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The Heart of Revolution

Nandini Nair

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

Editor’s Note

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

And Ashtavakra’s idea of freedom and bondage

Being Free to Be Free

Let neither fear nor community piety usurp our freedom

EDITOR’S NOTE

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

Liberators 2015

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

Where the Mind Is with Fear

Our political and cultural freedoms began to be eroded from the day we became free

A Thought for the Fettered

The importance of resistance in an India where religious nationalism embraces global capitalism

A Montage Made in Memory

Poetics of a future in the fragmentary experiences of freedom and terror

Is Nothing Sacred?

The limits and indispensability of free speech in the age of social media

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