COVER STORY
All that is there to know about Pokémon GO
Outlook Magazine - 1 August 2016
After the failed coup, the purge. Turkey’s president, Erdogan, shows a heavy hand.
A brutal public beating of Dalits by gau rakshaks in Una sets off protests across Gujarat—the BJP feels the heat
Augmented Reality takes a springing leap ahead as Pokemon fans scurry about for monsters
By combining cuteness, nostalgia and Augmented Reality, Pokémon GO has taken over the world
All the chatter and goss from around the world.
The blood in Nice only seems to presage a deeper entanglement yet
After the failed coup, the purge. Turkey’s president, Erdogan, shows a heavy hand.
A brutal public beating of Dalits by gau rakshaks in Una sets off protests across Gujarat—the BJP feels the heat
Augmented Reality takes a springing leap ahead as Pokemon fans scurry about for monsters
By combining cuteness, nostalgia and Augmented Reality, Pokémon GO has taken over the world
Kashmir’s battered newspapers reflect the ground reality
OTHER STORIES
Business in bitesizes
Neither the state govt nor the Centre, neither the UPA nor the NDA, has acted against Adani Port’s depredations
The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
When it comes to personal favours, rival politicos have a ‘mutual understanding’
Former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on the Sanatan Sanstha and its banning
Abhay Vartak, spokesperson of Sanatan Sanstha, which has been charged with the Dabholkar and Pansare murders on the ways of his creed
With the left-behind kin of Sanstha members taking on the outfit, will those allegedly behind Pansare and Dabholkar’s murders finally be put out of action?
His conflict-of-interest accusations threw a clearer light
The SC verdict has its origins in the joint PIL of these two trailblazers
In his gritty tussle with BCCI, Verma had a little help from friends
Right-wingers lead a crowd who want Gandhiji out of rupee notes. They have their icons ready.
The BCCI’s Augean stables will be cleaned. These men made it possible.
How an autonomous TV channel created to project vox populi from the ranked benches of Lok Sabha was brought under the govt’s thumb
An exclusive extract from Josy Joseph’s book on Dawood's hold over Indian business and the questionable rise of Jet Airways
Margaret Alva, who worked under four PMs and was governor of four states, talks in her autobiography, <em>Courage & Commitment</em>, about her journey as a politician
Upamanyu Chatterjee becomes a full-time writer at long last, the Snowden-Roy-Cusack conversation in book form and why A. Raja's book plans are shelved for now
A satire on the way the fate wind blows in small towns with no hope.
A novel on the ravages of terrorism fails on account of insipidity
The Marathi adaptation of the Broadway play <em>A Few Good Men</em>
The script ventures into didacticism and dishes out a moral that makes women’s empowerment look like a social inconvenience
Overpopulated by a cast of delightfully daffy animal characters and a visual quality that’s pure eye candy.
A treat for lovers of Indian dance forms, a compilation of works by students of the Delhi College of Art and a play set in '40s India
Only one Indian author has won the Nobel for literature. Trinidad and Tobago, with a population of a little over a million, has achieved this feat twice
For stepping outside the margins of fiction and taking up the very real issue of climate change
Tendulkar's willingness to allow brands to exploit his “highest civilian honour” proves that Mammon can blind even a Master with the keenest of eyes
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