Open Magazine – August 07, 2018

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contents

a moveable feast

The inheritance of taste

By Shylashri Shankar

62

6 august 2018

jewels in the crown

Reliving India’s

Test matches in England

down the decades

By Boria Majumdar

40

business

Corporate crime and punishment

By Aresh Shirali

12

n ot PeoPle like us

Worthy of praise

By Rajeev Masand

66

back to the bindu

Time-travelling with Raza

By Shaikh Ayaz

58

h ollywood rePorter

Sandra Bullock on her

new film O c e a n’s 8

By Noel de Souza

64

oP en essay

The untold history of Hampi

By William Dalrymple

14

a score to settle

A Test series win in England

will prove Kohli’s India worthy

of their top rank in the format

By Boria Majumdar

36

Prose & Politics

Waiting for the barbarians

By Siddharth Singh

56

Cover by

Saurabh Singh

oP en diary

By Swapan Dasgupta

6

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i srahul gandhi

modi’s biggest asset

in 2019?

Instead of unveiling an alternative

vision for India, the Congress president

has made himself an election issue

By PR Ramesh

22

the rock bottom

of origins

The ancestral story as written

in a stone found in Odisha

By Lhendup G Bhutia

32

t he Poison

of forwards

Fake news going viral on

WhatsApp has resulted in

several deaths across India.

Can it be stopped?

By Rahul Pandita

28

‘ you find ways to

subvert white femininity

in order to survive’

Margo Jefferson’s memoir

about growing up as an elite

African-American woman moves

between femininity and feminism

without getting polemical on either

By Tishani Doshi

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