Open Decade 2009-2019

Jadunath Sarkar, GS Sardesai and Raghubir Sinh: Three Lives in History

TCA Raghavan

Jadunath Sarkar, GS Sardesai and Raghubir Sinh offer lessons in dissent in our own time of churn

Zero Marx

Ullekh NP

A rigid ideology and a generational divide contributed to the Left's rout in India

Author of the Indian Century

MJ Akbar

The redeeming radicalism of Modi

Prabha Mandala

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

Micro Fiction

Imagination & Emojis

Nandini Nair

The emotional evolution in reading and writing

This Is Us

Kaveree Bamzai

Digital platforms have changed the way India produces and consumes entertainment. Expect to see more of us—crazy, rich, poor, sane us—on our smartphone screens soon

I Eat, Therefore I Am

Shylashri Shankar

With the hedonist at the high table, many are putting their money where the mouth is

Gods and Godmen

Madhavankutty Pillai

The rise of the spiritual market has been marked by open political leanings and reduced immunity for criminal activities

The Awakening

Swapan Dasgupta

While the terms of Left engagement have changed dramatically in the West, a new Hindu overconfidence has displaced old liberal assumptions in India

Open Decade (2009-2019): Editor’s Note

S Prasannarajan

The rustle of our pages came from a fast evolving society’s political and cultural churn. We never wanted the argument to stop; we held a perceiving mirror up to it