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gujarat riots

A Beast Asleep?

Ten years after Gujarat 2002, Outlook asks if we’re likely to witness such horror again

Mar 05, 2012

| Smruti Koppikar Saba Naqvi
gujarat riots

That Summer Of Their Discontent

Blood spilt in the Hashimpura massacre and riots in 1987 remain fresh for survivors

Mar 05, 2012

| Debarshi Dasgupta
narendra Modi

Dear Narendrabhai, Could You Please...

...answer some questions?

Mar 05, 2012

| Sundeep Dougal
opinion

Reminding, A Rough Art

One would never wish 2002 to have an encore, but to discount that possibility would mean being lulled into complacency.

Mar 05, 2012

| Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay

opinion

Felled By His Own Folks

Why the Maharashtra CM is a sad man after the BMC defeat

Mar 05, 2012

| Smruti Koppikar
elections: goa

Family Football

The BJP is up against six Congress clans

Mar 05, 2012

| Pushpa Iyengar
investigation: andhra pradesh

It’s Spilling Billions

An ACB probe unearths a ‘well-recorded’ network of bribery in Andhra’s liquor trade

Mar 05, 2012

| Madhavi Tata

foreign policy: the states

The Dispersal Of Policy

With a Centre on the backfoot, empowered states marry domestic concerns to national policy

Mar 05, 2012

| Pranay Sharma

economy: tax the rich

What Is Thy True Worth?

The Indian rich class isn’t paying its fair share of taxes. The time has now come....

Mar 05, 2012

| Pragya Singh
- Buffett Tax
telecom: 2g aftermath

The Grid Lights Up

Dust from the Supreme Court’s 2G verdict descends. It’s a thick haze.

Mar 05, 2012

| Arindam Mukherjee

opinion

My Kurta’s Runaway Colours

Fabindia, that byword for casual Indian chic, falls for Gallic charm

Mar 05, 2012

| Sadanand Menon
karnataka: human sacrifice

Deathly Altar Of Tatu Ajja

Was Basavaraja’s death plain murder or a gruesome enactment of a tantric ritual?

Mar 05, 2012

| Sugata Srinivasaraju
- From Voodoo To Vaastu...

cricket: controversy

Fielding Restrictions

As if to deepen its sufferings, an air of dispute hovers over the Indian team

Mar 05, 2012

| Rohit Mahajan

10 Questions

Robert Crumb

Legendary cartoonist Robert Crumb was in Delhi for the convention Comic Con India

Mar 05, 2012

| Arpita Basu
gossip

Bibliofile

It’s been every big publisher’s dream to discover the next Chetan Bhagat. And it seems Penguin has found one...

Mar 05, 2012

| Outlook
Last Page

Lucknow Diary

The ‘importing’ of Uma Bharati from MP may not have set the BJP’s fortunes on fire in UP, but she continues to offer rich material to the diarist

Mar 05, 2012

| Sreenivasan Jain
Etcetera

Pollsutra 2012

News, quotes, bytes, gossip, buzz, oddities, the grapevine from the poll-bound states

Mar 05, 2012

| Outlook
Calcutta Restaurant

Pasta By The Lake

It’s unclear why Casa Toscana’s manager was reluctant to have the Italian restaurant reviewed...

Mar 05, 2012

| Dola Mitra
Review

Colour Thread

With her attempt at a graphic novel in pictures Dayanita Singh has found yet another way to break rules.

Mar 05, 2012

| Gautam Bhatia (Architect)
Review

One Leg In A Gunny Sack

One tastes the entrails of a seething Mumbai slum in this vivid, visceral account

Mar 05, 2012

| Patrick French
Review

Gigs In Town

A frothy, delicious and gossipy whirl of who-likes-who, who-said-or-did-what, and who-had-sex-with-who.

Mar 05, 2012

| Manjushree Thapa
the Secret Diary of

Baroness P.D. James

So the former editor-in-chief of Outlook found my book to be ‘fiendishly clever’? If that was so, why put it inside quotes?

Mar 05, 2012

| V. Gangadhar
Movie Review

The Artist

If not the best, it’s definitely the most feelgood—apart from nostalgia-inducing—film of the year.

Mar 05, 2012

| Namrata Joshi
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