COVER STORY
Outlook Magazine - 6 June 2016
Zero For Aryabhatta
There is no quarrel that our first prime minister was a great man. But do we have to meet him at every turn in the capital?
Your Name, Basanti?
Governmental India often has a Nehru-Gandhi tag. And the remedy doesn’t lie in aggressive renaming.
Will It Be Smriti Vs Mayawati?
And why the BJP’s rival of choice for 2017 is Samajwadi rather than Bahujan
Lighting A Candle For ‘Hyde Park’
The beloved KBR park is under threat from flyovers—and Hyderabad is fighting back
Biztro
Business in bitesizes
Zero For Aryabhatta
There is no quarrel that our first prime minister was a great man. But do we have to meet him at every turn in the capital?
Ghazni On The Godavari
The Sangh’s idol-making errs not just in ideology, but in basic geography
Your Name, Basanti?
Governmental India often has a Nehru-Gandhi tag. And the remedy doesn’t lie in aggressive renaming.
Will It Be Smriti Vs Mayawati?
And why the BJP’s rival of choice for 2017 is Samajwadi rather than Bahujan
Not A Camp Charade
Did the media and the police play into a cynically polarising game in Ayodhya?
Above, The Law
Does the new Lucknow building of the Allahabad High Court sit on a pond?
Lighting A Candle For ‘Hyde Park’
The beloved KBR park is under threat from flyovers—and Hyderabad is fighting back
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
Burning Effigies
Beside the tirade, do we have any good reason to?
The Dynamics Of Popularity
Being in the limelight may have much to do with the flak Rajan is drawing
Fit For A Fresh Start
Never before has a kerfuffle been raised over a central banker. What makes Rajan different?
It’s A Self-Goal
Let’s clean up the NPA mess, not play blame games
God, Give Us This Day One More Parking Lot
The Chamundi hill is a green haven in elegant Mysore. Now, the ogre of ‘development’ threatens the holy spot.
'1971 Will Be Cut-Off Year'
Assam’s first BJP chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on his roadmap to deal with illegal migrants from Bangladesh.
'India Could Have Fought A Limited Invasion By Pakistan With The Kind Of Force Deployed In Haryana'
The former BSF director-general Prakash Singh who headed the inquiry on the violence that raged in Haryana in February talks about the matter
Haute Dog!
Canines are catching up on (and wolfing down) gourmet trends
An Indian Scoop Trick
A Berlin exhibition recalls Dhyan Chand’s 1936 Olympics exploits
‘President’ Modi’s Office
All right-thinking citizens should cherish how the PMO is game-changing India, and that too with just watchful eyes and invisible hands
Modi Sarkar @Two
The BJP is wringing the most out of the Assam victory to put a coat of paint on the thinning Unstoppable Modi mystique
And Also
The tale of an old-world movie exhibitor, who refuses to let go of the past
And Also
There are many wonderful things to enjoy, and we concentrate on what is not going well.
Just Run For Your Lives
Body weight is not an indicator of our fatness or fitness, but compliance to exercise indicates fitness.
The Sked
A comic extravaganza, a contemporary retelling of the story of Christ in a series of reverse paintings on acrylic and Kalki Koechlin's live soliloquy
Nikita Singh
All of 24, Nikita Singh is a bestselling author and has nine novels to her credit. Her latest book, Like a Love Song, has just been released.
Bibliofile
Trouble at the JLF Southbank London, more changes at HarperCollins and why there was no CALM this year
The Tube Is The Greenest Park
An unusual novel, written in an almost deadpan, somewhat distant style
In The Cutting Room
A brilliant novel has a three-pronged approach to terrifying madness
Seven Days
The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
Guwahati Diary
These Assam elections were the first one in 30 years when insurgency was not an issue.
Deep Throat
A regular column on the essential buzz
In Praise Of Mr & Mrs Arun Lal
For writing an epic fairy tale that would have been impossible to believe if it weren’t so true
The PM’s Tongue
Modi needs to remind himself—or needs to be reminded—that he is the nation’s prime minister, not some lowly rabble-rouser
Par Avion
A random sample from the British periodicals
