POWER POINT

When politicians use the F-word

In the old days, Bob Woodward’s book Fear: Trump in the White House would have been

By Sachidananda Murthy

MANI-FESTO

Tamil Nadu will face 2019 Lok Sabha elections without icons for the first time in 50 years

For the first time in over half a century, Tamil Nadu is readying itself for an

By Mani Shankar Aiyar

LAST WORD

India may function better under Modi, but it has also become anarchic

American economist and diplomat John Kenneth Galbraith, a US Ambassador to India in

By Sanjaya Baru

SCHIZO-NATION

Serena Williams and the lure of the victim card

The Serena Williams-Carlos Ramos-Naomi Osaka triangle has played out on our screens

By Anuja Chauhan

EVERYONE IS A CAMERA

Kerala: Time for sustainable development, post floods

The floods have come and gone, leaving in their wake a heap of debris, delirium and

By Bose Krishnamachari

LAST WORD

India's shame: stop the killings of sewer workers

It took the photograph of a 11-year-old boy hunched over his father’s body for us to

By Barkha Dutt

BABY STEPS

Iron works

CAN IRON DARKEN THE BABY? No, it cannot, but the belief runs deep across the rural

By Lakshmy Ramanathan

PMO BEAT

When Atlas shrugged at gays

On May 28, a Mumbai-born and lovelorn Divyesh Nagwekar pleaded, on the prime

By R Prasannan

FORTHWRITE

Fighting crypto-intellectuals

With the recent arrest of some overground activists of the banned CPI (Maoist) by

By Meenakshi Lekhi

SOUND BITE

Xenophobes with a cause

I am not a Nazi, but....” Many Germans begin this way before expressing hostility to

By Anita Pratap

DE TOUR

John on a roll

John Abraham seemed to suffer from the Dharmendra Syndrome for the longest time. Let

By Shobhaa De

LAST WORD

Legacy of love

When disasters finally recede, observers start analysing the lessons learned:

By Shashi Tharoor

LAST WORD

Safe and sorry

When it comes to safety, there is no country like England. ‘Safety first’ is their

By Sanjay Manjrekar

LAST WORD

India can't afford to play the ostrich

The inaugural “2+2 dialogue” between the foreign and defence ministers of India and

By M.K. Bhadrakumar

CANDID TALK

Make the impeachment process apolitical

Recently, 64 members of Parliament and seven recently retired MPs from seven

By Vinod Rai

TRACK CHANGE

An open letter to the sports minister

Dear Shri Rathore, Congratulations for a successful showing at the Commonwealth

By Ashwini Nachappa

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

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