Features

Look Who’s Not Poor

Shubhangi Swarup

If the purpose of the Poverty Line is to make India look less miserable on paper, the Government might as well pull random numbers out of a hat and call them statistics

Stretching the Mind

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

Dr Howard Gardner at Harvard University has had a profound impact on thinking and education. In an exclusive interview with Open, he shares his latest thoughts about the mind and its functioning

How to Get Smart. Really

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

Yes, you can. You can tweak your brains to perform better

Lies and Bullets

Rahul Pandita

In India, fake encounters are not uncommon and often, the culprits go scot free

Dear Mama, When Do I Grow Up?

Jatin Gandhi

Varun Gandhi still needs his mother to fight his battles

Wheeling the Worrisome Way

Ninad D. Sheth

Air India now wants taxpayers’ money to paper over its faults

The Frog Stew Debate

Sudeep Chakravarti

Frogs as an outlawed delicacy in the midst of a culture war

A computer programmer decapitates his victims and takes away their thumbs. He is nabbed twice. Escapes twice. He is now on the loose. An extraordinary story pieced together from legal documents and interviews with the police and family members of his victims