Israel on Modi’s mind ~ by S Prasannarajan; Can Modi be India's Lee Kuan Yew? ~ by Sunanda K Datta-Ray; How Kejriwal killed the case for Delhi’s full statehood ~ by PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP; Heat ~ by Omkar Khandekar; The French connection ~ by Shahina KK; Un Pur Esprit ~ by M Mukundan; From hand to hearth ~ by Rajni George; An Appetite for business ~ by Madhavankutty Pillai; Now showing: Small & Smarter ~ by Lhendup G Bhutia; Reborn at Cannes ~ by Divya Unny; Bye Bye Apu, Hello Alex ~ by Sharin Bhatti; Book: Super Economies: America, India, China & the Future of the World ~ by Srinath Raghavan; Murder with Bengali Characteristics: A Novel ~ by Jai Arjun Singh and more…

The day of the final game is coming  ~  by MJ Akbar;  Why BJP can still smile  ~  by PR Ramesh and Siddharth Singh;  Did language and culture trip BJP in Bengal?  ~  by Dipankar Gupta;  The Ganguli-Dutt Bind  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  Force Mamata  ~  by Sumit Mitra;  The invincible  ~  by Ullekh NP;  The Dawn of Stalinism  ~  by V Shoba;  Ahead of the curve  ~  by Rajeev Bhattacharyya;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  In conversation with Amit Chaudhuri  ~  by V Shoba;  Bound by the need for breath  ~  by Arshia Sattar;  The state of the mind  ~  by Nandini Nair;  The world at their feet  ~  by Akhila Krishnamurthy;  Know your neighbour  ~  by Shylashri Shankar;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more …

Editor’s note  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Ray, forever  ~  by Adoor Gopalakrishnan;  He kept you at arm’s length  ~  by Shyam Benegal;  From genius to divinity  ~  by MJ Akbar;  A humanist behind the camera  ~  by Sumit Mitra;  The inner eye  ~  by Sudeep Paul;  The mind of Bengal  ~  by Rachel Dwyer;  Charulata: His allegorical women  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  ‘There was no telling where a new bud might sprout’  ~  by Girish Karnad;  Climate Colonialism  ~  by Minhaz Merchant;  From America with gratitude  ~  by Makarand R Paranjape;  The sense of an ending  ~  by TCA Raghavan;  The author of anywhere    ~  by Nandini Nair;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  The first draft  ~  by Zareer Masani;  Sunlight on our broken world  ~  by Mini Kapoor;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

Grief and the limits of rage  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Mourning becomes India  ~  by Madhavankutty Pillai;  Stupidity and credibility in the time of a pandemic  ~  by Dipankar Gupta;  America’s verdict  ~  by James Astill;  A plea for pension  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  No last goodbyes  ~  by Ullekh NP;  ‘We may run out of staff sooner than oxygen’  ~  by V Shoba;  Drug of desperation  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Testing faith  ~  by Nikita Doval;  Act of fluidity  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  The deep dark web  ~  by Aditya Mani Jha;  Homecomings  ~  by Shaikh Ayaz;  Portraits of power  ~  by Karthik Nachiappan;  Today is tomorrow  ~  by Nandini Nair;  In conversation with Gillian Anderson  ~  by Noel de Souza;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

The name of the storm  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  The national election of Bengal: What’s at stake?  ~  by MJ Akbar;  When Boris comes to Bharat  ~  by Sunanda K Datta-Ray;  The battle of the Parsis  ~  by Pritish Nandy;  China’s ticking age bomb  ~  by Minhaz Merchant;  Redeeming Babasaheb  ~  by Makarand R Paranjape;  Exile and the kingdom  ~  by Rachel Dwyer;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Indraprastha  ~  by Virendra Kapoor;  The lost children  ~  by V Shoba;  Once upon a time at the Oval  ~  by Boria Majumdar and Gautam Bhattacharya;  Enchanter emeritus  ~  by Mini Kapoor;  Living With China  ~  by Shivshankar Menon;  Playing with perception  ~  by Antara Raghavan;  Nano Lessons  ~  by Mihir Chitre;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

Maoists or sub-rural thugs?  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Breaching the terror corridor  ~  by Sudeep Paul;  The quivering voice of Anil Kumar Dubey  ~  by Rahul Pandita;  Between the hammer and the anvil  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  The double life of KM Ganguli  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  The new establishment  ~  by Sanjaya Baru;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  The voter whisperers  ~  by Amita Shah;  Darjeeling’s dilemma  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  Mask up, please  ~  by Nikita Doval;  The testament of a poet  ~  by Nandini Nair;  The garden of Ghalib  ~  by Aditya Mani Jha;  Wanted: A new Capitalism  ~  by Ullekh NP;  The son’s rise  ~  by Madhavankutty Pillai;  In the visitor’s shadow  ~  by Mini Kapoor;  Tragedy queens  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  In conversation with Hugh Grant  ~  by Noel de Souza;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

Among the believers  ~  by Sajjan Kumar;  Vaccine vexations  ~  by Shahid Jameel;  Empire of the Internet  ~  by Minhaz Merchant;  The Swami’s limitless adventure  ~  by Makarand R Paranjape;  Indraprastha  ~  by Virendra Kapoor;  Mumbai Notebook  ~  by Anil Dharker (1947-2021);  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  The age of Stalinism?  ~  by V Shoba;  Who will win the mind game?  ~  by Rajeev Bhattacharyya;  Banking on Hope  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  The bright side of evolution  ~  by Madhavankutty Pillai;  The Looming legacy  ~  by Rosalyn D’Mello;  Chasing the elephant’s shadow  ~  by Rahul Pandita;  ‘Bleed out your truth’  ~  by Antara Raghavan;  The born identity  ~  by Zakia Soman;  Capital caper  ~  by Nikita Doval;  Title rolls  ~  by Prahlad Srihari;  Back to manicured pleasures  ~  by Shylashri Shankar;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

Editor’s Note  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Modi’s pandemic leadership  ~  by PR Ramesh;  Is reason infected?  ~  by Vinay Lal;  Temporary Malayalis  ~  by Keerthik Sasidharan;  The Ganguli Mahabharata  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  Living to tell the tale  ~  by Nikita Doval;  Pandemic diary  ~  by Dipankar Gupta;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  In conversation with Health Minister Harsh Vardhan  ~  by Amita Shah;  Pandemic diary  ~  by MJ Akbar;  Pandemic diary  ~  by Aman Nath;  Between herd immunity and herd mentality  ~  by Madhavankutty Pillai;  Booster Shot  ~  by Antara Raghavan;  Pandemic diary  ~  by Jitish Kallat;  Pandemic diary  ~  by Tishani Doshi;  Kitchen Confidential  ~  by Ullekh NP;  Pandemic diary  ~  by Pullela Gopichand;  Beware the Beach Variant  ~  by Suhel Seth;  Mortal city  ~  by Shaikh Ayaz;  Feasting on fear  ~  by Jaideep Unudurti;  Scandinavia, A to Z  ~  by Mini Kapoor;  What’s normal?  ~  by Nandini Nair;  In conversation with Anthony Hopkins  ~  by Noel de Souza;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

Rahul dismisses Indian democracy  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Modi’s water mantra  ~  by Amita Shah;  The water wars  ~  by Brahma Chellaney;  The Indian pastoral  ~  by Rachel Dwyer;  Subservient minds  ~  by Minhaz Merchant;  After Amarnath  ~  by Makarand R Paranjape;  Mumbai notebook  ~  by Anil Dharker;  Indraprastha  ~  by Virendra Kapoor;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  In conversation with Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat  ~  by Amita Shah;  A thirst for change  ~  by Nikita Doval;  The lower depths  ~  by V Shoba;  Remembering in the rain  ~  by Nandini Nair;  Flowing far  ~  by Abhaya K Agarwal and Maansi S Shah;  Water warriors  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  The hydration revolution  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  Holy water  ~  by Madhavankutty Pillai;  Trading in Dravidian stock  ~  by V Shoba;  Truth and faith  ~  by J Sai Deepak;  The future of love  ~  by Sanjay Sipahimalani;  Into the wild  ~  by Ranjit Lal;  Ocean of stories  ~  by Arshia Sattar;  Memory’s door  ~  by Prahlad Srihari;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

The new theology of victimhood  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  An East Bengal in West Bengal  ~  by MJ Akbar;  Bengal diary  ~  by Swapan Dasgupta;  The first translator  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  The eco chamber  ~  by Keerthik Sasidharan;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Imperfect pitch  ~  by James Astill;  The indiscreet charm of Abbas Siddiqui  ~  by Ullekh NP; A hero’s welcome  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  Harvesting a protest  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  Turning over a new leaf  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  Owning her age  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  The violent Indian  ~  by Ullekh NP;  The road to redemption  ~  by Antara Raghavan;  Parched earth  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  Does fate exist?  ~  by Sharanya Manivannan;  The eternity of return  ~  by Mini Kapoor;  Bride, groom, action  ~  by Aditya Mani Jha;  In conversation with Viola Davis  ~  by Noel de Souza;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

One and many  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  BJP’s campaign for the future  ~  by PR Ramesh;  Saving Svetlana  ~  by Richard Celeste;  ‘Margot, I am not Ramakrishna Paramahamsa’  ~  by Makarand R Paranjape;  Congress’ hard Left turn  ~  by Minhaz Merchant;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Mumbai notebook  ~  by Anil Dharker;  The gamosa metaphor  ~  by Amita Shah;  Demography is destiny  ~  by Moinak Mitra;  An all-inclusive deal  ~  by V Shoba;  Remote controlled  ~  by Rahul Pandita;  The restart  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  Batty and better  ~  by V Shoba;  The lone ranger  ~  by Shaikh Ayaz;  T-shirt truths  ~  by Harshini Kumari Rathore;  In conversation with Isabel Allende  ~  by Nandini Nair;  The kiss of life  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  Song of the Sundarbans  ~  by Sudeep Sen;  Kinetic kitchen  ~  by Ambreen Khan;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

The politburo of pieties  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Who’s afraid of social media?  ~  by Madhavankutty Pillai;  Standing up to big tech  ~  by Sudeep Paul;  Hell is not the other  ~  by Kanchan Gupta;  Bengal diary  ~  by Swapan Dasgupta;  The theology of liberation  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  An epic challenge  ~  by Keerthik Sasidharan;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  A toolkit for the post-truth world  ~  by Rahul Pandita;  Killing the slow brain  ~  by Nitin Pai;  The algorithm of freedom  ~  by Aprameya Radhakrishna;  The triumph of vaccine diplomacy  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  It’s a date, period  ~  by Nikita Doval;  Cartographer’s day  ~  by Sudeep Paul;  The progressive in Paris  ~  by Yashodhara Dalmia;  The abandoned  ~  by Rohit Chandra;  Forged in fire  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  Browsing alert  ~  by Mini Kapoor;  All about my mother  ~  by Prahlad Srihari;  Who is the parasite?  ~  by Nandini Nair; In conversation with Riz Ahmed  ~  by Noel de Souza; Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

The toolkit of dissent  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Modi in the marketplace  ~  by PR Ramesh and Siddharth Singh;  The great betrayal  ~  by Abdul Ghaffar Khan;  Magic mountains  ~  by Rachel Dwyer;  The rites of pilgrimage  ~  by Makarand R Paranjape;  Fixing the narrative  ~  by Minhaz Merchant;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Indraprastha  ~  by Virendra Kapoor;  Mumbai notebook  ~  by Anil Dharker;  Across the fence  ~  by Rahul Pandita;  The surprise successor?  ~  by V Shoba;  Old money  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  The arc of living  ~  by Rosalyn D’Mello;  The Tamil wave  ~  by Namrata Joshi;  The imperfect queen  ~  by Ira Mukhoty;  Delhi Noir  ~  by Sanjay Sipahimalani;  The spice route  ~  by Shylashri Shankar;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

Hashtag democracy  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  The last mutiny  ~  by Pramod Kapoor;  Punjab and Protest  ~  by Nonica Datta;  The limits of knowledge  ~  by Keerthik Sasidharan;  In Shiva’s shelter  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  Open diary  ~  by Swapan Dasgupta;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Opening the floodgates  ~  by Nikita Doval;  The arterial time bomb  ~  by Rahul Pandita and Lhendup G Bhutia;  A temple lost and found  ~  by Amita Shah;  The afterlives of stitches  ~  by Rosalyn D’Mello;  Undone  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  The darkest house  ~  by Nandini Nair;  Nightwalking  ~  by Mini Kapoor;  In conversation with Michelle Pfeiffer  ~  by Noel de Souza;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

State of the Gradualist ~ by S Prasannarajan; The New Deal ~ by Haseeb Drabu and Anil Padmanabhan; In conversation with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ~ by PR Ramesh; On brewing a budget ~ by Haseeb Drabu; The rites of liberation ~ by Swapan Dasgupta; Because small is big ~ by Rama Bijapurkar; A song for the unsung ~ by Dhirendra Tripathi; Farmer friendly ~ by Siddharth Singh; The new consensus ~ by Saugata Bhattacharya; Out of the pandemic ~ by Nikita Doval; Synergy at last ~ by K Srinath Reddy; Investing in trust ~ by Dhirendra Tripathi; Go the distance ~ by Rameesh Kailasam; The ABCD of failure ~ by Manpreet Singh Badal;  Olá Goa ~ by Madhavankutty Pillai; No roads for old cars ~ by Lhendup G Bhutia; Dancing in the city ~ by Akhila Krishnamurthy; The rage ~ by Minhaz Merchant; Indraprastha ~ by Virendra Kapoor; Mumbai notebook ~ by Anil Dharker; Nivedita’s right to rebel ~ by Makarand R Paranjape; Whisperer ~ by Jayanta Ghosal; Shush no more ~ by Shikha Kumar; On Geetanjali Kulkarni ~ by Namrata Joshi; Forest of ideas ~ by Arshia Sattar; The showman and the shaman ~ by Geeta Doctor; Loss and hope ~ by Lov Verma; Stargazer ~ by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

Protesting too much  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  What if Bose had returned home in 1945  ~  by MJ Akbar;  Letter from a desolate London  ~  by Sunanda K Datta-Ray;  The arrow of love  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Open diary  ~  by Swapan Dasgupta;  The wizard of the Northeast  ~  by Amita Shah;  Basking in the son  ~  by V Shoba;  Fitness goes viral  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  A healthy tradition  ~  by Madhavankutty Pillai;  In conversation with Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Adarsh Gourav  ~  by Noel de Souza;  Marco’s Malabar  ~  by Namit Arora;  The pitch of life  ~  by Suhrith Parthasarathy;  The mind of music  ~  by V Shoba;  A suitable match  ~  by Aditya Mani Jha;  Hello Hallyu  ~  by Harshini Kumari Rathore;  Ours to reason why  ~  by Nandini Nair;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

The name of the normal  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Biden the civil  ~  by Tunku Varadarajan;  A new uncertainty  ~  by Brahma Chellaney;  The caretaker President  ~  by Keerthik Sasidharan;  The dream work of America  ~  by Vinay Lal;  Madam Veep  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  Sanskrit with a Persian accent  ~  by Audrey Truschke;  May the road rise up to meet you  ~  by Rachel Dwyer;  Nawabs of negativity  ~  by Minhaz Merchant;  Nivedita’s anguish  ~  by Makarand R Paranjape;  Mumbai notebook  ~  by Anil Dharker;  Indraprastha  ~  by Virendra Kapoor;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  The White Tigers  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  Back to Badaun  ~  by Bhavya Dore;  A ridge runs through it  ~  by Ranjit Lal;  The Indian masala magic  ~  by Shylashri Shankar;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

The American unravelling  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  The Healing project  ~  by PR Ramesh;  After the insurrection  ~  by James Astill; The evolution of BJP  ~  by Swapan Dasgupta; The enigma of Krishna  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  Open diary  ~  by Swapan Dasgupta;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  A shot of hope  ~  by Nikita Doval;  The journey of a vaccine  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  The other vaccine  ~  by Amita Shah;  A stage for two only  ~  by V Shoba;  The marathon man  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  The historian’s eye  ~  by Shivshankar Menon;  The man and the ideal  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  Pandemic reflections  ~  by Ullekh NP;  Koregaon Park calling ~  by Nandini Nair;  In conversation with Sacha Baron Cohen  ~  by Noel de Souza;  Stargazer  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

Forecast 2021  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Who is an Indian?  ~  by Mani Shankar Aiyar;  The Politics of Grievance  ~  by PR Ramesh;  Waiting for the stimulant  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  The day of the wolf warrior  ~  by Sudeep Paul;  America’s Ally  ~  by Makarand R Paranjape;  Truth as the Beginning  ~  by Keerthik Sasidharan;  Whitelash  ~  by Minhaz Merchant;  Indraprastha  ~  by Virendra Kapoor;  Mumbai notebook  ~  by Anil Dharker;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayant Ghosal;  A Test for New India  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  Office Politics  ~  by Madhavankutty Pillai;  Masters and Subversives  ~  by Nandini Nair;  The rustle of ideas   ~  by Nandini Nair;  True to life  ~  by Divya Unny;  Now streaming  ~  by Rajeev Masand and more…

Revelations  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  We have done it ourselves  ~  by Shashi Tharoor;  Convenient histories  ~  by TCA Raghavan;  Forged in fire  ~  by PR Ramesh;  I of the storm  ~  by Madhavankutty Pillai;  A Portrait of protest  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  The end of the American scream  ~  by James Astill;  Exile and kingdom  ~  by Arshia Sattar;  Distance is destiny  ~  by Nikita Doval;  Tenets of trauma  ~  by Sudeep Paul;  The smell of rice  ~  by Sumana Roy;  Eye to eye  ~  by Kaveree Banzai;  To the edge of sorrow  ~  by Ullekh NP;  Laugh out loud  ~  by V Shoba;  Lipstick on your mask  ~  by Amita Shah;  Together in an alien universe  ~  by Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr;  Viral sexuality  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  Dharma Forest  ~  by Keerthik Sasidharan;  Loss and longing  ~  by Shreevatsa Nevatia;  Revelation diptych  ~  by Sudeep Sen; Penelope time  ~  by Rosalyn D’Mello;  Love in the time of Covid  ~  by Nandini Nair;  Stay unnamed  ~  by Arundhathi Subramaniam;  The Colonials      ~  by Shehan Karunatilaka;  After the end  ~  by Jai Udurti and Harsho Mohan Chattoraj;  A turbulent year  ~  by Rajeev Masand and more…

Editor’s Note  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Inversations in the year of fear  ~  by MJ Akbar;  Science and public trust  ~  by Dipankar Gupta;  The outlier state  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  A million manufactured mutinies  ~  by Minhaz Merchant;  Hope and happiness  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  Open diary  ~  by Swapan Dasgupta;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Cover up or be damned  ~  by Madhavankutty Pillai;  Terra infirma  ~  by Sudeep Paul;  The Valley of paradoxes  ~  by Rahul Pandita;  Best of 2020 Books: Editor’s Choice  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Best of 2020 Books: Foreword  ~  by Nandini Nair;  Best of 2020 Books  ~  by Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Sunil Khilnani, William Dalrymple, Jeet Thayil, Shashi Tharoor, TCA Raghavan, David Davidar, Aatish Taseer, Ira Mukhoty, Mahesh Rao, Dipankar Gupta, Srinath Raghavan, Tabish Khair, Tishani Doshi, Anita Nair;  Best of 2020 Books: Non-Fiction  ~  by Sudeep Paul;  Best of 2020 Books: Politics  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  Best of 2020 Books: Crime Fiction  ~  by Shylashri Shankar;  Best of 2020 Television  ~  by Rajeev Masand;  Best of 2020 entertainment  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  Best of 2020 Music  ~  by Akhil Sood; Kriti Sanon: Hot right now  ~  by Rajeev Masand and more…

Pandemic correctness  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  The newborn dad  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  The shape of Covid  ~  by Rajeev Srinivasan;  How to be a modern man  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  Moving mountains  ~  by Makarand R Paranjape;  Iran of the Mind  ~  by Keerthik Sasidharan;  The constant actor  ~  by Rachel Dwyer;  Indraprastha  ~  by Virendra Kapoor;  Mumbai notebook  ~  by Anil Dharker;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Action! finally  ~  by V Shoba;  A time to deliver  ~  by Nikita Doval;  Walking with the enemy  ~  by Rahul Pandita;  Mapping the visual India  ~  by V Shoba;  A writer and the art of memory  ~  by Urvashi Bahuguna;  Writ with guilt  ~  by Ullekh NP;  A Malabar Saga  ~  by Suneetha Balakrishnan;  Terms of Enchantment  ~  by Geeta Doctor;  The pulse of the periphery    ~  by Divya Unny;  Defining Indian cuisine  ~  by Shylashri Shankar; Insecure role? ~ by Rajeev Masand and more…

The politics of empathy  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Rage and reality  ~  by PR Ramesh and Siddharth Singh;  Banking on Biden  ~  by Brahma Chellaney;  The unformed  ~  by Minhaz Merchant;  Open diary  ~  by Swapan Dasgupta;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  The insider  ~  by PR Ramesh;  The pace of growth  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  Murugan’s moment  ~  by V Shoba;  Skin sutra  ~  by Nikita Doval;  In conversation with Declan Walsh  ~  by Sudeep Paul;  Rao’s range  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  Words of a vanished world  ~  by Nandini Nair;  Fittest of them all  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  Wild at heart  ~  by Ranjit Lal;  Delicious diversity  ~  by Lathika George;  In conversation with Nicole Kidman  ~  by Noel de Souza;  Ranbir’s appraisal  ~  by Rajeev Masand and more…

Black noise  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  The unfinished agenda of Masood Azhar  ~  by Rahul Pandita;  Ode to an Orientalist  ~  by William Dalrymple;  The message from Seemanchal  ~  by MJ Akbar;  The rebuke and after  ~  by Makarand R Paranjape;  History without humility  ~  by Keerthik Sasidharan;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Indraprastha  ~  by Virendra Kapoor;  Mumbai notebook  ~  by Anil Dharker;  The limits of autonomy politics  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  Bottled up in Bihar  ~  by PR Ramesh;  Doses of hope  ~  by Pavan Srinath;  Back to class    ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  The sartorial modernist  ~  by Rosalyn D’Mello;  The questioning self  ~  by Mini Kapoor;  Giving and growing  ~  by Lov Verma;  Stirred by a Scam  ~  by Divya Unny;  The iron grip      ~  by Aditya Mani Jha;  The dazzle of a man  ~  by William Dalrymple;  The kabaddi jump  ~  by Rajeev Masand and more…

Dreams from Obama  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Why BJP wins  ~  by Vinay Sitapati;  Dishy Rishi makes a point  ~  by Sunanda K Datta-Ray;  The force of destiny  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  Centre Stage  ~  by Minhaz Merchant;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Open diary  ~  by Swapan Dasgupta;  The sacred feminine  ~  by Rachel Dwyer;  Advantage Adityanath  ~  by Amita Shah;  The twin engines of revival  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  Coral Relief  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  Say cheese, India    ~  by V Shoba;  In conversation with Emma Corrin and Josh O’Connor  ~  by Rajeev Masand;  Rays of light  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  In high spirits  ~  by Shail Desai;  Myopic versions  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  Mum is the word        ~  by Sharanya Manivannan;  On her own terms  ~  by Zakia Soman;  Up and running  ~  by Rajeev Masand and more…

The legitimacy police  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  It’s the Modi surge, still  ~  by PR Ramesh;  The uses of adversity  ~  by Madhavankutty Pillai;  The book of overcoming  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  India’s sister  ~  by Makarand R Paranjape;  The return of chutzpah  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Indraprastha  ~  by Virendra Kapoor;  Mumbai notebook  ~  by Anil Dharker;  The pleasure of pursuit  ~  by Sridhar Vembu;  Beauty as investment  ~  by Sunita Kohli;  In conversation with Adar Poonawalla  ~  by Amita Shah;  Viral biscuit  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  Silver linings playbook    ~  by V Shoba and Mainak Mitra;  Digital destiny  ~  by Nikita Doval;  In conversation with Vikram Janardhan and Vallabh Janardhan  ~  by Ullekh NP;  Precious lockdown metal  ~  by Madhavankutty Pillai;  The pandemic present  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  The sword and the stylus  ~  by William Dalrymple;  The final six  ~  by Nandini Nair; Rana Daggubati: Hot Right Now ~ Rajeev Masand and more…

The mind and mandate of America 2020  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  The day of the Quiet American  ~  by James Astill;  The Biden momentum, lingering Trumpism  ~  by Tunku Varadarajan;  The morning after  ~  by Vinay Lal;  The redundancy of Anti-Americanism    ~  by Madhavankutty Pillai;  An American Tragedy  ~  by Keerthik Sasidharan;  A road map for the ruler  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  Beware Yogi 2029  ~  by Minhaz Merchant;  Swapan Dasgupta  ~  by Open diary;  The Insider  ~  by PR Ramesh;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Counting the spots  ~  by Nikita Doval;  Babur’s Soul  ~  by William Dalrymple;  Past Perfect  ~  by Lov Verma;  At Home In the World      ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  In conversation with Julianne Moore  ~  by Noel de Souza;  Dixit can fix it  ~  by Rajeev Masand and more…

Trump Vs. Non-Trump  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  America’s Choice, India’s Interest  ~  by Siddharth Singh and Ullekh NP;  Lost in the noise  ~  by Sudeep Paul;  The Liberal dilemma  ~  by Poulomi Chakrabarti;  The virus and democracy  ~  by Dipankar Gupta;  Awakening India  ~  by Makarand R Paranjape;  Indraprastha  ~  by Virendra Kapoor;  Mumbai notebook  ~  by Anil Dharker;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Has Kerala become a police state?  ~  by MG Radhakrishnan;  A walk down memory lane  ~  by Kaveree Banzai;  In conversation with Mira Nair  ~  by Divya Unny;  The scarred megapolis  ~  by Shashi Tharoor;  The three-body problem  ~  by Shivshankar Menon;  The dark old world  ~  by Shylashri Shankar;  Thy kingdom come  ~  by Aditya Mani Jha;  Regaining confidence  ~  by Rajeev Masand and more…

The trial then and now  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  How ill is India’s health sector?  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  Mao against Nehru  ~  by Iqbal Chand Malhotra;  Left, Right and nowhere  ~  by Minhaz Merchant;  Open diary  ~  by Swapan Dasgupta;  Reimagining the Gita  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  The Insider  ~  by PR Ramesh;  An American folk tale  ~  by Keerthik Sasidharan;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Land without small mercies  ~  by Mehr Tarar;  Punjabi rap  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  Be patient  ~  by Nikita Doval;  Doctors jumping borders  ~  by V Shoba;  In conversation with Sofia Coppola  ~  by Rajeev Masand;  In conversation with Parvathy    ~  by Ullekh NP;  The invisible other  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  The first heroine  ~  by Suneetha Balakrishnan;  Shooter to runner    ~  by Zac O’Yeah;  In conversation with Ewan McGregor  ~  by Noel de Souza;  A new beginning  ~  by Rajeev Masand and more…

Trump and what could have been  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Bihar 2020  ~  by PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP;  The sense of an ending  ~  by Arun Shourie;  In the name of the father  ~  by Amita Shah;  An ashram for the Swami  ~  by Makarand R Paranjape;  An orthodox thought  ~  by Rachel Dwyer;  Indraprastha  ~  by Virendra Kapoor;  Mumbai notebook  ~  by Anil Dharker;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Getting it right  ~  by Maalan Narayanan;  Screen test  ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  Cruelty of the mysterious man  ~  by Ullekh NP;  Track record  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  Why love what you will lose?    ~  by Ranjit Hoskote;  The Bloodlust  ~  by Sukhada Tatke;  The reluctant power    ~  by Karthik Nachiappan;  The unsuitable boy    ~  by Divya Unny;  In search of Gallic taste  ~  by Shylashri Shankar;  Stream of consciousness  ~  by Rajeev Masand and more…

Hathras and the politics of denial  ~  by S Prasannarajan;  Farce after tragedy  ~  by PR Ramesh;  A whiff of Kathua  ~  by Rahul Pandita;  The new Dalits are a thought bank  ~  by Guru Prakash;  In Praise of an Internationalist  ~  by Shashi Tharoor and John Koshy; The Sovereign Condition  ~  by Bibek Debroy;  Open diary  ~  by Swapan Dasgupta;  The insider  ~  by PR Ramesh;  The endgame in Bastar  ~  by Siddharth Singh;  Whisperer  ~  by Jayanta Ghosal;  Holy smoke and mirrors  ~  by V Shoba;  Green Light area  ~  by Lhendup G Bhutia;  In conversation with Hari Kunzru  ~  by Nandini Nair;  The last scriptwriter  ~  by N Kalyan Raman;  The inner and outer life    ~  by Sharanya Manivannan;  Jerry-Rigging ways  ~  by Srinath Perur;  Sense and sensuality    ~  by Kaveree Bamzai;  Back to the future    ~  by Aditya Mani Jha;  In conversation with Hilary Swank  ~  by Noel de Souza;  Unfinished business  ~  by Rajeev Masand and more…

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Written and edited for the sophisticated minds of modern India, Open, every week, captures the political, economic and cultural spirit of our times. A smart magazine that makes its readers feel smarter, Open presents the best of narrative journalism in India. Cutting edge writing on politics, economy, society, culture, books, art, cinema, and sport makes Open a magazine that is in a permanent conversation with India.

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