Hartosh Singh Bal turned from the difficulty of doing mathematics to the ease of writing on politics. Unlike mathematics all this requires is being less wrong than most others who dwell on the subject.
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh talks to Open about the Ishrat Jahan case, the Congress Party, allegations of communalism, and Rahul Gandhi
10 July 2013A few suggestions on how surveillance may be put to good use
03 July 2013The second rung of the Congress party, where there is much jostling for power, is the origin of some of the most ridiculous political spin in recent times
15 May 2013Two books on Narendra Modi establish why it is silly to hope that the bigot will ever be any less bigoted
24 April 2013That Bhullar should hang before Kamal Nath or Jagdish Tytler may not be a travesty of law, but it is a travesty of justice
17 April 2013The cables that were recently released by WikiLeaks portray Rajiv Gandhi as a middleman, an implication the Congress has denied by discrediting WikiLeaks. But the report of the Shah Commission, which investigated the excesses of the Emergency, too, points to Rajiv Gandhi’s inordinate interest in the affairs of Indian Airlines, as well as Indira Gandhi’s intervention on behalf of Boeing during the Emergency
10 April 2013Almost 50 years after his death, a soldier continues to serve in the Indian Army
04 April 2013Modi could eventually pave the way for the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister’s rise in the BJP
03 April 2013Dalrymple’s book is well researched, but that still doesn’t mean we take his account at face value
28 March 2013The BJP President’s speech at the party National Council meet, where he outlined India’s contribution to modern science, was as worrying as it was hilarious
13 March 2013CELESTIAL 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 2019Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
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 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