106 Paul Zacharia
The Crisis of Indian Literature
110 Shobhit Mahajan
One Step Closer to The Black Hole
114 Kajal Basu
The Science-fiction of Prediction
118 Through Layers of Meaning
Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak and Samik
Bandyopadhyay on Mahasweta Devi
126 T.M. Krishna
Music in the Age of the Digital
130 Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Memories Coated with Fears
of Power
136 Soity Banerjee
The Cuisine of the Anthropocene
140 Vetri Maaran
Cinema in the 21st Century
150 Parashuram Ray
Reading—past practices,
future directions
154 Abhinandan Sekhri
A Billion Tweeting Feathers
158 Dipsikha Thakur
Another Language of Self-Expression
160 Nandini Lal
Facebook—The post-geographical
Empire of ‘Friends’
178 Srimui Piu Kundu
14 Charles Taylor
Secularism—origins and destinations
22 Pranay Sharma
Welcome to the Anthropocene Age
28 Ajay Skaria
The Resurrection of the Mahatma
42 Dialogue: Dalit Mirror
Four Positions
50 Aditya Nigam
The Left in the 21st Century
60 Interview: Ashis Nandy
A Nation of Interchangeable Fathers
66 Siddhartha Gigoo
A Kashmiri Pandit’s Unfinished Memoir
69 Amit Kumar/Arif Ayaz Parrey
Two Kashmiris in conversation
72 Shajahan Madampat
The Futures of Islam
78 Saikat Niyogi
The World Was at War
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86 Dialogue: Future Cities
An architect, a conservationist, an
activist,
a poet and an artist
100 R. Prasad
A Cartoonist’s Sketchpad in
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102 Mani Shankar Aiyar
If Nehru Visited Us Today