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Gadgets
Look Ma! I’m Hot

What would your infant say if he were running a temperature? But this dress can scream, ‘Hey, he’s running a fever’

29 June 2009
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Science
Dual Mommies

Pairs of female Laysan Albatross help each other raise offspring. They are now successfully re-colonising islands

29 June 2009
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Photo/Graphic
The Making of Total Ten

For weeks our photographer followed the production of a low-budget film inspired by the Mumbai terror attacks. An inside look at the insanely comic handling of a tragedy

29 June 2009
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India
Prodigal Reruns

A story of filial loyalty and political ambition in which ‘Hitler’ doles out biryani to counter Stalin

22 June 2009
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World
Handling the Dragon

How India should respond to China

18 June 2009
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India
Left Out

No matter who comes to power, these people were denied their say in it

18 June 2009
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Video
Are You Open?

At Open, we are invested in the idea of ‘openness’, and we would like to think the value permeates our magazine/webzine. Watch this commercial we made to make this pitch to the world. Also read the Editor’s letter to our readers, carried in the inaugural edition of the magazine (issue date: 10 April 2009)

18 June 2009
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India
After Advani, Who?

After being led by the Vajpayee-Advani duo for 40 years, the BJP faces a leadership vacuum. A look at the top contenders for the top job

13 June 2009
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Documentaries
The Other Song

The search for a lost song opens out a vast furrow of other half-remembered songs, the memories of past singers, and those histories that have been forcefully banished into oblivion.

13 June 2009
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Living
The Inner Dog’s Life

The canine existence today is incomplete without psychologists, cardiologists, hotels and mutton botis

13 June 2009

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

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

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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