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Siddharth Singh

The Great Indian Bank Robbery
Cover Stories
The Great Indian Bank Robbery

It’s time for a wide range of reforms, with no option kept off the agenda, not even the privatisation of banks. Open takes a close look at what’s wrong and what can be done

22 February 2018
Vallabhbhai Patel, 1950
Nehru Vs Patel: An Open Debate
Vallabhbhai Patel: Iron in the Soul

The unifier of India deserves better from his country

15 February 2018
A house gutted by cross-border  shelling on January 21 in Ranbir Singh  Pura village of Jammu & Kashmir
Diplomacy
Pakistan Plays the Rogue Again

India today has the political resolve to counter the permanent aggression of Islamabad

08 February 2018
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
Economy
A Budget for Bharat

In the year before the general election the finance minister did what was expected.

01 February 2018
Alyssa Ayres
Open Conversation
Alyssa Ayres: ‘‘Nothing is guaranteed as India looks to its future’’

Open Conversation with Alyssa Ayres, Senior fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations, US

25 January 2018
Supreme Court Justices (L-R) J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Kurian Joseph and Madan Lokur
Judiciary
Mutiny in the Court

Four dissenting Supreme Court judges go public with their grievances. Now what?

18 January 2018
Potato farmers from UP hold a demonstration at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, in July 2017
Forecast 2018
Anger Management

The Government will have to balance the tide of agrarian unrest and manage its finances

04 January 2018
Aligned but not Allied
Books
Aligned but not Allied

India’s foreign policy has changed from a moralist stance to a more pragmatic one

03 January 2018
Narendra Modi
Battleground Gujarat
BJP Prevails in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh

In spite of a hard fought electoral battle, the Congress has not been able to dislodge the BJP from Gujarat

18 December 2017
Bricks at Karsevakpuram, Ayodhya
Ayodhya: 25 Years Later
Dateline History

The operative emotion here is one of longing—for better work, opportunities, some development, and, of course, for the grand temple. The contrast with intellectual India could not be more different

30 November 2017

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

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

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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