A tale with a stink
Winston Churchill once compared Neville Chamberlain to a “town councillor who looks
By R Prasannan August 17, 2019
Columns
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Swara Bhasker
- Sanjaya Baru
- Barkha Dutt
- Lakshmy Ramanathan
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Anita Pratap
- Prasannan
- Shobhaa De
- Shashi Tharoor
- Anuja Chauhan
- Bose Krishnamachari
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Navtej Sarna
- 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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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 -
Guaido vs Maduro: Face-off in Venezuela
By Jorge Ramos April 06, 2019 -
Get tested on time
By Dr M. Udaya Kumar Maiya February 16, 2019 -
Hypocrisy, documented
By Jorge Ramos February 09, 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
Idioms and phrases: a Reddy reckoner
An astrology magazine from the south sent a scribe during the 1998 polls to collect
By R Prasannan August 03, 2019
Yoga a fashion statement now, thanks to 'health icon' PM Modi
Who is India’s topmost health icon? No, none of those surgeons with golden knives
By R Prasannan July 20, 2019
Of Common Man and VIP brats
Who coined ‘aam aadmi’ as a political phrase? Arvind Kejriwal may claim political
By R Prasannan July 06, 2019
Modi's approach towards China appears to be matured now
Narendra Modi-2 seems more moderate and mellowed than Narendra Modi-1. He is waving
By R Prasannan June 22, 2019
Punch in a shrunken pack
When it came to campus selection, Narendra Modi was most fair. He picked up two of
By R Prasannan June 08, 2019
When world rulers take a break from work
When cares of governance wear them down, most world rulers take a break. They go
By R Prasannan May 25, 2019
Chor vs bhrashtachari
Rahul Gandhi is miffed that Narendra Modi called his father, the dear departed
By R Prasannan May 11, 2019
Lok Sabha elections: Will the aspirational middle class decide the winner, or the silent poor?
Like him or hate him, elect him or trounce him, hail him or curse him, but Narendra
By R Prasannan April 27, 2019
Whose Army is it anyway?
Yogi Adityanath called the Indian Army ‘Modi’s Sena’. Many in the uniform were
By R Prasannan April 13, 2019
L.K. Advani: Iron man to shadow man
Five years ago, Narendra Modi scuttled 86-year-old L.K. Advani’s chances of becoming
By R Prasannan March 30, 2019
Balakot: A hit and no-tell story
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said, “Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the
By R Prasannan March 16, 2019
Corbett to Balakot—cool cat!
His followers may not like me saying so, but Narendra Modi has been drawing much
By R Prasannan March 02, 2019
Clearance sale for clean Ganga
The prime minister would verily be the most gifted personality in our land. Topping
By R Prasannan February 16, 2019
George: An unguided missile inducted by fire
GEORGE MATHEW FERNANDES (1930-2019) That pacifist who kept Tibetan refugees and
By R Prasannan February 02, 2019