18 Mobile Republic MUKUL KESAVAN in a lead essay explores how the cellphone has touched lives of Indians across the country 28 Opinion Poll Our Cellular Obsession 30 Vox Populi Outlook goes to 19 people in 19 cities— Satya Nadella’s Hyderabad, Honey Singh’s Hoshiarpur—and finds out about them, their phones, and what they think of their hometown hero 44 Kalol Calling SANTOSH Desai on the upward mobility of small towns 54 History, Whatsapped SHOVON CHOWDHURY on what if Gandhi, Nehru, Mountbatten had Whatsapp