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May 17, 2026
Hollywood's evolution: Braveheart's legacy in the age of streaming and mergers
Video cassettes defined 1990s home entertainment, with iconic films like ‘Braveheart’ arriving in black plastic cases. While the film itself has faced criticism for historical inaccuracy, its impact and the evolution of how we consume movies from physical media to streaming are a testament to changing times
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March 28, 2026
Beyond tariffs: How FTAs are reshaping India's premium liquor scene
As FTAs remove long-standing trade barriers, India’s liquor market prepares for an era of global competition
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March 28, 2026
AI vs artistry: Hollywood’s dilemma over future of filmmaking
This year’s Oscars, as usual, celebrated cinema. But the real drama has been playing out in boardrooms and server farms
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March 14, 2026
With new songs of defiance and dismay, U2 find their fire in the Trump era
The U2 badly needed a comeback. Days of Ash, happily, does half the job
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February 14, 2026
Fiction, fantasies and full-bleed heroes
Philosophers still debate whether the past and future are real....
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February 07, 2026
Will streaming kill the big screen? The 2026 Oscar nominations hold the clues
The future of cinema is at the heart of the 2026 Oscar race, with films like Netflix's ‘Train Dreams’ and Warner Bros.' ‘Sinners’ exemplifying the clash between streaming and the traditional theatrical experience
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January 10, 2026
Vodka, a book, and two films: An accidental journey into Ramanujan's genius
How a mix-up over Ramanujan films and a book on non-European mathematics reveals the profound difference between intuitive genius and formal proof
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January 03, 2026
‘People think carefully about food; they also need information diet’: Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari, historian and philosopher, says information diet helps combat mental overload by distinguishing reliable truth from the cheap and plentiful "junk food" of misinformation and fiction
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November 08, 2025
J.C. Chandor's ‘Margin Call’: Why this financial thriller still resonates today
The mark of a good film is that it continues to speak to you even when you are not watching it
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October 25, 2025
Inside Ken Follett's world: 50 years as a master storyteller and a new novel about Stonehenge
From spy thrillers and cathedrals to champagne and politics, Follett has been rebuilding history with his ambition and imagination
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October 25, 2025
'Writing the next bestseller is the main thing on my mind': Ken Follett
In an exclusive interview with THE WEEK, Ken Follett speaks about his early years, creative struggle, encountering James Bond and R.K. Narayan, and the lessons drawn from his long career as one of the world’s most popular storytellers
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September 27, 2025
'One Battle After Another' review: P.T. Anderson’s latest is a deeply flawed showpiece
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti, the film a radically chic thriller-manifesto that falls short in crucial ways
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September 20, 2025
From eloquence to interruption: Charting the evolution of political speeches in Parliament
Indian parliamentary speeches are explored in Smita Gupta's anthology, ‘The Voice of the People’, offering a comprehensive collection despite challenges from clumsy official translations
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May 25, 2025
Silicon Valley is rewriting Hollywood
The Studio, Apple’s sharpest product yet, is proof enough of what is coming
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March 30, 2025
Gremlins from the Kremlin!
A long telegram, a love letter, and a movie-length call—Hollywood’s geopolitics-shaped view of Russia
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March 23, 2025
How Mumbai is fast emerging as India's AI capital
India is implementing an ambitious plan to create its own AI ecosystem of homegrown models and computing infrastructure
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March 23, 2025
'India can't afford to leave AI to Chinese or Americans': Yuval Noah Harari, historian and philosopher
Yuval Noah Harari spoke to THE WEEK about AI's implications for India and the choices everyone must make in response to its rise
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March 09, 2025
How The Brutalist cemented concrete's place in cinema
Adrien Brody's Oscar-winning movie embodies an architectural movement that embraces the raw and the unadorned. And at the movie’s centre is the second most consumed substance on earth—concrete
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March 02, 2025
Real drama of Oscar race happens before the envelope opens
The Oscar season unfolds like a three-act movie - setup, buildup, payoff
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November 16, 2024
Rajdeep Sardesai's new book is a gripping election post-mortem
Rajdeep Sardesai's 2024: The Election That Surprised India offers candid glimpses of Indian politics
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November 15, 2024
'Gladiator II' review: Uninspired, underwhelming and cinematic equivalent of flogging a dead horse
The story of this much-anticipated sequel unfolds two decades after the events of 'Gladiator' with a protagonist who falls short in embodying the qualities that made Maximus an inspiring icon
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October 11, 2024
Biscuits to barrels: How Paul John helped reshape India’s reputation in the whisky world
"Japan has some fantastic single malts, and India is high on that ladder as well," says the whisky pioneer
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March 01, 2024
'Dune: Part Two' review: Behold, the Lawrence of Arrakis!
Denis Villeneuve’s second entry in Dune saga is a bona fide cinematic breakthrough
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November 18, 2023
When Gurcharan Das kissed everybody, and solved the problem
In a memoir full of wit and grace, the author relives his extraordinary life
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October 28, 2023
'Killers of the Flower Moon' review: Scorsese-DiCaprio combo scores yet again
Scorsese's film is an adaptation of a book on the killings of Osage Indians in 1920s
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