Some nightclub owners in India still have rich tributes to offer the Raj. By declaring Thursday nights expat nights, for example.
09 September 2009It has been ages since a beauty contest had India’s cheering millions at the edge of their seats. A look at how the Miss India title lost its glamour
19 August 2009As India grows, there is an increase in the delicate liberal types who get offended by almost everything. Suddenly, you don’t have the freedom to say anything
13 August 2009Pushkar’s holy lake is dry. As the religious and secular alike are beset by a rising sense of panic, we get to the bottom of the crisis.
06 August 2009Open goes looking for Malerna. The village that a recent AIIMS study discovered has 370 females to 1,000 males, an appalling sex ratio
30 July 2009Guess what defines the culture-proud Bengali bhadralok’s emergence on the fashion scene?
29 July 2009Streetwear has become quite a rage among urban youngsters with an attitude. Do we spy another revolution in the making?
23 July 2009Brahma 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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