Features

The Long Arm of the Lawless

Shahina KK

Balakrishna Pillai of the ruling UDF in Kerala is supposedly serving a one-year rigorous imprisonment sentence for corruption. Yet, he gets home food, an air-cooler in his cell and has been out of jail for 53 of the 144 days served. And now the government plans to set him free

Mumbai’s Food War

Haima Deshpande

It’s out on the streets, and it’s all about laying claim to an authentic Maharashtrian snack for the masses

Old and Best Dead

Shougat Dasgupta

News of the World finally fell victim to its own perverted overreach, but there’s nothing to give hope that it won’t soon produce a clone

The War Photographers of India

Aliefya Vahanvaty

...and the battlefront tales they lived to tell

How the Rich and Famous Travel

Arindam Mukherjee

Wherever they go, they leave an impression. Sometimes on tour organisers’ minds, occasionally on hotel lawns

On the First Night, Resignation

Rahul Bhatia

“I have seen so much, I want to cry,” a storekeeper said from behind the metal barrier he’d pulled down after the blast

‘86% get HIV treatment because of Indian drugs’

Avantika Bhuyan

Michel Sidibé says UNAIDS aims to halve HIV transmission by 2015

Farewell to Arms

Rahul Pandita

If the Supreme Court wants SPOs in the state disarmed, what about other conflict zones?

Relook at Relocation

Jay Mazoomdaar

The environment ministry’s new draft guidelines have corrected some anomalies after Open’s investigation flagged key issues plaguing the relocation of 40,000 families from core tiger forests.