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
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)
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.
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