POWER POINT

Talking terms

The political and strategic communities in Pakistan are taken up with the evolving

By Sachidananda Murthy

CANDID TALK

Travails of buying L1

I was trying to pay my advance tax online for the assessment year 2018-19. The tax

By Vinod Rai

MANI-FESTO

Mehbooba’s tragic flaw

It would require Aeschylus, not a mere columnist, to tell the full tragedy of

By Mani Shankar Aiyar

EVERYONE IS A CAMERA

A visit Down Under

Some time back, a gallerist friend of mine asked: “What are artist residencies?” It

By Bose Krishnamachari

LAST WORD

Amar tomar Kolkata

When I got my IPL schedule, I quickly checked how many matches I was slotted to

By Sanjay Manjrekar

PMO BEAT

Slowing down the Goyal Express

Though they emitted smoke, trains looked good when they were pulled by coal engines.

By R Prasannan

SOUND BITE

Hungary’s own Trump

Is one of Donald Trump’s role models Viktor Orban, the right-wing prime minister of

By Anita Pratap

FORTHWRITE

History repeats itself

It was not long ago when a political leader from Delhi, with national ambitions,

By Meenakshi Lekhi

DE TOUR

This policewoman means business

It had been an exhausting day at the lit fest, and all I wanted was a cuppa. There

By Shobhaa De

LAST WORD

Nepal’s strongman is here

Nepal’s Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli, who paid a three-day state visit to India

By M.K. Bhadrakumar

LAST WORD

Press Council has done its time

Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have reversed a controversial and short-lived

By Barkha Dutt

TRACK CHANGE

Unmasking our real nature

In school, we had moral science as a subject. Right and wrong, good and bad, ethics

By Ashwini Nachappa

LAST WORD

Why link mobiles, bank accounts to Aadhaar?

Why link mobiles, bank accounts to Aadhaar? What is the problem with Aadhaar? Why

By Shashi Tharoor

SCHIZO-NATION

Fists of fury

Mohammed Haris Nalapad—a Youth Congress leader and son of a Congress MLA from

By Anuja Chauhan

SEN-SIBILITY

The Spirit of Jaipur Art Summit

Jaipur Summit proves that some of the best art works can be viewed outside metropolis

By Geeti Sen

MINDSCAPE

Blanking out in the digital age

Data files are read by software and the speed at which things are changing

By Vandana Kohli

LAST WORD

A unipolar worldview

One of the consequences of our reliance on the English language in accessing news about the world is...

By Sanjaya Baru

MYSTIC EYE

Disability should not take away inner joy, writes Sadhguru

Today, we do not refer to people as 'handicapped'. We are beginning to call them special children or...

By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

GENERAL'S JOTTINGS

A national security strategy is overdue

All recognised great powers like the United States, Russia and China have well articulated national...

By Gen Bikram Singh

ARUGULA GUY

Creating a new normal

All good things must come to an end, they say, and this one is the last piece that I would be doing for...

By Manu Chandra

ART TO HEART

Thanks, thanks and ever thanks

I know that I want to see an India where every child grows up exposed to our performing arts and has...

By Sanjna Kapoor

STRANGE ENCOUNTERS

Whose India is it?

That’s it,” said one of the academics at the table as the seminar at Wellesley College ended. “Time to...

By Jerry Pinto

RACKET SCIENCE

Parting shot

Time always seems to be of great paucity for me. I do not remember how and when my childhood went by. I...

By Saina Nehwal

LAST WORD

The power of the written word

It has been close to eight years since I began writing in THE WEEK. Month after month, writing the...

By Nandita Das

GRAND SLAM

A life dedicated to tennis

The game of tennis is the fulcrum around which my life has revolved ever since I was a little girl. I...

By Sania Mirza

BLINK

An eye on screen time

Eye strain caused by digital screens, called computer vision syndrome by doctors, has dramatically...

By Dr Bala Ambati

HAWK EYE

Expect more shocks in Punjab

Any serious observer of terror attacks on Indian soil over the past 25 years can see the Pakistani deep...

By Maroof Raza

WORLD WATCH

Bear unchained

With Russia opting to take the plunge in Syria, the US and its allies could be forced to change their...

By Ajish P Joy

LAST WORD

March of the greens

Having worked as a publisher of Inside Outside magazine for many years in the 80s, I am well aware that...

By Mallika Sarabhai

ART TO HEART

Dependence, our greatest strength

It is so hard to believe how nine years have just flown by. As they rightly say, all good things must...

By Amjad Ali Khan

CHEF'S CHOICE

Serve, with a smile

Hotels and airlines have been major partners in the hospitality industry for long. It is the food and...

By Hemant Oberoi

LAST WORD

Farewell, fair friend

We deeply mourn our friend Praful Bidwai, a renowned columnist, who passed away in Amsterdam last week....

By Ilina & Binayak Sen

LAST WORD

'Bond'ing with the best

One of the places I have been meaning to visit for many years is Landour, a small cantonment in the...

By Patrick French

RAPID FIRE

To even the odds

Much has been said and written about Delhi’s sickeningly-high air pollution levels and the...

By Nupur Sharma

FREEWHEELING

Booming Bengal beckons

On January 8 and 9, Kolkata will host the Bengal Global Business Summit, an annual event. West Bengal...

By Derek O’Brien

LAST WORD

I want day-night Tests in India

When I sit down to write this piece, the Test match in Adelaide between Australia and New Zealand has...

By Sourav Ganguly