Features

Fear at the Top

Ullekh NP

A new government means a new set of favourite bureaucrats. Who will stay on and who won’t?

The Meaning of Candidate Nilekani

Shiv Visvanathan

Hope and fears about the future of technocratic imagination

Dalal Street’s Suryanamaskar Explained

Shailendra Tyagi

Sun’s bet is that it can fix the factory glitches, get US regulatory clearances, and turn the Sun-Ranbaxy combine into a low-cost generics export powerhouse.

His Master’s Mind

PR Ramesh

He is as feared and admired a politician as his mentor. His strategic skills and organisational acumen are as legendary as the controversies that swirl around him are never-ending. PR Ramesh embarks on a journey in search of the real Amit Shah, variously described as the man who holds the key to Narendra Modi’s conscience, a ruthless artist of realpolitik , the smartest spin doctor in town and the man nobody dares mess with. A definitive portrait

Editor’s Note: An Open Republic

S Prasannarajan

This special edition of Open is a celebration of arguments, and we have invited some of the brightest from the world of ideas to make the name of this magazine the abiding ideal of India.