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S Prasannarajan

S Prasannarajan is the Editor of Open magazine

Columns
The Conceit of Social Justice Politics

As Modi challenges the dogma of division

03 May 2024
Cover Stories
The Wounded Happiness of Salman Rushdie

What it takes to be a writer in the time of hate. Rushdie returns to that August morning in 2022 when he almost died under the knife of a man inspired by the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s death decree against the author

19 April 2024
Columns
The Politics of Alarmism

Those who charge Modi’s India with extra-constitutionalism mistake adherence for absolutism

05 April 2024
Columns
Márquez’s Love and Other Demons

Until August shows why the afterlife of writers is larger than what we read on the pages

22 March 2024
Columns
No One Versus No One Else

The limits of I.N.D.I.A. in Modi’s India

15 March 2024
Columns
Modi’s Family Values

And how they repudiate the privatisation of empowerment

08 March 2024
Columns
A Portrait of Putin the Terrible

A retired Rasputin shines a light on the Kremlin’s dark heart

23 February 2024
Columns
Beyond Biden XO

The East-West divide in gerontocracy

16 February 2024
Columns
LK Advani, Bharat Ratna

An India where a Narendra Modi was made possible is indebted to the man who dared to hit the long road to Hindutva

09 February 2024
Cover Stories
At Home With Ram

A god has returned and the man who dedicated him to India added a new chapter to his own legend

25 January 2024

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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