SPECIAL ISSUE
New Year 2016 Issue
S Prasannarajan • Swapan Dasgupta • Srinath Raghavan • PR Ramesh • Madhavankutty Pillai • Ullekh NP • Siddharth Singh • James Astill • Lhendup G Bhutia • V Shoba • Charmy Harikrishnan • Bibek Debroy • Upamanyu Chatterjee
Open Open 04 Jan, 2016
New Year Issue: Editor’s Note ~ S Prasannarajan
A celebration of storytelling
Being a Conservative ~ Swapan Dasgupta
Reconciling the eternal India with the changing India
Reading the Lives of Others ~ by Srinath Raghavan
The intimate pleasures of biography
India Through Slogans ~ by PR Ramesh
The political art of mesmerising the mass mind with minimum usage of words
DNA Is Destiny ~ by Madhavankutty Pillai
A genetic history of Indian ancestry
The Learning Curve ~ by Ullekh NP
Can BHU be redeemed as the university turns 100?
A Political History of Hygiene ~ by Siddharth Singh
Imagining Clean India from Gandhi’s ashram
Out of Africa ~ by James Astill
The romance of being a foreign correspondent
The First Indian ~ by Lhendup G Bhutia
Who are we? A question as old as 74,000 years
A Portrait of Gokarna ~ by V Shoba
Sun, sand and other nourishments for the senses and the spirit on Om Beach
The Ultimate Souvenir ~ by Charmy Harikrishnan
The art and alchemy of the magic mirror from Kerala
The Mahabharata Moment ~ by Bibek Debroy
An epic meditation on being and everythingness
Three-Seven-Seven And the Blue Gay Gene ~ by Upamanyu Chatterjee
“The case history of 377 is gripping; it reflects what we have thought about morality over the last 150 years. If you ask me, it really is time to move on, turn the page”
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