Why the British are not really thinking about giving the Kohinoor (or anything else) back
At Basel, the world's premier fair for luxury watches, black is everywhere
The good thing about this place is that almost everybody here knows many multiples more than what most will ever know about watches
Basel has always been a place where nothing needs add up at first sight
It is a fight between the inscrutably cynical Hillary Clinton and the swashbuckling nativist Donald Trump. The unpopular may defeat the popular in the end
Caught between the call of jihad and the politics of poverty, Sheikh Hasina is battling alone for Bangladesh. India and the West had better take notice
Indian artists may not have set hearts aflutter but those from Pakistan and Nepal added spice to the local flavours
Open has been consistent in writing about the ideas that shape the future and divide the present, and no idea concentrates the global mind as much as radical Islamism does today. Here we carry excerpts from the past pages of the magazine, and taken together, the following views by our first-rate contributors tell us that we haven’t travelled much from that horrifying day in January this year in Paris
‘The one resource not to be taken for granted is time’