 10, 2026
THE WEEK India
A WAR THAT LINGERS
A year on, Operation Sindoor's significance lies in the transformation it has triggered-precision strikes, drone warfare and doctrinal change reshaping India-Pakistan security dynamics
7 min |
May 10, 2026
THE WEEK India
CALM AND DISQUIET
Kashmir is experiencing a subdued season, but the valley's enduring appeal remains intact
3 min |
May 10, 2026
THE WEEK India
Creating waves of transformation
I HAVE LONG admired the way the Gurudev brings people together, inspiring hope in regions marked by conflict and suffering.
1 min |
May 10, 2026
THE WEEK India
THE ART OF HEALING
As Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar turns 70, his message of inner calm and peace finds renewed relevance in a fractured world
7 min |
May 10, 2026
THE WEEK India
COUNTDOWN TO CHAOS
From the collapse of a key nuclear treaty to the Iran war, the world is drifting towards an unregulated nuclear competition
6 min |
May 10, 2026
THE WEEK India
Gurudev carried peace with him and shared it with others
IN AUGUST 2014, the Islamic State (IS) stormed the Yazidi heartland in Sinjar, north Iraq, forcing nearly four lakh people to flee.
2 min |
May 10, 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
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
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 |