"Elliott comes up with nearly as many questions of his own: Is it moral to improve oneself through artificial means? Can medical solutions address deep social needs? When you reinvent yourself, who do you become? Elliott observes that our preoccupation with medicalizing and diagnosing all that ails us may not necessarily hold the key to the wholeness, comfort, and happiness that the popularity of enhancement technologies suggests we crave. Indeed, this clinical impulse has the potential to obscure as well as to explain." The Atlantic interviews Carl Elliott.

This editorial is actually an Amit Chaudhuri short-story in embryo. But enjoyable as it is, should you trust the man's view of science fiction? He starts by invoking Kubrick-fair enough, if an interpreter rather than a creator of the SF genre--then moves on to Tarkovsky and incredibly, O V Vijayan...

"When did we give up on ourselves? How did this indifference come about?" Kiran Nagarkar celebrates--well, commemorates--Independence in Outlook.

"The emergence, in particular, of tweens as a distinct population is at once one of the most urgent and most underexamined social phenomena of the era." Christianity Today examines tweens and the book business.

"I see much that was wrong in Nehru’s approach. Yet I still call myself a Nehruvian Indian. For, in some key respects, I stand were Nehru did. I admire his practice of social tolerance, his respect for diversity and for democratic procedure, his refusal to reduce India or ‘Indianness’ to a dominant religious or linguistic ethos." Ramachandra Guha in Outlook on the dying appeal of Nehru.