COVER STORY
Why we don’t benefit from falling crude
Outlook Magazine - 26 October 2015
Modi is caught in the pincer of a paradox—his RSS-fed hankering for a Hindu rashtra and his own modern technocratism. Where will his balancing act lead India?
Mobile wallets are the new big players in the transactions push. And it’s clicking.
Kiran Nagarkar, one of the most significant writers of postcolonial India, on the current atmosphere and its political underpinnings.
Across the world, down the ages, regimes of all colours have throttled dissenting voices
Uday Prakash, the first writer to forsake his Akademi award, rues the shrunk world he inhabits
Mumbai—under siege from the Shiv Sena’s puerile jingoism—is no longer a cosmopolitan safe haven. The BJP-Sena spat over recent events is only a new eyesore.
The writers’ stand is forcing the government to sit up and take notice, even if it acts nonchalant
In the end, there is The Word.... It falls upon writers to floatan ark of reason in the flood of intolerance in Modi-led India.
Modi is caught in the pincer of a paradox—his RSS-fed hankering for a Hindu rashtra and his own modern technocratism. Where will his balancing act lead India?
The IPL or any event of this scale is a fantastic opportunity for any company
Mobile wallets are the new big players in the transactions push. And it’s clicking.
Kiran Nagarkar, one of the most significant writers of postcolonial India, on the current atmosphere and its political underpinnings.
Across the world, down the ages, regimes of all colours have throttled dissenting voices
Uday Prakash, the first writer to forsake his Akademi award, rues the shrunk world he inhabits
Mumbai—under siege from the Shiv Sena’s puerile jingoism—is no longer a cosmopolitan safe haven. The BJP-Sena spat over recent events is only a new eyesore.
The writers’ stand is forcing the government to sit up and take notice, even if it acts nonchalant
In the end, there is The Word.... It falls upon writers to floatan ark of reason in the flood of intolerance in Modi-led India.
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