India

Possibilities of Power

Shakti Sinha and Assem Shrivastava

What AAP can do—and cannot. Two writers on the rhetoric and reality in Kejriwal’s Delhi

‘Modi should emulate Vajpayee on Kashmir’

Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the PDP leader who is set to become the next Chief Minister of J&K, spoke to Open's Managing Editor on a range of issues

Two Men on a Mission in the Valley

PR Ramesh

Can Narendra Modi and Mufti Mohammad Sayeed afford to miss history in J&K?

The Most Feared Man of Lucknow

Kumar Anshuman

Why Justice Mehrotra is India’s most effective Lokayukta

Rainmaker on Track

Ullekh NP

Can the banker turned politician be the moderniser of Indian Railways?

The Missing Girls of Mahendragarh

Sunaina Kumar

A despatch from the district with the lowest sex ratio

Islamic fundamentalists chopped off his right hand. His college dismissed him. The government abandoned him. His wife ended her own life when she could not take the trauma any longer. And his son was hounded by the police for no reason. Open met TJ Joseph in his hometown in central Kerala. The indefatigable teacher is in the midst of writing his memoir