S Prasannarajan
S Prasannarajan is the Editor of Open magazine
Trump And What Could Have Been
Where the revenge of the outsider has not enhanced freedom but diminished it
16 October 2020
Hathras and the Politics of Denial
In the country she lived, it was her life, lower and insignificant, that was the crime waiting to be punished
09 October 2020
The House of Jaswant Singh
A classicist in politics for whom public life did not mean compromising on his moral inheritance
02 October 2020
The New Evil Empire. Or Is It?
A search engine may turn us into useful data. Does that make Google a slave trader?
18 September 2020
The Expert and the Populist
Between the politburo of knowledge and the callousness of politics
04 September 2020
Tradition and Morbidity
Rebels for a day, and virtual renegades in a schmaltzy spectacle of piety and panegyrics in the next day’s headlines, the dissenting Congress leaders retreated without the humiliation of a recantation. Some mercy.
28 August 2020
Who’s Afraid of Facebook?
Every attempt to impose a moral code of conduct on social media smacks of moral dishonesty—and political desperation
21 August 2020
Authors
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
MJ Akbar is an MP and the author of, most recently, Gandhi’s Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah’s IslamWhile
Makarand R Paranjape, director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, is the author of ‘JNU: Nationalism and India’s Uncivil Wars’. Views are personal.
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