COVER STORY
Researching The Research
And just like that, the food of Gods, Ghee, was deemed ‘fattening’. A 5,000-year-old wisdom wiped out
Outlook Magazine - 25 March 2013
Reading The Cha
Muslims seem to have coalesced around the congress, perhaps why Kumaraswamy lost Ramanagara.
Talk On The Via Appia
Popular fist-pumping aside, saner voices in Italy reject the state’s marine rescue
Easel By The Window
Ganesh Pyne strove for artistic truth in a melancholic fantasy
Reading The Cha
Muslims seem to have coalesced around the congress, perhaps why Kumaraswamy lost Ramanagara.
Iron Supplements
The Congress civic poll win opens a door, but it’s one swallow...
Gubernotorious
What or who can make Raj Bhavans relevant? Ex-IPS officers? Nay
They Know Their Lines
A South Mumbai dealer explains the city’s drugs market
Gloves & Veins
A big haul of heroin, two famous boxers...the Punjab drug story is not going away
Lasagna Lafanga
The shooters are out. <I>Outlook</i> goes to the mattresses against Italiana.
The Sea Boils At Muziris
Kerala feels the Centre colluded with the Italians
Talk On The Via Appia
Popular fist-pumping aside, saner voices in Italy reject the state’s marine rescue
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
What The Romans Do
Italy has delivered an insult. It shouldn’t be taken lying down.
Abuso Di Fiducia
Or is there a greater design to this much ado about marines both in India and in Italy?
Reconcile To The Truth
This defence of Bangla’s fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami is ludicrous
Offered, In Anger
The celebrated author lends a preface and perspective to an updated book of essays on the Afzal Guru investigation and trial
A Flight For Pidgeons
Low-cost AirAsia’s expected entry will rejuvenate a sickly sector, boost foreign investor confidence
The Shers And Stripes
Tiger counts in four Maharashtra reserves show a dramatic increase. How did it happen?
Pass By On The Sidewalk, Without Looking
What happened to Jagruti was the result of our inaction, our perilous tolerance, what we’ve allowed to happen to generations of our women
So Are You An A-Type Prisoner?
The system is built to help the powerful; for others, a dead end
Violations Of The Spirit
A draft bill on women’s security is bogged down trying to build safeguards for men
Opposite Acres
Saugata Roy speaks his mind on land, then sits out
The Zero Zzzzombies
March 15, World Sleep Day. A time we woke up to the disease that is sleeplessness.
Antipodean Attitudes
CA’s clumsy cricket management ignored youth, led to today’s crisis
Stillness At The Bleachers
Indiscipline stalks, then tears into Australian cricket. Can they wrest hope from the ruins?
Bibliofile
Author and editor Manu Joseph beats E.L. James in Holland. Also meet: Mohan R.D.
Mistah Bombastic's Gunpowder
A novel set in Bangalore that’s not quite like anything done before in the English language.
Girl At A Hairpin Bend
Urban India, its fervid ambitions, a girl's sentimental education make up a novel of allegorical realism
Anil Ananthaswamy
London-based writer Anil Ananthaswamy on winning the Physics Journalism Prize and why being a science writer is fun.
Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns
Despite its flaws, it is engaging and enjoyable. And what a gangster Irrfan makes!
Jolly LLB
Gets moralistic, cliched and cringingly sanctimonious. But with a riveting performance by Saurabh Shukla
Shane Watson
Am I a senior cricketer or a school boy to be asked to do homework? Even if they call it a ‘presentation’?
Delhi Diary
Examining Rahul Gandhi’s public confession showing a disinterest in both native wife and the coveted gaddi...