World

Seeing Stars and Stripes

Kamla Bhatt

President Barack Obama has not just given African Americans a reason to dream. With him has also come the political awakening of American desis

www.watchingyou.com

Apoorva Prasad

Old fogey politicians in France try to enact reactionary laws to deal with Internet piracy

Enter the Dragon

Jaideep Mazumdar

A Maoist takeover of Nepal could be a much bigger threat to India than a Talibanised Pakistan

Battle Cry

Sajeda Momin

Gordon Brown tastes ‘defeat’ as Gurkha soldiers and veterans fight for a right to settle in the country they defend

“State Terror Needs to End”

Open

Interview with US-based Donald Gnanakone, legal advisor, LTTE Overseas

No Quarter Given

VK Shashikumar

This is how Mahinda Rajapaksa, president of the island nation, orchestrated the military and political operations that brought down the LTTE. Find out how he did what previous presidents could not

No One Wants to be Like India

David Lepeska

Parag Khanna has always been on the go. Open’s David Lepeska recently corralled him for a wide-ranging discussion. Excerpts

Piecing Together Our Fragmented World

David Lepeska

Born in Kanpur, raised in Abu Dhabi and the US, Parag Khanna is now a New Yorker, global citizen, bestselling author, political analyst and more at just 32. Here’s why the world pays attention to him

Westrickster

Sajeda Momin

British parliamentarians turn red in the face as their absurd expense claims and other tricks are exposed

Burma’s Steve Biko

Satya Sivaraman

Min Ko Naing has just received the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights. Often seen as Suu Kyi’s political heir, he is serving a 65-year term for organising the 2007 uprising against the junta