COVER STORY
Cleaning India can’t be a superficial thing. Can Modi choke off our industry of filth?
Outlook Magazine - 13 October 2014
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
TV’s mass hypnosis: handsome is what Modi does
Modi’s diplomatic stagecraft has only had modest success
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
Rivals join in coalition in the fraught politics of Afghanistan
Business in bitesizes
Build toilets. But more important, get communities to change ways.
Volunteers clear garbage from a colony streetside
OTHER STORIES
Modi can try, but Benares just doesn’t care
We are still not ready to accept that cleanliness and sanitation are caste-based.
‘Swachh Bharat’ is an extension of ‘Nirmal Gujarat’, but its cities are no stranger to filth
The controversial godman gave us all of 10 minutes to chat him up at Sirsa.
There’s no sign of Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim losing steam anytime soon
The former Maharashtra CM on the break-up of the alliance and the prospects of his party in the forthcoming election
What is the govt verdict on the skyrocketing fruit, veggie prices?
An oral history project on Partition takes off
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.
Chief of the PM’s economic advisory council under the UPA answers charges of bequeathing an economy in the doldrums to the NDA
The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
On why we should relook, review and reflect on why grandma says what she says.
A first: Khushwant Singh Literary Festival in Kasauli without the grand old man...
A stark picture of garment manufacturing in Bangladesh
Bursting with information general, specialised and arcane, packed with photos and sketches—a true wildlife handbook
The first non-European lecturer of law at the University of Cambridge on why she’s keen to probe the Gujarat development model
The power and compelling touch of Jahnu Barua's earlier movies goes missing
Am I the only one who is a bit nauseated by the constant demand from the American side: “What can you do for us?”
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.
