The zipless mouth
Erica Jong, 70, Feminist

‘We are not against development’
Dev Ram Kanera, 59, Activist, Narmada Bachao Andolan

‘The important thing Is to grow rapidly’
Arvind Subramanian, 53, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute of International Economics

‘By changing the environment, you can improve people’s lives’
Ian Lipkin, 60, Virologist

‘We give the Taliban so much privilege and identity that we look weaker’
Fawzia Koofi, 37, Afghan MP

‘If we can do so much for the Taj Mahal, why not for Ganga ji?’
Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanan, 87, Ganga Activist

‘I had to break many a nexus’
Prithviraj Chavan, 66, Chief Minister, Maharashtra

The swagger of charity
Bob Geldof, 61, Musician

‘We must change the perception that profit equals greed’
Rajan Bharti Mittal, 52, Vice-Chairman and MD, Bharti Enterprises

‘Dialogue is the only way, or we fight for the rest of our lives’
Efraim Halevy, 78, Former Director, Mossad

‘I resent the idea of a good Indian girl’
Reema Kagti, 40, Filmmaker

‘We haven’t sent a human back to the moon because there is no public will’
Guillermo Trotti, 62, Space Architect

‘I have become a medium for people’s voices’
Amita Tuti, 26, Grassroots Media Activist

‘Technology cannot compensate for wisdom’
Sherry Turkle, 64, Founder & Director, The MIT Initiative On Technology & Self

‘People who raise their voice are hounded by the State’
Sudha Bharadwaj, 51, Civil Rights Activist

The great leveller
Marcus du Sautoy, 47, Mathematician

‘Thousands of trucks and tractors trample upon the Ganga, killing it in Haridwar itself’
Swami Shivanand, 66, President, Matri Sadan Ashram

‘Capitalism is a movement full of contradictions’
Nicolas Veron, 41, Economist

‘Can the artificial energy of technology be allowed to exceed the organic energy of humans?’
Ratan Thiyam, 64, Playwright

‘Politics helps in social transformation’
Sachin Pilot, 35, Union Minister of Corporate Affairs

‘We are too focussed on problems and less on solutions’
Jayaprakash Narayan, 56, President, Lok Satta Party

‘ITER will give us self-sustenance. We’ll turn down all external sources and it’ll burn like a star’
Steven Cowley, 51, Nuclear Physicist

‘If you love to be feudal, go to Saudi Arabia’
Stalin K, 43, Founder, Video Volunteers

‘There’s nothing wrong with using an emotional appeal to save a species’
George Schaller, 79, Conservationist

‘Unless we fix rural India, we will not grow at a desirable rate’
Ronnie Screwvala, 56, CEO and Founder Chairman, UTV Group

‘What we learn is preserved after death in the collective memory’
David Christian, 66, Historian

Her rebel yell
Mona Eltahawy, 45, Journalist

‘Expose every belief to the light of reason’
James Randi, 84, Rationalist, Myth-Buster

‘I will support Kejriwal if he fields honest candidates in 2014’
Anna Hazare, 72, Social Activist

‘Dark matter and dark energy are the two most outstaneding questions facing physicists today’
Ganesan Srinivasan, 70, Astrophysicist

‘Can 17 lives be paid for with free rice?’
Kamla Kaka, 25, Tribal Activist

‘What is seditious about asking the government to use solar energy instead of nuclear power?’
G Sundararajan, 39, Anti-Nuke Protester

Out of the Box
Photographs by Rohit Chawla
At THiNK it’s the people that connect us to the bigger concepts. As they speak, pulsing with passion, we embrace their ideologies, adopt their attitudes. Continued from last year, this portrait project frames that attitude. These are the poster children of thought
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