Features

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

Not Your Textbook Saint

Haima Deshpande

Anna Hazare is a maverick with a past every bit as intriguing as his fast

After 27 years in Pakistan prisons, Gopal Dass got a hero’s welcome when he returned last week to his village in Punjab. He was on a spying mission for India when he was arrested near Sialkot in 1984. Hard as they come, Gopal Dass tells his story.