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Issue Of The Year: Faith or its absence
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Outlook's Choice As Issue Of The Year: Faith—Or Its Absence

Faith—or its absence—has truly been one recurrent theme running through most of the major news headlines of the year.

Ruben Banerjee
 
Faith
Faith Of Any Kind Cannot Function Without 'Suspension Of Disbelief'.
A rational idea of spirituality can heal the split personality syndrome afflicting humanity. Reason is a country India has always belonged to.
Purushottam Agrawal
Faith
Of Pilgrimage, Idli-Dosa And Puri-Samose -- Why India Remains United As Ever
USSR disintegrated, Bangladesh split from Pakistan and UK is under pressure from Scotland and Ireland, but India has remained despite its enormous diversity. Dr Krishna Gopal, the joint-secretary of the RSS, explains the reasons.
Dr Krishna Gopal
Faith
India’s Judiciary Is Facing An Increasing Lack Of Trust By Public
There is no controversy that the biggest problem facing the judiciary is the number of pending cases.
Madan B. Lokur
Faith
This Is Not Cricket... No One, However High And Mighty, Is Above The Law
Do not abuse the trust or faith of any sizeable section of citizens, even BR Ambedkar had warned the rulers, reminds senior journalist Harish Khare
Harish Khare
Faith
A Nimbus Received
Our Sufis, saints and gurus are Indian culture’s biggest achievement—not gods, whom people across the world created
Raghu Rai
Faith
For People To Wield This Bound Aaron’s Rod
The Indian’s great, organic faith in the secular Constitution grew out of its emergence as a site for struggle since its earliest years
Rohit De
Faith
Shards Of A Broken Dream
Once repression and injustice drove Muslims towards the State. This couldn’t last, of course, with the ruling system, in every avatar, punishing Muslims for being Muslim.
Omair Ahmad
Faith
Not Just Country's Politics, Modi Government Is Obsessed With Controlling Economic Data
A series of developments by the current government has undermined people's faith in India's data system. Government must restore the independence of data collecting centres, writes former Business Standard editor and author, AK Bhattacharya
A.K. Bhattacharya
Faith
A 5-Trillion Dollar Economy Is Like A Chubby Cow Learning To Skate On Thin Ice
The government betrays total ignorance about macroeconomics levers but no one dares to say so, writes journalist and author, Puja Mehra
Puja Mehra
Faith
A Sportsman's Faith Is In The People Around Him, Luck Is His God
The almighty might be invoked for that final push, but sportsmen have implicit faith in training, coaches and true grit, writes journalist, Suresh Menon
Suresh Menon
Faith
By Burying What We Should Have Known, Historians Have Let Us Down
Trans-generation trauma has been passed on from generation to generation. Memory is now a lived reality, writes psychologist, Rajat Mitra
Rajat Mitra
Faith
It's Time To Rescue The Word 'Bhakti' From High Priests Of The Secular
Bhakti is no juvenile love affair. The word has been used to describe blind faith to a political regime, writes cultural curator, Arundhathi Subramanium
Arundhathi Subramaniam
Faith

i No ! The Year Of Dissent

If anything can be called a unifier in 2019, it is the street protests running around the globe—various skeins of outrage bound as a common strand.

 
Faith
Saffronisation Of Saffron Is Cause For Displeasure Of People Of All Faiths
How saffron, coloured by patient irony, separates the strands of the holy and unholy on the table of human history
Soity Banerjee
Faith
In What Do We Repose Our Faith When Harmony, Interdependence Have Been Ripped Up?
India's greatest strength has been its ability to engage with diverse sources and impulses. We need those wise men to guide us away from alienation and brutalisation in the name of faith, writes poet and art curator, Ranjit Hoskote.
Ranjit Hoskote
 
National
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Mamata Banerjee Described Me As 'Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast': West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar
In an exclusive interview to Outlook, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar speaks on the challenges he faces and what the future holds.
Ruben Banerjee, Rajat Roy Interview Jagdeep Dhankhar
Poliglot
Interview
Local Issues Win Polls, Not NRC: Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren
Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren speaks about the poll preparations that went into the victory, the challenges ahead and how he intends to go about his business ahead of his swearing-in as the chief minister of the tribal-state on Sunday
Preetha Nair Interview Hemant Soren
CAA / NRC
CAA Protests: The Streets Were Warm This December
People in several parts of the country took to the streets in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act claiming the amended law is discriminatory
Salik Ahmad
Interview
CAA, NRC Part Of Their Agenda For Hindu Rashtra: P. Chidambaram
Former home minister P. Chidambaram speaks to Prashant Srivastav on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act
Prashant Srivastav Interview P. Chidambaram
Jump Cut
Defence Of The Republic: The Battle Has Only Just Begun
The rulers are so consumed by the arrogance of power that they simply dismiss all opposition as “anti-national” and set the stage for more repressive actions.
Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey
The NEWS
The News
 
Books
Book Review
A Jailer’s Honest Notebook
A top Tihar policeman holds a mirror to its unique ecosystem: bossy criminals and underlings, systemic reforms, executions and the deadening bureaucracy
Mahmood Farooqui
Book Review
On The Racks
 
 
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