politics

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

The Globalisation of the Pan-American Smile

Carlo Pizzati

And the crisis of Westernisation that hides behind it

The Workers’ Utopia

Madhavankutty Pillai

Unimplementable ideas to get Parliament to function

Rising In the Ruins

Mehr Tarar

As Pakistan hits an all-time low, Imran Khan is enjoying a record-high popularity

Preaching Terror In Punjab

Siddharth Singh

Intimations of a Bhindranwale—and the same old mistakes by the state government

AAP: The Reckoning

Rajeev Deshpande

The arrest of Manish Sisodia is AAP’s biggest challenge yet, with a fierce political and legal battle now engulfing the party’s home fort of Delhi

Singhvi Stands Apart

Open

This is not the first time that Abhishek Manu Singhvi has pointedly distanced himself from some of the utterances of his party and its positions on various issues