Features

A Fine Balance

Uma Shashikant

Typical investor behaviour is at the two extremes of either doing nothing or trying too much. And it’s hard to avoid these extremes unless you know what constitutes just enough. A primer

Go, Get a Map!

Gaurav Mashruwala

Ad hoc investing is like travelling blind. You will still get somewhere, just not where you intended.

The Gravy Train Has Left the Station

Gautam Nayak

Save yourself the last-minute scramble. There isn’t much joy left in tax-saving investments any more.

What makes everyday terror, exemplified in the Pune blast, so much harder to fight? What makes an articulate, Anglicised software programmer turn into an Islamist radical? Questions with no easy answers.

First World Suffering

Pallavi Polanki

Kerala’s women conquered their primary healthcare problems long before large swathes of India even saw a problem. So, why aren’t they celebrating?

‘He used the military for personal gains’

VK Shashikumar

President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s younger brother and Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was in New Delhi recently. He told Open that former army chief General Sarath Fonseka, who had contested the presidential elections, will be tried for treason and for politicising the army.