CONTENTS
In Feeble Light XI
MANY EXILES OF INDIA'S POOR
Normalizing Poverty 3
Food and Rage 11
Hiding the Poor 21
What Would You Do with Rs.2,000? 24
Rainbows in the Dust 30
Hands, Heads and Hearts 39
The Eklavyas of New India 44 I
Youth, Jobs and Dreams 59 f.
For the Crime of Destitution 79
'Illegal' Homes and Pickpockets 83
The Indian Help 91
Living and Dying on the Streets 95
The Crime of Falling Ill 105
The Merit of Reservations 115
/ Farming and the Epidemic of Terminal Despair 127
Is Farming a Dying Civilization? 133
Unequal Destinies: Malnutrition among Tribal Children 138
Two Imaginations of Good Government 147
THE LEGITIMIZATION OF PREJUDICE
Bigotry without Apology 159
Modi's Triumph and India's Scalding Majoritarian Summer 167
The Myth of Violence 187
The Alleged Fifth Column 196
Being Muslim in India Today 200
Prejudice and the Middle-Class Muslim 206
The Mosque in Ayodhya 214
Hindutva Demographics 222
The Improbable Story of 'Love Jihad' 225
Profiling 'Criminals' and 'Terrorists' 233
Competitive Conversion 245
Remembering and Forgetting 1984 261
A Secret Execution 267
THE IMPERATIVE FOR PUBLIC COMPASSION
How Will India Change? 273
Limits to Our Empathy 278
Two Sides of a Red Brick Wall 283
In Shared Spaces 289
Ways of Giving 293
Building Solidarities 300
The Legitimacy of Violence 306
Faith and Forgiveness 317
Of Mercy and Justice 324
Learning from Mohandas 328
Learning from Babasaheb 331
Learning from the Grosmaires 338
Learning from Zakia and Shameema 341
Learning from Yusuf 350
Learning from Those with Nothing 353
Learning from Shahid 358
Epilogue 363
Notes 365
Acknowledgements 413