COVER STORY
Speak Through The Hand
Marta’s stocks have outstripped Neymar’s, and how Jenna Bush let her hand do all the talking
Outlook Magazine - 22 August 2016
Independence Day Special
“We Need A ‘New Deal’ To Come Out Of Jobless Growth”
CPI-M Secretary General Sitaram Yechury on the biggest challenge for the Left, the GST and other issues.
The Umpire Doesn’t Hold A Bat
It is not the judiciary’s job to bring about changes in a statutory body, even if it is the controversial Board of Control for Cricket in India
And Also
Disciplined training with ‘periodisation’ plays a crucial role in making Usain Bolt an epitome of durability
More Intuition: A Few Important Questions
Where has man lost his radars connecting with the divine? Why have we turned into consumer vampires?
The Sked
A theatre fest in Hyderabad, a celebration of stillness in Mumbai and a play about a five-year-old boy during Partition in Delhi
“We Need A ‘New Deal’ To Come Out Of Jobless Growth”
CPI-M Secretary General Sitaram Yechury on the biggest challenge for the Left, the GST and other issues.
The Umpire Doesn’t Hold A Bat
It is not the judiciary’s job to bring about changes in a statutory body, even if it is the controversial Board of Control for Cricket in India
And Also
Disciplined training with ‘periodisation’ plays a crucial role in making Usain Bolt an epitome of durability
More Intuition: A Few Important Questions
Where has man lost his radars connecting with the divine? Why have we turned into consumer vampires?
The Sked
A theatre fest in Hyderabad, a celebration of stillness in Mumbai and a play about a five-year-old boy during Partition in Delhi
Deep Throat
A regular column on the essential buzz
Seven Days
The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
"The Government Has Tried To Put My Bill Under The Carpet; It’s Diluted"
DMK MP Tiruchi Siva on 'the flawed and watered-down version' of the bill on transgenders introduced in the LS
Chucking Badhai For Growth
A journey into Mumbai’s transgender spaces reveals aspiration, hopelessness, drudgery and ties never to be broken
Transgender Celebs
Caitlyn Jenner, formerly Bruce Jenner, an Olympic gold-winning decathlete, made headlines when she revealed her male-to-female transition in Vanity Fair story, in July last year.
A Clap Is Affirmative
A recoiling society banishes transgenders to the wretched margins. As a bill in Parliament pledges protection, these Indians glimpse freedom.
The Online Borrow
Private moneylending has always had its risks. So what about when it’s online?
The Change Corps
Let's show what we, the citizens, can do for India
To Locate The Scam, Use GPS
The Smart Cities Mission will only create enclaves where civic amenities are digitally handled with foreign software. It will end no urban woe.
Our Problem No. 1
India must challenge the Pakistani narrative on Kashmir
Talking The Walk
Our Pak policy: neither big stick, nor soft dialogue
Par Avion
A random sample from the British periodicals
And Also
A racy plot replete with love, lust, insanity, illicit affairs, power dynamics and fatal guilt.
Budhia Singh Born To Run
The hard work, sweat and tears that go into the making of a champ are depicted well
Jason Bourne
The fifth installment featuring the CIA assassin with a memory loss and identity problem
Track 2
All the chatter and goss from around the world.
Shipra Khanna
The winner of MasterChef India Season 2 on her new book, <em>Sinfully Yours</em>, and her great journey from homemaker to chef
Bibliofile
How a book launch in Delhi turned political and remembering Anil Arora
Repo And Its Masters
A RBI governor remembers his doughty fights, but cuts down on the math
In Praise Of Narendra Modi
For his ability to do what his critics least expect him to.
Birthday Resolutions
What should the Republic of India resolve to do as she enters her platinum jubilee year if she were an individual?
Patagonia Diary
The Argentine obsession with beef is matched only by a similar fixation with dulce-de-leche, aka caramel
Biztro
Business in bitesizes
So Many Mudras
The life-stories all have a common core. The early awareness of difference, a bodily and affective strand that set them apart. Then the confusion and degrees of rejection, and lastly the triumphal joy of claiming their true self. Minu Ittyipe talks to six trans people.
And Then I Spared None
Abused by a relative at six, Laxmi saw how patriarchy tried to crush her femininity. And she made it come back to crush them, ‘those straight men with wives and kids’.
The Most Guilty Fuel
Diesel is the scapegoat in the State’s desperate bid to control pollution
They Held Many Shields
Ancient Buddhist traditions tolerated transgenders; many Hindu traditions still have them linked with deities. A fluid sexuality was a way of life for Indic culture.
