Features

The Man Who Remembers

Sajeda Momin

Professor Samuel Martin Burke is the oldest living person to have served the Indian Civil Service. He speaks little, but has a memory to treasure

Yes wwwe Can

Kamla Bhatt

President Obama has embraced technology as a change agent by appointing Aneesh Chopra America’s first ever CTO

Sangh in Its Soul

Haima Deshpande

The RSS finally steps out in full public glare to tell the BJP who’s boss within the Saffron Family

Brand India vs Brand Harley

Kabeer Sharma

Harley-Davidson is coming to India. But why?

Stamped and Cast Aside

Avantika Bhuyan

Come 2010, mobile phones and emails will have taken another victim. India Post will no longer extend the licences of letter writers

Who Stands by George?

arindam

Open’s report on Leila Kabir and Jaya Jaitly’s backroom battles for George Fernandes’ political legacy has prompted strong and contradictory responses from both women. We rest our case

It Was Neither Nehru Nor Jinnah

Ninad D. Sheth

Neither had the power to set the agenda for the Partition. The blame lies squarely with the British empire and its representative at the time—Mountbatten.

Amid Flying Bricks and Rubble

Jatin Gandhi

The party that Lal Krishna Advani built so dedicatedly for so long has started coming apart and the ‘iron man’ is still at the centre of it all, whether partymen and the RSS want him there or not

Minding the Gap

Sajeda Momin

The London Underground will now have train drivers enlightening passengers with words of wisdom from famous philosophers

Print Your Own Currency

Adam Molner

Local currencies are often seen as a frivolity, but several communities in America are dead serious about their do-gooder potential in a fast globalising world