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COVER STORY

Radicalisation via the internet puts India within slashing distance of the ISIS. In the light of the Dhaka attacks, can we protect ourselves?

MEETU JAIN

COVER STORY

Not 'Why' But 'How' People Join ISIS

Studies show that most ISIS recruits are well-integrated into social networks. They are not loners.

JASON BURKE

COVER STORY

"The Time Has Come For Us To Stop Following The Text Blindly And Embrace That Which Is Positive In Islam"

Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen on what leads the youth to pursue terror and the need to reform Islam

DOLA MITRA INTERVIEWS TASLIMA NASREEN

INTERVIEW

"Shift The Discourse To Collective Cynicism, Equitable Treatment"

Former solicitor-general Gopal Subramaniam on what the society can collectively do to prevent radicalisation of youth

USHINOR MAJUMDAR INTERVIEWS GOPAL SUBRAMANIAM

INTERVIEW

"The Message From Jehadi Websites Is That Muslims Won't Get Justice From Western, Capitalist Nations”

Former Union home secretary, G.K. Pillai on how jehadi websites lure young people and what can be done to prevent radicalisation

BULA DEVI INTERVIEWS G.K. PILLAI

CAMPUS CONSENSUS

Reform Sans Islamophobia

The challenge before the nation is to reach out to disaffected young Muslims by addressing their concerns

HASAN SUROOR

INTERVIEW

"The Youth Must Not Be Drawn By This Barbaric, Cruel Way”

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on what the Modi government can do to prevent youth taking to extremism

MADHAVI TATA INTERVIEWS ASADUDDIN OWAISI

COVER STORY

Terror Isn't A ‘Muslim-Only' Problem, It's A Larger Politics

Unless we recognise and address the political aspects of terrorism, we will be beating around the bush.

MAHTAB ALAM

INTERVIEW

"India's Muslims Are Definitely A Target For The Puritanical ISIS”

National security advisor M.K. Narayanan on how India can prevent ISIS from taking root here.

MEETU JAIN INTERVIEWS M.K. NARAYANAN

COVER STORY

Inclusion, Not Condemnation And Bias

The media has to report stories of what Muslims have done for India rather than just write about terrorists

ANU AGA

COVER STORY

End Secular Sham, Go Sufi

If communal passions and fear psychosis is used to win elections, you may win one state but lose the nation.

TARUN VIJAY

INTERVIEW

“Alternative Discourse: The Need Of The Hour”

Public intellectual and social scientist Shiv Visvanathan on combating radicalisation and the State's role

MIHIR SRIVASTAVA INTERVIEWS SHIV VISVANATHAN

COVER STORY

The Evocation Of Local Tyrannies: A Polity That Affirms Justice Has Nothing To Fear From Jehad

Many young Muslims, marginalised in their own societies, have found in radical Islam a commitment to a larger cause

TALMIZ AHMAD

COVER STORY

The Injustice Is Real, Yet Self-Pity Is Injurious

Muslims need modern education. They have to share a part of the blame.

ZAMEER UDDIN SHAH

COVER STORY

"Islam Has To Embrace The Modern, Examine Its Theology Afresh"

It is true that ‘terrorism has no religion’. But that is not going to resolve the complex issue of Islamic terrorism confronting us.

RAKESH SINHA

COVER STORY

Think Of Bilkis, Ishrat, Ehsan, Kauser: Even The Gandhian Can Feel Anger

The judiciary should ensure that Muslims receive justice in riot cases

J.S. BANDUKWALA

COVER STORY

S.A.R. Geelani

The BJP is imposing its ideology, and the whole state apparatus is being used to suppress the minorities.

S.A.R. Geelani

COVER STORY

The Pickaxes Of Ayodhya, The Machetes Of Dhaka

We need to face the brute reality. Indian Muslims have been victimised ever since kar sevaks picked up pickaxes and trishuls.

SYEDA S. HAMEED

COVER STORY

An Understanding Of Islam Is Mandatory

There is a silent majority within Islam. Radicals aim to empower this community through extreme philosophy.

Syed Ata Hasnain

COVER STORY

The Child's Other Tongues: 'Us' And 'Them' Imprinted In The Softest Wet Clay

No child is born a bigot. Hate is learned, and there is no doubt it can be unlearned.

S.Y. QURAISHI

COVER STORY

What India Can Learn From Pakistan?

The Indian State must come forward to look after poor Muslim children or they turn out to be fodder for non-state actors like ISIS

Hamid Mir

COVER STORY

Stopping ISIS:
Soundbites

From Swami Agnivesh and Julio Ribeiro to Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and T.J. Joseph, Outlook speaks to experts on what India need to do to stop ISIS.

Seven
Days

MAHARASHTRA
Rashomon On The Everest

Dinesh Rathod and his wife, judging by photos they shared on Facebook, wore an orange-and-yellow suit during their ascent to Mount Everest and a red-and-black suit on the summit.

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NATIONAL

RESHUFFLE

A PG Diploma In Social Engineering

Managerial to the dot, or not exactly? The relayed message is: perform, and don’t mess with Modi. But beneath, it’s mostly caste and khaki.

BULA DEVI

OPINION

Privatisation Of The State

Leaders, supposed to act in the public interest, these days only do so in their own private interest. The result is a crisis in societies.

PETER RONALD DESOUZA

LEADER COMMENT

In Praise Of Madras HC

For speaking on behalf of liberals across the country who are increasingly being held at ransom by hoodlums and lynch mobs

LEADER COMMENT

A Briefly Stung Parivar

Narendra Modi deserves a reserved salute for taking what seems to us the first steps to show the RSS its rightful place

THE LATEST ISSUE

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For Adani Group, pollution is all good

The diversified Adani Group presents a classic case of a group that continues to flout environment laws but gets by through political patronage.

INTERNATIONAL

OPINION

The Poila Defence

Bangladesh won’t give up its hard-won fight against intolerance

SAEED NAQVI

REGULARS

LAST PAGE

New Zealand Diary

There’s a hallowed, spiritual quality to the land and a softness to the people that’s hard to get your head around.

SATYAM VISWANATHAN

BUSINESS

BUREAUCRACY

Corridors Of Privilege

The Pay Commission hike looks like pampered bureaucrats giving themselves some more

LOLA NAYAR

BUREAUCRACY

India’s Most Pampered Citizens

The Seventh Pay Commission has increased the salaries of central government employees. But that is not the only benefit they draw.

JUMP CUT

The Bonanza Is Elsewhere

Why is the question of bureaucrats being a privileged lot being raised because of the Seventh Pay Commission?

T.N.R. RAO

CHAI BARS

Talk Of Taking Tea!

Tea lounges spiff up the ‘cutting’ a bit to keep up with upmarket tattling

PRACHI PINGLAY-PLUMBER

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

MOCKUMENTARIES

The Post-TV Mock- Epics

Online satires have captured an audience of their own

AHELI BASU

TOLLYWOOD

Mom Who Would Not Blink At The Camera

Leading divas in Bengal’s new commercial films are married women with kids who embrace both roles

DOLA MITRA

THE REVIEWS

Sultan

Instead of concentrating on the ‘what’, the film concentrates on the ‘how’. This is where it scores.

DEEPA GAHLOT

Glitterati

Her Way

Walking down ramps, looking like a mermaid, taking in the silent wows, is one thing. Playing the girlfriend of a serial killer in the goriest Bollywood movie in our times is another. Shobhita Dhulipala took in the greys with practised ease.

BOOKS

REVIEW

From Motherhood’s Trenches

Lacks the warmth of a memoir, which is a pity, given the choice of subject.

SMRITI LAMECH

REVIEW

Three Women, And A Glimpse Of Divinity

About mothers and daughters and their fragile and often fraught bond.

NEHA BHATT

REVIEW

Spoken Like Savant Superior

Ruchir Sharma delivers a witty masterclass on the expansions and contr actions of globalisation

RAGHAV BAHL

10 QUESTIONS

Dimpy Menon

Dimpy Menon is the first Indian sculptor to win the Lorenzo Award at the Florence Biennale. She talks about her journey as an artist.

AHELI BASU INTERVIEWS DIMPY MENON

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THE REVIEWS

TRAI's very own internet speed test app for consumers using Android phones

SPORTS

RIO OLYMPICS 2016

Waiting For Wang

A guileful foe stopped her in London. A sharpened Saina is now ready for Rio.

QAISER MOHAMMAD ALI

THE SKED

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Fatih Akin Film Festival, a night of jazzy pop music and this year’s edition of the exhibition Quarto that brings together the unique perspectives of four artists

OUTLOOK ARCHIVE

ISSUE DATED | MARCH 11, 2013

BUDGET 2013-14

The What-If Man Of Tomorrow

No one dare say it, but Indian politics has a hidden vacancy. Can P. Chidambaram fill it?

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10 Years Ago

Four-and-a-half decades is not a long time. Not long enough, anyway, to wipe away the memories that this sun-kissed valley, nestled in the stark and rugged reaches of the Himalayas, still recoils from. Memories of their land being overrun by Chinese troops, of families leaving behind their earthly possessions to flee to faraway jungles, of returning to see their land littered with the decomposing bodies of Indian soldiers and the ignominy of having their sacred hearths 'defiled' by the Chinese—who they still revile for hounding their spiritual head, the Dalai Lama.