Features

Prize-winning Pariah

Shailendra Tyagi

Microfinance pioneer and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus is embattled in his homeland Bangladesh on graft charges. Open invited him to have his say.

Was This Man Framed?

VK Shashikumar

The question why Madhu Koda was charged with money laundering is as unsettling as the supposed evidence against him. Speaking to Open, Jharkhand’s former Chief Minister is loud and clear that he is a victim of corporate greed in conspiracy with venal politics

“Why Am I in Jail?”

VK Shashikumar

“Where is the evidence against me?,” asks former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda in the first on-record interview since his arrest.

Unethical Proposal

Shahina KK

A doctor’s fight to stop the Indian Medical Association from endorsing PepsiCo brands Tropicana and Quaker Oats as health products

“Put the Lokpal Bill to referendum”

Dhirendra K. Jha

Prashant Bhushan, one of the chief architects of the Jan Lokpal Bill, speaks to Open in its defence

How to Buy a Business Jet

Madhavankutty Pillai

Posing as a serious customer, one man sets out to buy a Gulfstream private jet

The Man Who Cracked a Lottery

Riddhi Shah

Toronto resident Mohan Srivastava figured out a way to look at a draw-of-luck ticket and tell if it was going to win

No City for Young Women

Rajni George

Delhi as India’s ‘rape capital’ is a sensational label that rings true for reasons both heinous and heartless. One woman’s effort to understand why so little is ever done about it

The Sai Succession, Act II

Anil Budur Lulla

Sathya Sai Baba claimed to be Shirdi Sai Baba’s reincarnation. The question of his own succession, though, will be hotly contested

Happy Hours at the Anna Carnival

Rahul Pandita

The mela around the televised Jantar Mantar fast-unto-death had just about everything to keep our urban ‘revolutionaries’ occupied, including a food fest