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A Rajasthan Village Trains Poor African Women To Harness Solar Energy
For close to 40 years, Barefoot College-- established by Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy--has been training poor, rural communities to become self-sufficient. → Read More
As Repopulation Programme Yields Results, India's Parsis Have A Reason To Cheer
In the past few decades, an issue of the future has begun to bother this tiny community, a discussion that is reaching a fevered pitch: looming extinction. → Read More
How India Became The Antibiotics Capital Of The World And Wasted The Wonder Cure
Unsurprisingly, even the strongest antibiotics don't appear to work. In the story of co-evolution and natural selection, bacteria have evolved to resist the threat posed by these drugs. We have now entered, as several experts point out, a post-antibiotic world. → Read More
India's Teens Have New Icons
Easy or not, it isn't stopping star children, and even star nephews and nieces, from claiming their share of the limelight online. → Read More
Priyanka Chopra: 'I'm Constantly Reinventing Myself'
This article is from Open Magazine. By Sharin Bhatti The ripples started last year. In 2014, Priyanka Chopra made an appearance at the Golden Globe Awards and its after-party in a strapless Burber → Read More
It's Time Body Shamers Are Shown The Mirror
We're not alien to how advertisements and magazines across the globe desperately--and successfully-- sell 'the perfect body'. People are goaded to feel ashamed of being overweight. Some of our film actors are a living example, many of whom lost 'oodles of weight' to enter the industry and 'fit in'. → Read More
The Rangmanch Girls
(L-R) Aditi Vasudev, Shweta Tripathi and Sayani Gupta in Prithvi Theatre's make-up room in Mumbai (Photo: Ritesh Uttamchandani) This article is from Open Magazine. By Divya Unny They are young, → Read More
Women In The Cause Of Men In Distress
This article is from Open Magazine. By Lhendup G Bhutia A few days after a Facebook post by a female Delhi college student, Jasleen Kaur, accusing a young man, Saravjeet Singh, of making obscene → Read More
Happy Cows And Luxury Milk
This article is from Open Magazine. By Sonali Acharjee and Ritesh Uttamchandani For the last four months, Adil Khanduja, a Chandigarh-based businessman has been busy shortlisting the best quality → Read More
The Last Weaver Of Kodekal
This article is from Open Magazine. By V Shoba Fringed by luminous sandy banks, the fabric flows, a perpetual stream over stones. Thick as luxury linen, though not sateen-smooth, the plain grey co → Read More
Sexual Consent: Yes For The Record
This article is from Open Magazine. By Shreya Sethuraman You're with your partner. The mood is set for the best time together. The lights are dim, there's soft music in the background, and even so → Read More
A Call To Action
This article is from Open Magazine. By V Shoba In North-East Karnataka, the language has a gruff, gravelly texture, as though emanating from its rolling plateaus. Yet, it betrays a vulnerability t → Read More
In Defence Of Fasting
This article is from Open Magazine. By Shylashri Shankar A few years ago, I did a 10-day Vipassana meditation course in Jaipur. For the uninitiated, Vipassana is Gautama Buddha's mode of meditatio → Read More
The Right To Die
This article is from Open Magazine. By Tishani Doshi Marte hain aarzoo mein marne ki, Maut aati hai par nahin aati (One dies longing for death but death, despite being around, is elusive) --Mir → Read More
What I Learnt from My Internet Holiday
This article is from Open Magazine. By Tishani Doshi You know that famous koan: If a tree falls in a forest and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? I've never fully grasped the → Read More
Sanskrit: A Classical Scene
This article is from Open Magazine. By Sneha Bhura When Arshia Sattar, noted for her English translations of Valmiki's Ramayana and the Kathasaritsagara, was studying Sanskrit in the US, she remem → Read More
Naseeruddin Shah On Ismat Chughtai: 'If Only We Can Live Half The Life She Did...'
This article is from Open Magazine. By Naseeruddin Shah as told to Divya Unny The first time I saw Ismat Apa we were in Lucknow shooting for Shyam Benegal's Junoon (1979). I remember I was a bit n → Read More