COVER STORY
With millions going hungry every day, India just cannot afford to send off this staple foodgrain
Outlook Magazine - 27 July 2009
The rice export deal is being investigated in Ghana, but ignored here, despite patent inconsistencies
Greedy exporters used ‘needy’ African nations to circumvent a ban on rice exports. An indulgent officialdom facilitates the windfall.
CPI(M) general secretary on factionalism in its Kerala unit and cracks in its Bengal citadel
Literally, food on the rocks. Sizzling on volcanic rock heated to 400 degrees, your prawns cook in exactly two minutes...
The rice export deal is being investigated in Ghana, but ignored here, despite patent inconsistencies
Greedy exporters used ‘needy’ African nations to circumvent a ban on rice exports. An indulgent officialdom facilitates the windfall.
CPI(M) general secretary on factionalism in its Kerala unit and cracks in its Bengal citadel
The Marxists face their worst crisis ever. Comrades look for a “reconnect”.
Playing ‘Mature Nation’, India delinks terror from Pak dialogue
The tender process for a Rs 6,000-cr coal import contract is tweaked to suit a bidder
An ol’ Maharashtrian snack now gets the Shiv Sena stamp
Literally, food on the rocks. Sizzling on volcanic rock heated to 400 degrees, your prawns cook in exactly two minutes...
Here’s a film that could have been the cult classic of its times. But stops short.
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From the first page, this is a triumph of storytelling in what Chandrahas Choudhury chooses to reveal, and at what precise pace.
A narrative of the sublime relationship the immortal M.S. and Radha Viswanathan shared enamours and educates
While reading ‘Is Food Better Than Sex?’, the thought struck me—‘Can TV be better than sex?’
A year after quota, <i>Outlook</i> finds its students do as well as others
The Centre lays down a security regimen that many find too harsh
A film on farmer suicides has much more
An iconic musical instruments shop closes; while another stumbles on
The deputy chairman of the Planning Commission says the immediate concern is to revive the growth momentum.
A classic figure still adhering to its West side genes is getting an Indian rebirth
A liquor tragedy in Gujarat gives its CM an image problem
The Chittorgarh district collector knows how the system works
Chittorgarh shows the way to affordable healthcare—generic drugs at cost price
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation exits HIV control in India, leaving it to the government
It’s hundred years since the discovery of Chanakya’s great work from a manuscript
