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S Prasannarajan

S Prasannarajan is the Editor of Open magazine

The Use of Sanctimony
Columns
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
Cover Story
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
Columns
The House of Jaswant Singh

A classicist in politics for whom public life did not mean compromising on his moral inheritance

02 October 2020
A Tale of Three Leaders
Columns
A Tale of Three Leaders

Trump, Johnson, Modi and the politics of change

25 September 2020
The New Evil Empire. Or Is It?
Columns
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
Columns
The Silence of the Moderate

The shrinking middle in politics

11 September 2020
The Expert and the Populist
Columns
The Expert and the Populist

Between the politburo of knowledge and the callousness of politics

04 September 2020
Cover Stories
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?
Columns
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
Cover Story
Editor's Note

The dispute over freedom remains unresolved

13 August 2020

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

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

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

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

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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