CONTENTS: Abbreviations, Acknowledgements, Preface, Prabhat Patnaik, Introduction-Aruna Roy and Suchi Pande, Ohen:ton Karihwatehkwen Thanksgiving from the Mohawk Otsi’tsaken:ra (Charles Patton), 1. Unpacking Participatory Democracy in an Age of Reaction-Patrick Heller, 2. Participation, Citizenship, and the Renewal of Social Democracy in the Time of Covid-19-John Harriss, 3. Decentralisation for Creating Local Democratic Space The Case of the People’s Plan Campaign in Kerala-T. M. Thomas Isaac, 4. Populism, Information Disorders, and Erosion of Democracy The Case of Brazil-Nandini Ramanujam and Paula Martins, 5. Democracy Upended Lessons from Afghanistan-Pearl Eliadis and Lucile Martin, 6. Can Information Make the Subaltern Speak?-Rajesh Veeraraghavan, 7. Knowledge Panchayats-Shiv Visvanathan, 8. The Fiscal Dimension of Justice From Inequality, the Consequences of COVID, and Systemic Racism-Vivek Ramkumar, 9. Do Indians have a Right to Know their Foreign Donors?-Inayat Sabhikhi, 10. Speak for Us Democracy, Digital Media, and the Politics of Voice-Sohini Sengupta, 11. Safeguarding Democracy from Organised Information Manipulations Paid News, Fake News, and Hate Speech in India-Vipul Mudgal, 12. Flowering of India’s Democracy-Wajahat Habibullah, 13. When We Thought We Had All the Answers, Hindu Supremacy Changed the Questions-Moyukh Chatterjee, A Coda-Aruna Roy, Notes on the Contributors, Index.