“Whatever countries I conquer in the world, I would never forget your beautiful gardens. When I remember the summits of your beautiful mountains, I forget the greatness of the Delhi throne.”
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
-
Can AI tools be used to Hollywood's advantage?Talking Points It makes some aspects of the industry faster and cheaper. It will also put many people in the entertainment world out of work
-
'Paraguay has found itself in a key position'Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
-
Meet Youngmi Mayer, the renegade comedian whose frank new memoir is a blitzkrieg to the genreThe Week Recommends 'I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying' details a biracial life on the margins, with humor as salving grace
-
‘We should be scared’: the poisoning of schoolgirls in Afghanistanfeature Children hospitalised in allegedly deliberate mass attacks is latest in series of incidents going back decades
-
Officials believe dozens of girls in Afghanistan were deliberately poisoned at schoolSpeed Read
-
Taliban kills mastermind of Kabul airport suicide bombingSpeed Read
-
Sudan evacuation: has Foreign Office learnt the lessons from Afghanistan?Today's Big Question Failings of chaotic withdrawal from Kabul prompt return of foreign secretary and airlift of Britons from Khartoum
-
The Week Unwrapped: Afghanistan, Florida and Northern Irelandpodcast Can the World Bank set the Taliban straight? Why is Florida saying ‘don’t say gay’? And what can we learn from the last trials of the Troubles?
-
‘Britain is suffering from an ever-dwindling supply of compassion’Instant Opinion Your digest of analysis from the British and international press
-
‘Educated girls can heal economies and heal the planet’Instant Opinion Your digest of analysis from the British and international press
-
‘In the war on terror, the terrorists won’Instant Opinion Your digest of analysis from the British and international press
