S Prasannarajan

Now with Shah in the party headquarters and Modi in South Block, there is harmony between the organisation and the Government

How come AK Antony’s conscience did not stir when his secular party mined minority ghettos for votes?

Political Islam triumphs because freedom is an idea that no longer appeals to leaders of the so-called free world

Zia 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

India 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

It 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

Prime Minister Modi should not stop being the natural communicator that he is

The strong leader was a beguiling idea, and Modi was hovering over India, reminding us of the price we had paid for tolerating a weakling for ten years

It is cool to be a leader with a dash of emotionalism. There are occasions when shedding tears—or holding them back—in front of television cameras is the right thing to do.

The most audacious journey in the politics of India comes to a historic finale as Narendra Modi, a lone man on a mission, inherits an India transformed by his ideas of modernity