The Return of Rage

THE FREEDOM ISSUE

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

Of Shashi and Shanta

Tharoor and Kumar are united by a familiar trait of controlled democracy

Dravidian-Hindutva axis in Tamil Nadu: The slow death of the Periyar atheist

End of an Aura

An academic take on the last years of Indira Gandhi fails to capture her impact on Indian politics

MODI, RAHUL, KEJRIWAL: THREE IDEAS OF LEADERSHIP

This is the story of three leaders in search of one India, still impatient

INSIDE THE WAR ROOM

Men, machines and the mind—how Narendra Modi ran the campaign of a lifetime to win India. Excerpts from a new book by Open Deputy Editor

All Things to All Voters

Kejriwal will soon have to choose what his party is about

The Crooked Lives of Free Speech

Liberals lose the plot from Paris to Delhi