In this issue

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 a 100 Years Ago

86 Dialogue: Future Cities - An architect, a conservationist, an activist, a poet and an artist.

100 R. Prasad - A Cartoonist’s Sketchpad in the Modi ‘Era’.

102 Mani Shankar Aiyar - If Nehru Visited Us Today.

To Put Faith in Secularism

‘Secularism’ inhabits twin strands—one simply strives to control religion; another, more composite view, allows plural views on faith to coexist. Charting secularism’s progress in France and the US, Charles Taylor alights on the passionate debate it is generating in modern Europe and India.

8 mins

Caste and Faith in the Dalit Mirror

Four activists and scholars with different religious identities take stock of what has changed for India’s ‘untouchables’ and what remains the same.

10+ mins

Teotwawki: Okay If We Confirm That Tomorrow?

What if the science of prediction is a fictive process and nothing more? Is the future, then, even if loosely knowable, specifically unpredictable?

10+ mins

How to Composean Ethical Fugue

Technology is not in itself a disruption, but a partner in jugalbandi with the ‘old’. But we must hearken to music’s politics as much as to its aesthetics.

9 mins

Memory: A Wound, A Womb

Memory is a contested field. Demagogues have tried to erase and rewrite it. State apparatuses have bent it to their needs.

10+ mins

How Painful Is That Mottled Lattice Light

Vetri Maaran on cinema in times of the ubiquitous camera, multiple screens for consumption and the democratisation of the craft.

7 mins

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