Between the protector and the persecuted

President Barack Obama at this Republic Day Parade is all about Modi’s mission on his own mythology—and his India

The lone wolf has internalised the imperium, and when he pulls the trigger, or draws out the knife, or faces his executioner with the greatness of his god on his lips, he becomes a voluntary slave at this century’s most ambitious construction site of religion. The lone wolf has never been alone

Salute Charlie Hebdo, the magazine that refused to be on its knees before a god who is afraid of cartoons  

The way things were • The zone of interest • The Myth of the strong leader • Thirteen days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

of an India rediscovered and the challenges of being modern

The future of freedom and institutional decay

What is it that unites Mamata, Manjhi and the Sadhvi?

Aatish Taseer’s new novel is a modern classic on being Indian

Aatish Taseer's new novel, The Way Things Were, is an Indian classic spanning the eventful decades between the Emergency and the advent of Modi, set in Lutyens' Delhi. The novelist in conversation with the Editor of Open magazine

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…