The politics of Masks     by S Prasannarajan;  Is science about to defeat the Coronavirus    by Lhendup G Bhutia;  The Mahatma and Kashmir    by MJ Akbar;  A tale of three vaccines    by Shahid Jameel;  Beginnings and alternative ends    by Madhavankutty Pillai;  Gold’s own country    by Makarand R Paranjape;  The last freedom rider    by Ramesh Sharma;  The ideal and the real    by Mehr Tarar;  The second act    by Kaveree Bamzai;  Indraprastha    by Virendra Kapoor;  Mumbai notebook    by Anil Dharker;  Whisperer    by Jayanta Ghosal;  Virtual checkmate    by V Shoba;  The desert fox    by Amita Shah;  Premchand’s partner    by Arnav Das Sharma;  A detective’s diet    by Shylashri Shankar;  In conversation with Colin Farrell    by Noel de Souza;  Hot right now    by Rajeev Masand and more…