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S Prasannarajan

S Prasannarajan is the Editor of Open magazine

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

Flawed dreamers and hypnotic ideas

20 December 2018
Modi versus Rahul
Locomotif
Modi versus Rahul

It’s Real Now

13 December 2018
Defenders of the Faith
Battlefield 2018
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
Locomotif
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
Locomotif
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
The Measure of a Statue
Locomotif
The Measure of a Statue

The bronze incarnation of the Iron Man is necessary iconography for the reign of Modi

01 November 2018
A Tale of Two Temples
Locomotif
A Tale of Two Temples

Sabarimala and Ayodhya: from the fluidity of Hinduism to the certainties of social engineering

25 October 2018
Dissent in the Desert
Locomotif
Dissent in the Desert

The irony of Jamal Khashoggi’s dissent doesn’t minimise the tribal brutalism of the Kingdom

18 October 2018
David Gilmour
Open Conversation
David Gilmour: ‘The Raj-bashers are oversimplifying a long and very varied period of history’

S Prasannarajan in Open Conversation with David Gilmour, English historian  

18 October 2018
Editor’s Note: The Truth of the Matter
The Gandhi Issue
Editor’s Note: The Truth of the Matter

Reading 'My Experiments with Truth' in the age of populism

27 September 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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