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THE WEEK India
Caught in the muddle
The dismantling of a dominant Shia actor like Iran could upset deterrence, embolden non-state actors and destabilise regions where fragile governance persists
2 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
War and pause
Ceasefire is only a tactical break within a broader civilisational confrontation between Iran and Israel rooted in two opposing views of global order, humanity, identity and power
3 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
From conflict to calculations
The Iranian regime needs to adapt internally and diplomatically, but if regime change is overdue anywhere, it is in Israel
5 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
A house in disorder
Europe’s wavering positioning on Israel-Iran conflict has neither improved its standing with Israel, nor shored up its credibility with Iran
3 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
New equations
Nilambur was a preview of deeper currents reshaping Kerala's politics
2 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
LANGUAGE NO BAR
Indian translations are winning big awards, but it's a different story when it comes to sales
5 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
Lessons for later
The latest round of byelections offers clues about the national mood and what parties must fix
4 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
The first fracture
A new book explores how Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's quiet manipulations turned Sheikh Mujibur Rahman against his closest ally—setting the stage for tragedy in a newly liberated Bangladesh
9 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
(Pass)words fail me!
Have I ever told you that most of my problems arise because of the missus? Well, they do!
3 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
Why has medicine forgotten half the world?
Across India, between school runs, work calls, ageing parents, and festival planning, a woman realises she has not had her annual check-up in three years. She has counselled everyone she knows, to eat better, sleep more, walk daily, and, yet, her own health remains an afterthought, scribbled somewhere between grocery lists and meeting notes. It is a familiar irony. And, believe me, a costly one.
2 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
LONG STORY SHORT
Welcome to the era of micro-dramas, designed for a distracted, dopamine-hungry generation
5 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
A family like no other
Sanjoy K. Roy is one of the three swashbuckling musketeers behind ‘the greatest literature show on earth’—the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), now in its 19th edition. As one of the three pillars (along with Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple), he helped launch JLF in 2006.
2 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
Marriage of convenience
Periodic highs and lows in Pak-US relations prove that the ties are rooted in pragmatism, not partnership
2 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
Reset mode
Munir's Washington trip could be a signal that Pakistan intends to balance its China ties by getting close to the US
2 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
STUMPED BY TRUMP
India, like many other countries, is still trying to make sense of the mercurial US president. But the ongoing geopolitical upheavals indicate that New Delhi might have to recalibrate its foreign policy options after a decade of pronounced pro-US shift
6 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
Don't grudge Munir his lunch
Was it a free lunch that Field Marshal Asim Munir got from Donald Trump? We in India would like to believe so. Let's admit it—we're a spot peeved that a guy who lost a four-day drone-and-missile war to us got into the reckoning of the world’s most powerful man, so much so as to get a lunch coupon.
2 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
Ruthless realism
Donald Trump does not see India as being in the same league as China, Russia or other ‘near coequals’
2 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
The ninth nerve
I have sharp shooting pain in my throat when I swallow,\" Freny aunty told me as she came in with her daughter. “It is like a fish bone stuck in my throat for over a year now!” She was in her early 80s and wore a nice floral dress, quintessential of one worn by Parsi ladies of yesteryear as a tribute to the queen of England. She had the perfect amount of lipstick and makeup to pass off as 'propah'.
2 min |
July 06, 2025
THE WEEK India
Chanel and patriarchal India
The bouquets keep coming for Leena Nair, the global CEO of Chanel. On June 11, the Indian-born Nair was awarded the UK's Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Prince William, prince of Wales, in recognition of her work in retail.
2 min |
June 29, 2025
THE WEEK India
War, farce, or a Persian tragedy?
Those who can't remember the past are con-demned to repeat it,\" said George Santayana. The line has since been folk-tongued to sound like a proverb—\"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes.\"
2 min |
June 29, 2025
THE WEEK India
Quiet momentum of a rising nation
I came across a British weekly column lamenting that India's leadership has lost momentum, and that it suffers from a lack of imagination. One can only assume it was composed under a grey London sky, by someone who has never truly tasted the clarity of thought that comes with a well-brewed masala chai.
2 min |
June 29, 2025
THE WEEK India
To fly or not to fly
The Tatas must urgently find a way to stem the rot in Air India
4 min |
June 29, 2025
THE WEEK India
Bench besieged
At the heart of the Justice Varma controversy is a consequential issue: the institutional confrontation between judiciary and executive
7 min |
June 29, 2025
THE WEEK India
NURTURING CHANGE AGENTS
How India's best colleges are transforming the lives of students with a strong focus on contributing to nation building
10 min |
June 29, 2025
THE WEEK India
HORROR IN THE SKY
Air India’s image has taken a hit with the Ahmedabad crash, but thorough investigation, transparency and a human touch could help
7 min |
June 29, 2025
THE WEEK India
War is an endemic
For millennia, historians, philosophers and states-men have pondered about war, its nature and the nature of leaders who take their people to war. Iran cannot match Israel's daring commandos or precision spyware technologies that destroy their military facilities and assassinate their generals and scientists.
2 min |
June 29, 2025
THE WEEK India
Black warrant
Israel's attack on Iran is not just about the nuclear issue, but also about dismantling Tehran's military and political leadership
4 min |
June 29, 2025
THE WEEK India
Layover of life
A friend just posted an Instagram story—an aerial shot of Mumbai—with the caption: “Landed! Surely ‘landed’ is the most beautiful word in the world?#Thankful.”
2 min |
June 29, 2025
THE WEEK India
The language of grief
As I write, I have just landed in London on Air-India — flying the same airline, to the same destination and on the same date and time as the ill-fated passengers who perished in Ahmedabad. I travelled to speak at the British Library under the auspices of the Jaipur Literary Festival. My very first talk was about language and the power of words. Yet words failed me at the news of the 241 lives lost on the plane and the 5 more who died on the ground. The language of grief, suffering, and loss is a landscape of shadows, often inadequate to the profound desolation it attempts to articulate. Language is made to describe what is or could be; it falters before an absence, a stuttering whisper in the face of an unimaginable void.
3 min |
June 29, 2025
THE WEEK India
MAKE IN ROORKEE
How Asia's oldest engineering college, IIT Roorkee, is staying ahead of the curve with groundbreaking research and extensive collaborations
7 min |