Features

Global Storming

Ninad D. Sheth

It’s getting hot in here. If India changes its tune on global warming, there could be a lot more heat.

Food Shock

Jatin Gandhi

It’s been an agri annus horribilis. The crops spared by drought were hit by floods. And now food prices are headed skywards.

Homemade Hotels

Avantika Bhuyan

Cosy little cottages and heritage homestays run by enterprising couples are attracting the avid Indian traveller far more than jazzy resorts with spas.

The Season of Pink

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

It used to be white, then it was red wine for health. Now India’s wine drinkers wake up to the pink scent and bouquet of rosés.

‘Oh God, I’m in My Vagina’

Elizabeth Kuruvilla

Ensler intends to make it clear that the future is female.

Eye of the Storm

Venkata Vemuri

The Prime Minister of the UK is one-eyed, and the other eye is deteriorating. But neither he nor the Opposition thinks it reason enough for him to step down.

Bengal’s Descent into Darkness

Jaideep Mazumdar

What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow. If this old saying retains some relevance today, it’s as a way to place the tragedy of the state’s slide in perspective.

Business Briefing 17/10

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Dylanesque duplicity and how dollar blues drive investors to gold...

India This Week

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Indian citizenship for Sri Lankan refugees; handshake and a boot in West Bengal; Bihar’s bank ban; Kashmir protest; and creating second-class doctors

“We Shall Certainly Defeat the Government”

Rahul Pandita

Somewhere in the impregnable jungles of Dandakaranya, the supreme commander of CPI (Maoist) spoke to Open on issues ranging from the Government’s proposed anti-Naxal offensive to Islamist Jihadist movements