COVER STORY
Gentle Reminders For A Night Of Light
A week of indulgence never made anyone fat. Plan ahead and eat all the mithai you want
Outlook Magazine - 19 November 2012
Big Dog At The Plate
Bill Clinton played a big hand in Obama’s late surge. Has it set up Hillary for 2016?
Two Decks Of Bleeding Sentiments
Threats, posturing, more threats. The <i>National Herald</i> is a drag.
Valori Della Famiglia
As scandals reach the Gandhi family door, is the First Family’s halo finally waning?
The Archon Speaks
Obama’s victory speech reminds Indians what they are missing out on
Big Dog At The Plate
Bill Clinton played a big hand in Obama’s late surge. Has it set up Hillary for 2016?
The World Is Horizontal
Obama II promises continuity in ties, but a poll-wary India isn’t ambitious
Yo, Your Ballot’s Showin’
The more you read the details, the more America’s ironies bedevil you
Saffron Succotash!
The RSS supremo goes to bat for his boy Gadkari
Shiva’s Tridents
Abrasive, savvy, right-wing, ubiquitous—they’re ‘Internet Hindus’
Two Decks Of Bleeding Sentiments
Threats, posturing, more threats. The <i>National Herald</i> is a drag.
Valori Della Famiglia
As scandals reach the Gandhi family door, is the First Family’s halo finally waning?
The Belly, See Ma?
Forget shaking your bon-bons. Belly up!
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
Bibliofile
Penguin-Random is official, Ruchir Sharma won the Tata Literature First Book Award and the NaMo bio seems like a real winner
Unhappy Acres
New questions—on original licence, location, resale—for Vadra’s land
Green Colour Paper
An English daily for Muslims is planned
Doing A Kartwheel
Online retail is booming, but firms must zero in on a profitable model
The Never Forgetters
Naipaul’s passe, our national secularism project needs new legs
A Straight Shooter On The Hip
In its 15th year, crime drama <i>CID</i> continues to prove the drawing power of reductive logic
Skyfall
An inward-looking, personal tale of passion, trust, betrayal and retribution. “Old dog” has “new tricks”.
K.N. Shashikiran
The Chennai-based musician and creator of Carnatica, a one-stop Indian classical music portal, on his next venture, Carnatica Radio, and the eighth edition of the Bharat Sangeet Utsav
A Giant Rode The Highway
A slim volume, leisurely in pace, well-informed and felicitously written
In The Dark Towards Pondy
A set of common lives helps Akash Kapur examine the ruction and the changes set off by liberal reforms
Who Milks This Cow?
Tracking that species of Hindutvawadi, obsessively trolling the Net, looking for slights to the faith
‘Sethji’
My lawyer told me I should ‘soo’ <i>Outlook</i>. I’ll do one better. I’ll go to their office and make ‘soo soo’ on the copies.
Berlin Diary
For students of modern history, Berlin stands for war—the wars of German unification, WWI and WWII and, the Cold War
