A weapon to hit, not hurt?
Why did the generals send drones to hit us? Three guesses
By R Prasannan May 25, 2025
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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
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