Matersfamilias Outlook celebrates the women who have led India’s fights from the front and fiercely demanded rights Not From Us, You Don’t Historian JOHN KEAY on why Britain owes India no reparations. Plus, a rebuttal by Shyam Bhatia Whither Indian Secularism As Nepal debates whether to call itself a ‘Hindu’ nation in its new Constitution, what does it bode for Indian secularism. Plus, a Jump Cut by Gopalkrishna Gandhi ‘On the gender spectrum, I am put between straight and qwicked’ The Arundhati Roy interview A Place to Call Home A photofeature on India’s new citizens— residents of ex-Bangladeshi enclaves Sex strike as mobilisation tool Interview with Lyemah Gbowee The Bai and the Begum VIDYA SHAH traces the epic journey of the legend that was Begum Akhtar Moulded in a New Cast A profile of scriptwriter Juhi Chaturvedi A for Alia The new face of Bollywood Woe is Woman SHOBHA DE on the modern woman