How an image-fixated chief minister has bent the state’s media to his will
16 April 2012The CPI veteran known for his penchant for power has stepped down, but not before a surprise bid to change the party constitution
09 April 2012Mayawati is tracking this revolt anxiously, but she is also trying her best to play it down
01 April 2012For all its talk of a lack of regional structure in UP, the party is destroying the one that exists in neighbouring Uttarakhand
18 March 2012The Samajwadi Party’s emphatic win has revived an idea repeatedly proven untenable
07 March 2012Within the BSP, Jatav leaders have begun to question Behenji’s role at the top of a party they believe was formed for purposes she has ignored
01 March 2012Team Anna has questioned the veracity of ‘BJP’s Team B’, a report published in Open’s issue of 20 February. Here is our reply
15 February 2012The mask is off. Anna Hazare and his lieutenants are batting for the BJP
09 February 2012As sacked UP ministers go to other parties, allegations of corruption against the BSP lose their punch
07 January 2012Despite similar insistence by the PM, the FDI issue failed to see the Congress orchestrate a repeat of the Nuclear Deal triumph
08 December 2011Brahma 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
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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