Licence to make, licence to kill
No fighter plane has come in with a bigger bang than the Rafale. TV anchors and
By R Prasannan August 16, 2020
Columns
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Anuja Chauhan
- Shobhaa De
- Shashi Tharoor
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Prasannan
- Sanjaya Baru
- Swara Bhasker
- Bibek Debroy
- Anita Pratap
- Navtej Sarna
- Barkha Dutt
- Lakshmy Ramanathan
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Bose Krishnamachari
- M.K Bhadrakumar
- Vinod Rai
- Ashwini Nachappa
- Geeti Sen
- Vandana Kohli
- Sadhguru
- Gen Bikram Singh
- Manu Chandra
- Sanjna Kapoor
- Jerry Pinto
- Saina Nehwal
- Nandita Das
- Sania Mirza
- Bala Ambati
- Maroof Raza
- Ajish P Joy
- Mallika Sarabhai
- Amjad Ali Khan
- Hemant Oberoi
- Binayak Sen
- Patrick French
- Nupur Sharma
- Derek O Brien
- Sourav Ganguly
Guest Column
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Patch work
By Dr Sachin Varma February 15, 2020 -
Growing up without godfathers
By Priyanka Chaturvedi December 21, 2019 -
Fighting it together
By Dr Kishore Kotha September 14, 2019 -
Preventing chronic kidney disease
By Dr Bharat V. Shah July 20, 2019 -
Building capacity
By Dr Sanjiv Kumar July 20, 2019 -
Patient safety, the prime priority
By Pavan Mocherla June 15, 2019 -
Hit in the heart
By Dr C.N. Manjunath May 25, 2019 -
Five worrying factors this election season
May 18, 2019
R Prasannan
Prasannan, Chief of Bureau, 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.
PMO BEAT
Work from home or the house?
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu are caught in
By R Prasannan August 02, 2020
Perils of personal diplomacy
The fans of neither of them would approve of me saying so, but Jawaharlal Nehru and
By R Prasannan July 19, 2020
Blunting a brahmastra
India is waiting for two brahmastras. Both have been on the anvil for long. One is a
By R Prasannan July 05, 2020
VVIP flights: wings commandeered
Our top three VVIPs—the president, the vice-president and the prime minister—have
By R Prasannan June 21, 2020
Bayonets from Lhasa to Ladakh
Which is India’s southernmost point? Most people would say, Kanyakumari. Don’t we
By R Prasannan June 07, 2020
Blundering in the Himalayas
If there is one poem that all diplomats should be made to read, it is Robert Frost’s
By R Prasannan May 24, 2020
Siren-salute to a divine act
When he took a siren-blaring cavalcade of 35 cars and 60 motorcycles around Gurdwara
By R Prasannan May 10, 2020
Boor on silken pillow
Some people are better kept as enemies. They make more trouble for you as friends.
By R Prasannan April 26, 2020
Sorry, sir! They want some more
In his month-end Sunday Mann ki Baat, Narendra Modi apologised to the people for
By R Prasannan April 12, 2020
Care in the time of Covid-19
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided that Parliament will not be prorogued
By R Prasannan March 29, 2020
Drop the party gowns, m’lords
American judges wear political labels on the sleeves of their robes. They make no
By R Prasannan March 07, 2020
In Trump suit—warships, Walmart, walnuts
Our foreign office mandarins say, Narendra Modi invests a lot of energy in personal
By R Prasannan February 22, 2020
A Xanadu in new New Delhi
Like Kubla Khan who decreed a pleasure dome in Xanadu, Narendra Modi is decreeing a
By R Prasannan February 08, 2020
An overworking president
Older man succeeding younger man? Yes, that is what has happened in the BJP’s
By R Prasannan January 25, 2020