In this issue

The power of the familiar ~ by Swapan Dasgupta; Of Mahua Moitra and plagiarism ~ by Makarand R Paranjape; Sacred water ~ by MJ Akbar; A cultural survey of the economy ~ by Bibek Debroy; Populist? No ~ by TCA Srinivasa Raghavan; Indraprastha ~ by Virendra Kapoor; Mumbai notebook ~ by Anil Dharker; Tinkered, not tailored ~ by Ullekh NP; The rural fetish ~ by Siddharth Singh; The $5 trillion task ~ by Dhiraj Nayyar; Remember her ~ by Amita Shah; The soil economy ~ by Lhendup G Bhutia; Tax and be rich ~ by Harpreet Singh; Growth is inevitable ~ by Devangshu Datta; Borrowed boom ~ by Sanjeev Ahluwalia; The sixth sense ~ by Shylashri Shankar; She’s got the groove ~ by Poorna Swami; Civil equations ~ by Rajeev Masand and more…

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Open is a weekly English-language news magazine published by Open Media Network, the media venture of RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group. It was launched on 2 April 2009 by Manu Joseph, who was the first editor-in-chief of the magazine.

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