COVER STORY
#BetiUthao: Congress To Move Parliament, Assam Assembly
Congress leaders say they would have moved for adjournment if not for floods in the state
Outlook Magazine - 8 August 2016
Govt Threatens To Sack Assam Child Rights Top Official
Runumi Gogoi's been asked to change her report if she wants to continue with the state commission.
The Affidavit Smokescreen: 20 Times, The Same Lies
Girl children from 5 districts of Assam were whisked away on the basis of these affidavits
Podcast: Author Neha Dixit On The Future Of The 31 Girls
Korobi, the pracharika who identified girls who can be picked up, was herself chosen by the Sangh after the Nellie massacre
Operation #BetiUthao
The full, 11,350-word text of Neha Dixit's five-part investigation "Operation #BabyLift" on how the Sangh Parivar flouted every Indian and international law on child right to traffic 31 young tribal girls from Assam to Punjab and Gujarat to ‘Hinduise’ them.
Video: Bodo Then, Hindutva Convert Now
In this video, the 20 trafficked girls from Kokrajhar, Assam, who have been separated from their parents for over a year, sing Vande Mataram without missing a note.
The Law: Wrong Every Way And Breaking Every Law
Operation Beti Uthao clearly violates Indian and international laws and guidelines
Govt Threatens To Sack Assam Child Rights Top Official
Runumi Gogoi's been asked to change her report if she wants to continue with the state commission.
The Affidavit Smokescreen: 20 Times, The Same Lies
Girl children from 5 districts of Assam were whisked away on the basis of these affidavits
Podcast: Author Neha Dixit On The Future Of The 31 Girls
Korobi, the pracharika who identified girls who can be picked up, was herself chosen by the Sangh after the Nellie massacre
Operation #BetiUthao
The full, 11,350-word text of Neha Dixit's five-part investigation "Operation #BabyLift" on how the Sangh Parivar flouted every Indian and international law on child right to traffic 31 young tribal girls from Assam to Punjab and Gujarat to ‘Hinduise’ them.
Video: Bodo Then, Hindutva Convert Now
In this video, the 20 trafficked girls from Kokrajhar, Assam, who have been separated from their parents for over a year, sing Vande Mataram without missing a note.
The Law: Wrong Every Way And Breaking Every Law
Operation Beti Uthao clearly violates Indian and international laws and guidelines
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
Timeline: Such A Long, Tortuous—And Illegal—Journey...
31 tribal girls, between the age of three and 11, from five border districts of Assam are taken to Delhi...
Part 5: Ghar Wapasi For The Girls?
The Bodo and adivasis girls, taken away from their homes, have now embraced patriarchal ideas of honour, sati and jauhar
Words Were All It Took
Offensive. Counter-offensive. Counter-counter-offensive. And a small matter of caste.
Part 4:‘Those Nimn Jaati Girls’
If they want to help children, why not in Assam?
A Tragedy For Mr Byomkesh
Police detectives are still probing Aabesh’s death, as Calcutta pricks its ears up at hints of a power hush-up
Part 3: Ranis Of Chhota Kashi
The message was clear—that if you’re from Northeast, you are Hindu—and it is being clearly indoctrinated in these young girls
Riddle Of The ‘Safe’ Plane
The curious case of the AN-32 that disappeared with 29 on board
Part 2: The Trail
In the border areas of Assam, there’s a comprehensive network of Sangh outfits which concentrate on welfare activities
‘We Are Open To Resolving The Matter Amicably’
CEO of Devas Multimedia, Ramachandran Vishwanathan, on the snowballing Devas-Antrix muddle
Smoke From A Failed Launch
The government finds it hard to accept the orders in the Antrix-Devas case. But, it may simply have to pay.
Part 1: Baby Snatching
The complexities of the tribals’ animist practices are flattened out for the Sangh parivar’s agenda.
Intro: The Sangh’s Stolen Child Crusade
How the parivar flouted every law on children to traffic 31 young tribal girls from Assam to Punjab and Gujarat to ‘Hinduise’ them. And how it leaves their parents forlorn.
Tea Leaves Backwards
A peek into the world’s most rare collection of tea artefacts
Commission Of Omission
The statutory body for conducting elections is today a pale shadow of its once-independent self
The Other Kashmir Family Album
When the slumber of a society’s conscience is deep and layered, art hopes to jolt the benumbed giant...here’s a rude awakening, administered virtually
Let’s Talk Caste
Parliament must defeat the ruling caste silence
Buying American Blades
HAL’s Make in India prowess is ignored; Boeing to supply assault helicopters
Youth, Or The Bull’s Eye
The indefatigable Abhinav Bindra takes aim at the Rio Olympics, his fifth and last
Rasika Dugal
An actress who has carved a niche for herself, Rasika Dugal has starred in <em>Kshay</em> and <em>Qissa</em>, and is in a new biopic of Sadat Hasan Manto and a Malayalam film
Bibliofile
A professor of Physics writes about the troubled Af-Pak region, Anuja Chauhan's latest and Truman Capote's unfinished book turns a thirty.
Love, As The Chairman Smiles
A novel about the Emergency era, stating its horrors as if in a reportage
Inside The Unfree State
A feminist economist holds forth on ecology, agriculture, family, state
Seven Days
The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
And Also
Science cannot explain all there is for the simple reason that we won’t ever know all there is to explain.
Grandmama’s Café
The place is packed, noisy and popular, and nobody seems to mind sipping their cold coffee as trucks trundle by.
Deep Throat
A regular column on the essential buzz
The Sked
Pratibimb Marathi Natya Utsav's seventh edition, the European Union Film Festival touring Ahmedabad and a solo art show by Ritu Gupta in Delhi.
Madaari
The film proves that the idea of the worm-turning kind of vigilantism has its limitations
Kabali
The film itself is laboured and sometimes contrived, the gangster elements are predictable and sometimes even comic
Nice Diary
The city is heaving with tourists soaking up the Mediterranean sun, and gorging on ice cream and kababs.
In Praise Of Tour De France
For giving every spectator a front-row seat without having to buy a ticket
Silence Isn’t Golden
Modi seems caught in his own image trap, which handicaps him from making the essential jump from prime minister to leader
Par Avion
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