The Highway To A Green Economics
Green Highways are not just about planting trees but a concept of enhancing environmental sustainability of highway investments and operations by enhancing the climate change mitigation (GHG emissions) and adaptation during construction, maintenance and operation of highways and road traffic. It has to include better focus on the engineering aspects right from design, to material usage, waste reduction, and recycling and reuse.
The Mission Intends To Learn From The Global Best Practices
Dr A. K Bhattacharya, IFS (Retd) MD of the National Green Highways Mission, in a interview outlines the strategy being deployed and the progress made so far in the effort to green the highways
Our Own Private Babels And The Future of Knowledge
Every internet user has become a 'Modern Major General'--and if we shouldn't find each other ludicrous, it's because we are all dressed in patchwork uniforms of information
Youtube Diary
YouTube inverted the entire logic of scarcity and desire that drove us on hot, lonely afternoons to tiny cassette shops
The Blue Film Of Sin Coating The Indian Woman
Sexual violence against women is fine, exploitation too. But the heavens will come crashing if she watches porn. And yet she does!
Download Syndrome
Choice has shrunk for virtual Jack Sparrows—alas, writes Martand Badoni. Then there’s Netflix.
Eating Out, At Home!
Satish Padmanabhan on how food delivery apps bring the best of delicacies to your doorstep in no time
Faster Than Truth
WhatsApp did what Facebook couldn’t—it reached most of our tier-III towns and villages alongwith internet and smartphone
Tours And Travels
Bibek Bhattacharya takes a look at five unique apps that cover all your wandering and vacationing needs
Post-Geography Of Modern Friendship
Confession: I took a Facebook daily-fix break before writing this. Pl like and share!
To Put Faith In Secularism
‘Secularism’ inhabits twin strands—one simply strives to control religion; another, more composite view, allows plural views on faith to coexist. Charting secularism’s progress in France and the US, Charles Taylor alights on the passionate debate it is generating in modern Europe and India.
Dystopia’s Online. And It Will Not Die.
It’s the season of predictions, so let’s be audacious: Twitter will be the human race’s #pathtosurvival
Flip A Screen, Skip An Entire Generation
Books were once engaged in with lusty physicality. Now, a tablet’s cool glow gives quiet satisfaction.
Looking Ahead
As Outlook celebrates its 21st anniversary, we look at the exciting and ominous possibilities ahead
How Painful Is That Mottled Lattice Light
Vetri Maaran on cinema in times of the ubiquitous camera, multiple screens for consumption and the democratisation of the craft.
How To Compose An Ethical Fugue
Technology is not in itself a disruption, but a partner in jugalbandi with the ‘old’. But we must hearken to music’s politics as much as to its aesthetics.
Watermark 1916: The War Foundry
Exactly a hundred years ago, the Great War was in full blast. The shock waves it set off still influence ‘modern’ sensibility.
Caste And Faith In The Dalit Mirror
Four activists and scholars with different religious identities take stock of what has changed for India’s ‘untouchables’ and what remains the same
Lizardology: The Future Is Writ
You could say it’s liberal democracy that grants literature freedom. Or maybe, the other way around. The onus is on the writer to set us free.
God Is Not A Khomeini
All that Islam needs for an inclusive, humane future is present in its own resources—scriptural and modern
Democracy, That Untamed Excess
New languages of politics will help free the system from the grip of corporate power
Like Threads Suspended
Exile is a story that starts, and gets repeated, over and over.... This story will never end till the Pandit, the original Kashmiri, recovers what was lost.