Features

BJP’s Catch-22

Anil Budur Lulla

The BJP has succumbed to pressure and let Yeddyurappa stay.

Christ on the cross… maybe not

Madhavankutty Pillai

A Swedish pastor’s PhD dissertation has created quite a stir around the world by questioning an accepted ‘fact’ of Christianity.

The 1962 jailing of Chinese Indians

Jaideep Mazumdar

Recent revelations of India’s official attitude towards people of Chinese origin within its borders after the Indo-China war are simply too shocking to ignore.

Enter the Bachelorette

Shubhangi Swarup

Women are partying like crazy nowadays before bulge-bracket weddings—male strippers, foreign trips, surprise props and all

God’s Own Theme Park

Vijai Maheswari

A visit to this war museum set up by Hezbollah—literally ‘God’s party’—in Lebanon reveals more than a little chest-thumping about its claimed ‘victory’ over Israel in 2006

Dispatched to Die

Jay Mazoomdaar

The latest death of a translocated tiger reiterates how Sariska continues to stand for everything that could have gone wrong with conservation in India.

“Aapka toh sab kaam ho gaya”

Open Author

“He says, sir, thheek hai, main bola ki, ‘Mukesh, once in a while show some bloody emotion,” —RANJAN BHATTACHARYA

“I am there… you want me to speak to anyone”

Open Author

“What I do is, let us see, I will be honest with you. I haven’t even gotten up, I cannot put pen to paper. Otherwise, in any case, I am there and you want me to speak to anyone, not that you don’t know anyone.”

Open’s response to NDTV

R. Rajmohan

Open magazine responds to NDTV’s statement on the Cover Story: X-Tapes (issue dated: 29 November 2010)

The Dosa Man of New York

Atiya Hussain

Seven years on, another visit to the city’s most famous streetside dosa stall reveals a Thirukumar Kandasamy who has retained everything that made him great, except the modesty