Pranab Mukherjee

Indraprastha

Virendra Kapoor

The tailor of New Delhi, Lalu's Twitter avatar and the next President

A Letter From Jerusalem

S Prasannarajan

Israel is a country trapped between mutilated geography and hateful history

A Letter From Ramallah

S Prasannarajan

When the knife becomes the preferred weapon of angry gods

Artists, writers, budding scientists, techno geeks and salt-of-the-earth rural innovators—the second edition of Rashtrapati Bhavan’s scholar In-residence programme brought together the brightest of the country’s creative minds

In Praise of Mrs G

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

In the first of a trilogy which is part history and part memoir, Pranab Mukherjee misses the big picture of history

Renaissance on Raisina Hill

Sunaina Kumar

The Rashtrapati Bhavan is shedding its imperial attitude and opening its splendid doors to hoi polloi. On the eve of the second anniversary of the Pranab Mukherjee presidency, Open takes a tour of the House that is changing

Less bang more stuff

John Samuel Raja D

If the first Budget after a strong mandate is one for big ideas and agenda setting, how does Jaitley’s 2014 Budget compare with Pranab Mukherjee’s 2009 one?