“Condom is such a dirty word. How could we have discussed it with strangers [in this defunct committee of wives of ministers]?”
26 August 2010Agarwal was 22 when he started a business collecting scrap from cable companies and selling it in Bombay.
26 August 2010“Some of those who drive luxury cars have no respect for smaller vehicles. I often give them torn notes to teach them a lesson.”
25 August 2010Sirin Middya, 24, refused to bow to the diktats of her students at Aliah University and don a burkha. In an Open exclusive, Sirin speaks about her fight
20 August 2010Cairn India’s acquisition shows that it is keen on the energy business.
20 August 2010“Though I am a PA of a Congress minister, my political loyalties lie elsewhere. The trick is to know how to hide such secrets”
14 August 2010Hindi cinema’s biggest blockbuster officially completes 35 years this 15 August, but it was actually born in 1973 in a small room. Screenplay writer Salim Khan remembers how Sholay was conceived.
13 August 2010Some are famous, some are not. You may agree with the list, you may not. But these are in our view the most imaginative men and women in the country. In no particular order.
13 August 2010Twelve stories of Indian creativity, and Open's top 50 creative Indians
12 August 2010CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
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MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm