Features

Have You Been to Krabi?

Manu Joseph

Why you must not waste time on Bangkok

High Tea

Madhavankutty Pillai

Amidst the cold green hills of Munnar

Mixed Marriages and a Referral

David Lepeska

People of Indian origin appear readier than ever to join America’s great melting pot—marrying people of other ethnicities in growing numbers

Where Every Risk is an Opportunity

Adam Matthews

How China is using curiosity of the ‘Jasmine Revolution’ to spy electronically on democracy supporters—even in India

The Nanny Who Saved Baby Moishe

Aimee Ginsburg

...and became a star in her adoptive homeland Israel passed through Mumbai recently—home to her famous 26/11 derring-do—unnoticed, unsung. Open caught up with her

A Watered-down Bill

Haima Deshpande

The Maharashtra government rushes through a controversial bill after midnight

Parallel Interlocutors

Rahul Pandita

Another group hopes to achieve in Kashmir what the Centre-appointed interlocutors could not

Keeping Anna in Check

Dhirendra K Jha

Agnivesh says Hazare will visit Gujarat and issue a fresh statement at a public rally

The Sanctity of Gender Equality

Haima Deshpande

A group of feisty women wrest the right to worship at the inner sanctum of Hindu temples in Maharashtra, if only for a stipulated 90 minutes

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.