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Open Minds 2025

The power of ideas and arguments in 50 portraits

20 Jun, 2025 - 27 Jun, 2025
Vol 4 | Issue 27

STORIES IN THIS ISSUE

Editor’s Note

S Prasannarajan

Dilip Doshi (1947-2025): The Gentleman Spinner

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In Memoriam | Noisemaker | The Big Picture | Ideas | Money Mantra | Viral

Remains of the Darkness

Rajeev Deshpande

The Emergency was a black chapter in India’s post-Independence history which has mercifully not been repeated. The curtailment of Article 352 and the proactive role of the constitutional courts in protecting the ‘basic structure' of the Constitution have prevented political overreach

Endgame for Iran

Rajeev Deshpande

The debate over whether the bunker-buster bombs destroy uranium storage and processing facilities may take longer to settle, but Iran’s theocrats have plenty to chew on

A Fragile Truce

Sudeep Paul

Are Iran’s Nuclear Sites Obliterated or Degraded? | The Shaken Axis

Derailment of Democracy

Swapan Dasgupta

The declaration of Emergency by Indira Gandhi on June 26, 1975

The Cause of World Disorder

Makarand R Paranjape

Why jihadism needs to be defeated on real battlefields

Open Minds 2025: Public Square

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Shubhanshu Shukla | V Narayanan | Sunita Williams | Mukesh Ambani | Gautam Adani | Nikhil Kamath | Shashi Tharoor | Ram Madhav | Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Swapan Dasgupta | Anand Ranganathan | Aravind Srinivas | Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar | Vinod Dham | Balaraman Ravindran | Ashok Elluswamy | Jay Shah | Uday Shankar | William Dalrymple | Amitav Ghosh | Vikram Sampath | Abhijit Banerjee

Open Minds 2025: Soft Power

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Banu Mushtaq & Deepa Bhasthi | Allu Arjun | Karan Johar | John Abraham | Anant Ambani & Radhika Merchant | Monika Shergill | Nikhil Madhok | Leena Nair | Rashmika Mandanna | Gukesh D | Neeraj Chopra | Gautam Gambhir | Jasprit Bumrah | Shalini Passi | Dinesh Vijan | Sabyasachi Mukherjee | Tharun Moorthy | Manu S Pillai | Jaya Ashokan | Rahul Mishra | Ananya Pandey | Namit Malhotra | Manish Tripathi | Vidya Shah | Trinetra Gummaraju

‘All of us are on the Autism Spectrum, some obvious, some less so’

Kaveree Bamzai

Aamir Khan returns to the big screen with a heartwarming hit that shines a light on neurodivergence, dignity, and the families that are overlooked

The Constant Migrant

Nandini Nair

Jeet Thayil traces a family story across the globe in his new novel. The author speaks about movement and cities to

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