Profile of Sundeep Dougal
The noted historian on counterfactual history, the what ifs of the Shah Bano case, the Babri Masjid demolition, Partition, Secularism and more.
The legendary and enigmatic J.D. Salinger, author of the cult 'Catcher In The Rye', is publishing a book after 34 years. An Indian caught the low-key event on the Internet and broke the news.
IN 1965, when it appeared in New Yorker, "Hapworth 16, 1924" left most of the fans disappointed, a feeling shared by the general Salinger fan even today.
Salinger's obsession for privacy has led him to sue numerous fans
A series of running email conversations, moderated by Sundeep Dougal.
A compendium of dissident and contrarian media sources on the Internet
What if Rajiv Gandhi hadn't given in to the bigots in the Shah Bano case? What if the Babri Masjid had not been unlocked by Rajiv Gandhi in 1986? What if Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses had not been banned?
Headlines you are unlikely to see on our contents page even 15 years later.
Our yearly Roll of Dishonour. Please tell us the ones we missed - make up your own awards and nominations.
DoT's leaked blocking orders raise unanswered questions about clandestine censorship
Past instances when Manmohan’s stand has not squared with his reputation for honesty
The co-author of When a Tree Shook Delhi: The 1984 Carnage and its Aftermath on his upcoming book The Fiction of Fact-finding: Modi and Godhra.
The vocabulary this election brought into currency. Presenting, an A-Z.
Neologisms, or words that acquired a buzz or merely some that were in the news or caught our eye, or just got added to standard dictionaries
'I myself found it difficult to believe that the same person had written both of them!' says former Outlook Managing Editor Sandipan Deb on two of his books released in quick succession.
Following its usual opaque routine, DoT issues orders to block 78 URLs, 73 of them with IIPM content —but Outlook is singled out as its entire blogs area is blocked
It was not just 73 URLs relating to stories about IIPM that the DoT wanted blocked. But also others about Afzal Guru