COVER STORY
Back home in Sivakasi, Sridevi’s is a political clan as well
Outlook Magazine - 12 March 2018
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By pitting itself against the bureaucracy, AAP is undermining the very mechanism its government needs to deliver what it promised the people
AAP grew overambitious; its leader anyway tended to be autocratic. The party’s slide began when it became unscrupulous. Will it reform its ways?
There’s talk of President’s Rule, but, for better optics, the BJP will more likely let Delhi’s AAP government hoist itself with its own petard
"The all-pervasive spirituality of Kashi simply takes you over…like you are being enveloped by something greater."
Angry, Alternative Politics, they called it. But has AAP failed to redeem its pledge? Is it too angry, and not alternative enough?
Saddest contradictions are Tamil politicians. They are probably the worst opportunists and the most corrupt, still spouting Periyar and Ambedkar, equally comfortable in a necktie and a konakam (loin cloth)
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Content-wise, Hindi cinema was not her best, but she shone uniquely
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By pitting itself against the bureaucracy, AAP is undermining the very mechanism its government needs to deliver what it promised the people
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AAP grew overambitious; its leader anyway tended to be autocratic. The party’s slide began when it became unscrupulous. Will it reform its ways?
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There’s talk of President’s Rule, but, for better optics, the BJP will more likely let Delhi’s AAP government hoist itself with its own petard
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"The all-pervasive spirituality of Kashi simply takes you over…like you are being enveloped by something greater."
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Obstructionist bureaucracy needs an injection of specialists
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A regular column on the essential buzz
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Angry, Alternative Politics, they called it. But has AAP failed to redeem its pledge? Is it too angry, and not alternative enough?
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Saddest contradictions are Tamil politicians. They are probably the worst opportunists and the most corrupt, still spouting Periyar and Ambedkar, equally comfortable in a necktie and a konakam (loin cloth)
OTHER STORIES
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Complex, hypnotic and neglected, Raza’s <em>Scene 75</em> speaks of the rank ruthlessness of ’70s Bollywood and the stewing jostle of the middle class
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Their parents played cricket for India. Years later, their sons and daughters take guard and aim to break into the elitest of XIs.
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The first national NIFT survey will finally chart the Indian body type, if indeed such a thing is found to exist
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For the corrupt rich, India is hell to live but heaven to loot. They flee after the crime, seldom get dubbed anti-nationals.
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An adivasi’s lynching sparks an artistic outpouring that only discomfits activists
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In Karnataka, a star throws his hat in the ring. But this isn’t MGR land.
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Kamalahaasan launches his party, Rajnikanth another movie
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The Maoists once held sway over Jangalmahal. After their defeat, the state seems to care more for the poor.
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Protests against the rape of a Muslim Gujjar girl gain two strands. One is to ‘evict all nomads’ from Jammu.
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With polls pending, Khaleda Zia in jail and Hasina pampering Islamists, Bangladesh is on edge
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Angry worshippers of a Karnataka's village; hauted Assembly in Rajasthan. Read all the juicy gossip...
