Frank Dikötter
How China suppresses even the faintest stirrings of an open society
Amit Chaudhuri’s new novel is interested not in events but the interruptions
Jerry Pinto’s new novel is about urban adolescence in the eighties. He speaks to Open about the humiliations of college and the joys of language
Lessons from seventy-five years of successful grassroots intervention
Oral histories chronicling the end of the Mughals
Rohini Nilekani speaks to Open about creating a balance between the state, communities and the marketplace
Short stories about the human struggle to follow an ethical path
Amit Majmudar’s new book fictionalises a comparative study of Gandhi and Jinnah