Features

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Arunabha Deb

How the hidebound world of Hindustani music is learning to befriend technology

Anna and the RSS

Dhirendra K Jha

Team Anna has questioned the veracity of ‘BJP’s Team B’, a report published in Open’s issue of 20 February. Here is our reply

Of Natural Wealth and Auctions

Shailendra Tyagi

The Judiciary’s point about sharing natural resources equitably is welcome, but auctions need not necessarily serve India’s ‘common good’

The Rise of Captain Tamil Nadu

Anil Budur Lulla

The end of his alliance with Jayalalithaa may only help Captain Vijayakanth

The Beginning of New Beginnings

Jatin Gandhi

Why the TMC and JD-U are joining forces in Uttar Pradesh

Heads of States as Arms Peddlers

Mihir Srivastava

The UK’s churlish reaction to India’s order of Rafale jets shows how prime ministers and presidents are increasingly behaving like salesmen rather than statesmen

The trial court may have dismissed his plea to make Home Minister P Chidambaram a co-accused with A Raja, but the ever-controversial Subramanian Swamy, the man whose plea led the Supreme Court to cancel 122 2G licences, tells Mihir Srivastava that he is by no means done with the case

The Man Authorities Came to Frame

Mihir Srivastava

The untold story of Anand Jon, a designer of Indian origin who has been sentenced to 59 years of imprisonment in the US on multiple counts of sexual misconduct, including rape. Guilty as charged? Or a victim himself? As he approaches re-trial, a close look at the case