Anuja Chauhan

Contributing Editor at The Week (India)

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Articles

Operation Sindoor is effective branding

5 days ago | theweek.in | Anuja Chauhan

Operation Sindoor is effective branding. It pays homage to the lives and the grieving wives of the 26 blameless civilian men we lost, thus reminding the world, every time the operation is mentioned, that our action was purely retributive, and it also puns neatly on Sindhu, our shared river and our shared heritage, and the treaty we have currently put in abeyance.
What is a ‘working funeral’? The Papal one, for example

2 weeks ago | theweek.in | Anuja Chauhan

Donald Trump tweeted, “Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome. We look forward to being there!” This didn’t go down well with the nit-picky folks on X, because who “looks forward” to going to a funeral? It isn’t exactly a wedding, or a music festival or some sort of Roman holiday. Surely something in the general zone of ‘we will be attending to pay our last respects’ would have been more suitable?
The great American betrayal: Does the US still stand for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

1 month ago | theweek.in | Anuja Chauhan

I have become horridly fascinated by the Donald Trump circus. It should be ticketed entertainment, except it can’t be, because it isn’t entertainment really—too many lives and livelihoods on the line. But I am staying up late and checking the morning headlines in the US compulsively, the way I used to stay up to watch StarPlus drop the latest episodes of Anupamaa, back in the good old days when Anupamaa used to be good.
Kunal Kamra is feared not for his jokes, but for his truth bombs

1 month ago | theweek.in | Anuja Chauhan

Let’s be very clear. The outrage over Kunal Kamra’s ‘Naya Bharat’ act (barely a day old and already past four million views) isn’t because he might have called Eknath Shinde a traitor.
Forget MAGA and MIGA, go for MDGA-Making Diplomacy Great Again

2 months ago | theweek.in | Anuja Chauhan

Must say that all the reports of ‘Agent Krasnov’ make fascinating reading—like one of those old school, thick-as-a-brick bestsellers that Irving Wallace and Robert Ludlum used to write.
Men, too, have glass ceilings

2 months ago | theweek.in | Anuja Chauhan

The more I read about rape, suicide, family troubles, unemployment, toxic masculinity, excessive religiosity and hysterical jingoism, the more I feel we have got hold of the wrong end of the stick. We have been funding NGOs, holding summits, creating policy and demonstrating and what-not―all focusing on improving the status of women. But maybe what we really need to do is to focus on our men.
Stop applauding the sporadic victories of ‘kings’

2 months ago | theweek.in | Anuja Chauhan

We invented chess, which was pretty cool of us. The original game ‘chaturanga’—that is four divisions (infantry, cavalry, elephantry and chariotry)—was a war strategy game. When the game travelled to the Middle East, they mangled the Sanskrit and it ended up being called ‘shatranj’ instead.
Jeet Adania and Diva Jaimin Shah: The wedding goes slim

Feb 1, 2025 | theweek.in | Anuja Chauhan

So Jeet Adani is to have a ‘traditional and simple’ wedding sans celebrities or media glare. His father told the press that the auspicious date was finalised during a visit by the Adani family to the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj, where the muhurat was decided in the presence of vedic scholars.
Corporate culture gets rough

Jan 17, 2025 | theweek.in | Anuja Chauhan

It’s been a very macho fortnight. A whole bunch of gents have recently said or done some very manly things, starting with Mark Zuckerberg. The Meta CEO, who has been doing a lot of mixed martial arts and hunting, and visiting with Donald Trump in November ’24, is now calling for a more ‘masculine’ company culture and leadership style.
Pitfalls of extreme feminism

Nov 22, 2024 | theweek.in | Anuja Chauhan

To be honest, I got to hear of South Korea’s extreme feminism movement—4B—only recently. It is a radical form of feminism, formed in the crucible of toxic patriarchy with all the attendant violence and misogyny, punishing beauty standards and yawning pay gaps, which advocates the four Bis (Bi means no, in Korean), which are biyeonae (no dating with men), bisekseu (no sex with men), bichulsan (no children with men), and bihon (no marriage with men).