A week of indulgence never made anyone fat. Plan ahead and eat all the mithai you want
- COVER STORY
- Bill Clinton played a big hand in Obama’s late surge. Has it set up Hillary for 2016? - Threats, posturing, more threats. The <i>National Herald</i> is a drag. - As scandals reach the Gandhi family door, is the First Family’s halo finally waning? 
- Obama’s victory speech reminds Indians what they are missing out on 
- Bill Clinton played a big hand in Obama’s late surge. Has it set up Hillary for 2016? 
- Obama II promises continuity in ties, but a poll-wary India isn’t ambitious 
- The more you read the details, the more America’s ironies bedevil you 
- The RSS supremo goes to bat for his boy Gadkari 
- Abrasive, savvy, right-wing, ubiquitous—they’re ‘Internet Hindus’ 
- Threats, posturing, more threats. The <i>National Herald</i> is a drag. 
- As scandals reach the Gandhi family door, is the First Family’s halo finally waning? 
- Forget shaking your bon-bons. Belly up! 
OTHER STORIES
- Penguin-Random is official, Ruchir Sharma won the Tata Literature First Book Award and the NaMo bio seems like a real winner 
- New questions—on original licence, location, resale—for Vadra’s land 
- An English daily for Muslims is planned 
- Online retail is booming, but firms must zero in on a profitable model 
- Naipaul’s passe, our national secularism project needs new legs 
- In its 15th year, crime drama <i>CID</i> continues to prove the drawing power of reductive logic 
- An inward-looking, personal tale of passion, trust, betrayal and retribution. “Old dog” has “new tricks”. 
- 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 slim volume, leisurely in pace, well-informed and felicitously written 
- A set of common lives helps Akash Kapur examine the ruction and the changes set off by liberal reforms 
- Tracking that species of Hindutvawadi, obsessively trolling the Net, looking for slights to the faith 
- 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. 
- For students of modern history, Berlin stands for war—the wars of German unification, WWI and WWII and, the Cold War 




















