Any Colour You Like, So Long as It’s Sharp

What Not to Do at Basel

The good thing about this place is that almost everybody here knows many multiples more than what most will ever know about watches

How to Warp Time and Space in a Minute

Basel has always been a place where nothing needs add up at first sight

The American Scream

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

Fear and Faith in Dhaka

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

India Art Fair 2016: Less Is More

Indian artists may not have set hearts aflutter but those from Pakistan and Nepal added spice to the local flavours

Nicolas Hénin: ‘France Should Not Make the Mistake the US Made After 9/11’

Vive Paris: From the Open Archives

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

Rajiv Srivatsa, Co-Founder & COO, Urban Ladder

‘The one resource not to be taken for granted is time’

Nitya Kallivayalil: The biographer of galaxies

Award winning astronomer Nitya Kallivayalil is on a space odyssey. What is it about near-field cosmology that keeps her going?