Features

Pipeline of Peace

Shailendra Tyagi

The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline will likely test the political patience of some unlikely allies

Because You Were Once Impressionable Too

Haima Deshpande

Saas-Bahu and other television soap operas have transformed Indian lives in ways you can laugh at—or empathise with

More Cardboard Cutouts

Shougat Dasgupta

Indians are popping up on American television screens in new and still typecast ways, typically for the laughs they get. Watch awhile, though, and you know this is mostly about America coming to terms with emerging realities

Olive Green in Red Zones

Rahul Pandita

The Indian Army stiffens its anti-Maoist operations. But at what cost?

“Do not let others define you”

Pallavi Polanki

The managing editor of TwoCircles.net, an English news website for Indian Muslims, speaks to Open on what makes his website unique.

Now, Who’s Crouching?

Jay Mazoomdaar

Open magazine does its turn to stall an eco-tourism scam in Rajasthan

Amnesia Hour

Kalpish Ratna

Somewhere, it is always the time of cholera

The Mac Superclone Peddler

Adam Matthews

DaSilva’s company Quo is selling Mac clones, but without the Mac OS. Is it legal? Well...

Now Will You Marry Me?

Avantika Bhuyan

For those who cannot come up with a clever way to pop the big question, there are proposal planners at hand.

Red China’s Party Blues

Sakshi Lee

In the People’s Republic, the Party is all pervasive. But its enormous influence and intense secrecy mask inner impulses of dissent that could yet shake things up