Features

An Epic Obsession

Open

Bibek Debroy has completed a ten-volume translation of the Mahabharata in English. Inside the mind of an economist with a difference whose daytime job nowadays is the restructuring of Indian Railways and duties as a permanent member of the recently formed NITI Aayog

BEWARE THE HATE WAVE

Tufail Ahmad

The online responses of Indian Muslims to the Paris massacre should serve as a wake-up call

SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS BORN

Bennett Voyles

And an unmistakable message from the deep recesses of French history

POSTMODERN INDIA

Kumar Anshuman

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

We Are Murugan

Rajni George

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

THE ANATOMY OF LAYOFFS

James Joseph

The TCS pink slip controversy is an occasion to reflect on corporate terminations of employment. Plus, a survival guide for those at the receiving end