INDEPENDENCE DAY SPECIAL

Cover Story

A Clap Is Affirmative

A recoiling society banishes transgenders to the wretched margins. As a bill in Parliament pledges protection, these Indians glimpse freedom.

Minu Ittyipe

Cover Story

So Many
Mudras

Outlook talks to six individuals who, in different ways, identify their gender as trancending the man-woman binary

Minu Ittyipe

Cover Story

Transgender Celebs

Caitlyn Jenner, formerly Bruce Jenner, an Olympic gold-winning decathlete, made headlines when she revealed her male-to-female transition in Vanity Fair story, in July last year.

Cover Story

Chucking Badhai For Growth

A journey into Mumbai’s transgender spaces reveals aspiration, hopelessness, drudgery and ties never to be broken

Prachi Pinglay-Plumber

INTERVIEW

"The Government Has Tried To Put My Bill Under The Carpet; It’s Diluted"

DMK MP Tiruchi Siva on 'the flawed and watered-down version' of the bill on transgenders introduced in the LS

Anoo Bhuyan Interviews Tiruchi Siva

OPINION

They Held Many Shields

Ancient Buddhist traditions tolerated transgenders; many Hindu traditions still have them linked with deities. A fluid sexuality was a way of life for Indic culture.

B.D. SHARMA

Book Extract

And Then I Spared None

Abused by a relative at six, Laxmi saw how patriarchy tried to crush her femininity. And she made it come back to crush them, ‘those straight men with wives and kids’.

Laxmi and Pooja Pande

seven days

NEW DELHI & TELANGANA
Will The ‘Real’ Cowboy Please Stand Up?In the end, it took a New York Times editorial on his “shameful silence” for Narendra Modi to speak out against cow vigilantism

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NATIONAL

Leader Comment

Birthday Resolutions

What should the Republic of India resolve to do as she enters her platinum jubilee year if she were an individual?

Leader Comment

In Praise Of Narendra Modi

For his ability to do what his critics least expect him to.

Opinion

To Locate The Scam, Use GPS

The Smart Cities Mission will only create enclaves where civic amenities are digitally handled with foreign software. It will end no urban woe.

C. Rammanohar Reddy

Interview

“We Need A ‘New Deal’ To Come Out Of Jobless Growth”

CPI-M Secretary General Sitaram Yechury on the biggest challenge for the Left, the GST and other issues.

Bula Devi Interviews Sitaram Yechury

Opinion

Our Problem No. 1

India must challenge the Pakistani narrative on Kashmir

Maroof Raza

THE LATEST ISSUE

Biztro

Slow On The Reforms HighwayAmidst all the brouhaha over GST, a significant reform has slipped through.

INTERNATIONAL

Opinion

Talking The Walk

Our Pak policy: neither big stick, nor soft dialogue

Ashok K. Mehta

REGULAR

LAST PAGE

Patagonia Diary

The Argentine obsession with beef is matched only by a similar fixation with dulce-de-leche, aka caramel

Vivek Menezes

Track2

Intercepts KenyaThe ‘one-China’ policy is an article of faith for the People’s Republic of China since it was established in October 1949.

BUSINESS

Private Loans

The Online Borrow

Private moneylending has always had its risks. So what about when it’s online?

Arushi Bedi

Diesel

The Most Guilty Fuel

Diesel is the scapegoat in the State’s desperate bid to control pollution

Arindam Mukherjee

Letters

Published feedback from our readers: rants, raves, bouquets, brickbats

PAR
AVION

A random sample from the British newspaper

Eat
Pray Live

More Intuition: A Few Important QuestionsWhere has man lost his radars connecting with the divine? Why have we turned into consumer vampires?

Books

Review

Repo And Its Masters

A RBI governor remembers his doughty fights, but cuts down on the math

Rajrishi Singhal

Society

Opinion

The Change Corps

Let's show what we, the citizens, can do for India

Ritu Beri

And
Also....

Sports Tip: Bolt’s WorkDisciplined training with ‘periodisation’ plays a crucial role in making Usain Bolt an epitome of durability

Chinmoy Roy

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Reviews

Jason Bourne

The fifth installment featuring the CIA assassin with a memory loss and identity problem

Deepa Gahlot

THE REVIEWS

Budhia Singh Born To Run

The hard work, sweat and tears that go into the making of a champ are depicted well

DEEPA GAHLOT

THE REVIEWS

And Also

A racy plot replete with love, lust, insanity, illicit affairs, power dynamics and fatal guilt.

DOLA MITRA

10 QUESTIONS

Shipra Khanna

The winner of MasterChef India Season 2 on her new book, Sinfully Yours, and her great journey from homemaker to chef

Stuti Agarwal Interviews Shipra Khanna

GOSSIP

Bibliofile

How a book launch in Delhi turned political and remembering Anil Arora

SPORTS

Opinion

The Umpire Doesn’t Hold A Bat

It is not the judiciary’s job to bring about changes in a statutory body, even if it is the controversial Board of Control for Cricket in India

Markandey Katju

Rio Olympics 2016

Speak Through The Hand

Marta’s stocks have outstripped Neymar’s, and how Jenna Bush let her hand do all the talking

Shobhan Saxena

THE INSIDER

Deep Throat

A regular column on the essential buzz

Uttam Sengupta, Dola Mitra, Madhavi Tata, Ushinor Majumdar, Anoo Bhuyan

The Sked

Hyderabad Theatre
Gentlemen, Decision Is YoursTheatre aficionados from the city of pearls have three packed days at the Theatre Fest. The God of Carnage, directed by Nadir Khan, starts off on the schoolboy premise of two kids fighting in the park, with one suffering an injury.

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.

20 YEARS OF OUTLOOK

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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.

A Clap Is Affirmative

So Many Mudras

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