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Sanatan Sanstha

With the left-behind kin of Sanstha members taking on the outfit, will those allegedly behind Pansare and Dabholkar’s murders finally be put out of action?

Prachi Pinglay-Plumber

Interview

‘The Sanatan Sanstha Preaches That Self-Defence Is The Need Of The Hour’

Abhay Vartak, spokesperson of Sanatan Sanstha, which has been charged with the Dabholkar and Pansare murders on the ways of his creed

Outlook Interviews Abhay Vartak

Interview

‘Saffron Men In Key Positions, Won’t Go After The Sanstha’

Former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on the Sanatan Sanstha and its banning

Outlook Interviews Prithviraj Chavan

Gujarat

The Cow Protector’s Justice

A brutal public beating of Dalits by gau rakshaks in Una sets off protests across Gujarat—the BJP feels the heat

R.K. Misra

Opinion

Cracked Mirrors

Kashmir’s battered newspapers reflect the ground reality

Shujaat Bukhari

Political Favours

Hand-In-Hand... If Not Hand-In-Glove

When it comes to personal favours, rival politicos have a ‘mutual understanding’

SHARAT PRADHAN

LEADER COMMENT

Across The Line

Tendulkar's willingness to allow brands to exploit his “highest civilian honour” proves that Mammon can blind even a Master with the keenest of eyes

Opinion

The Catechism Of Control

How an autonomous TV channel created to project vox populi from the ranked benches of Lok Sabha was brought under the govt’s thumb

Dhiraj Singh

THE LATEST ISSUE

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Conflicts And Cabinet reshuffles

The chatter around Jayant Sinha losing his perch in the ministry of finance isn’t dying down. According to a source, the conflict of interest charge against Sinha’s wife Punita Kumar Sinha centres on the Canadian investment firm Fairfax India Holding.

INTERNATIONAL

Terror In Nice

The Ashen Coast

The blood in Nice only seems to presage a deeper entanglement yet

Turkey

The Sultan’s Scimitar

After the failed coup, the purge. Turkey’s president, Erdogan, shows a heavy hand.

Pranay Sharma

REGULARS

LAST PAGE

Trinidad & Tobago Diary

Only one Indian author has won the Nobel for literature. Trinidad and Tobago, with a population of a little over a million, has achieved this feat twice.

Bhaichand Patel

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Intercepts
Australia

Anti-Muslim Remarks Spark Off Twitter Debate
Muslim-baiting, it would seem, has been rising at an alarming rate in different parts of the western world, with each ISIS terror attack.

BUSINESS

Rupee Notes

Noteworthily Spoken

Right-wingers lead a crowd who want Gandhiji out of rupee notes. They have their icons ready.

Pragya Singh

Environment

Mundra: The Port
Of No Call

Neither the state govt nor the Centre, neither the UPA nor the NDA, has acted against Adani Port’s depredations

Arindam Mukherjee

BOOKS

REVIEW

Shockie’s Last Blast

A novel on the ravages of terrorism fails on account of insipidity

C.P. Surendran On The Association Of Small Bombs By Karan Mahajan

REVIEW

Tram To Darkest Pleasures

A satire on the way the fate wind blows in small towns with no hope.

Anjana Basu On Tram 83 By Fiston Mwanza Mujila

LEADER COMMENT

In Praise Of Amitav Ghosh

For stepping outside the margins of fiction and taking up the very real issue of climate change

10 QUESTIONS

Margaret Alva

Margaret Alva, who worked under four PMs and was governor of four states, talks in her autobiography, Courage & Commitment, about her journey as a politician

Bula Devi Interviews Margaret Alva

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Reviews

Ice Age Collision Course

Overpopulated by a cast of delightfully daffy animal characters and a visual quality that’s pure eye candy.

Deepa Gahlot

THE REVIEWS

Prakton

The script ventures into didacticism and dishes out a moral that makes women’s empowerment look like a social inconvenience

Dola Mitra

THE REVIEW

And Also

The Marathi adaptation of the Broadway play A Few Good Men

Prachi Pinglay-Plumber

GOSSIP

Bibliofile

Upamanyu Chatterjee becomes a full-time writer at long last, the Snowden-Roy-Cusack conversation in book form and why A. Raja's book plans are shelved for now

SPORTS

Cricket

A Top Order Collapse

The BCCI’s Augean stables will be cleaned. These men made it possible.

Qaiser Mohammad Ali

Cricket

His Fight To The Finish

In his gritty tussle with BCCI, Verma had a little help from friends

Qaiser Mohammad Ali

Cricket

When Youth Questioned Power

The SC verdict has its origins in the joint PIL of these two trailblazers

Cricket

No More Double Barrels

His conflict-of-interest accusations threw a clearer light

THE SKED

Delhi Art

Gathering Leaves As They Fall

The Falling leaf project is a compilation of works by students of the College of Art, New Delhi, derived through the collaborative efforts of artist Adwait Singh.

OUTLOOK ARCHIVE

ISSUE DATED | JUNE 03, 2013

REVIEW

Father And Sons, Or The Lie Of The Land

An honourable Svengali and his Mujib-speaking protege ply their trade in liberated Bangladesh. Imam weaves a hyper-realistic tale of tragedy, farce, idealism and power.

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Outlook in Rewind

10 Years Ago

Even in the still and serene surroundings of his 2,000-acre estate on the Sahayadri slopes in Chikmagalur in the Western Ghats, Ashok Kuriyan can feel the hustle-and-bustle and the pace of the Indian economy. At Balanoor Plantations, the "feelgood" factor has gripped every worker, including its MD Kuriyan. After all, despite a huge rise in input costs, it netted a cool profit of Rs 30 lakh this season, compared to a "no-profit, no-loss situation" in the previous one. "If we had not got the Rs 25 lakh subsidy last year, we would've been in serious trouble," says Kuriyan.