India

Suicide Bomber Theory Gains Ground

Haima Deshpande

Speculation centres round wired body found at one of the blast sites

The Centre Cannot Hold

Dhirendra K Jha

The PM’s authority was always under question, but even Sonia is now facing open defiance

The Political Education of Rahul Gandhi

Jatin Gandhi

He says he has learnt more outside Parliament than inside it. Stands to reason, given the two-time MP’s dismal appearance record in the Lok Sabha

Balakrishna Pillai of the ruling UDF in Kerala is supposedly serving a one-year rigorous imprisonment sentence for corruption. Yet, he gets home food, an air-cooler in his cell and has been out of jail for 53 of the 144 days served. And now the government plans to set him free

Old and Best Dead

Shougat Dasgupta

News of the World finally fell victim to its own perverted overreach, but there’s nothing to give hope that it won’t soon produce a clone

The War Photographers of India

Aliefya Vahanvaty

...and the battlefront tales they lived to tell

On the First Night, Resignation

Rahul Bhatia

“I have seen so much, I want to cry,” a storekeeper said from behind the metal barrier he’d pulled down after the blast

Farewell to Arms

Rahul Pandita

If the Supreme Court wants SPOs in the state disarmed, what about other conflict zones?

Relook at Relocation

Jay Mazoomdaar

The environment ministry’s new draft guidelines have corrected some anomalies after Open’s investigation flagged key issues plaguing the relocation of 40,000 families from core tiger forests.