INDIA'S TOP PROFESSIONAL COLLEGES 2016
ESSAY
Changing By Degrees
A common medical test looms large, engineering needs numbers. And in Outlook’s esteemed list, a raft of new names. See what is the buzz.
ARINDAM MUKHERJEE
RANKING
LIFE LESSONS
Success Is A Many-Splendoured Thing
Entrepreneurship, medicine, law, journalism, you name the field...there are as manys ways to success as there are examples. But what unites them all is the passion to get there.
PRAGYA SINGH, AJAY SUKUMARAN, USHINOR MAJUMDAR, ABHINAV SRIVASTAVA, STUTI AGARWAL, ARUSHI BEDI

LIFE LESSONS
'Companies Hiring Engineers Are Obliged To Enable Constant Learning'
Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman and CEO, Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd.
PRAGYA SINGH

LIFE LESSONS
'I Feel Guilty If I Buy Expensive Things. That Money Could Have Saved Lives.'
Dr Devi Shetty, Cardiac surgeon. Chairman, Narayana Health. Padma Bhushan awardee
PRAGYA SINGH

LIFE LESSONS
‘Rewards Come In Due Course. There Are No Microwave-Ready Results.’
Dr Siddharth Mehta, Dentist, Padma Shri awardee
PRAGYA SINGH

LIFE LESSONS
'Even When We Could Not Pay Salaries, We Did Not Lose A Single Employee'
Meena Ganesh, CEO, Portea Medical, home healthcare service provider. Serial entrepreneur.
AJAY SUKUMARAN

LIFE LESSONS
‘I Feel I Have That One Quality Napoleon Looked For In His Generals—Luck’
Raian Karanjawala, Solicitor. Managing partner & co-founder, Karanjawala & Co.
USHINOR MAJUMDAR

LIFE LESSONS
‘When You Fight Any Social Crime, It Means Inviting A Lot Of Problems’
Kailash Satyarthi, Child rights and education advocate. Nobel laureate.
PRAGYA SINGH

LIFE LESSONS
‘Develop An Expertise, Change The Narrative, Don’t Lose Sight Of The Little People, Make A Difference.’
Bachi Karkaria, Senior journalist. Columnist
PRAGYA SINGH

LIFE LESSONS
'Do Not Get Into The Restaurant Business Unless This Is Something You Enjoy.'
A.D. Singh, Restaurateur, Entrepreneur
PRAGYA SINGH

LIFE LESSONS
‘Construction Should Never Compromise On The Human Element’
K.T. Ravindran, Dean Emeritus, RICS School of Built Environment
PRAGYA SINGH

LIFE LESSONS
'Somehow, The Gora Hangover Continues To Colour Us'
J.J. Valaya, Fashion designer and couturier
STUTI AGARWAL

LIFE LESSONS
‘I Don’t Want To Think Of Money As A Barometer Of Success’
Wendell Rodricks, Fashion designer and Padma Shri recipient
ARUSHI BEDI
EXTRAPOLATIONS
Learning To Eureka
Now, more than ever, schools must foster innovation and original thinking
A.K. BALAJI PRASAD
Seven
Days
ALL INDIA
Stand up India!
Notwithstanding uncharitable tweets from the likes of Abhishek Manu Singhvi (“Wish hunger could be solved by anulom vilom; unemployment...
more in seven days>>>
ESSAR TAPES
The Tapes No One
Wants To Hear
 
The complaint to the PM makes explosive allegations about tapping and about how things are ‘managed’ by corporates, but the government seems to be going slow on investigating them

MEETU JAIN

INTERVIEW
"4,000 MP Cops Are Using Tapping S/W"
Digital forensic engineer and consultant Prashant Pandey on the rampant use of illegal software to tap phone conversations and obtain call data
UTTAM SENGUPTA INTERVIEWS PRASHANT PANDEY

JUMP CUT
Words Off The Air
In a world where information is power, snooping is common and even friends are not exempted.
MOHAN GURUSWAMY
OUTLOOK ROUND TABLE
"If IIT Delhi Can't Have Full Faculty, What Of Other Colleges?"
Experts from different fields on all that currently ails Indian engineering education.
ARINDAM MUKHERJEE
Career Drive...
ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE, FASHION DESIGN
ECOMMON MEDICAL ENTRANCE TEST
Making Quite A NEET Mess Of It
The common medical entrance debate makes progress. However, new roadblocks emerge.
BULA DEVI
NIRF RANKINGS
Unofficially, A Broken Lens
The first ‘official’ ranking of professional ­institutes is a mess of poor planning and worse execution
ARINDAM MUKHERJEE
Career Drive...
LAW, MASS COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL WORK

INTERVIEW
'The Metro Alone Cannot Solve All Traffic Problems Of Indian cities'
DMRC managing director Mangu Singh on the nitty-gritty of managing an engineering-led enterprise.
PRAGYA SINGH INTERVIEWS MANGU SINGH

INTERVIEW
"Yes, We Have Talked About Yoga. But It’s Not A Saffron Report.”
Head of the panel that has drafted the new education policy, T.S.R. Sub­ramanian on quality education, recommendations and other things.
ANOO BHUYAN INTERVIEWS T.S.R. SUBRAMANIAN

COMMON ENTRANCE EXAMSIt’s
All Astir In The Hothouse
The view of students and teachers from Kota on having common national entrance exams
ARUSHI BEDI

ONLINE EDUCATION
It’s Classic! A Class At A Click!
The internet was always expected to foster learning. The Age of the Autodidact is here.
SIDDHARTHA MISHRA
Career Drive...
MEDICINE, HOTEL MANAGEMENT, DENTISTRY
DOCTORATE GAMES
A Quiverful Of Arjuna
More PhD scholars are zeroing in on sports. It’s an area where hockey beats cricket flat.
QAISER MOHAMMAD ALI
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
Money’s Where The Heart Is
A bright, young and growing tribe is ­choosing the ‘for-profit’ path to bridge ­unmet social and ecological needs.
LOLA NAYAR

ART IN SCIENCE, SCIENCE IN ART
As The Script Spreads Across The Spectrum
The engineer who made a profound contribution to history, and Hedy Lamarr, the actress who made a profound contribution to science
AROON RAMAN

A HELPING HAND
Benefactors’ Best Stroke
Mr & Mrs Arun Lal brought up a poor boy as their own. They now reap a harvest of pride.
DOLA MITRA
BOOK EXTRACT
The Anand And Ecstasy Of Super 30
An extract from his bio tells the story of how Anand ‘Super 30’ Kumar’s dream took shape
BIJU MATHEW
NATIONAL

KARNATAKA
Sidda ­Clinical Therapy
Much hinges on whether the CM has shuffled his cards well
AJAY SUKUMARAN
OPINION
Club Of Freedom
‘Gliberal’ fakery must be picked up and pointed out
VRINDA GOPINATH
BMS ON FDI
"Development Doesn’t Depend On Foreign Money"
President of the RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh on the easing of FDI norms and plans for disinvestment and privatisation
LOLA NAYAR INTERVIEWS BAIJ NATH RAI
LEADER COMMENT
Sorry, The Hardest Word?
The ability to admit to our mistakes seems to have all but disappeared
SHOWKAT A. MOTTA
LEADER COMMENT
In Praise Of Swapna & Friends
For showing diplomats (and rabble-rousers) what real ­people-to-people contact can do to bring people closer
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SHOBA NARAYAN
BOOKS

REVIEW
Dawns Over Petersburg
A run through the enlightened despots who ruled the Russian empire
ANVAR ALIKHAN
REVIEW
Bombs Fell, And Darwish Called
She would have lived a rich and meaningful life had she not married Faiz. But being Faiz’s wife brought an extra dimension.
RAKSHANDA JALIL
FIRST PERSON
Inner Languages
The life and times of the ‘scholar’ PM who carved his own era
VINAY SITAPATI
10 QUESTIONS
Vicky Kaushal
The engineer-turned-actor, acclaimed for his debut in Masaan, on his upcoming film, Raman Raghav 2.0, and what living the Bollywood life feels like.
AHELI BASU INTERVIEWS VICKY KAUSHAL
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Also...
EAT, PRAY, LIVE
An air of stop-start nervousness around football’s summer spectacle, Euro 2016.
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

THE REVIEWS
Udta Punjab
Breaking the image of Punjab that Bollywood has so carefully built
DEEPA GAHLOT
GOSSIP
Bibliofile
C.P. Surendran’s fourth novel, the new sensation in poetry and celebrating Irish writer Flann O’Brien
THE SKED
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Works of new Chinese artists on display, the third Hyderabad Bengali film festival and a Veena Murali recital in Chennai
OUTLOOK ARCHIVE
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Thread Bared
They had invested hope in the village pradhan. He had said he’d protect them. Instead, what happened at his house during the morning of the riots will make you shudder...
20 YEARS OF OUTLOOK
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Outlook in Rewind
10 Years Ago
A man of impeccable integrity and vision. That’s the description that befits Admiral Arun Prakash, chief of staff of the Indian navy. Many from the IAF remember his time there as brilliant, one of the few naval fighter pilots posted to an air force squadron to be rated so highly. After the 1971 war, Prakash was awarded a Vir Chakra for gallantry. In 1983, he was among the first naval pilots ferrying the newly acquired Sea Harriers from the UK to India...