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The Great Big Indian Library

Rohan Murty launched his ambitious new venture, The Murty Classical Library of India, a philanthropic initiative in collaboration with Harvard University Press

“They would have died of laughter”

Says Laurent Léger, a Charlie Hebdo journalist who survived the attack on the magazine, of his colleagues who were killed to Open contributor SAMANTHA DE BENDERN who finds in today’s France a threat to national symbols

BE WORRIED, VERY WORRIED

A section of the political class may not accept it but mounting radical resentment within the Indian Muslim community is a reality

Dynamic, Chaotic, Fragmented and Still Evolving — And Hard to Fight

For the masses to be mobilised, the violence must be seen as justified. That means choosing the ‘lowest common denominator’

An Epic Obsession

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

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

SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS BORN

And an unmistakable message from the deep recesses of French history

POSTMODERN INDIA

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

We Are Murugan

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

Afflicted by an inert organisation, absent leadership and ideological confusion, Congress needs to forge a revival plan before it’s too late

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