Fouling up the poll air
Campaigning in the 2007 Gujarat assembly polls, Sonia Gandhi described Narenda Modi
By R Prasannan January 05, 2019
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Guest Column
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Air cover
By Dr Vikas Maurya December 15, 2018 -
Marriage proposal
By Ashok Row Kavi October 07, 2018 -
Unreal growth
By Prof N.R. Bhanumurthy September 30, 2018 -
Why they want to kill me
By K.S. Bhagavan August 12, 2018 -
Joint effort
By Dr Yash Gulati July 15, 2018 -
Why mammograms are safe
By Dr Mukta Mahajan June 03, 2018 -
It is our responsibility
By Jose Louies June 03, 2018 -
Allow captive cultivation of cannabis
By DR Ram Vishwakarma May 20, 2018
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
Not for your eyes only
Rarely has the Supreme Court been brought into such ridicule as in the judgment over
By R Prasannan December 22, 2018
He who drew a line in the sand
Narendra Modi’s tweet team would have struggled to compose a condolence message over
By R Prasannan December 08, 2018
Look who’s polluting
The great European statesman Prince Metternich once said, “When France sneezes,
By R Prasannan November 24, 2018
Colossal obsessions of an oriental kind
Ancient Greeks were the world’s best statue-makers. They sculpted comely statues of
By R Prasannan November 10, 2018
Thomson & Thompson in CBI
Justice R.M. Lodha once called the CBI, which hadn’t got a free hand to probe the
By R Prasannan November 04, 2018
How Modi, Rupani want Gujarat to be exclusive abode of Asiatic lions
Economists are zoophobes, though they talk of animal spirits, as Manmohan Singh did
By R Prasannan October 15, 2018
Mystery of the Shastri papers
The Netaji mystery is over. Most of the files pertaining to his death or
By R Prasannan October 07, 2018
When Atlas shrugged at gays
On May 28, a Mumbai-born and lovelorn Divyesh Nagwekar pleaded, on the prime
By R Prasannan September 23, 2018
Nehru and our own Addingtons
It isn’t always good to have an illustrious predecessor. People tend to compare you
By R Prasannan September 09, 2018
Com. Somnath Chatterjee, Esq.
When Hiren Mukherjee died in 2004, Ashok Mitra extolled “the splendour of Hiren
By R Prasannan August 26, 2018
My tycoon versus your tycoon
Narendra Modi’s appearance in a monogrammed suit at the tea he hosted for Barack
By R Prasannan August 12, 2018
A school for scandal and eminence
N. Gopalaswami is not only a believer in astrology, but also a practitioner of it.
By R Prasannan July 29, 2018
For a few dollars more
Narendra Modi is yet to get us the 115 lakh that he had promised every one of us
By R Prasannan July 15, 2018
Case of the mandarins’ missing minds
When Abraham Lincoln was practising law, a rich man approached him for suing his
By R Prasannan July 01, 2018