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Outlook Magazine - 14 July 2014
Liberalise The Space
The Modi government should drop the proposed dual pricing and liberalise the gas market.
Seduce By High Dudgeon, As The Silent Bits Speak
Media grab by big business, past scandals, sudden layoffs, rule of the snippet stifle the industry. Gossip or journalists’ paranoia, news has been broken.
At The Hollow Observatory
Reliance’s first foray into the media, in the late ’80s, fizzled out in a decade
Big ED In The Chair
Reliance’s takeover of media group TV18 raises serious concerns of credibility, press freedom
Liberalise The Space
The Modi government should drop the proposed dual pricing and liberalise the gas market.
Not As R-Positive
Having formed the government, Modi’s not doing Reliance’s bidding
Seduce By High Dudgeon, As The Silent Bits Speak
Media grab by big business, past scandals, sudden layoffs, rule of the snippet stifle the industry. Gossip or journalists’ paranoia, news has been broken.
When The Drill Seeps Water
YSR, Naidu, Ambani, Eenadu. How gas forced the Reliance hand in AP media.
At The Hollow Observatory
Reliance’s first foray into the media, in the late ’80s, fizzled out in a decade
Big ED In The Chair
Reliance’s takeover of media group TV18 raises serious concerns of credibility, press freedom
The Long March
Is the Planning Commission, our super policy wonk, running out of a plan?
A Special Correspondent
Chelsea, surrounded by preferment and dough, makes a faux pas
Hillary For Everest
As Hillary rests and evades, her political future raises a firestorm
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
Judge, Jury And Executioner
How the government turned the cogs to stall Subramanium’s appointment
An Opinion Reserved
Do Marathas need quota? It’s a divided vote.
David’s Got Ball
The so-called minnows have taken the game to the top teams. It’s never been so close.
The Durjun In The Enemy’s Eye
His rationalist temper inflamed many a self-appointed custodian of the faith
A Perfect Execution
Dabholkar’s murder was well-planned and flawlessly executed,but the killers also got an unintended ally in the Pune police’s slipshoddiness
Murder? Search My Soul
To solve Narendra Dabholkar's murder, the Pune Police resorted to supernatural mumbo-jumbo and irrational faith, the very societal ill that he fought against so valiantly
Witching Hour
Anjana Vasan—actress, blues singer, and one of the witches in Kenneth Branagh’s <i>Macbeth</i>
Have Will, Will Fly
Divyanshu Ganatra is a neuroscientist who can’t see. But he can fly.
Seven Days
The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
Bibliofile
Achhe din are yet to come to the books trade, video trailers for books on YouTube...
The Road From County Sligo
If the early chapters are like riding a whirlwind, what follows is like being becalmed mid sea.
Mouldering Papers Are Us
<i>File Room</i> is subtly perceptive and variously tactile. Its images of paper-laden spaces speak of absent narratives.
Rice Paddy With Honey Glaze
A new, atmospheric restaurant in Parel promising authentic, chilli-packed Thai cuisine.
Punjab 1984 (Punjabi)
Despite many glitches, packs an emotional wallop where, as always, innocent lives are caught in the barbed wire of history.
Ek Villain
A clumsy mess of a narrative loop—stories within stories and backstories within backstories, all leading nowhere
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
The Pakistani singer on his latest album, <i>Back 2 Love</i>, and the Indian music scene
Harsh Vardhan
The trousers are going down, blouses and cholis have no back (though that does save on cloth).
Mumbai Diary
Heard of MAMIL? For me, it stands for Middle-aged Mumbaikars in Lycra.
