S Prasannarajan is the Editor of Open magazine
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Rahul’s Hitler invocation is in tune with the lazy intellectual tradition of our undergraduate radicals and peanut socialists
No autocrat as sanguineous as Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is at work today, and it’s nostalgia that drives his extraterritorial ambition.
In the summer thriller of 2014, history sets the stage for India to choose between the fatal and the fabulous.
The pornography of poverty is the aesthetic of the desperate populist. And there is no place more rewarding than India for him. Pornography sells, and when poverty is marketed as wretchedness over which we have no control, it sells more
On Planet Kejriwal, martyrdom, no matter however stage- managed, is a prerequisite for further growth
In India, faith may not be in power but the faithful is empowered by the State that is not committed to freedom
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
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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.
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