We are not who we used to be. “Indians.” Even saying it out loud sounds strangely hollow. If we’re being brutally honest, I don’t even remember the last time I said to myself “I’m proud to be an Indian.” …

The Homi Bhabha Centre for Science has a different aura about it at night. The gardens in the front — lush green by day — can be heard emitting the chirp of crickets, and the compound, which in itself, is humungous, rests in a silent ambience of numerous hostellers pursuing…