India

Sangh in Its Soul

Haima Deshpande

The RSS finally steps out in full public glare to tell the BJP who’s boss within the Saffron Family

Who Stands by George?

Open’s report on Leila Kabir and Jaya Jaitly’s backroom battles for George Fernandes’ political legacy has prompted strong and contradictory responses from both women. We rest our case

It Was Neither Nehru Nor Jinnah

Ninad D. Sheth

Neither had the power to set the agenda for the Partition. The blame lies squarely with the British empire and its representative at the time—Mountbatten.

Amid Flying Bricks and Rubble

Jatin Gandhi

The party that Lal Krishna Advani built so dedicatedly for so long has started coming apart and the ‘iron man’ is still at the centre of it all, whether partymen and the RSS want him there or not

Paradise Lost

Jaideep Mazumdar

Tagore did not want his Visva Bharati university to become an Oxford or Cambridge. Its administrators today are ensuring that it never will

Worse than You Think

Jatin Gandhi

India faces a drought unprecedented in scale and impact. A crisis that will test the government’s aam aadmi agenda to the limit.

A Ride Down H1N1

Rahul Chandawarkar

With the fear of swine flu spreading faster than the virus, Pune has become a city of masked people with strange encounters.

Cloak and Swagger

Dhirendra K. Jha

Leila Kabir and Jaya Jaitly are waging a battle of intrigue for George Fernandes’ political legacy

My Father the Fanatic

Savitri Sawhney

One man sacrificed his freedoms to be part of a global underground movement to liberate India. It failed. A daughter remembers

Why You Shouldn’t be Afraid of Swine Flu

Megha Shah

Swine flu has killed 7 out of every 1,000 people infected. The corresponding figure for seasonal flu, which strikes every year around winter, is 70-140 deaths.