‘Organic intellectuals’ in what used to be Tipu Sultan's island capital chip away at sources and material remains, to uncover perspectives and ideas to kindle conversations in the little island.

There is a deep need, arising from masculine anxieties, desire and envy, to punish and harm the Other for what is felt as a psychic ‘lack’.

Our workers have learned the harsh lesson of the Indian lockdown – that all lives are not equal. They will ask, ‘If you can give two days notice to people to remember to clap their hands, why only four hours to us to gather up our meager belongings and start walking?’

The story of JNU – and its place as the exception it has come to be – can only be framed within the Indian university system and its histories.

The portrayal of the JNU student/teacher as deviant – anti-national, urban Naxal and in Ambekar’s words, ‘indoctrinators’ – has paralleled the impeccable nationalist credentials enjoyed by the ABVP.

In Japan, cleaning is a public service to be performed by everyone, not relegated to one marginalised section of the society.

The urban ecologist Harini Nagendra in her book Nature in the City explores the past, present and future of nature in one of India’s largest and fastest growing cities.