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S Prasannarajan

S Prasannarajan is the Editor of Open magazine

The Freedom Issue 2016
India
Open Minds 2016: Editor's Note

Question us and join the conversation

05 May 2016
Rahul Gandhi and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at the Park Circus Maidan in Kolkata on 28 April
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Princeling Stars in a Bengal Ghost Story

The illicit alliance against Mamata in West Bengal

28 April 2016
AAPocracy and the Cult of K
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AAPocracy and the Cult of K

The platitudinous bunkum Kejriwal spews with such faux solemnity shows how determined he is to fortify his own mythology as Our Man of Deliverance

21 April 2016
Srinath Raghavan (Photo: ASHISH SHARMA)
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The Second World War as India's Other Freedom Struggle

India as the pivot of Asia’s security: Going to war with Srinath Raghavan

14 April 2016
125 Years of Babasaheb: Editor's Note
Politics
125 Years of Babasaheb: Editor's Note

We have made most of our heroes question-proof. We have made them private collections, labelled and indexed. Thoughts on Ambedkar’s 125th anniversary

07 April 2016
The Define Comedy (ILLUSTRATION: ANIRBAN GHOSH)
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The Define Comedy

What unites kitschy nationalists and secular fundamentalists?

31 March 2016
People write tributes to victims of the 22 March blasts at a Brussels square (Photo: KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/GETTY IMAGES)
Politics
The Uses of Fear

Brussels, ISIS, and the death of moral leadership in the free world

23 March 2016
Editor'snote
Living
The Travel Issue: Editor's Note

Mystery of places and the familiarity of strangers

17 March 2016
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Who’s Afraid of the Outsider?

The truth behind the crude ingenuity of Donald Trump

10 March 2016
Editor'snote
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Jaitley’s Social Realism

Capitalist India has not evolved enough to downsize the state

07 March 2016

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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