TRIM TO THE BRIM

With obesity on the rise and the increasing desire to look fit and good, the weight loss industry in India is booming

Dope's in your DMs

On November 20, 2023, Anne Milgram, head of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), said at a press conference: “Fentanyl poses the greatest threat to Americans today, devastating families and becoming the leading cause of death for those aged 18 to 45.”

The eyes have it

Taking care of eyes is not difficult, but it is an everyday job

Code and the crab

Genomic testing is reshaping the way we find and treat cancer

Behind every chef

For Chef Garima Arora, her father is magician, mentor, and master taster

Life hacks by Orry

I have succumbed. I held off writing about Orry for more than five years, when he reached out to me at the previous newspaper I worked at. I may have declined him then, but now I have been made to eat crow.

BROTHERHOOD OF EMPTY WALLETS

Before cellphones and the internet, a legendary rock band in Kerala had a city in thrall with their rock 'n' roll renditions

BRANDWAGON BOSS

Adman Prahlad Kakar's memoir is no malicious but delicious read

Visualising hope

There is an open door, shut by a closed mind….” This is the line that grabbed me when I opened Asha Thadani’s catalogue, Broken—Dalit Lives, which introduced viewers to her just concluded exhibition of photographs in Delhi.

For us, a 350-bed hospital is ideal; time for 700-bed hospitals over

INTERVIEW DILIP JOSE managing director and CEO, Manipal Hospitals

Point to ponder

Ten thousand practitioners of Transcendental Meditation came together in Hyderabad for a programme aimed at achieving world peace

EAGER TO WIN OLYMPIC GOLD: SINDHU WE THINK WE ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK: PRAKASH

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW P.V. SINDHU & PRAKASH PADUKONE

MODI AND SHARIF MIGHT PREFER TO LEAVE A LEGACY OF PEACE

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW AJAY BISARIA, former high commissioner to Pakistan

Faith on his sleeve

Modi is known to have prostrated at only two placesParliament and the Ram Mandir. In politics, he has sought to combine them

LOSING SHEEN

Shillong: The cantonment has remained small even as others have grown in strategic importance

OFFICERS AND THE MESS

Delhi: A cantonment that houses two starkly different worlds that are still learning to coexist

BYGONE BLISS

Landour: Less quaint, more crowded now, it is yet to be de-notified

UNTOUCHED CHARM

Deolali: Peaceful vibes, thanks to pleasant weather and lush cover

A CRUMBLING CITADEL

Meerut: Once the military centre of the British empire in north India, the cantonment is now battling surging population and large-scale encroachments

MELANCHOLY BEAUTY

Lucknow: Ruins that bear record of the past and well-laid gardens that provide an oasis of calm

END OF A 260-YEAR MARCH

As the Narendra Modi government plans to disband cantonments, THE WEEK follows their chronology

FIGHTING FIT, FUTURE-READY

With air power influencing every facet of contemporary warfare, one of the areas the IAF must concentrate on is acquiring offensive capability as speedily as possible

SPACE NEEDS PACE

India is playing catchup in the military exploitation of space in a fragile global security environment

SPACE IS THE ULTIMATE HIGH GROUND FOR ALL OPERATIONS

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Air Chief Marshal Chaudhari, V.R. Chief of the Air Staff

What makes Mohamed Muizzu so angry?

On November 3, 1988, a group of well-armed mercenaries recruited by dissident Maldivian expatriates disembarked in Male, capital of the Maldives, and within a few hours succeeded in capturing most government buildings, including the presidential palace, and holding hundreds of civilians and one government minister hostage.

Baywatch dreams on Lakshadweep

On his many visits to Dhaka in the days after winning the 1971 war, Lt.-Gen. J.S. Aurora used to drive from the airport flying his eastern command flag on the car, with outriders ahead, sirens blaring, and traffic cleared, straight to the old Pak army commander’s bungalow where he would set up his lodging.

Man On A Mission

With a sharp political mind and a deep understanding of insurgency movements, Himanta Biswa Sarma has emerged as the key architect of the BJP's vision for the northeast

As India Becomes Ram Rajya

On January 22, history will witness the culmination of a nearly 500-year struggle as the consecration of the idol of Shri Ram takes place in Ayodhya.

Read before you bleed

The literary festival season, which is in full swing nowadays, brings to mind an old anecdote.

When silence speaks

Goat Days, a book about a man forced into slavery in Saudi Arabia, is getting a film adaptation