S Prasannarajan
S Prasannarajan is the Editor of Open magazine
The Normalisation of Evil
No dictator today is denied the freedom of playing out his paranoia on a global stage
14 April 2023
Leave Aside Democracy Please
When politicians equate their simulated victimhood with a crisis in democracy
31 March 2023
Of Liberal Nationalists and Illiberal Liberals
Why liberal works better as an adjective
24 March 2023
Alone In Kyiv
Once the cameras stop clicking, Zelensky returns to the bunker in Kyiv, as freedom’s last solitary hero
24 February 2023
The Attack of Stereotypes
Why the Modi government has fewer critics and more rabid rejectionists
17 February 2023
Salman Rushdie Comes Home
Words sustain life in his new novel set in India. It’s a fairy tale of the present accentuated by history and mythology, written by a storyteller schooled in the epic Fabulism of the East
10 February 2023
A Word to the Offended
Modi came to power by demolishing taboos. Some of his one-dimensional followers want to create new ones
20 January 2023
Blame It on the Totem
What we see today is not the unravelling but a reminder of democracy's tenacity and elasticity
13 January 2023
Authors
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
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 is the author of several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj
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 is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.
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