India

POSTMODERN INDIA

Kumar Anshuman

Reforms get a pan-Indian boost with the proposed revamp of the moribund Indian postal service

We Are Murugan

1Tamil writer Perumal Murugan has fallen on the point of his pen, following the fate of his own ill-fated characters. What can we do to bring him back?

The Party Without a Plot

Kumar Anshuman

Afflicted by an inert organisation, absent leadership and ideological confusion, Congress needs to forge a revival plan before it’s too late

The Indomitable Dr Panagariya

Ullekh NP

The newly appointed vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog is a scholar with patriotic zeal

‘We will use every provision in the Constitution to push reforms’

PR Ramesh

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley spoke to Open’s Managing Editor PR Ramesh and shared his ideas on reviving the Indian economy. Edited excerpts:

THE GROWTH SUTRA 2015

PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP

On the Road to Recovery with Arun Jaitley

A Son of the Soil & A Gentleman

Gunjeet Sra

Why Ajay Vir Jakhar is the coolest farmer, brimming with ideas for an agricultural revolution

CHANGE: A BIOGRAPHY

Open

S Prasannarajan • PR Ramesh • Ullekh NP • Madhavankutty Pillai • V Shoba • Lhendup G Bhutia • Chinki Sinha • Gunjeet Sra • Rajni George • Divya Unny

Why He Still Matters

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MJ Akar • Pratap Bhanu Mehta • Swapan Dasgupta • Sunanda K Datta-Ray •Tunku Varadarajan • Priyamvada Gopal • Madhav Khosla • Yusuf Ahmad Ansari • Sumantra Bose • Sunil Raman

THE DAY OF THE UNDERDOG

Chinki Sinha

A man who once worked as an unskilled labourer in Saudi Arabia and became a voice of Dalit assertion in Punjab is now a member of the Union Council of Ministers