EDITOR’S NOTE

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

Not a Minor Player

Why Asaduddin Owaisi of MIM is India’s fastest-growing Muslim political leader

ESTABLISHMENT 2014

The rise of a power elite in the age of Modi