essays 32 Is the Majority Always Right by Saba Naqvi 48 It’s Not About the Numbers by GYANENDRA PANDEY 52 The Quest and the Questions by Raju Ramachandran 58 Project History by Mushirul hasan columns 54 Sonal Sarda 56 Arun Sinha 64 S. Nihal Singh 66 Bharat Bhushan 72 Irfan Hussain i n t erviews 62 Arab journalist Abdel Bari Atwan 68 Buddhist monk Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara 74 Oxford prof Archie Brown features 80 Malappuram: Where Muslims Are the Majority 84 beef: Whose Holy Cow Is It Anyway 88 the gonds: Forging a Linguistic, Religious Identity 92 ambedkar: The Anti-Majoritarian 96 Pakistan: At a Crossroads 100 photoessay: What Freedom Means for an Orissa Village