Prasannan, Resident Editor, New Delhi, is an expert in defence and foreign affairs. He takes keen interest in history. He has been with THE WEEK since its launch in 1982
Trump has found a way to MAGA—invoke the Monroe doctrine “to restore American pre-eminence in the western hemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region
By R Prasannan December 21, 2025
In Karnataka, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy D.K. Shivakumar are playing out a Vikram-Betaal farce
By R Prasannan December 14, 2025
SC was asked to clarify a confusion; now it’s confusion worse confounded
By R Prasannan December 07, 2025
Prashant Kishor's big mistake was to confuse strategist with leader. He was a strategist, never a leader
By R Prasannan November 30, 2025
Though Zohran Mamdani’s mother has an Indian surname that is spelt like a Malayali but is actually Punjabi, he was fathered by an India-born Ugandan citizen of Muslim faith
By R Prasannan November 23, 2025
Bihar’s roads were once known for their back-breaking potholes and shotgun-wielding outlaws
By R Prasannan November 16, 2025
From daring jailbreaks to the audacious Louvre heist, the cleverness of felons highlights the power of human ingenuity over technology
By R Prasannan November 09, 2025
What made Tellis the fall guy in Indian eyes was that he had been getting miffed with India of late
By R Prasannan November 02, 2025
Like the Canadian thinker William B. Munro, the BJP believes that “the average man does not vote for anything, but against something”
By R Prasannan October 26, 2025
India and Pakistan no longer play cricket on each other’s pitches. Yet, we have no qualms about taking our nasty sporting wars to third country playfields
By R Prasannan October 19, 2025
We guard the borders and boundaries, but neglect the frontiers. In the process, we also turn loyal frontiersmen into resentful rebels
By R Prasannan October 12, 2025
Israel may be winning the military war on Palestine, but is losing on the diplomatic front
By R Prasannan October 05, 2025
Revolts of yore had also been led by young and virile men and women like you
By R Prasannan September 28, 2025
The year was 2000 or 2001. Another MiG-21 had fallen off the sky, and commentators were calling it flying coffin
By R Prasannan September 21, 2025
Many fear that J.D. Vance has dug his political grave by saying that he is ready for the top job. A golden rule in politics is that even if you’re dying to get the top job, you should act uninterested
By R Prasannan September 14, 2025