politics

The New Dalals

Minhaz Merchant

Indiaphobes despise any development that advances the national interest

Anurag Thakur: Voice Of Government

Open

Being among the younger—and fitter

Folk goes Feminist

Deepansh Duggal

Updating songs of the past to keep pace with today’s gender politics

Winning Where It Is Weak

Amita Shah

BJP firms up its strategy for the Lok Sabha polls by targeting the most challenging seats

Why are they afraid of Imran Khan?

Mehr Tarar

The Khan quotient

Microphone Therapy

Open

The functioning of microphones in Parliament and their alleged manipulation

Of Liberal Nationalists and Illiberal Liberals

S Prasannarajan

Why liberal works better as an adjective

The Man Who Mistook Himself for Bhindranwale

Rahul Pandita

Just before Amritpal Singh went underground, Open travelled with the radical separatist in the region that was once the epicentre of insurgency in Punjab. With the government’s belated crackdown, has the crisis been averted? A dispatch

The Dynastic Archipelago

Pallavi Aiyar

Opportunism is the signature of Indonesian elections

Rahul Gandhi: Being an Intellectual

Virendra Kapoor

If you were a well-wisher of Rahul Gandhi, you would tell him to stop pretending to be an intellectual. Being an intellectual is not necessary to be prime minister