Features

DIDI’S DEADLY GAME

Ullekh NP

A reckless Mamata Banerjee reduces Islamist terror to a Centre-state dispute

Not a Minor Player

Kumar Anshuman

Why Asaduddin Owaisi of MIM is India’s fastest-growing Muslim political leader

Out of Sight

Anshuman Kumar

They were the big guns of the UPA Government, and the most sought after in Delhi once. Where are they now?

The Eternal Harappan Script Tease

Lhendup G Bhutia

New findings raise an old question: Do South Indians belong to the Indus Valley Civilisation?

HELL ON THE HIGH SEAS

Madhavankutty Pillai

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”

S Prasannarajan

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

Madhavankutty Pillai

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

Kumar Anshuman

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

Anatomy of a medical butchery

Aanchal Bansal

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