India

Kashmir, Once Again

Rahul Pandita

The Indian Government is unable to counter the changing strategies of separatists

The Cash Transfer Mess

Dhirendra K Jha

A ground report from the VIP districts of Raebareli and Amethi

“I don’t know what Socialism means”

Manu Joseph

Amartya Sen - an amiable man in the dismal science

Poisoned in Primary

Amarnath Tewary

Political conspiracy theories abound as the headmistress considered responsible for the mid-day meal deaths at a school in Bihar absconds

So Much for the Ban

Haima Deshpande

Maharashtra is unable to justify its 2005 closure of dance bars before the Supreme Court

The Mask of Publicity

Chitra Padmanabhan

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has plucked the notion of power-with-accountability out of the political domain and planted it in a personalised celebrity universe

“We were controlling the Army. I was their field marshal”

Mihir Srivastava

One month after the disastrous floods in his state, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna speaks to Open’s Mihir Srivastava

Identity Crisis

Anil Budur Lulla

A man assumes his younger brother’s identity to satisfy the age criterion for a job. So began a decades-long saga that has left the younger brother anxious about his property

The Modi Mythology

Jatin Gandhi

Manufacturing consent, saffron style

In the bid to defend the IB in the Ishrat Jahan case, neither the CBI’s evidence nor the close relationship between Narendra Modi and the agency’s man in Gujarat at the time is being given due consideration