22 Vir Sanghvi Unfounded Rumours of a Death 40 Pankaj Mishra Is the Liberal Reader Dead 50 Samanth Subramanian The Pages Aren’t Numbered Yet 56 Dilip Bobb Perfecting the Cover Drive 64 Photofeature Reading by Their Lamplight 78 Sumita Mehta Thank God It’s Friday 82 S.N.M. Abdi An Enduring Impress of Brutality 90 Aveek Sarkar Babudom on a Sunday 96 Tina Brown ‘I’d go live in India; it has the best print scene’ 104 Pranay Sharma The Colour Indigo & Other Dyes