COVER STORY
“Help, The Termites Are Spreading”
The grotesque, the barbaric and the kiss of death.
Outlook Magazine - 29 June 2015
‘Sikh Victims Of ’84 Won’t Get Justice In India’
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the man behind 'Sikhs For Justice' on the group's motivations and methods and on internationalising the Sikh issue.
Contessas In The Net
As Lalit Modi’s latest scandalous revelations rock the ruthless, rapacious world of cricket and politics, it has shattered the reputations of two women leaders.
Address Unknown...
The ED accused the BCCI for FEMA violations. The blame was heaped on the elusive LaMo.
Tense Backfoot Defence
Sushma’s usefulness, docility has bought her the PM’s backing. Has Vasundhararaje earned it?
The Dangling Modifier
A yorker is launched from a Murdoch newspaper. It swings crazily and strikes two unlikely targets: Vasundhararaje and Sushma Swaraj.
Bringing Out An Old Ghost
An attempt is on to revive the vigilantism of the Salwa Judum, which the SC curbed
Portal Of Unease
The ISI director is ruthlessly sacked as curtains are drawn shut in secrecy
‘Sikh Victims Of ’84 Won’t Get Justice In India’
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the man behind 'Sikhs For Justice' on the group's motivations and methods and on internationalising the Sikh issue.
Biztro
Business in bitesizes
Contessas In The Net
As Lalit Modi’s latest scandalous revelations rock the ruthless, rapacious world of cricket and politics, it has shattered the reputations of two women leaders.
Address Unknown...
The ED accused the BCCI for FEMA violations. The blame was heaped on the elusive LaMo.
Tense Backfoot Defence
Sushma’s usefulness, docility has bought her the PM’s backing. Has Vasundhararaje earned it?
The Dangling Modifier
A yorker is launched from a Murdoch newspaper. It swings crazily and strikes two unlikely targets: Vasundhararaje and Sushma Swaraj.
Who Has Given Up Arms?
Why the impressive surrender figures don’t add up
Bringing Out An Old Ghost
An attempt is on to revive the vigilantism of the Salwa Judum, which the SC curbed
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
Big Brother’s Dharma Cola
How did Gajendra Chauhan get his FTII gig? Indignation reigns over the choice.
If Pens Can Be Sheathed
A year of women’s writing? Proposing a year of authorial abstinence.
When Thakur Brought Back Order
<i>Sholay</i> and the Emergency and the national lament over the frustrations of democratic procedures
Lakewood City Is Made Of Papier Mache
Architecture must replace useless identities with humanitarian ideals
“Glass, Glass, And More Glass”
The cement walls, the horrendous and the hideous.
“Strange Aesthetics Of Bhavans”
The pockmarks on the face of Delhi.
“Best High Street Made An Eyesore”
Bengaluru's ugly eyesores and iron grills.
“Houses Or Concrete Pillboxes?”
Chennai's brutish architectural travesties.
“Of Reticent Bureaucratic Air”
The unsettling, the divine and the destitute.
“It’s A Celebration Of Affluenza; Mere Verticality Is Not Magnificence”
Competitive skyscrapers and the victims of aspirational developers.
Mojo Has Left The Building
Charles Correa is dead. So it seems is Indian architecture. At odds with its milieu, imitative, and totally bereft of any thought or energy.
Rewind
<i>Outlook</i> in retrospect.
Why I Love <i>Outlook</i>
I do believe that Pranab Mukherjee’s life should be treated with the same focus and speculation as Katrina Kaif’s.
Why I Love To Hate <i>Outlook</i>
Food is one big gap in <i>Outlook</i>. It is a big industry and a large part of our focus should be on it.
In Amitav’s Thriving World
Kim Ling’s food is reminiscent of the theme of Ghosh's <i>Ibis</i> trilogy, being a cultural collision of Chinese and Indian.
Seven Days
The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
Bibliofile
Why Mani Shankar Aiyar and Digvijay Singh are best friends and a heavy dose of magic realism.
A Peddler Called John Company
Amitav Ghosh's cosmopolitan-colonial world bursts into life with the fog of war, individual destinies, camp life, victoriana and a rapacious British Empire
Amish Tripathi
The best-selling author on his upcoming book and life as a writer
Hamari Adhuri Kahani
Vidya Balan hams her way to being the most irritating ever on screen.
Deep Throat
A regular column on the essential buzz
Italy Diary
Italy is a country that is in no hurry...Rome even now moves like a slow-motion film of the 1950s.
Par Avion
A random sample from the British periodicals
