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India

India Art Fair 2016: Less Is More

Somak Ghoshal

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

Steve McCurry: “You are delighted and horrified in India. You are never bored here. It takes you on a journey of discovery”

Steve McCurry speaks to Open about the perils of globalisation, his love for the monsoons and what’s next. Excerpts

A Nation Beyond Prophets

Four writers who were prescient in many ways about a country few get right

From An Imperial To A National Cuisine

If India’s cuisine was influenced by colonial and princely tastes before 1947, the driving force after Independence was the palate of the urban middle-class. The task of shaping the national cuisine was taken up by the menus of restaurants, cookbooks and magazines and later by TV and films

India Through Slogans

The political art of mesmerising the mass mind with minimum usage of words

A Nation Apart

Can BJP afford an India divided?

The ‘Ignorance’ of India

Surveys become talking points and trending topics on social media. Perhaps that is their only purpose, for it is hard to imagine what such findings are useful for

India Enchanted

Lord Hastings’ 1814 journey from Calcutta to Punjab with painter Sita Ram is a discovery of Colonial India through lives mundane and magical

The Other War

When will world leaders act with alacrity in the battle against global warming?

Modi Makes a Decisive Move in the UK

Modi has made the relationship more forward looking

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