COVER STORY
Bull's Eye
After a hundred years people still speculate on the serial murders by Jack the Ripper. Are the Nithari serial murders less horrendous?
Outlook Magazine - 17 March 2008
Hydra In The Head
Cases of brain cysts, caused by tapeworm, are rising sharply in cities across India
In Moves The Shaker
S.M. Krishna's poll-eve return to politics will churn up the Congress in Karnataka
Feasting on Feijoada
Horse Shoe's simple culinary secret—every dish that leaves this kitchen is a labour of love
The Man Who Brought The Mahatma To Palestine
In between all the violence, Mubarak Awad has slowly brought the Gandhian way to bear
Gandhis Of Olive Country
Another path to peace? Palestinians revel in Gandhi and the nonviolent struggle.
Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Gruesome! It keeps getting bloodier by the scene, yet remains curiously engaging.
Hydra In The Head
Cases of brain cysts, caused by tapeworm, are rising sharply in cities across India
In Moves The Shaker
S.M. Krishna's poll-eve return to politics will churn up the Congress in Karnataka
Feasting on Feijoada
Horse Shoe's simple culinary secret—every dish that leaves this kitchen is a labour of love
Radio Bihar Calling
AIR is too all-India, states want region-specific radio stations
Summer Eclipse
A murky power scenario is pushing two rich states into gloom
The Man Who Brought The Mahatma To Palestine
In between all the violence, Mubarak Awad has slowly brought the Gandhian way to bear
Gandhis Of Olive Country
Another path to peace? Palestinians revel in Gandhi and the nonviolent struggle.
Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Gruesome! It keeps getting bloodier by the scene, yet remains curiously engaging.
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
Alphonsa, Thy Name Is Risen
Gentle, unassuming and strikingly beautiful—old-timers recall her so. The nun is to be canonised soon.
On His Biotic Metal Train
Installation artist Subodh Gupta, a railway guard's son, outsells a Husain in foreign art marts
The Kilo Is Heavier
The woes of the farm cascade over to the city as prices of foodgrains soar
Finds Of The Tour
Ishant Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Gautam Gambhir, Praveen Kumar, Piyush Chawla...
Australians Hate Losing
A splendid victory, but it's a base camp for the assault on the peak: Tests
Step Out The Milky Way
Bhajji's audacity doused an emotional holocaust
'I Don't Want To Drive A Bentley Or A Rolls Royce'
The Indian captain on how he and his young team went about defying naysayers to tame the mighty Australians at home...
Clickr! The Class Of '08
It's true what they say, the young have no fear. Dhoni's bunch of twenty somethings start out on a wonderful crusade.
Amber Lights
Early polls are a no-no; the BJP growth graph has plateaued
'Congress Has Made Overtures To Us'
Mulayam Singh admits that the party has approached the SP for an electoral arrangement
'A Minority Government Cannot Sign A Major Deal'
Extremely careful not to upset the coalition's fragile balance of interests, the external affairs minister on the N-Deal
November Reign?
The farmers won, the middle class happy. Now the talk veers to an early election.
The State As Landlord
Naxlism feeds off genuine issues. It calls for policy, not police.
Bibliofile
She was the ultimate male fantasy, not the woman "of big breasts and a small brain" that boys dream of, but an emperor’s erotic fantasy... who she?
Spiceless Kari
Patil’s prettily wrought artwork conjures an atmosphere of angst and gloom. Unfortunately, the storyline doesn’t help -- pain, blood and dirt never quite amount to reality.
A State Affair
Although ostensibly about the Raj, the freedom struggle and Partition, what it dwells on is the Nehru-Edwina love story
The Musketeers Of Hind
1857—the time that's become a place in our minds
Flashback On A Contemporary Time
A candid view on Islam, its problems with the West. Closer home, there are convenient lapses of memory.
Peter Gordon
The Man Asian Literary Prize chief was here to woo entries for Asia's biggest literary award
The Lord Takes Many Forms
Even as an unlikely debate rages around the Ram Setu, right-wing student activists in a pocket of Delhi university took exception to a celebrated essay by an eminent scholar...
