COVER STORY
The Slow Aarohan Of A Morning Raga
Finally, Rahul Gandhi’s anointment as Congress chief is imminent. Sights set on 2019, his task is to enliven the party.
Outlook Magazine - 4 December 2017
End Of The Longest Regency
Sonia Gandhi took the reins of the Congress amidst turmoil and uncertainty. On her way out now, a look at how she won power and ran the party all these years.
A Family Tree And History’s Leaves
It’s a legacy that occupies all of 110 years—in short, a brute majority of the Congress party’s whole 133-year history. The first Nehru clansman to be a fellow traveller of the early Congress was Motilal Nehru (1861-1931). From his first dalliance in 1907, through to his son, grand-daughter, great grandson and now one on whom greatness is being thrust, the association evolved into something definitive: where the family became the road, the direction, the milestones—as well as the destination.
Raise High The Roofbeam
Ruchi Ram Sahni was an iconoclast who tirelessly attacked social evils and colonialism. His personal odyssey through pre-Partition Punjab is a treasure.
He Rode At The Head Of Sixty Million
An interesting addition to constitutional history throws light on Ambedkar, his life’s project on Dalit rights and his tussles with Gandhi and Patel
Lakshadweep Diary
"Life for us was an honest, open book. Uncomplicated, steeped in mutual trust. No house had doors in the front or back. Neither did the women wear purdah," reminisces surrealist painter NKP Muthukoya
Padmini And The Elite
The more the elite sniggers at pre-modern ideas like Sita or Hanuman or Saraswati and upholds someone like M.F. Husain’s right to disrobe Hindu icons, the more they are pushing the pre-modern masses into the waiting lap of the Hindu Right.
Change The Only Constant
Digital era has changed the face of Bollywood music, but is it for the better or worse?
End Of The Longest Regency
Sonia Gandhi took the reins of the Congress amidst turmoil and uncertainty. On her way out now, a look at how she won power and ran the party all these years.
A Family Tree And History’s Leaves
It’s a legacy that occupies all of 110 years—in short, a brute majority of the Congress party’s whole 133-year history. The first Nehru clansman to be a fellow traveller of the early Congress was Motilal Nehru (1861-1931). From his first dalliance in 1907, through to his son, grand-daughter, great grandson and now one on whom greatness is being thrust, the association evolved into something definitive: where the family became the road, the direction, the milestones—as well as the destination.
Raise High The Roofbeam
Ruchi Ram Sahni was an iconoclast who tirelessly attacked social evils and colonialism. His personal odyssey through pre-Partition Punjab is a treasure.
He Rode At The Head Of Sixty Million
An interesting addition to constitutional history throws light on Ambedkar, his life’s project on Dalit rights and his tussles with Gandhi and Patel
Big Wage Wall On Ellis Island
A proposed US visa law attacks Indian companies
Lakshadweep Diary
"Life for us was an honest, open book. Uncomplicated, steeped in mutual trust. No house had doors in the front or back. Neither did the women wear purdah," reminisces surrealist painter NKP Muthukoya
Padmini And The Elite
The more the elite sniggers at pre-modern ideas like Sita or Hanuman or Saraswati and upholds someone like M.F. Husain’s right to disrobe Hindu icons, the more they are pushing the pre-modern masses into the waiting lap of the Hindu Right.
Deep Throat
A regular column on the essential buzz
Change The Only Constant
Digital era has changed the face of Bollywood music, but is it for the better or worse?
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
Parallel Takeover
The superstar is slowly shifting to the background. Content is the new king.
Crossover Queens
B-town leading ladies have finally made the Hollywood dream a reality
Trope Dope
We were drugged with the comfort of their predictability, these lost signs of a ‘fillum’
Gone Is The Daze
As multiplex millennials come of age, no-trend is the new trend in Bollywood. There’s more variety, though box-office success was never more uncertain.
When It Rolls, Take Three
Triple centurions are a rarefied club. Ranji Trophy has 43. And they’re coming in a rush.
The Memory Of A Kingdom
Sonia could lend power to her party that was in a bad shape in 1998. The Congress is sicker now at Rahul’s ascendancy. Can he emulate his mother?
A Footballer Shifts His Goalposts
A police strategy built around rehabilitation leads some young militants to rejoin their family. Can it stem the tide?
High Tide In Low Water
Contrary to the expected post-DeMo/GST slump, the Diwali season has shown considerable sales growth
The Subcontinental Menu
Why is BHU's porn-watching junta now suddenly listening to 'Har Har Mahadev'? Good people of Jharkhand might get a pre-christmas gift. Read all the juicy news...
What’s To Be Done With Our Cops?
With the world’s largest force, India is not short of police personnel. Free them from provincial satraps, and much of our policing troubles will end.
Khaki Meets Khadi
Politicians often turn a blind eye to police lawlessness so that cops are beholden enough to do their bidding. Policing suffers the most due to this symbiosis.
Rani & Rogues
The contrast between the way the police dealt with protests by Dalits in UP’s Saharanpur and Rajputs in Rajasthan is part of a pattern of selective aggression and selective silence that goes deep and wide
