River Of Smoke
Outlook Exclusive: Extracts from the eagerly-awaited book two in Amitav Ghosh’s <i>Ibis</i> trilogy
Five Steps To A Slimmer Waist
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.
Our Feral Conquistador
After seeing a popular figure to ride on in Baba Ramdev, the RSS is looking at ways to quietly dismount
Kapil Sibal
“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.”
Thus Spake Hammurabi
As the Lokpal Bill gets mired in a tortuous birthing, the debate shifts to who exactly has the right to pass a law
The Headman Has A Degree
The new panchayat chief is educated, qualified, city-bred. Can they do more for our villages?
No God Is Infallible
Venerating hotel guests gives them undue licence to be boors. It’s time that all changed.
Grand Truncated History
In felling its iconic trees, gurudwara ‘modernisation’ is also uprooting a part of Sikh heritage
Bibliofile
“Hastily conceived, poorly executed, with one eye on a litprize and the other on bestseller charts.” Hmm, now what may this be?
Trunk Calls
A novel set in India that has the hallmarks of what I would call the Indian Wedding Rock Opera genre.
View From The Eastern Slope
A timely study of India’s foreign policy: exhaustive, empathetic yet critical of a lack of strategic vision
Ready
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.
Bharati Shivaji
The Mohiniyattam exponent on <i>Beyond Grace</i>, a documentary that premiered in LA on June 9.
Delhi Diary
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.