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HELL ON THE HIGH SEAS

As the last of the Indian sailors held by Somalian pirates return home, survivors relive the horrors of being held hostage for years

“Modi must provide an intellectual alternative”

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

All that’s fit to sell

Can you think of any shop that would sell a toothpaste, or a 67-year-old newspaper, or an aircraft? The curious world of online classifieds

The rogue godman of Hisar

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

Anatomy of a medical butchery

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

A despatch from the Maoist heartland

The Primal Flavours of Telangana

In Hyderabad, a city where you are what you eat, we look for the original, minimalist cuisine of India’s newest state

Homeless in Allahabad

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)

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

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

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