COVER STORY
Cleaning India can’t be a superficial thing. Can Modi choke off our industry of filth?
Outlook Magazine - 13 October 2014
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Japan and China may be where the most value lies, but it’s the US visit that marked the real psychological high. Modi was feted by goggle-eyed NRIs and industrialists drinking up hope. The Obama parleys stuck to a flawless script too.
Did Obama ask Modi to join the anti-ISIS fight? The casus belli, though just, might not move India.
The Jayalalitha conviction has thrown open the closed universe of Tamil politics
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TV’s mass hypnosis: handsome is what Modi does
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Modi’s diplomatic stagecraft has only had modest success
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Japan and China may be where the most value lies, but it’s the US visit that marked the real psychological high. Modi was feted by goggle-eyed NRIs and industrialists drinking up hope. The Obama parleys stuck to a flawless script too.
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Did Obama ask Modi to join the anti-ISIS fight? The casus belli, though just, might not move India.
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The Jayalalitha conviction has thrown open the closed universe of Tamil politics
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Rivals join in coalition in the fraught politics of Afghanistan
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Business in bitesizes
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Build toilets. But more important, get communities to change ways.
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Volunteers clear garbage from a colony streetside
OTHER STORIES
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Modi can try, but Benares just doesn’t care
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We are still not ready to accept that cleanliness and sanitation are caste-based.
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‘Swachh Bharat’ is an extension of ‘Nirmal Gujarat’, but its cities are no stranger to filth
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The controversial godman gave us all of 10 minutes to chat him up at Sirsa.
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There’s no sign of Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim losing steam anytime soon
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The former Maharashtra CM on the break-up of the alliance and the prospects of his party in the forthcoming election
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What is the govt verdict on the skyrocketing fruit, veggie prices?
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An oral history project on Partition takes off
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She was his ‘pearl’; he her ‘law-giver’. Gandhi’s relationship with Saraladebi Chowdhurani in 1919-1920 charged his politics, threatened his marriage and alarmed his disciples.
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Chief of the PM’s economic advisory council under the UPA answers charges of bequeathing an economy in the doldrums to the NDA
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The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
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On why we should relook, review and reflect on why grandma says what she says.
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A first: Khushwant Singh Literary Festival in Kasauli without the grand old man...
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A stark picture of garment manufacturing in Bangladesh
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Bursting with information general, specialised and arcane, packed with photos and sketches—a true wildlife handbook
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The first non-European lecturer of law at the University of Cambridge on why she’s keen to probe the Gujarat development model
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The power and compelling touch of Jahnu Barua's earlier movies goes missing
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Am I the only one who is a bit nauseated by the constant demand from the American side: “What can you do for us?”
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How can 85-year-old doddering idiots, who can neither lift nor string a Gandiva, head the Archery Federation for 30 and even 50 years.
