Open Magazine — February 14, 2018

12 february 2018

contents

12 february 2018

MuMbai Notebook

By Anil Dharker

14

Modi’s siNgle ballot

solutioN

The bold proposal of holding

Lok Sabha and Assembly polls

together confounds the opposition

By Amita Shah

46

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opeN House

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in

his first interaction with industr y

leaders after the Budget

By Siddharth Singh and Ullekh NP

32

faitH aNd fury

Mangaluru in southern

Karnataka is one of the strongholds

of Hindutva’s militant fringe. As

Assembly elections loom, the cause

celebre is love jihad

By V Shoba

50

iNdraprastHa

By Virendra Kapoor

12

locoMotif

An Indian pastoral by Modi & Jaitley

By S Prasannarajan

10

opeN e ssay

Populists at play

By Roderick Matthews

22

‘i aM Here to be

aN actor, Not a Hero’

Sanjay Mishra and the raw

intimacy of being rooted

By Divya Unny

74

spottiNg cHatwiN aNd otHer

deligHts iN Jaipur

At the world’s biggest literary carnival

By Tishani Doshi

78

NatioNal portrait

Meghnad Desai holds a mirror to the

oneness of India’s multiple identities

By Pulapre Balakrishnan

86

a Moveable feast

The enduring food fantasy

By Shylashri Shankar

88

a Matter of life

Beware the new malignancy

By Dr Ambrish Mithal

91

Not people like us

The fallout on friendship

By Rajeev Masand

92

forM & reforM

In the beginning is the definition

By Bibek Debroy

tHe equaliser

Modi has used the Union Budget

to create the architecture of an India

where India and Bharat can begin to

complement each other

By Swapan Dasgupta

20

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good luck JiNx
After being ignored for the first
t wo Tests, Ajinkya Rahane puts
selection policy to shame with a
match-winning knock in the final
game against South Africa
By Aditya Iyer
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Cover by Rohit Chawla