Features

Going Viral in Kerala

Shahina KK

Over 150,000 ducks have been culled around Kerala’s serene backwaters, but given the environmental degradation of the region, it was a tragedy waiting to happen. The state has a fever—always

It’s Clean Business

Aanchal Bansal

The Swachch Bharat Mission has spawned innovative sanitation start-ups

AN INDIAN ORIGINAL

S Prasannarajan

Aatish Taseer’s new novel is a modern classic on being Indian

Another Day in Paradise

V Shoba

We travel through Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district where 29 idyllic villages are set to make way for Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s promised capital city of Singapore-in-Andhra

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