freedom

She Power

Nandini Nair

Drawing the intimate and the taboo with wit and wisdom

The Great Liberal Fallacy

Samir Saran and Jaibal Naduvath

The lost project

The Redundancy of Che Guevara

S Prasannarajan

The revolutionary has lost everything but the T-shirt

Open Diary

Swapan Dasgupta

The beef divide, Parliamentary sessions and perceptions of India

The Heart of Revolution

Nandini Nair

KR Meera’s new novella is born of an early fascination with Naxalism and freedom

It is Narendra Modi moment as one of democracy’s most popular leaders to play out the script of the India Ideal: the liberal state rising from the last wreckage of the socialist mind. Freedom is about daring—and he should know

Janaka’s Questions

Bibek Debroy

And Ashtavakra’s idea of freedom and bondage

Being Free to Be Free

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Let neither fear nor community piety usurp our freedom

EDITOR’S NOTE

S Prasannarajan

A political leadership that realises the sanctity of individual autonomy and the limits of the state is all the more relevant today

Liberators 2015

Ullekh NP

They are teachers and preachers, entrepreneurs and ecologists, students and dreamers. Their ideas make a difference in the life of others—for the better