COVER STORY
Calculus Of The Incalculable
Want to ‘burn’ 500 calories in the hope of losing weight? Count your efforts, not your calories
Outlook Magazine - 7 May 2012
Smoking Guns: Eating Out Of A Foreign Hand
The smell of cordite over Bofors has subsided, but one question nags still: why did Bofors pay Q? Thereby hangs a shameful tale of missed chances.
The North Face
The northern states are pulling away as growth stutters in the once arrogant south. In this exclusive extract, the author posits the fresh challenges facing India in its bid to be a breakout nation.
A Midstream Game For You And Me
Besieged in Af-Pak and festering with sores, Pakistan sees the virtues of peace with India
Smoking Guns: Eating Out Of A Foreign Hand
The smell of cordite over Bofors has subsided, but one question nags still: why did Bofors pay Q? Thereby hangs a shameful tale of missed chances.
The Graphic Portfolios
Public lives, private acts. Where do we draw the line?
Beyond Vindhya Major
The South has no cause to rise again. Its sun has yet to set.
The North Face
The northern states are pulling away as growth stutters in the once arrogant south. In this exclusive extract, the author posits the fresh challenges facing India in its bid to be a breakout nation.
Pakreading 101
Why refuse to recognise a change in mindset for what it is?
Intelligent Designs
A ISI-hosted dinner serves as the platform for moderate views
A Midstream Game For You And Me
Besieged in Af-Pak and festering with sores, Pakistan sees the virtues of peace with India
The In-Betweeners
A whole history of mistrust and failed dialogue stalks this ‘diplomacy’
No Red Beacons
Alex Paul Menon, energetic and idealistic, was a soft target
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
Maulana Mark-II
Quota is tough. False terror arrests prove an easier entry point.
Long Journeys To Parenthood
Couples from countries across the world—chiefly Islamic countries and Africa—are seeking babies in Indian clinics
Social Engineering?
Students raise a storm over rules teachers say are for their own good
Route 666
More highways at what cost? How the PPP model is at odds with the land.
View From A Pillbox
Patients of clinical trials have their rights truncated
Some Myths Work
UP and Sindh, joined by history, divided by secular democracy
Dirty Three-Letter Words
Don’t brand the EWS children. Instead, integrate them better.
Treacle Down Effect
Ovenbirds are churning out cakes by the baker’s dozen
Bibliofile
Flipkart and other online bookshops seem to have hit the old-fashioned shelves-and-ladder bookshops...
Blitzkrieg At The Net
Possibly the one fault with this book, as with most Indian sports biographies: is this man perfect?
Ballad Of A Broken String
A post-Partition torpor marks time for the sole occupants of a kotha and an akhara. A work of crisp magic.
Vicky Donor
It’s been so long since a movie elicited laughs without cringes. It is unapologetic, unadulterated fun
Tishani Doshi
The author and poet on <i>Everything Begins Elsewhere</i>, her new collection of poems
Derek O’Brien
I will never have tea with a CPI(M) worker. I will never attend CPI(M) weddings. I won’t be seen in the company of CPI(M) supporters...
London Diary
“Why am I not in this book?” Howard Jacobson, winner of the Man Booker Prize, wanted to know...
