COVER STORY
My focus today is on M.F. Husain. He is neither a Marathi manoos—though he was born in Pandharpur, Solapur district, Maharashtra—nor is he an Indian anymore.
Outlook Magazine - 15 March 2010
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The economist and political commentator who was appointed to a four-member team of the UN to recommend reforms to the global financial system critiques Budget 2010
The deputy chairman of the Planning Commission spoke to Outlook soon after the budget.
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Govt/media/industry. It’s a closed, cosy club of technocrats.
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Right noises, honest numbers can’t save the budget from weaknesses
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The economist and political commentator who was appointed to a four-member team of the UN to recommend reforms to the global financial system critiques Budget 2010
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The spirit is willing for reform but the foot isn’t off the brakes
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Does Budget day matter anymore? Are the guys on TV playing us?
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How the budget proposals impact you—and a plan for life after Budget 2010.
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It’s time people got—or took—direct charge of budget-making
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Forget the rhetoric, the FM’s left little for core social sectors
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The deputy chairman of the Planning Commission spoke to Outlook soon after the budget.
OTHER STORIES
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Pranab’s partymen and allies come around to the petrol price hike, but only grudgingly
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A relaxed, and occasionally combative, Pranab Mukherjee caught up with Outlook during the heat of the price rise debate
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UPA-II’s first full budget has shown welfarism the door
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Saba Naqvi on the pitfalls of a Muslim byline, and on taking more than her fair share of ‘hits’
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The Muslim liberal has no one in his corner. Is state policy responsible?
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India warms up to the Arab world—vital in itself and in its effects
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The walls are clad in Japanese-style pop art. The menu has funny faces. Chopsticks come with instructions on how to use them to eat, and imitate a walrus...
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From a romance to a thriller to one of Bollywood’s recently fashionable (but fake) trysts with fancy illnesses, KCK doesn’t know which way it wants to go
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Author and documentary filmmaker on her book <i>The Dialogue of the Film ‘Mother India’</I>
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“The two most depressing words in the English language are ‘literary fiction’”
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For an anthology that contours the most life-affirming of relationships, this is a cold, bleak book.
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To see Dharavi as a self-renewing organism that is changing, upgrading its own structure of accommodation, is the great gift of the book.
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Pavan Varma’s inveighing against a baleful colonial influence is rooted in the Hindi sphere’s fragile ego
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In spite of the discomforts of a long road journey, I prefer it to other forms of travel... The romance has gone out of rail travel. And as for flying, there appears to be a general reluctance on the part of planes to take off.
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A state government helps farmers go organic
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Monetary help for rape victims is stuck
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The humble grain soars as it enters the red book of healthy diets
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In the dark cyber alley, satirist gangs poke fun at the passing world
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Hindi-borne impurities irk Bengali language purists
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Our new realities call for new language skills
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How has it come about that the elite has so taken to the hockey World Cup? Mostly a fad, it seems. And patriotism.
