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

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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.