morality

The Judgment of the Visual

Madhavankutty Pillai

On the airing of a former MP’s sex tape by a news channel

‘Intuition is very smart, smarter than analyses or mere intellect,’ says George Saunders

George Saunders has a cult status in contemporary fiction. In his new short story collection, the American author explores power and ethics, love and morality. He speaks to Open about creating characters with tenderness

Race, Corruption, Morality and the Making of Anglo-India

MJ Akbar

Justice Pulbandi and the hanged Maharaja

Rama: A Reasonable Man

Bibek Debroy

The Rama story is about being true to a pledge regardless of consequences

Rama: A Remarkable Hero

Sadhguru

Learning from Rama in the wake of the Ayodhya judgment

Moral Overdose

Aditya Mani Jha

Kiran Nagarkar’s novel about Kabir collapses under its didactic weight

Robert Mapplethorpe: Fire and Light

Somak Ghoshal

The hypnotic aura of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs triumphs over petty public morality

Intimately Joan Didion

Nandini Nair

A documentary shows why her views on cultural and moral chaos hold valuable lessons even today

Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Crown

Arshia Sattar

From the karmic to the dharmic

Inside the Justice Bazaar

PR Ramesh

Recent Income Tax raids put the spotlight on middlemen who have operated for years with impunity, leaking judicial verdicts to corporates and other interested parties