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S Prasannarajan

S Prasannarajan is the Editor of Open magazine

George Fernandes (1930-2019)
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George Fernandes: The Last Street Fighter

In the end, the erstwhile action hero of Indian politics was left with no cause except his own relevance 

31 January 2019
Brexit Lessons
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Brexit Lessons

When parliament subverts popular choice

17 January 2019
Out of the Chinese Dream
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Out of the Chinese Dream

Ma Jian’s resistance fiction

10 January 2019
Amos Oz as Patriot and Dissident
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Amos Oz as Patriot and Dissident

Shaped by books and loss, he argued against the temptations of power

03 January 2019
New Year 2019 Issue: Editor’s Note
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New Year 2019 Issue: Editor’s Note

Gods, princes and women who dared

20 December 2018
Best of Books 2018: Editor’s Choice
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Best of Books 2018: Editor’s Choice

Flawed dreamers and hypnotic ideas

20 December 2018
Modi versus Rahul
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Modi versus Rahul

It’s Real Now

13 December 2018
Defenders of the Faith
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Defenders of the Faith

No election can remain local when Modi is still the only argument that concentrates the mind of India

22 November 2018
Adolf Hitler in Vienna after the annexation of Austria in March 1938
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The Evil Joke

Éric Vuillard, the 2017 winner of Prix Goncourt, returns to the pathologies of the past in what could be the smallest novel—and one of the most powerful-- ever written on the Nazi project

15 November 2018
Aatish Taseer
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Among the Brahmins

It is the tension between cultural memory and current political anxieties about change that gives this riverside saga by Aatish Taseer the kind of literary urgency we hardly see in the writings on India

08 November 2018

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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