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S Prasannarajan

S Prasannarajan is the Editor of Open magazine

The Curse of Memory and the Uses of Forgetting
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The Curse of Memory and the Uses of Forgetting

Forget the past and move on. A provocative new book questions the moral superiority of historical memory

12 May 2016
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
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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
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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

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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