Features

What’s Brewing in Pakistan?

Marvi Sirmed

No coup, but covert control by the army and elections by the end of 2012 perhaps

So You Were Afraid of Global Warming

Madhavankutty Pillai

The interesting theory that India might actually end up as a better-fed nation because of climate change

For a Moment of Statesmanship

Manu Joseph

With Rushdie, the government has again chosen the cowardice of practicality over the courage of morality

In his aptitude for flying, his ease in reaching out to people, and his desire to be ‘the regular guy’, Rahul Gandhi is quite like his father. An extract from Open staffer Jatin Gandhi and Veenu Sandhu’s hot-off-the press biography of the leader, Rahul

Terminal Decline

Haima Deshpande

The Shiv Sena has rallied and riled Mumbaikars for half a century. But its end might be near

My Son, Not the Terrorist

Shahina KK

An ageing rubber farmer, Gopinath Pillai, remembers the life of his son Javed Shaikh, who was killed in a ‘fake encounter’ and was known as Pranesh Kumar before he fell in love with a Muslim and converted to Islam