India

“Modi must provide an intellectual alternative”

S Prasannarajan

Aatish Taseer's new novel, The Way Things Were, is an Indian classic spanning the eventful decades between the Emergency and the advent of Modi, set in Lutyens' Delhi. The novelist in conversation with the Editor of Open magazine

The rogue godman of Hisar

Kumar Anshuman

The high voltage drama at Barwala town ended with Rampal’s arrest and crowds of dismayed followers

Anatomy of a medical butchery

Aanchal Bansal

It was the kind of horror that could have happened only in a place where life is cheap and easily disposable. We find out what went wrong in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, where fifteen women died after attending mass sterilisation camps and more than a hundred were taken ill

THE LAST FARCE

Ullekh NP

A despatch from the Maoist heartland

Homeless in Allahabad

PR Ramesh

In his hometown, Nehru is an outsider who has little relevance beyond the arcana of history

The Comrade Who Dared: MV Raghavan (1933 to 2014)

Ullekh NP

A firebrand leader, Raghavan used his sturdy, film-star looks, alpha male image, rugged nature and ruthless ambition to rustle his way through the ranks of the party

Pick It up from Piketty

Open

Still the Unwanted • Doctor Tourism • Homeless in Delhi • Sugar Rush and Modi

The Invisible Empress of Surrealistan

V Shoba

How Jayalalithaa still rules Tamil Nadu

THE TERROR FIELDS OF BENGAL

Ullekh NP

The investigation into a bomb blast in the town of Burdwan in West Bengal last month put the spotlight on a wider network of terror modules stretching beyond the border to Bangladesh. A report from the new dateline of terror