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S Prasannarajan

S Prasannarajan is the Editor of Open magazine

Data is Destiny
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Data is Destiny

The social engineer has been replaced by the digital mind bender

22 March 2018
Marx@200
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Marx@200

As the last receptacles of a homeless ideology, Indian communists have become archival assets

15 March 2018
Titanic in a Water Tank
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Titanic in a Water Tank

Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, a dreamy love story, is an outsider’s film that celebrates, in pure wonderment, the rewards of cross-cultural journeys

08 March 2018
Julian Barnes
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The Last Sigh of the Absolute Lover

An ageing memoirist returns to the saddest of love stories in The Only Story, the new novel by Julian Barnes

22 February 2018
Introduction: When Less Choice is Good
Nehru Vs Patel: An Open Debate
The Uses and Abuses of What-if History

A past powered by the Dissenting Strongman and the Dreamy Intellectual enriches the legacy of freedom—and the political content of the present

15 February 2018
An Indian Pastoral by Modi & Jaitley
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An Indian Pastoral by Modi & Jaitley

Arun Jaitley’s Budget 2018 showcases compassionate nationalism

02 February 2018
Modi with (Row 1: Left to right) former US President Barack Obama;  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; Russian President  Vladimir Putin; Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak;  Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (Row 2: L to R ) Former British Prime Minister David Cameron; Turkish President Recep Tayyip  Erdoğan (Row 3: L to R) Afghan President Ashraf Ghani; Crown Prince of Abu  Dhabi Mohammed bin Zayed; former Australian Prime Minister  Tony Abbott; former French President François Hollande (Row 4
Cover Stories
At Home In The World

This is Modi’s moment as the crisis of global leadership deepens

25 January 2018
Who’s Afraid of a Caricature?
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Who’s Afraid of a Caricature?

The Trump problem is more a crisis of aesthetics than an imminence of madness

18 January 2018
Populism and Storytelling
Editor's Note
Populism and Storytelling

Why Modi is still compelling

21 December 2017

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

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 a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

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

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