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S Prasannarajan

S Prasannarajan is the Editor of Open magazine

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
Best Books of 2017: Editor’s Choice
Books
Best Books of 2017: Editor’s Choice

Politically Writing

14 December 2017
The Gujarat Moral
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The Gujarat Moral

The campaign for Modi is a rite of thanksgiving as well

07 December 2017
Editor’s Note: Demolition-Reclamation-Reinvention
Ayodhya: 25 Years Later
Editor’s Note: Demolition-Reclamation-Reinvention

A temple in Modi’s India, if his words are any indication, cannot afford to be incompatible with the spirit of modernisation he has unleashed

30 November 2017

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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