Will a ploy that failed in Uttar Pradesh yield success for the Congress in Bihar?
03 April 2013His differences with Anna are public, but he and his cohorts can gather no support on their own
02 August 2012The CPM and CPI need to leave doctrines aside and face practical realities
17 June 2011CPM general secretary Prakash Karat’s hold on his party is getting feebler by the day. His peace overtures at the recent Central Committee meeting in Hyderabad notwithstanding
17 June 2011His indefinite fast is to begin on the same day as Anna Hazare’s convention
05 May 2011Prashant Bhushan, one of the chief architects of the Jan Lokpal Bill, speaks to Open in its defence
15 April 2011Why leave out Chidambaram’s initial advice to the PM in favour of a spectrum auction and his ministry’s shift in stance five months later?
06 April 2011The Government plans to announce a Rs 3,000 crore package for the handloom industry in the Budget
10 February 2011Gujarat cops are on the hunt for a reporter who unearthed a mass grave
30 December 2010The few Radia tapes that have emerged shed light on how the media and government are influenced. The ones that remain with the Centre reveal disturbing flows of money.
09 December 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…
10 April 2019Brahma 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 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
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