OPEN

Open is a weekly magazine published in English in India. It was established by Sandipan Deb, who previously served as the executive editor of Outlook and the editor of Financial Express. The magazine made its debut on April 2, 2009, across 12 cities in India. Open is the main publication of Open Media Network, which is part of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group's media initiatives.

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Mystic Mountain - Open The Magazine

1 day ago | openthemagazine.com | Priyanka Dalal

AS I STEP onto the sacred Shatrunjaya hill, I am greeted by the strong fragrance of sandalwood and roses. A rocky outcrop is being worshipped by Jain devotees carrying plates filled with lush pink roses and a small bowl with sandal paste. Some of them have silver foil sheets as an additional offering for the hallowed rock. It is tradition to bow to the hill, even do its puja, before undertaking the 3,750-step climb to the massive temple complex at its top.
Love All - Open The Magazine

1 week ago | openthemagazine.com | Rush Mukherjee

Space: the final frontier, says the introductory narrator of Star Trek. In similar fashion, the writer of All Our Loves: Journeys with Polyamory in India, Arundhati Ghosh, considers the normalisation of monoamory (the practice of being in a romantic or sexual relationship with a single partner at a time) to be the final frontier in the struggle for queer and feminist liberation, both globally and in India.
An Unlikely Romance

1 week ago | openthemagazine.com | Kaveree Bamzai

Columns | Watch Party Film Review | Surprise of the Week | Red Carpet Look of the Week | Villain of the Week Rukmini Vasanth and Vijay Sethupathi in Ace Ace | Director: P Arumugakumar | Cast: Vijay Sethupathi, Rukmini Vasanth | TamilTHERE IS A romance struggling to emerge from the frenemies plot of Ace. A romance between an unlikely pair—a card sharp-cum-chef cum-wannabe don and a self-possessed young woman who wants to live life on her own terms.
Rajshri Deshpande: America Calling

1 week ago | openthemagazine.com | Kaveree Bamzai

Cinema | Stargazer It is a film with Suraj Sharma and it’s called ‘Retrace’ Rajshri Deshpande has got her union card in the US and she is doing what she loves, acting. It is a film with Suraj Sharma and it’s called ‘Retrace’. Deshpande was brilliant in a lot of streaming work, most notably Trial by Fire, but like many actors she found herself out of work, edged out by stars or influencers with big social media following. Instead of moping though, she has changed geographies.
The Defence Rests

1 week ago | openthemagazine.com | Kaveree Bamzai

Columns | Streaming Smart Criminal Justice, Season 4 | Director: Rohan Sippy | Cast: Pankaj Tripathi, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Surveen Chawla | Hindi | JioHotstar “Myself Madhav Mishra, LLB, Gold Medalist.” How many actors can carry off that introduction and the subsequent characteristics season upon season? In an industry where repetition is the curse of success, Pankaj Tripathi has sometimes tended to seem like an actor stuck permanently in Groundhog Day.
A Captain’s Test

1 week ago | openthemagazine.com | Boria Majumdar

IT IS A CALL based more on assumption than anything else. Potential rather than performance. For the longest time, Shubman Gill has been tipped to be the poster boy of Indian cricket. The next big superstar. From his U-19 days, he was the one with extraordinary potential. The next in line. The truth is he hasn’t performed to potential yet. In the SENA countries, his record is below average. And yet, he is the new Indian skipper and will be leading a relatively inexperienced team to England.
Himalayan Wonder

1 week ago | openthemagazine.com | Aditya Mani Jha

AS YOU WOULD EXPECT in a book written by an acclaimed filmmaker, Anu Malhotra’s Shamans of the Himalayas is filled with striking images of seers, oracles, exorcists et al from across the Dev Bhoomi (literally, land of the gods) in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu Valley. But for Malhotra, the journey of documenting these traditions began with a man blocking her shot during a work trip to Himachal.
Indira’s India - Open The Magazine

1 week ago | openthemagazine.com | Siddharth Singh

THERE IS A veritable industry when it comes to biographies and studies of Indira Gandhi, her life and the India she ruled over. Every decade since she was elected as Prime Minister has seen the publication of a major biography. The quality is inversely proportional to the number.
Bangladesh: An Enemy or a Friend

1 week ago | openthemagazine.com | Swapan Dasgupta

ONE OF THE MORE challenging facets of national existence is that the country has to be prepared for battles on multiple fronts. This does not necessarily imply actual armed conflict, such as the four-day Operation Sindoor hostilities with neighbour Pakistan. There are the unresolved border tensions with China, demarcation disputes with whoever is controlling parts of the India-Myanmar border and the policing of the unnatural and porous national borders with Bangladesh.
Ishaan Khatter: Playing the Part

1 week ago | openthemagazine.com | Kaveree Bamzai

HE’S THE GRANDSON of writers Anwar and Khadija Azeem, and great grandnephew of writer and director KA Abbas. Not exactly the prerequisite for a young sex symbol who is not shy about taking his shirt off. But then Ishaan Khatter likes to make his own path. “I was raised by a single mother who had agency and gave me the freedom to make my own decisions from a very young age,” he says.