A dispatch from Ground Zero of Orissa’s Malkangiri district

Just who takes the final call on troop reduction in this troubled state?

How the Orissa government bent over backwards to help billionaire Anil Agarwal

Journalist and author MJ Akbar on why the two-nation theory is a spectacularly stupid idea that needs the enmity of ‘the other’ to exist

A woman remembers her best friend, a man dubbed a Maoist and killed by the Republic of India. He happened to be her journalist husband

The recent plainspeak of a separatist leader suggests that truth is not a lost cause in Kashmir. Begin with the Valley’s pattern of graves

The Indian Army stiffens its anti-Maoist operations. But at what cost?

In an exclusive interview with Open, Home Secretary GK Pillai makes it plain that much more startling information is yet to emerge from the Radia tapes. Answering questions on a range of issues, from the right to privacy and tackling of Maoists to human rights and police reforms, he makes a frank case for what needs to be done. Excerpts:

Maoists know the importance of the state. Could the same be said of the Centre?

Maoist supreme commander Ganapathi on the Naxal push into urban spaces, Rahul Gandhi's role in Vedanta’s Niyamgiri project and much more