Google is like this abominable cousin who used to be called a ‘walking encyclopaedia’—it piles on fact over fact to bury imagination. It nullifies the experience of age; it dulls the exuberance of youth.
After his acclaimed Ibis trilogy, author Amitav Ghosh returns with his new book The Gun Island, a powerful tale of migration and a world that is constantly changing. Read excerpts from his interview.
Former Union home and finance minister P. Chidambaram talks to Outlook on a range of topics from the Pulwama terror attack, the grand opposition alliance to Rafale deal and cow vigilantes.
In an exclusive interview with Satish Padmanabhan, Congress veteran Ashok Gehlot speaks about his government's plans for Rajasthan, Hindutva and the possible outcome of the forthcoming general elections.
Some villages have gaushalas built, but in most cases, like here in Roshanchak near Barabanki, it's just a bamboo-barricaded field with a little asbestos shed.
"Music has a way of sliding in between the cracks," American drummer-vocalist Jamison Ross talks about how jazz is changing in this hyper-sensualised environment in music...
His colleagues at Outlook Hindi never considered him as boss but almost family. He got the best out of his reporters, and for a small bunch of reporters, the magazine always punched above its weight.
Michael Rezendes was part of The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team which broke the story of the cover-up of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic church in Boston and New York
"What I have put in this book though is an analogy with 1900 which really is a sort of a neglected moment in our thinking right now. But it was in that moment that we can document step changes in the scale and range of today what we would call globalisation."
In his new groundbreaking new book, 'A World of Three Zeroes', Yunus proposes a new form of capitalism where every individual is an entrepreneur and nobody is working for corpulent corporate
