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The First Feminists

Madhavankutty Pillai

Starting in the middle of the 19th century, they laid the foundation from which gender equality would enter the Indian consciousness

That’s the Spirit

V Shoba

Tamil Nadu with the largest female workforce continues to shatter gender myths

The Passion of PT Usha

Ullekh NP

Lessons from a champion in surviving and overcoming the odds

Insta Warriors of Chitrakoot

Priyanka Kotamraju | Monika Anivarti

Women in this UP district are using social media to push back against gender norms in their offline lives

The Meaning of Droupadi Murmu

Rahul Pandita

The President’s subtle calls for policy changes reverberate through power corridors

Flight Control

Rajeev Deshpande

Indian civil aviation has come a long way from backroom policy manipulation by private players and mismanagement by officials

Air India: The Sky Is the Limit

Moinak Mitra

Air India’s 470-plane deal with Airbus and Boeing mirrors the economic and diplomatic power of new India

‘UP Will Be a $1 Trillion Economy by 2027, One-Fifth of the National Target’

Amita Shah

Yogi Adityanath explains to Open how he made his state a secure place for investors

Investing In Yogi

PR Ramesh

The Uttar Pradesh chief minister is transforming his state with improved law and order, ease of doing business, planned industrialisation and development. A look inside his modernisation project

Salman Rushdie Comes Home

S Prasannarajan

Words sustain life in his new novel set in India. It’s a fairy tale of the present accentuated by history and mythology, written by a storyteller schooled in the epic Fabulism of the East