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S Prasannarajan

S Prasannarajan is the Editor of Open magazine

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
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Voices
India Between the Noise maker and the Conversationalist

Haunted rebels, nationalists on steroids, and a walk-and-talk man called Sri M

25 February 2016
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Voices
Editor's Note

It is Narendra Modi moment as one of democracy’s most popular leaders to play out the script of the India Ideal: the liberal state rising from the last wreckage of the socialist mind. Freedom is about daring—and he should know

19 February 2016
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Voices
Editor's Note

To indulge in the brutality of turning one of the most sophisticated intellects in politics into a one-dimensional man is a crime against good taste

19 February 2016
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EDITOR’S NOTE

Change is more than an abstraction animated. It is a collection of synonyms for the next point in the grand ellipse of hope

19 February 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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