In this issue

The Indian Quarterly turns five with this issue.
Love is the theme of this issue, explored in a much larger collection of features. Love is a cliché, much-abused and much-needed; even the cynics can’t really be indi erent. Philosophers, writers, artists and scientists have grappled with the idea and manifestations of love down the centuries. An ambiguous four-letter word, it includes in its embrace sexual love (“chemistry of hormones” or a “fre- quency of energy shared between two people”); the higher love and devotion for the divine; motherly love (and increasingly paternal love); amour propre—a sense of one’s own worth—which can spiral into narcissism and downward into the current malaise of sel es, even death.
No wonder Sanskrit has 96 words for love.

Postcard From Tokyo

A profound stillness underpins the world capital of frenzied materialism

8 mins

French Connections

Why the latest edition of Bonjour India will be an affair to remember

5 mins

A Day In Jail

Encountering talent, hard work and hope in an unlikely setting

3 mins

An Open Goal

Hosting the under-17 World Cup is a chance for India to become a football nation

3 mins

A Sensuous Geometry

A chance encounter leads a poet to an epiphany. Arundhathi Subramaniam on how she rediscovered Bharatanatyam, a lost childhood love

10 mins

Love In The Time Of Caste

Since October 2012 Meena Kandasamy has been visiting Dalit settlements in Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu, where an inter-caste marriage resulted in horrifying violence. Excerpts from a work in progress

7 mins

The Biological Imperative

Shougat Dasgupta reflects on the politics of parenthood. And loving your children

10 mins

A Beating Heart Behind The Words

What do we write about when we write about love, asks Janice Pariat

10+ mins

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The Indian Quarterly Magazine Description:

The Indian Quarterly (IQ) is a national and international magazine. We hope that just as The New Yorker exhibits a distinctly Manhattan sensibility and always contains articles about New York City, IQ will manifest the fact that it is edited and published in Mumbai through its cosmopolitan and open-minded perspective on the world and on India.

In fact, we hope to provide a unique way of interpreting our ever changing culture, and to define our own experiences through the strength of thought, ideas and imagery, be it in the form of fact, fiction, poetry, illustration or photography. IQ is therefore a paean to the polyphonic nature of reflection and the creativity that is its outcome.