The Week is an Indian news magazine founded in the year 1982 and published by The Malayala Manorama Co. Pvt. Ltd.^[2] The magazine is published from Kochi and is currently printed in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kottayam. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it is the largest circulated English news magazine in India.^[3]

The magazine covers politics, entertainment, social issues, trends, technology and lifestyle.^[4]

The magazine was initially designed in-house, and was periodically redesigned. A major content overhaul was led by Peter Lim, author and former editor-in-chief of The Straits Times/Singapore Press Holdings. He authored the book Chronicle of Singapore: Fifty Years of Headline News.^[11]

The two major redesigns were led by:

• Peter Ong^[12] on 8 November 1998.
• Dr Mario Garcia^[13] on 20 February 2005.

Based in Sydney, Australia, Ong^[14][15] was formerly Picture & Graphics Editor of The Straits Times. He is principal consultant at Checkout Australia, and was regional director for the Society of News Design. Garcia owns the premier newspaper design firm, Garcia Media.^[16] Both of them also helped redesign the Malayala Manorama.

In the early years, cartoonist Mario Miranda designed many covers for The Week. He also had a regular pocket cartoon in the magazine.

The Week does not have published stylebook, but generally follows the down style for capitalisation.^[17] Its dateline carries the pull date, not the date of issue.

The Week has these regular guest columns:

• Ivory Tour by Sanjaya Baru
• DeTour by Shobhaa De^[18]
• Forthwrite by Meenakshi Lekhi.
• Mani-festo by Mani Shankar Aiyar
• Last Word by Shashi Tharoor, Barkha Dutt, Navtej Sarna and Bibek Debroy
• Schizo-Nation by Anuja Chauhan.
• Sound Bite by Anita Pratap.

In addition to the guests, there are two staff columns.

• Power Point by K. S. Sachidananda Murthy,^[19] resident editor in New Delhi.
• PMO Beat by R. Prasannan, chief of bureau, New Delhi.

Two supplements go free with The Week:

• Health, a fortnightly on health and fitness.
• The Wallet, a monthly guide to personal finance and investment.

The standalone magazines are:

• The Man:^[23] The Man, a monthly lifestyle magazine for men
• WatchTime India: A quarterly magazine on luxury watches
• Smartlife: A monthly magazine on wellness and lifestyle
• Livingetc: A monthly magazine on home and interiors

In 2001, Special Cover Designer Ajay Pingle entered the Limca Book of Records for designing the most number of covers for an Indian newsmagazine.^{[citation needed]}

• 2009 – Brother Christudas, for Little Flower Leprosy Welfare Association^[31]
• 2010 – Satinath Sarangi, for voicing Bhopal disaster victims^[32]
• 2011 – Ajeet Singh, for Guria^[33]
• 2018 – Nilesh Desai, Lighting up the Darkness^[34]
• 2019 – Madhav Gadgil, for his work in ecology
• 2020 – Sonu Sood, for his humanitarian efforts during the pandemic
• 2021 – Balram Bhargava, ICMR Director-General
• 2022 – Neeraj Chopra, Olympics athlete, Javelin thrower
• 2023 – S. Somanath, Chairman ISRO

• 2017 – Ramesh Awasthi and Manisha Gupte^[35]

The magazine was mired in controversy for an article on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. In response to a defamation suit filed by Ranjit Savarkar, the magazine publicly apologised for the publication of the article.^[36][37]