This queer anthology questions labels such as ‘straight’ and ‘gay’ and, among other things, addresses the complications of love
25 January 2013Times when players would rather a commentator didn’t praise them
20 December 2012Uday Benegal, lead singer of Indus Creed, on the band’s new album 'Evolve' after a silence of 17 years, and about its return to a revitalised Indian rock scene
26 October 2012A train is travelling through the country teaching thousands of students science
24 September 2012Quasar Thakore Padamsee challenges his audience to piece together his play on Tibetan identity
21 September 2012Nandu Madhav, best known for his turn as Dadasaheb Phalke in India’s Oscar entry film Harishchandrachi Factory, directs a successful play on Shivaji
19 August 2012In an interview with Open, writer Martin Jacques sounds a wake-up call for India: engage China or prepare to endure its hegemony
19 August 2012A father tormented by visions of his dead son, a boy battling dreams of azaadi and football, soldiers fighting their inner demons... Djinns of Eidgah is a deeply disturbing play on Kashmir
15 July 2012Niranjan Hiranandani was leased land to build affordable housing. Instead, he made flats for the rich. Now the Bombay High Court has ordered him to keep his original word
06 May 2012Vaishali Salavkar is a wife, mother, masseuse. And, oh, she recently won her sixth national blind chess title
23 February 2012Brahma 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 is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
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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