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Outlook Magazine - 2 April 2012
Travel Special
Blue Green Yonder
Off the beaten track: you can yet beat the cliche. A few different trips for this summer
A Divergence Of Tracks
The argument forwarded is that when the state is short on funds, private capital will pitch in
The Turnbuckle Comes Undone
What prompted the unions to trade the closed fists for an invisible handshake?
“Nothing Like A Private Airlines In Railways”
Hours before the debate on his railway budget, a combative former railway minister defended his actions
The Great Railway Bazaar
Is the lifeline of the nation—the Indian Railways—being put on the block, bit by bit?
An Aarti From Time, A Brookings Chalisa
Are they drowned in Modi’s magnetism? Is this worship exigency?
The Stone Goddess
The regal Nanda Devi aglow in the prismata of a sunset. Perfection.
Jhangora Pudding?
Tourists discover the charms of hardship in far-flung villages
Show Me The Fin
Head under water? Scuba diving opens up a different world.
Blue Green Yonder
Off the beaten track: you can yet beat the cliche. A few different trips for this summer
A Divergence Of Tracks
The argument forwarded is that when the state is short on funds, private capital will pitch in
The Turnbuckle Comes Undone
What prompted the unions to trade the closed fists for an invisible handshake?
“Nothing Like A Private Airlines In Railways”
Hours before the debate on his railway budget, a combative former railway minister defended his actions
The Great Railway Bazaar
Is the lifeline of the nation—the Indian Railways—being put on the block, bit by bit?
An Aarti From Time, A Brookings Chalisa
Are they drowned in Modi’s magnetism? Is this worship exigency?
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
Bastion Of Business: A Modish Affair
Modi rides a wave in the US as a man of the future
“The BJP Must Learn To Live With Inner-Party Democracy”
The powerful BJP leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha on the challenges facing his party
The Citrus Blight
Base shrinking and internally riven, can the BJP stay relevant for 2014?
Weft Side Story
An hour’s drive from Hyderabad, a village of ikat weavers
Sleeps With The Fishes
If you are in Kumbalangi, you are already caught in the net. And it tastes great.
Salvation A La Mode!
To be away to the Kurseong hills that hold the rituals of tea, with a secret wish in tow
Old Jungle Saying
The mela’s where you drink deep of Bastar in one leaf-cup shot
The Bandit Orchestra
The river is synonymous with outlawhood. It also supports a hardy, varied wildlife.
Tangerine Dreams
Ibn Batuta’s wondrous Delhi lingers on in ruins, amid oblivion
Breathe The Freon Air
Not one for the great outdoors? Take in the sights from your living room
They Weren’t Even Cubs
We left then, letting the Lankan army run amok. We can’t now.
The Rs 28 Diet Plan
Trying—and failing—to live on the govt’s definition of ‘not poor’
Deadly Bouncers
Literary star vs erstwhile cricketing great
The Martyrdom Wait
A state is divided over a death sentence
Off The Blocks
Adarsh scam probe sees first arrests
Road To Yekstasy!
That the world’s best dosas are found in Bangalore is a given. The only question is, which are better: the ones at Vidyarthi Bhavan or the ones at Sri Sagar?
Bibliofile
While Penguin is busy shedding its mid-listers, it’s going all out to woo the few remaining A-list authors with rival publishers.
Maximum Grotesquerie In Purple
Nagarkar’s prose, both authorial and in the attributed “free indirect”, is unrelentingly flaccid and wooden.
In The Pano Bhaju Family
Goa’s sumptuous fashion history also reflects its cultural fabric—its Portuguese-Catholic structure and Hindu core
Deool (Marathi)
Rooted in rural Maharashtra, with satire, farce and folksy, rustic humour —faltering only in its uneven tone
Diana Hayden
The actress on her new book, <i>A Beautiful Truth</i>
Vidya Balan
Do you know Mumbai’s Tata Institute of Social Sciences is planning to give me a PhD in sexuality?
Galle Diary
You can tell the Sri Lankans have moved on. No more headlines of people being blown up in buses...