S Prasannarajan

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

Dan Brown is Eco without the metaphysics

The threat today is no longer from the comic strip communism of Pyongyang. It is the ex-communist as an aggrieved nationalist, or the pinstriped communist as a Confucian capitalist, who challenges the world

For Narendra Modi, power is a permanent struggle

Even if it is not yet glorious, it is cool to be rich in an India that is shedding its socialist habits. You do not have to be a socialist to create an equal society. Even a responsible capitalist can achieve that

The streets of Hong Kong may go quiet and Wong may vanish from front pages, but the eruption of minds is what frightens autocracies such as China