Narendra Modi could be the one who can tell the world that strength and popularity do not necessarily breed autocracy
07 August 2014The new wave of anti-Semitism is sustained by an ahistorical misreading of the origins of terror and the struggle for existence
31 July 2014In the big bad world, it is again the Russian who happens to be the biggest baddie
24 July 2014The words of Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) made South Africa a less dangerous place—and literature an argument for freedom
17 July 2014Now with Shah in the party headquarters and Modi in South Block, there is harmony between the organisation and the Government
10 July 2014How come AK Antony’s conscience did not stir when his secular party mined minority ghettos for votes?
03 July 2014Political Islam triumphs because freedom is an idea that no longer appeals to leaders of the so-called free world
26 June 2014Zia Haider Rahman’s first novel, In the Light of What We Know, is already the literary event of the year (reviewed in Open, ‘A Groundbreaking Work of Staggering Genius’, 23 June 2014). Born in Bangladesh and educated at Oxford, Cambridge and Yale, Rahman has worked as an investment banker and human rights lawyer. The novelist in conversation with S Prasannarajan, editor, Open magazine
26 June 2014India can do without China envy, but it needs to make use of democracy with more vigour. And that is what India expects from Prime Minister Modi
19 June 2014It is the slow dance of the mind that animates the pages of Zia Haider Rahman. He holds the planet in his palm and plays with it
12 June 2014CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Pratap 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 Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Makarand R Paranjape is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.