COVER STORY
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Bipasha Basu on a horror 'reality' TV show and a new game from the Angry Bird wallahs
Outlook Magazine - 23 November 2015
Rose Petals, When The Tummy’s Dead
What is it that you can do which can help you rid of the bloating and feel thinner in your skin?
How The Master Plan Lives
Coastal Thali Food Festival, a Japanese folk tale and a photo exhibit documenting architectural design.
In Praise Of <I>The Telegraph</i>
The Calcutta newspaper has excelled in its outrage over the nauseating majoritarianism under Narendra Modi’s nose that has challenged the liberalism and humanism of every decent Indian.
Commission’s Omissions
What Bihar, where money flowed like water and mostly in vain, has showed is that the EC is clearly caught in a time warp on the model code of conduct.
Resurrected To Be A Pawn
Is the debate on Tipu’s secularism anything but an oversimplification of history?
A Tableau Of Feelings
As swords are crossed over Tipu Jayanti, everyone revisits a complex debate with all-too-pat answers
And Also
Some sports tips, some poetry...
Rose Petals, When The Tummy’s Dead
What is it that you can do which can help you rid of the bloating and feel thinner in your skin?
How The Master Plan Lives
Coastal Thali Food Festival, a Japanese folk tale and a photo exhibit documenting architectural design.
In Praise Of <I>The Telegraph</i>
The Calcutta newspaper has excelled in its outrage over the nauseating majoritarianism under Narendra Modi’s nose that has challenged the liberalism and humanism of every decent Indian.
Commission’s Omissions
What Bihar, where money flowed like water and mostly in vain, has showed is that the EC is clearly caught in a time warp on the model code of conduct.
A Letter To The Reader
It's not us, it's you...
Erasing History
For the Kodavas, Tipu means a traumatic extirpation
Resurrected To Be A Pawn
Is the debate on Tipu’s secularism anything but an oversimplification of history?
A Tableau Of Feelings
As swords are crossed over Tipu Jayanti, everyone revisits a complex debate with all-too-pat answers
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
A Corp’s New Clothes
Garments giant Kitex rolls out freebies, wins panchayat polls in Kerala
A Bihari Story Of The Haar
The BJP has paid the price for its inability to understand Bihar and its remarkable people
Quiet, Like A Rhizome
He’s a springer of surprises, working the equations, releasing the tension only when everything finally falls into place, writes a college friend
A Reverse Swing
Exactly why did the BJP suffer such a brutal reversal?
“We Didn’t Realise The Ground Was Slipping Away From Us”
BJP national spokesman Syed Shahnawaz Hussain on the errors of judgement before the Bihar elections and the way ahead.
Electric Chairs
In the BJP’s perennially dagger-drawn politics, Bihar was another opportunity for a mini revolt
Other Hats
The Bihar imbroglio has stung Modi badly. So have angry elders. <i>Outlook</i> offers ten ways for the PM to follow, for a regaining of old elan.
Light From The East
Meeting the challenge of communalism, hate politics and intolerance bravely and defeating it is a precondition to national development
Biztro
Business in bitesizes
Deep Throat
A regular column on the essential buzz
The Head Hunter
A compassionate look at the impact of our choices on somebody else’s world.
Ek Mulaqaat
Interwoven in Ludhianvi and Pritam's poetry, which speaks of their eternal love, is their cynicism of the Hindu-Muslim divide which kept them apart, and the pain of Partition.
Bibliofile
How Chandigarh's two litfests confused author Mahesh Rao and Penguin's new marketing strategy for its children's books.
A Painter Of Human Comedy
The book successfully unravels the wonderful and magical mind of Hrishikesh Mukherjee through all his films, some insightful interviews and many spicy anecdotes.
Invitation To A Peace Trade
Kasuri describes how India and Pakistan almost negotiated a deal on Kashmir. They must take that road again.
Seven Days
The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
Ravi Subramanian
The banker-turned-author on his new book
Par Avion
A random sample from the British periodicals
Delhi Diary
Once you protect the interests of only the majority community, you’ve really no right to call yourself a democracy despite your elections.
When A Bad Rep Precedes Reality
That has been the north’s problem when it comes to perception of it being more crime-prone. Read the numbers again. It’s no better in the south.
I Can Board The Train By Myself!
A railway station in a small city is leading the way in making travel more inclusive
The Green Is My Village
Chikka grew up next to a golf course near Bangalore, swinging a club made from a branch. Today, he’s a champion.
No Room For Love
One man’s untimely and tragic death becomes the story of a film about homophobia and trauma
