Media and democracy—the themes recurred at the Vinod Mehta Memorial Lecture and Outlook SpeakOut Awards

India’s uproarious Parliament still delivers, says Union minister for finance and defence Arun Jaitley, in his keynote address at the Outlook SpeakOut Awards

Odisha Chief Minsiter Naveen Patnaik, who won the Outlook SpeakOut Award for the Best Administrator this year, talks about the secret behind hus success...

In this inaugural Vinod Mehta Memorial Lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll talks about the origins, uses, abuses, trials and triumphs of free, fair and investigative modern journalism as the world knows it

Psychology dominated the show from 1940s to '80s. Now, there is a clear decline, says political psychologist Ashis Nandy.

Ratan Thiyam, the world-renowned theatre director from Manipur, who won the Outlook SpeakOut Award for Best Artist, reminisces about his life’s journey.

Glued to Gandhism, Ela Bhatt believes the principles are even more valid now

In the long term, whistle-blowing is much needed for our society, says brother of Satyendra Dubey, demanding protection for them.

Super 30-famed Anand Kuamr about his journey, his mission and the ­challenges ahead, after being conferred the Best Social ­Activist Award at the recent Outlook SpeakOut Awards.

Azim Premji, Best Socially Conscious Entre­preneur at the Outlook Speakout Awards 2017, feels we are doing far too little when it comes to caring for our environment.

Glimpses from Outlook's SpeakOut Awards this year...

A post-merger revolt in AIADMK reduces the EPS government to a minority

It’s a wrong righted, unambiguously. But the SC is status quoist on personal law.

If the SC has rescued Muslim women from the tyranny of instant talaq, it is still a triple whammy for them because they continue to contend with the personal law board and then the universal Indian misogyny.

Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka’s departure throws light on the firm’s terrible performance under him. Times are tough, but the numbers are merciless too.

As Sree Santh gets a clean chit, other banned cricketers hope to get their names cleared by the courts

Siddharth Malhotra talks about taking chances in the Bollywood's commercial space and his dream of providing accomodation to single stugglers in the city...

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Enter a colony in a mid-town, and you’ll see open doors, people talking, women sitting and chatting, exchanging notes, about food, kids, life in general. We’ve begun to miss that in the cities, writes filmmaker Ashwini Iyer Tiwari.

Dilip to Aziz- chcekout Dawood Ebrahim's 21 aliases; the Haryana govt 's mission to make the state ODF; read all juicy gossip...

The protean M.T. Vasudevan Nair also shaped cinematic imagination in India. The dialogue between his stories and screenplays here is stimulating.

The discovery, use, abuse and conservation of monuments and generations of scholarly work on them are discussed threadbare in this only book of its kind

India’s foreign policy—from Nehru’s multi-faceted non-alignment to today’s global ambition—is analysed through the prism of heritage and key individuals

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