COVER STORY
Commentator’s Curse
Will our star TV experts ever relinquish their jarring partisanship?
Outlook Magazine - 8 August 2011
A Rich Vein Of Dissent
Yeddy goes, kicking and screaming. Can the BJP stabilise its ship in Karnataka?
Conference Call, Was It?
Raja’s finger-pointing has been countered by vehement denials. The plot thickens.
Under The Microscope, A Stain
In Meerut, the army is putting 51 men and officers through a grinding inquiry
The Peacekeeper’s Child
Sexual misconduct by Indian soldiers and officers on UN duty in Congo raises disturbing questions
Story Of A Missed Ball
The BCCI and the Indian embassy differ over a botched reception
Number Crunched
Lord’s diagnosis: old legs, official hauteur bode ill for the future
The Post-Feudal Lords
Karnataka politics is centred on caste patronage. Hence Yeddy.
“You Know Nothing About Karnataka”
In which BSY takes his exit planners down a few notches
A Rich Vein Of Dissent
Yeddy goes, kicking and screaming. Can the BJP stabilise its ship in Karnataka?
Conference Call, Was It?
Raja’s finger-pointing has been countered by vehement denials. The plot thickens.
The Indian Anabasis
It’s a curious chutney: cricket, movies, Raj etiquette in deepest Africa
Under The Microscope, A Stain
In Meerut, the army is putting 51 men and officers through a grinding inquiry
The Peacekeeper’s Child
Sexual misconduct by Indian soldiers and officers on UN duty in Congo raises disturbing questions
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
Offspringing Questions
Conceiving a child to gather stem cells for a sibling, parents tread an ethical bog
When The Curtain Calls
Acting legend Soumitra Chatterjee rages against the dying of the light on the stage
What A Girl Wants
Women in India’s villages have stories to tell. Now they are bent on telling it themselves.
From Oslo, To Nagpur
Right-wingers across the world seem to share a vocabulary of persecution and hate
Neon Sign Blinking
India moves one step closer to FDI in retail, but questions still remain
‘I’m A Vassal Of The Lord’
The patriarch of the erstwhile Travancore royal family, talks of his intimate relationship with the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple
Bothersome Brothers
The DMK chief staves off an in-house war
Riding The Black Horse
If you've been dying to eat your scrambled eggs on toast wearing green coloured wooden spectacle frames, but didn't know where to ask, help is at hand.
Bibliofile
It’s not just the Crossword Book Award prize ceremony that has become a big event. Even the announcement of the shortlist merits a media event.
Hard Rock
A riveting portrayal of Uttam Kamble's mother, Ilanda, and also a brutally honest self-portrayal by the author.
Sharp Longing
Dhondy's style—sharp, funny, irreverent—is just right for a fraught subject like adultery
Stand By For A Stet
The charmingly old-fashioned and admired Jug Suraiya has written a funny and perceptive account of his career
Poetry In Notion
My family and other animals.... Priyanka Gandhi co-authors an intimate jungle book
Khap
What hurts it is its tackiness, resembling an amateurish TV serial
Singham
The tone is uniformally over-the-top—loud dialogue and acting, shrill jokes, dazzling colours, kitschy sets and costumes and stylised choreography.
Cyrus Broacha
With a new book and a kids’ show, <i>Jake and the Neverland Pirates</i> on Disney Channel, the funnyman has his hands full
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Navjyot Sidhu had an inspirational message for us: "Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two."
Turtuk Diary
“On the night of December 13, 1971, the people of this village went to sleep in Pakistan. The next morning, they woke up in India.”
