Features

Poisoned in Primary

Amarnath Tewary

Political conspiracy theories abound as the headmistress considered responsible for the mid-day meal deaths at a school in Bihar absconds

The RBI’s Overnight Surgical Strike

Shailendra Tyagi

It may retard an economic recovery, but halting currency speculation is critical too

So Much for the Ban

Haima Deshpande

Maharashtra is unable to justify its 2005 closure of dance bars before the Supreme Court

The Mask of Publicity

Chitra Padmanabhan

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has plucked the notion of power-with-accountability out of the political domain and planted it in a personalised celebrity universe

The Other Side of Brazil

Sergio Mukherjee

What the country’s recent football glories conceal

“We were controlling the Army. I was their field marshal”

Mihir Srivastava

One month after the disastrous floods in his state, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna speaks to Open’s Mihir Srivastava

Rapid Action Grinder

Chinki Sinha

An app that helps gay men find partners. Quickly

Identity Crisis

Anil Budur Lulla

A man assumes his younger brother’s identity to satisfy the age criterion for a job. So began a decades-long saga that has left the younger brother anxious about his property