Features

Bastille Day Horror: We Are Afraid

François Gautier

What is it that makes France the most obvious target for Islamist terrorism? As the country recovers from the Bastille Day horror in Nice, François Gautier portrays a traumatised republic under siege

GST: The Life and Times of a Bill

Siddharth Singh

The travails of the GST Bill bring out the best and the worst of Indian politics. Will Congress buckle under isolation?

What’s Going Wrong with Prashant Kishor?

Ullekh NP with Kumar Anshuman

A political strategist loses his sheen

Mad Terror of the Lone Wolf

Samantha de Bendern

International experts explain the phenomenon in the context of the Nice attack

Paranormal Activists

Sonali Acharjee

As a death in Delhi acquires a ghostly twist, Open finds out that being haunted is very normal for some

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