Features

Colin Khoury: ‘We are all beneficiaries of ancient farmers in far-flung lands’

Madhavankutty Pillai

Colin Khoury, the author of Origins of Food Crops Connect Countries Worldwide spoke to Open about the journey of foods and how globalization has given a spurt to it

Muslim Youths From Kerala: God’s Own Recruits

Shahina KK in Kochi

Where have those Muslim youths from Kerala gone? The call of the Islamic State

Zakir Naik: The Preacher’s Progress

Haima Deshpande in Mumbai

What makes Zakir Naik an incendiary evangelist?

Hate Wave in the Valley: Return to the Stone Age

Kumar Anshuman in Srinagar

in the wake of a killing

Resurgent Radical Islam Puts the Indian State Under Strain

S Prasannarajan

India will be a better place, and a more responsible republic, if it can break out of the safety of clichés that characterise the world’s approach to radical Islamism

Migrant Workers in Kerala: The Stigma

Shahina KK

Migrant workers in Kerala face difficult times in the wake of the arrest of one of them in a sensational murder case

The Dons of Poorvanchal: Lords of the Ring

Kumar Anshuman

The dons of Poorvanchal become the most sought-after in the political market of Uttar Pradesh

Foreign Superfoods: The Global Gut

Madhavankutty Pillai

It is not surpising that foreign superfoods like chia and quinoa are now being grown on Indian soil. Just under half of what the country eats has its origins elsewhere

Inside the Justice Bazaar

PR Ramesh

Recent Income Tax raids put the spotlight on middlemen who have operated for years with impunity, leaking judicial verdicts to corporates and other interested parties