Features

With Wal-Mart Knocking on Your Door

Alam Srinivas

India is finally ready to let foreign multi-brand retailers in. But the conditions being proposed betray a multiplicity of hesitations

The Capitol Hill Trail

Rahul Pandita

For two decades, Ghulam Nabi Fai funded Kashmir militancy right under Washington DC’s nose. The game is up

Snow leopards share a particularly punishing habitat with people in the higher reaches of the Himalayas, with resources scarce and vegetation sparse. The conventional conservation model of separating wild animals and people simply does not work here. India’s green establishment is showing signs of accepting this reality, if only grudgingly

Rigour Mortis

Sreenivasan Jain

The pursuit of justice in Mumbai’s terror cases demands an investigative thoroughness. Which, for all practical purposes, seems dead

The Injured Are Everywhere

Rahul Bhatia

As we come under attack, yet again, what do our reactions say about us?

His Master’s Choice

Jatin Gandhi

The chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes seems to be on a Congress assignment

It’s the Economy, Your Honour

Alam Srinivas

The courts ‘have been used only for the purpose of vindicating the rights of the wealthy and affluent’

The Agony of the Usual Suspects

Jyoti Punwani

After every terrorist attack, they are picked up by the police. They are inevitably Muslims, and there is rarely any outrage in India about such blatant communal profiling

Child Sex Abuse and the Law

Pallavi Polanki

As Parliament gets set to reconvene, a bill to protect children from sexual abuse is on the agenda. Author Pinki Virani has warned that the bill might end up as a ‘graveyard of good intentions’ unless parts of it are redrafted. She explains to Open where the draft bill falls short