COVER STORY
Outlook Magazine - 22 March 2021
Pradyuman Thakur's Murder: CBI Checks Internet Surfing Records Of Class-11 Student
The agency had searched the boy's residence on September 28, but kept it under the wraps to prevent any speculation about him emerging as a prime suspect in the case, they added.
Maps For Modern Muslims
Any investigation of modern South Asian history -- and the reimagining of the 'Islamic' within it -- immediately implicates colonialism
Kerala Women's Commission Denied Permission To Meet Hadiya
The Commission was scheduled to meet the 24-year-old woman at her home in Vaikom in Kottayam district on Monday and the family was informed about it..
India’s Health Status Improving, But Major Inequities Exist Between States, Say Reports
India’s health report card: 333 disease conditions and injuries, 84 risk factors
Pradyuman Thakur's Murder: CBI Checks Internet Surfing Records Of Class-11 Student
The agency had searched the boy's residence on September 28, but kept it under the wraps to prevent any speculation about him emerging as a prime suspect in the case, they added.
Maps For Modern Muslims
Any investigation of modern South Asian history -- and the reimagining of the 'Islamic' within it -- immediately implicates colonialism
Kerala Women's Commission Denied Permission To Meet Hadiya
The Commission was scheduled to meet the 24-year-old woman at her home in Vaikom in Kottayam district on Monday and the family was informed about it..
India’s Health Status Improving, But Major Inequities Exist Between States, Say Reports
India’s health report card: 333 disease conditions and injuries, 84 risk factors
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
By Opposing Hindutva, Oppn Is Objecting To Development, <em>Bharatiyata</em>, Says Yogi Adityanath
"Hindutva and development are complementary to each other... "
Chennai Engineering Student Burnt Alive By Jilted Lover At Her House
The stalker set S Induja, on fire at the doorstep of her home in the city's Adambakkam area
Allow Return Of Rohingya Refugees, UN Chief Asks Myanmar's Suu Kyi
In his meeting with Myanmar's State Counsellor, the UN Secretary General highlighted the need for allowing the return of displaced Muslims who have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh.
Alwar: Cow Smuggling Case Against Victim Umar Khan, SP Says 'No Term Like Cow Vigilante' In Police Vocabulary'
Two persons were arrested for allegedly killing 35-year-old Khan.
Being A Homosexual Is A 'Tendency' That May Change Later, Says Sri Sri Ravi Shankar At JNU Event
In the past, Shankar had come out against the Supreme Court’s 2013 verdict on Section 377, saying homosexuality is not crime
Back To Normal? Well, Almost
It’s one year since Atlas shrugged, and our planet turned upside down. Have we come back to the way we were? Has India, finally, ‘Uncovided’ itself?
A Big If In Its Ifs And Buts Tides
A victory will consolidate Rahul’s position
A Soft Right To Move Left
The BJP may not make it big in the assembly polls, but foundations will be built for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections
Dry Run In Wet Pondicherry
Saffron with a French-Tamil twang? Well, a Trojan horse governor opened the castle, and now a dress rehearsal is on for the larger Dravidian game.
Saffron Spritz In Dravida Land
Can the BJP influence the course of Tamil Nadu politics?
Brahmaputra’s Undertow
BJP pushes for two-in-a-row. Congress, new regional parties hope to cash in on anti-CAA sentiments.
Nandigram, Ground Zero
This is where Mamata, in 2007, went right into the eye of the storm and mastered the furies. She returns again for a rematch—against a renegade satrap.
Like Gold In A Furnace
A bulked-up BJP worries about a Left surge in Bengal. Mamata counts on her government’s good deeds.
Operation Akhil Bharatiya
For the BJP, whose national footprint is yet to match its pan-Indian self-image, this is a fight for the final frontiers
Spring Silence
The newly declared ceasefire along the LoC benefits both countries, stops needless bloodletting. Yet no one bets on a further thaw.
A Shortcut To Hydro Bombs
Himachal walks the tightrope to power its development with wider roads and hydel electricity at the cost of millions of trees and a reshaped topography. Are the ecological pitfalls accounted for?
Punjab Diary
What does a movement look like, and feel like? The human spirit, in all its joyous colour, is unfurled across a whole landscape that’s become a modern, mobile Kurukshetra.
'Stuck In An Image, But I’m Happy'
'Nothing can keep you down except yourself. If you give up, it’s the end of you. I performed to the best of my abilities. The rest is destiny,' says Govinda in an exclusive interview to Eshita Bhargava
Oldest Stripes
Amitav Ghosh versifies the oldest tale of the Sundarbans in a magnificently illustrated volume
Arise, Real HEROES
Big screens, those grand exhibitors of Bollywood, are in great peril. They look at films with the biggest stars to pull them back from the very brink.
Meghan, The Dark Princess
Racism is out there, and also inside Buckingham Palace. Harry and his biracial wife finally open up on Oprah’s show on how difficult it was to be a British royal.
Sans Frontiers
Headlines from around the world last week
‘Farmers Our Brothers, Misled By A Handful’
Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar tells Harish Manav that only 40 people are misleading thousands of farmers. Earlier, they were demanding a guarantee on MSP. Now they want repeal of the new farm laws, rise of milk price to Rs 100 per litre and free up the toll plazas.
Mixed Shots
Passing through: A chuckle here, a teardrop there
Monks Positive
It’s a mystic puzzle. Some 160 Buddhist monks in a Tibetan monastery test positive for Covid. But they had never even stepped out….
Azad Puzzle Challenge
What’s Ghulam Nabi up to? Is he relaunching himself? Is he eyeing the Vice-President’s post? Will he form a breakaway faction? Is he joining the BJP?
Flames Between Two Fires
Acres and acres of Similipal, Asia’s second largest biosphere reserve, have burned to a cinder. And no one knew….
The NEWS
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