Mumbai mayor and a cat’s luck
Truth be told, Mumbai’s mayor wields hardly any power
By R Prasannan February 01, 2026
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Guest Column
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The Iran nuclear deal is dead. And it is a good thing, writes Jeff Jacoby
By Jeff Jacoby April 10, 2022 -
Case for coalitions
By Marten van den Berg March 21, 2021 -
Innovate and collaborate
By Sanjaya Mariwala March 07, 2021 -
Block buster
By Dr Alok Vinod Kulkarni March 07, 2021 -
The invisible pandemic
By Dr Alok Vinod Kulkarni February 07, 2021 -
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
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
Elgin, Ephesus and Erdogan
Most Turks I met were eager to see India, meet Indians, trade with India, and can’t understand the current chill in ties
By R Prasannan January 25, 2026
March to Caracas—Yankee oil doo
Military-pacted, non-aligned, neutral or simply spineless, every ruler acts in his country’s supreme self interest when confronted with global crises
By R Prasannan January 18, 2026
Crimes and confessions, copy-pasted
Making use of anti-terror laws that allowed confessions to cops as evidence, they got all the 13 to sing and sign their sins
By R Prasannan January 11, 2026
The Maria von Trapp in Rahul Gandhi
It’s time Rahul Gandhi stayed, and listened to his Congressmen
By R Prasannan January 04, 2026
Area of the globe? Pie is cubed
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
A Vikram-Bhatti tale from Bengaluru
In Karnataka, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy D.K. Shivakumar are playing out a Vikram-Betaal farce
By R Prasannan December 14, 2025
Is it Milton’s law, m’lords?
SC was asked to clarify a confusion; now it’s confusion worse confounded
By R Prasannan December 07, 2025
When stars blinded the astrologer
Prashant Kishor's big mistake was to confuse strategist with leader. He was a strategist, never a leader
By R Prasannan November 30, 2025
The mayor & the grammar—hands off
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
Nitish’s roads or Tejashwi’s jobs?
Bihar’s roads were once known for their back-breaking potholes and shotgun-wielding outlaws
By R Prasannan November 16, 2025
Conmen and other lovable rascals-II
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
Red spy bag, a Tellis-tale giveaway
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
Why happy voter worries BJP
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
Of willows and Kalashnikovs
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