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Jan 16, 2025 | 
theweek.in | Anjuly Mathai
After Rosa Parks’s historic refusal to get up from her bus seat on December 1, 1955, the black activists of Montgomery decided to call for a city-wide boycott of buses four days later, on December 5. E.D. Nixon, a past president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP), called another black leader Ralph D.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
theweek.in | Anjuly Mathai
Most people love Kovalam—a beach town located around 12km from Thiruvananthapuram—for the sun, sand and sea. I love it for the childhood memories it holds. Almost every summer vacation, we used to visit Kovalam. And every time we did so, we stayed at the Leela Kovalam, a Raviz Hotel. The one time we stayed elsewhere was a disaster.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
theweek.in | Anjuly Mathai
We set out for Wayanad, a picturesque district in Kerala high on the Western Ghats, around evening from Kozhikode. As we traverse the nine hairpin bends up the winding road to Wayanad, the air grows cooler. The steep and verdant slopes are blanketed in mist. As dusk gathers, one can see pinpricks of light from Kozhikode. On a clear day, one can even identify the runway of the airport. In fact, this road―known as the Thamarassery churam―is the main passage connecting Wayanad and the rest of Kerala.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
theweek.in | Anjuly Mathai |Shannah Kennedy |Colleen Callander
It is difficult not to believe in fate when books like Elevate come your way at the right time and the right place. The New Year was approaching, and there were so many things I wanted to change about my life—diet, exercise, spending quality time with family and working harder being the least of them. But I did not know how to go about it. What should I do to make optimal use of my time and energy and live a balanced, content and fulfilled life?
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
theweek.in | Anjuly Mathai
It was the summer of ’87, when The Simpsons had just debuted as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, Margaret Thatcher had been re-elected for a third term, Teddy Seymour had officially been designated the first black man to sail around the world, and a young Canadian upstart called Bryan Adams performed at the Madison Square Garden in New York.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
theweek.in | Anjuly Mathai
At THE WEEK Best Hospitals Awards ceremony in Telangana, veteran theatre personality and Padma Shri awardee Mohammad Ali Baig did a touching theatrical representation of the rewards and sacrifices of a doctor’s life. Doctors often have to give up spending time with their partners, miss annual day ceremonies of their children at school, and are not able to be with their ailing parents, because they are taking care of someone else’s ailing parent, he said.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
theweek.in | Anjuly Mathai
Aditi Rao Hydari was her usual sparkling self at THE WEEK Best Hospitals Awards ceremony in Telangana. In a session with the magazine’s chief associate editor and director, Riyad Mathew, Hydari spoke about her fitness regimen, what being healthy means to her and how important it is to “listen to your body”. She said she was lucky to be born in a multicultural family and called herself “the poster child for national integration”.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
theweek.in | Anjuly Mathai
Who is a “Karol-Bagh-type”? Ask writer Anuja Chauhan who coined the term in her first book―The Zoya Factor―a rollicking romance published 16 years ago. “When all the snooty ad-people think Karol-Bagh-type, they imagine a pushy wannabe in a chamkeela salwar-kameez with everything matching-matching,” says Anuja’s 27-year-old, chubby-cheeked heroine Zoya in the book. “Someone who says ‘anyways’ instead of anyway, ‘grands’ instead of grand and ‘butts’ instead of butt.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
theweek.in | Anjuly Mathai |Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer is back. But then, was he ever gone? In the 50 years since writing his first book, Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less, Archer has kept himself busy. He has written over 40 books and sold over 300 million copies world-wide. He is published in 115 countries, in 48 languages. There is no doubt that he is a literary tour de force, but he is one who knows that he is one and seems to want to express it.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
theweek.in | Anjuly Mathai
Neha became a critical care nurse at Aster CMI Hospital in Bengaluru because she was inspired by her mother, also a nurse. The bedtime stories she was told were different from those of other children. “Sometimes she would take me to the hospital and the patients there were like family to her,” said Neha. Now Neha can say the same. “We think about our patients even at night,” she said. “If they are going back healed, then we are the happiest.
