Unlocking 10,00,000 Acres Land Rs 2,50,000 Crore
Cover Story

This Land Is Your Land

Ten lakh acres—that’s 4,000 sq km, the size of Trinidad and Tobago­—are lying idle with central PSUs. How can India benefit?

Lola Nayar
Opinion
Surplus? Where?
The land that is freed up could be used for affordable housing
Sanjoy Chakravorty
Interview
‘We Have Never Attempted Such An Exercise In 60 Years'
Economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das on the plans and challenges of making an inventory of surplus landholdings with over 200 central public sector enterprises
Lola Nayar Interviews Shaktikanta Das
Opinion
Land For Reforms
Industry will be transformed as factories will soon be data-driven
Sunil Bahri
NATIONAL
Karnataka/TN
Dams For A River Of ­Languages
Below the Cauvery’s currents run linguistic and ­ethnic faultlines. The water claim is just the tip.
Ajay Sukumaran
Congress
Waiting For Shiva
Rahul Gandhi’s long-awaited elevation as party chief may not happen before the UP polls
Bhavna Vij-Aurora
UP/Politics
A Chief Minister's Mutiny
Akhilesh sacks ministers, chief secy and clips Shivpal’s wings
Bhavna Vij-Aurora
Politics of crime
Godfather Returns To Haunt Bihar
Shahabuddin swaggers out of jail, targets Nitish, is coddled by Laloo. And fear stalks Siwan again.
Giridhar Jha
Law
Thinking Out Of The Witness Box
Mahmood Farooqui’s rape conviction for forced oral sex opens a hectic debate about the ‘lacunae’ in the amended criminal law
Pragya Singh
Opinion
Reform Thyself, Learned Judges
In a democracy, judges being disciplined by the executive is not an option because it defies the basic principle­ of separation of powers
Rajeev Dhavan
Leader Comment
Justice, Please
The open letter written by Justice Markandey Katju, to the judges of the Supreme Court demanding justice in the Ikhlaque case
Markandey Katju
Opinion
Flaw And Order
We need to transform ruler’s police into people’s police.
Prakash Singh
First Person
Embers Of A Curfewed Id
Wherever prayers were allowed, they were followed by protests
Showkat A. Motta
THE LATEST ISSUE
Society
Onam
The Eternal Return of King Nobody
Whose Onam is it anyway? Maveli is the enigmatic nub around which history, myth and politics clash.
Minu Ittyipe
Women & Wine
The She In The Goblet
In a country where ‘wine’ shops sold everything but wine until a decade ago, much has changed since, with women rising to the industry’s top
Stuti Agarwal
 
Books
Review
Speak, Yesterday’s People
Alexievich’s visceral first-person accounts from the last days of the USSR are saturated with anger, longing and hope
Navtej Sarna
Review
High Kicks, Pom Poms And Excellent Business
A compilation of the events that led to the 2013 IPL batting-fixing scandal and its consequences
Qaiser Mohammad Ali
Review
Upstarts With Grand Visions
All the start-up entrepreneurs featured in the book have amazing stories to tell—of struggle, of peer pressure and of intrigue.
Arindam Mukherjee
REGULAR
LAST PAGE
Himal Diary
A magazine that challenged nationalist establishments could not hope to access the mass market.
Kanak Mani Dixit
The Insider
Deep Throat
A regular column on the essential buzz
Sports
BCCI
Time To Call In The Runners
The Lodha Committee has rung the bell for long-term cricket administrators. They’re now looking at proxies to retain control.
Qaiser Mohammad Ali
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
Mumbai
A Loud Call Rings Out
Mumbai’s Prithvi Theatre, battling a funds crunch, scrimps on its famous festival
Prachi Pinglay-Plumber
The Reviews
Lion
Could easily have transgressed into poverty porn territory, with a side of White Saviour Complex tossed in...
Anirudh Bhattacharyya
The Reviews
And Also
Mildly funny, pseudo-feminist, and not in the least offensive
 
10 QUESTIONS
Preeti Shenoy
The bestselling author is the only Indian woman writer to be on the Forbes list of most influential people in India. Her new book, It’s All In the Planets, is just out.
Arushi Bedi Interviews Preeti Shenoy
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.