COVER STORY
#BetiUthao: 10 Questions The RSS Outfits Will Not Answer
Many RSS leaders dismissed the <em>Outlook</em> cover story as baseless and untrue but none of them could contradict the facts in the over 11,000-word story
Outlook Magazine - 15 August 2016
Everyone Gets A Cut
Gaushalas have become a means of collecting donations or getting government funds in certain states.
The Mother Of Being Useful: Things That Owe To The Cow
Every single inch of a cow is used for something, from fertilisers and brushes to wallpaper and chewing gum
Four Stomachs To Fill
Behind gau raksha lies lust for power, right-wing agency and pelf. And livelihoods inch towards ruin.
Gimme Some Truth About The GST
The GST is finally here. Here’s making head and tail of the Constitution (122nd) Amendment Bill.
A Blue Riddle For The Shah Of Saffron
How reservation and Dalit outrage against atrocities affect comings and goings in the state’s ruling party
Too Straight Too Fast
Hasmukh Adhia’s punitive push for reforms gets stressed taxmen into a mutinous mood
Had That Coming, Don
Khizr Khan’s takedown of Trump, and his sputtering response, gives Hillary a sorely needed fillip
Everyone Gets A Cut
Gaushalas have become a means of collecting donations or getting government funds in certain states.
The Dying Chirrrp Of Kolhapuris
How the beef ban is killing an iconic piece of footwear
The Mother Of Being Useful: Things That Owe To The Cow
Every single inch of a cow is used for something, from fertilisers and brushes to wallpaper and chewing gum
Four Stomachs To Fill
Behind gau raksha lies lust for power, right-wing agency and pelf. And livelihoods inch towards ruin.
Track 2
All the chatter and goss from around the world.
Gimme Some Truth About The GST
The GST is finally here. Here’s making head and tail of the Constitution (122nd) Amendment Bill.
A Blue Riddle For The Shah Of Saffron
How reservation and Dalit outrage against atrocities affect comings and goings in the state’s ruling party
Too Straight Too Fast
Hasmukh Adhia’s punitive push for reforms gets stressed taxmen into a mutinous mood
Had That Coming, Don
Khizr Khan’s takedown of Trump, and his sputtering response, gives Hillary a sorely needed fillip
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Pay And Pass Inc.
Had no one paid attention, the leak would have gone unnoticed
A View From Mount Olympus
Randhir Singh, shooter and administrator, hasn’t missed a single Olympics since 1964. He recalls moments that made each Games special.
It’s All Happening
All the hot comings and goings in Rio
When In Rio, Just Fantasise
Blame them or not, Cariocas bend reality to let in a steady, class-defying fabulism
When The Favelas Go To The Maracana
Beneath the spit and polish of the Olympics, Brazil is riven by a deep fissure, as a gang of the privileged few in power is determined to undo the country’s hard-won socialist gains
Sound, Fury & Nothing
Asked to counter facts with facts, there was silence, broken only by some name-calling
One Rain Away From Drought
Remember, just two months ago, they were bringing water into Maharashtra by train. Now, the swollen Savitri river washes away that memory. Here, a bridge has collapsed at Mahad, 150 km south of Mumbai. And yes, some 3,000 km away, the Brahmaputra has displaced over a million people in Assam.
And Also
Twenty years ago, Harry Potter turned a generation onto reading. <em>The Cursed Child</em> could do the same for theatre
Chauthi Koot
Set in Punjab in the throes of the Khalistani separatist movement, the film is about the suffering of ordinary people
And Also
A succulent ostrich fern named fiddleheads
The 21st Century Tapasya
Food is simple, till we complicate it with protein, carbs and fat. And like life, once you start complicating it, there’s no end to it.
The Sked
Celebrating K.G. Subramanyan, three days of music from different genres and Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak on stage together
Christopher Doyle
CEO-turned-writer Christopher Doyle is the author of the bestselling novel <em>The Mahabharata Secret</em>. His new book <em>The Secret of the Druids</em> is a huge success.
Bibliofile
Anita Nair takes to crime fiction and what James Joyce told the man painting his portrait
Man Who Leapt Over Bollywood
Woven around the many facets of Shashi Kapoor whom most readers would have known only as a star.
Modes Of Inversion
The value of Visvanathan’s essays lie in their playfully fresh insights
Seven Days
The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
Santa Fe Diary
The capital of New Mexico that should rank as the quaintest town anywhere
In Praise Of The Magsaysay
For turning the mirror on mighty India, brazenly blind to its growing warts.
We, The Viewers
One institution that needs urgent fixing in the name of the nation this Independence Day is news television.
Deep Throat
A regular column on the essential buzz
Par Avion
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