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R Prasannan

R Prasannan

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

POWERDRIVE

A weapon to hit, not hurt?

Why did the generals send drones to hit us? Three guesses

By R Prasannan May 25, 2025

How powerful is the pope?

Most post-Lateran popes have been saintly souls unlike their predecessors

By R Prasannan May 18, 2025

Tire them out and hit them

The Pakistani terrorist has been reduced to a mere dacoit

By R Prasannan May 11, 2025

Remembering Ranjit Nair, physicist and friend to the maharshis of global science

Ranjit Nair founded the Centre for Philosophy and Foundations of Science. He persuaded Nobel laureates and other scientific greats to lecture in India

By R Prasannan May 04, 2025

Your bills, dead or alive?

If Parliament doesn’t act, who will exorcise the bad spirits

By R Prasannan April 27, 2025

Chinese soup and Siliguri tea

Siliguri Corridor, the ‘chicken’s neck’ strip of land that connects India’s northeast to the mainland, is more relevant now since the latest political developments in Bangladesh

By R Prasannan April 20, 2025

Royal riots! Till kingdom come?

Nepal's Gyanendra dreams of being king again

By R Prasannan April 13, 2025

Cash, ash and Holi smoke

Can anyone guarantee that all judges will be clean if India scraps the collegium system with the National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill

By R Prasannan April 06, 2025

The rail-jackers of Balochistan

Insurgency in Balochistan has been kindled by a new bogey—the Chinaman

By R Prasannan March 30, 2025

Plastic buckets and parliament seats

Plastics business boomed during birth control drive; now dairy industry has a chance if a baby boom happens

By R Prasannan March 23, 2025

A pub brawl and third world war

The downside of public diplomacy, and how Europe could trigger a third world war if it jumps into the fray to defend Ukraine

By R Prasannan March 16, 2025

Liberty shows a Rambo scowl

It's no longer the serene visage of Ms Liberty that the world sees in America

By R Prasannan March 09, 2025

Avoiding stampedes—a soccer story

Crowd management is not telling people what not to do, but letting them do what they like to do

By R Prasannan March 02, 2025

Chain gangs from America

India's protest was too meek, compared to the fury over Khobragade arrest

By R Prasannan February 23, 2025

Work-wife equations

Simply slogging doesn’t get you gains that last

By R Prasannan February 16, 2025
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