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S Prasannarajan

S Prasannarajan is the Editor of Open magazine

The Normalisation of Evil
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The Normalisation of Evil

No dictator today is denied the freedom of playing out his paranoia on a global stage

14 April 2023
The Wrong Sales Pitch
Columns
The Wrong Sales Pitch

When Rahul Gandhi rages against corruption

07 April 2023
Leave Aside Democracy Please
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Leave Aside Democracy Please

When politicians equate their simulated victimhood with a crisis in democracy

31 March 2023
Of Liberal Nationalists and Illiberal Liberals
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Of Liberal Nationalists and Illiberal Liberals

Why liberal works better as an adjective

24 March 2023
Limits of the Free World
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Limits of the Free World

Who’s winning the new Cold War?

17 March 2023
Alone In Kyiv
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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
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The Attack of Stereotypes

Why the Modi government has fewer critics and more rabid rejectionists

17 February 2023
Salman Rushdie Comes Home
Cover Stories
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
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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
Columns
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

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 several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj

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 professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.

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