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Thursday, 23 February 2012

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A dipassionate history of sex

India’s first corruption audit

A hurried man's guide to Shirish Kunder

Confessions of a Creative TV Executive

The Oshonomic Times

Cayman 1, Taxman 0

under Anupama Chopra

The Oscar Cheat Sheet

Our best guesses for the Academy awards this year

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15 Feb 2012 | BY Anupama Chopra

So Gloriously Mean

The greatest villains of Bollywood cinema

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1 Feb 2012 | BY Anupama Chopra

Actors or Mannequins?

Why is Bollywood so besotted with style?

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17 Jan 2012 | BY Anupama Chopra

Lookalike Heroines

It’s naive to believe that the success of The Dirty Picture will radically enhance female clout in the Hindi film industry

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15 Dec 2011 | BY Anupama Chopra

A Shared Passion

Why Anurag Kashyap hardselling Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar is not all that strange

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29 Nov 2011 | BY Anupama Chopra

Looking West

Suddenly, Hollywood is teeming with Indian faces

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16 Nov 2011 | BY Anupama Chopra

Box-Office Followers

The danger of reducing movies to money

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3 Nov 2011 | BY Anupama Chopra

For Film Connoisseurs

A new multiplex attempts to break out of the fast-food-joint-with-a-screen mould

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21 Oct 2011 | BY Anupama Chopra

Good Ol’ Hands

From Dev Anand to Clint Eastwood to Woody Allen, ageing has no bearing on creativity

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2 Oct 2011 | BY Anupama Chopra

An Easy Escape

Is going to the movies the same as going to a nightclub?

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16 Sep 2011 | BY Anupama Chopra

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The Man Authorities Came to Frame

The untold story of Anand Jon. Guilty as charged? Or a victim himself? As he approaches re-trial, a close look at the case

Mihir Srivastava

‘Too Terrible a Judgment’

Subramanian Swamy, the man whose plea led the Supreme Court to cancel 122 2G licences, tells Open that he is by no means done with the 2G case

Mihir Srivastava

The Ghosts of Gulberg

A decade after the massacre, the footsteps of some of those who once called it home will be heard here again

Ram Rahman

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BJP’s Team B

The mask is off. Anna Hazare and his lieutenants are batting for the BJP

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Dhirendra K Jha

The Man Authorities Came to Frame

The untold story of Anand Jon. Guilty as charged? Or a victim himself? As he approaches re-trial, a close look at the case

24

Mihir Srivastava

Anna and the RSS

Team Anna has questioned the veracity of ‘BJP’s Team B’, a report published in Open’s issue of 20 February. Here is our reply

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Dhirendra K Jha

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For a Moment of Statesmanship

With Rushdie, the government has again chosen the cowardice of practicality over the courage of morality

Manu Joseph

Stealth Revolution

Muslim women of Mumbai’s Bohra community are secretly joining hands to slough off an age-old tradition of female genital mutilation

Shubhangi Swarup

BJP’s Team B

The mask is off. Anna Hazare and his lieutenants are batting for the BJP

Dhirendra K Jha

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BJP’s Team B

The mask is off. Anna Hazare and his lieutenants are batting for the BJP

30

Dhirendra K Jha

The Sting Operator Who Gave Up Anonymity

The multiple exploits of a journalist who has held up a mirror to the media in several ways

26

Aimee Ginsburg

The Man Authorities Came to Frame

The untold story of Anand Jon. Guilty as charged? Or a victim himself? As he approaches re-trial, a close look at the case

24

Mihir Srivastava

Special
Welcome to eDen

The future of technology

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Word
The New Reading

…and the persistence of the printed page amid new media writing, the writing beyond the page, and the ubiquitous Screen

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Haryana
Why Is Hooda Afraid of the CBI?

And why his state Congress government is trying every crooked trick in the book to stall a CBI inquiry into charges of largescale corruption

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Social Web
Your Privacy as Bargaining Chip

On our schizoid relationship with the social web

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Healing
Good for the Sole

The abject surrender of medical intelligence in the age of gadgetry

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True Life
Tears of a Bang Bang Man

Greg Marinovich, one of only two still alive from the Bang Bang Club of photographers, bares what it was like in those brutal days

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TELEVISION
The Education of the Idiot Box

The next big revolution in consumer technology will be televised

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Wireless
The App Avalanche

It’s coming our way. But it’s not entirely beyond our control. So where will we take our apps? And where will they take us?

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RESPONSE
Anna and the RSS

Team Anna has questioned the veracity of ‘BJP’s Team B’, a report published in Open’s issue of 20 February. Here is our reply

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spook
Spyware Is Everywhere

How spy gadgets are creating—and feeding—new paranoias

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Noteworthy
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

How the hidebound world of Hindustani music is learning to befriend technology

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Beyond 20/20
What the Eye Can’t See. Yet

Take a pair of Terminator-style hi-tech glasses, and your wish will be the web’s command

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