Into The VoidWe’ve reached a point where our idealismsits in a waiting room, watching themischief of politics, waiting to bereleased. Ashis Nandy analyses our‘post-normal’ condition.Mahatma and The ModernistIrfan Habib on the differences betweentwo schools of thought that raised arepublic—Gandhi and NehruPower Can Do GoodEntrepreneurs have agency, says N.R.Narayana Murthy, to be virtuous andcaringof the society. The Tireless Banks of JusticeMedha Patkar, the indefatigable crusaderof the decades old Narmada BachaoAndolan, talks to Outlook about herunshaken belief in people’s movementsThe Fate of All StructuresDilip Simeon writes on the absence ofinstinctive functions of compassion andempathy that make the Left more like itscounter ideologies, far from any utopiaBramhacharis vs BreadwinnersPuranas and shastras hint at a constanttension between hermits and householders.Does spiritual quest ideally warrantcelibacyDevdutt Pattanaik explores theterrain—from monks to political leaders.And Then, ‘Us’ Turned to ‘Me’From imagining an ideal modern Indiato disillusionment. Indian cinema’sjourney is tied to the journey of itsambitiousproject— socialism.C.S.Venkiteswaran writes.The Heart Is Still IdealIt’s perhaps the exhaustion of ourimaginationin the face of an overwhelmingworld that says ‘idealism is dead’. NatashaBadhwar narrates true stories of hope.