COVER STORY
Outlook Exclusive: Extracts from the eagerly-awaited book two in Amitav Ghosh’s <i>Ibis</i> trilogy
Outlook Magazine - 20 June 2011
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.”
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.
Intolerance is ingrained in the Congress as well as the Opposition
Ramdev’s Rs 1,100-cr empire raises its own set of controversies
The RSS begins to regain iron control over the BJP
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.”
Just what is civil society? A hazy label that leaves us none the wiser.
M.F. Husain was a contemporary of every Indian artist, young or old
It was the NAC that brought ‘moral’ citizenry on board
OTHER STORIES
As the Lokpal Bill gets mired in a tortuous birthing, the debate shifts to who exactly has the right to pass a law
Husain’s canvases, absorbent of India, were coloured by the times
The embattled DMK is fast losing its bargaining chips
A lack of sincerity is evident in the Centre’s overtures on black money
An ex-scientist brings new technologies to Tiruvallur’s villages
The new panchayat chief is educated, qualified, city-bred. Can they do more for our villages?
Once leading the SEZ revolution, now Maharashtra is backing out or going slow
Mortal fear aims to muzzle Pakistani scribes. Many are defiant.
How Azad manufactured medical seats
Venerating hotel guests gives them undue licence to be boors. It’s time that all changed.
In felling its iconic trees, gurudwara ‘modernisation’ is also uprooting a part of Sikh heritage
Indo-Pak volubility notwithstanding, LoC still remains undefined
The hospitality industry may lend itself to innuendo, but rises above it
“Hastily conceived, poorly executed, with one eye on a litprize and the other on bestseller charts.” Hmm, now what may this be?
A novel set in India that has the hallmarks of what I would call the Indian Wedding Rock Opera genre.
A timely study of India’s foreign policy: exhaustive, empathetic yet critical of a lack of strategic vision
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.
The Mohiniyattam exponent on <i>Beyond Grace</i>, a documentary that premiered in LA on June 9.
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.
