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In India

Arnab Chakladar (Carleton): Language, Nation and the Question of Indian Literature. From Outlook, special issues on sex in India and on aromas in India. Shikha Dalmia on the tragic truth about India's caste system: Untouchables cling to it because they have few other choices. Siddhartha Deb on how India's elite is blinded by a cultish belief in progress. A review of Talking Back: The Idea of Civilization in the Indian Nationalist Discourse by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. What next for Nagaland? After more than 60 years of bloodshed, recent moves suggest that the Nagas are inching towards a possible breakthrough. Fifty years after the liberation of Goa from Portuguese rule, the loss of regional identity and culture figures repeatedly in its introspection. The victims of the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat are still to get justice but are determined to continue the fight. From Tehelka, the 14th century cathedral in Paris has been in the safe hands of Joachim Irudayanathan for seven years; Adeline Bertin meets the Indian who holds the keys to Notre Dame; and no #@&%? Please, we’re Indian. Such a fall: Mumbai University, once an iconic institution, has lost its way.