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Independence Day

THE FREEDOM ISSUE

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S Prasannarajan • Pratap Bhanu Mehta • Swapan Dasgupta • Shashi Tharoor • Tunku Varadarajan • Shiv Visvanathan • Priyamvada Gopal • TM Krishna • Ullekh NP • Madhavankutty Pillai • V Shoba • Aresh Shirali • Sonali Acharjee • Shreya Sethuraman

EDITOR’S NOTE

A political leadership that realises the sanctity of individual autonomy and the limits of the state is all the more relevant today

Liberators 2015

They are teachers and preachers, entrepreneurs and ecologists, students and dreamers. Their ideas make a difference in the life of others—for the better

Where the Mind Is with Fear

Our political and cultural freedoms began to be eroded from the day we became free

Not Worth Your Salt Anymore

Gandhi’s march here was one of the most dramatic moments in Indian history. The villagers today want to march out

“The World Is at My feet”

India according to a liberalisation child

Growing Up on Sportstar

How the magazine was to shape what I’d do later in life

Chronofighter Oversize GMT +30 India

Graham’s dual timezone watch on the occasion of India’s Independence Day

The Creative Indian

Twelve stories of Indian creativity, and Open's top 50 creative Indians

Free to Be

India’s gift to me is that she doesn’t get in the way of my freedom to be, she allows me the space to show respect voluntarily.

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