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

Where the Mind Is with Fear

Tunku Varadarajan

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

A Thought for the Fettered

Priyamvada Gopal

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

A Montage Made in Memory

Shiv Visvanathan

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

Is Nothing Sacred?

Shashi Tharoor

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

Genetic Profiling: Is it all in the DNA?

Ullekh NP

A Bill seeks to make genetic profiling mandatory for the fight against crime—and generates a debate about the clash of ethics, freedom, science and data

THE BRIDES WHO DARED

Aanchal Bansal

In some parts of Rajasthan, girls are married as young as eight years old. Some have grown up to declare freedom

For an India of Equal Liberty

Martha C Nussbaum

Time to strike a balance between justice and prosperity

To Write or Not to Write

Tishani Doshi

The right to express oneself is an undeniable freedom. But isn’t the freedom not to write about what the markets, literary establishments and general Joes demand an equally enshrined liberty?