COVER STORY
Outlook Exclusive: Extracts from the eagerly-awaited book two in Amitav Ghosh’s <i>Ibis</i> trilogy
Outlook Magazine - 20 June 2011
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A slim waist doesn't just make you look good, it signifies a lot more: good health, youth, healthy metabolic rate, strength, vigour and longevity.
After seeing a popular figure to ride on in Baba Ramdev, the RSS is looking at ways to quietly dismount
“Katrina ki jawani/Is a radiant, candescent national truth/It makes Nitin Gadkari sing and dance with glee/And inspires Kapil Sibal to write poetry for free.”
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A slim waist doesn't just make you look good, it signifies a lot more: good health, youth, healthy metabolic rate, strength, vigour and longevity.
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Intolerance is ingrained in the Congress as well as the Opposition
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Ramdev’s Rs 1,100-cr empire raises its own set of controversies
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The RSS begins to regain iron control over the BJP
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After seeing a popular figure to ride on in Baba Ramdev, the RSS is looking at ways to quietly dismount
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“Katrina ki jawani/Is a radiant, candescent national truth/It makes Nitin Gadkari sing and dance with glee/And inspires Kapil Sibal to write poetry for free.”
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Just what is civil society? A hazy label that leaves us none the wiser.
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M.F. Husain was a contemporary of every Indian artist, young or old
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It was the NAC that brought ‘moral’ citizenry on board
OTHER STORIES
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As the Lokpal Bill gets mired in a tortuous birthing, the debate shifts to who exactly has the right to pass a law
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Husain’s canvases, absorbent of India, were coloured by the times
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The embattled DMK is fast losing its bargaining chips
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A lack of sincerity is evident in the Centre’s overtures on black money
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An ex-scientist brings new technologies to Tiruvallur’s villages
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The new panchayat chief is educated, qualified, city-bred. Can they do more for our villages?
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Once leading the SEZ revolution, now Maharashtra is backing out or going slow
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Mortal fear aims to muzzle Pakistani scribes. Many are defiant.
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How Azad manufactured medical seats
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Venerating hotel guests gives them undue licence to be boors. It’s time that all changed.
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In felling its iconic trees, gurudwara ‘modernisation’ is also uprooting a part of Sikh heritage
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Indo-Pak volubility notwithstanding, LoC still remains undefined
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The hospitality industry may lend itself to innuendo, but rises above it
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“Hastily conceived, poorly executed, with one eye on a litprize and the other on bestseller charts.” Hmm, now what may this be?
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A novel set in India that has the hallmarks of what I would call the Indian Wedding Rock Opera genre.
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A timely study of India’s foreign policy: exhaustive, empathetic yet critical of a lack of strategic vision
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There are films that’re so bad they turn out to be quite good—all for poking fun at. But this one is impossibly bad.
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The Mohiniyattam exponent on <i>Beyond Grace</i>, a documentary that premiered in LA on June 9.
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The Congress is hoist with its own petard. The only thing that can save the UPA is the self-destructive instinct of the Baba, who has a pronounced tendency to overreach himself.
