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Tunku Varadarajan

Tunku Varadarajan is a contributing writer at The Wall Street Journal. He is also a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think-tank, and a fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at the New York University Law School

Melania and Donald Trump host Narendra Modi in the Oval Office on June 26th
Cover Stories
Modi and Trump: Strongmen at Work

Modi and Trump pursue the art of the deal

29 June 2017
Sir Harold Evans
Open Conversation
Sir Harold Evans: ‘The decline of the printed newspaper is a great loss for English’

Former editor of The Sunday Times and author of, most recently, Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters

14 June 2017
Francis Fukuyama
Cover Stories
Modi is Pretty Impressive, says Francis Fukuyama

One of the world's most influential public intellectuals discusses the state of the world with Open

25 May 2017
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Essay
The Ideological Threat of Islam

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam’s most daring heretic, argues for a war on Islamist missionaries

13 April 2017
Virat Kohli
Cricket
Virat Kohli’s Intelligent Design

The year of the most feared batsman

14 December 2016
India in 70 Ideas
Ideas
India in 70 Ideas

An Indian in the ocean of notions

10 August 2016
Rajinikanth in Kabali
Cinema
Tamil Heroes: The Avengers’ Day Out

Two angry Tamil heroes caught between damnation and salvation 

27 July 2016
The Pakistan team celebrate their win over England at Lord’s with push-ups
Sports
Pakistan: Bowling Nation

It’s easier to be creative as a bowler in the relatively unstructured and ramshackle world of Pakistani cricket than as a batsman

20 July 2016
Donald Trump
Politics
Trump and Hillary: The Unloveable versus the Despicable

Compared with Trump’s hideous and incurable flaws, Hillary’s perceived faults seem far from indigestible to a voter with a sturdy stomach

09 June 2016
Americanscream1a
World
The American Scream

It is a fight between the inscrutably cynical Hillary Clinton and the swashbuckling nativist Donald Trump. The unpopular may defeat the popular in the end

10 March 2016

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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