COVER STORY
Outlook Magazine - 16 August 2021
Supreme Court Directs Hadiya Be Taken To Her College, Appoints Dean As Her Guardian
However, Hadiya insisted that she wants to go with her husband Shafin Jahan.
AAP Slapped With Rs 30-Crore Tax Notice, Party Says IT Department's Assessment Bogus
The party has been asked to pay the penalty by December 7.
Pakistan Cleric Calls Off Deadly Protests After Law Minister Zahid Hamid Resigns
The sit-in had paralysed the national capital for three weeks.
Teen Kanya? No, There Are Many More Nancy Bhabis Riding the Wild Side
New adult content platforms have spawned a generation of Bengali actresses operating on the raunchy side
Madhya Pradesh Makes It Mandatory For Schoolchildren To Answer Roll-Call With 'Jai Hind'
State education minister Vijay Shah made an announcement to this effect while addressing NCC cadets from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on the NCC Day at the Shaurya Smarak in Bhopal
Roll Call With 'Jai Hind' Compulsory For Schoolchildren: Madhya Pradesh Govt
State education minister Vijay Shah made an announcement to this effect while addressing NCC cadets from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on the NCC Day at the Shaurya Smarak in Bhopal
Supreme Court Directs Hadiya Be Taken To Her College, Appoints Dean As Her Guardian
However, Hadiya insisted that she wants to go with her husband Shafin Jahan.
AAP Slapped With Rs 30-Crore Tax Notice, Party Says IT Department's Assessment Bogus
The party has been asked to pay the penalty by December 7.
Pakistan Cleric Calls Off Deadly Protests After Law Minister Zahid Hamid Resigns
The sit-in had paralysed the national capital for three weeks.
Teen Kanya? No, There Are Many More Nancy Bhabis Riding the Wild Side
New adult content platforms have spawned a generation of Bengali actresses operating on the raunchy side
Madhya Pradesh Makes It Mandatory For Schoolchildren To Answer Roll-Call With 'Jai Hind'
State education minister Vijay Shah made an announcement to this effect while addressing NCC cadets from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on the NCC Day at the Shaurya Smarak in Bhopal
Roll Call With 'Jai Hind' Compulsory For Schoolchildren: Madhya Pradesh Govt
State education minister Vijay Shah made an announcement to this effect while addressing NCC cadets from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on the NCC Day at the Shaurya Smarak in Bhopal
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
'I Just State Facts', Farooq Abdullah Clarifies His Repeated PoK Remarks
Abdullah sparked another controversy, earlier in the day, after daring the Indian government to raise the flag in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar.
Muslims Should Stop 'Love Jihad' Or We Will Send Bajrang Dal Youths To Attract Muslim Girls, Says VHP Leader
The right-wing gathering also demanded the immediate withdrawal of a directive, which it claimed was issued by the Centre to states on cow vigilantism.
India Maul Sri Lanka By An Innings And 239 Runs To Win 2nd Test
India dismissed Sri Lanka for 166 runs in 49.3 overs in their second innings just after lunch to wrap up the match well inside four days.
More Than 180 Women Claim Sexual Assaults At US' Largest Chain Of Massage Spas
The report published over the weekend comes amid a wave of sexual assault complaints against high-profile American men.
Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Bengaluru Woman’s Plea Claiming To Be Daughter Of Jayalalithaa
The court, however, said that she can approach the High Court in this regard.
'Absolutely Shocking', Historian Ramachandra Guha Says Subjected To 'Unprovoked Rudeness' By IndiGo Staff
The airline declined to comment on Guha's allegations.
Pradyuman Murder Case: Family Moves Supreme Court Challenging Anticipatory Bail Granted To Ryan International's Pintos
The High Court had, on November 21, granted an anticipatory bail to the Pinto family, in connection with the case
Willing To Extend Aadhaar-Linking Deadline To March 31 Next Year: Centre Tells Supreme Court
The bench, also comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud, said only the Constitution bench will pass an interim order in the matter.
The Legacy Nawab Wajid Ali Shah Left Behind In Calcutta
When deposed nawab Wajid Ali Shah settled in Calcutta, he brought Awadhi art, literature, sport, fashion, food…changing and adding to the cultural contours of the pulsating metropolis. Plangent strains of all that are heard still in his beloved Metiaburj, 199 years after his birth.
Tumhara Ishq Ishq…? The Double Meanings Of Desire, Porn And Erotica
Not taste and aesthetics, but class and power draw the line between porn and erotica. Exploitation happens everywhere in the world of real-world sex—not just in porn.
‘Yes, I Watch Porn. There’s Nothing Wrong In It.’
Actress Kubbra Sait tells Lachmi Deb Roy that people in general associate nudity with pornography 'almost as if our minds have not evolved beyond that'. Excerpts:
Porn Out Of Purdah: Yes, Women Do Watch Porn, But....
What arouses women is body-positive feminist porn, not the kind that dehumanises women
Yes, But No! Watching Porn is Individual Choice, But It's Also Crime Against Women
If production of porn involves or leads to crimes against women, it needs eradication, not regulation
India’s Porn Laws Reveal Nothing, Hide Much More
A patchwork of laws is deployed against porn, confusing rather than clarifying the fraught terrain where blind spots abound
There Are Over 2,000 Porn Sites On Google, Why No Action Against Them, Asks Gehana Vasisth
Can anyone be coerced into porn? Are they kids? Allegations of youth eyeing a break in Bollywood being lured into porn are being made just to extort or blackmail, says Gehana Vasisth
Porn Again! The Land Of Kamasutra Is Now A Digital Porn Hub
Call it the Horn of Plenty. That even rhymes with porn, the unspoken cultural artefact that India is suddenly awash with.
Border Disputes Need Centre’s Healing Touch Not Temporary Measures
New Delhi has mostly responded on an ad hoc basis to historically complex border disputes among northeastern states
Border Disputes Are Colonial Era Legacies Awaiting Closure
Originating from colonial era carve-ups or post-independence redrawing of boundaries, territorial disputes between states fester on in low simmer or indifference, before they flare up in violence.
Border Disputes In Northeast Need Much More Than Twitter Bonhomie
The festering interstate boundary disputes in the region will take more than meetings to find permanent solutions. The warring states will have to adopt give-and-take measures too.
Foreign Hand: The Lama of Minneapolis
Football, Pokemon, rap music, graphic novels…and Buddhism? Meet Jalue Dorje, as American teen as you can get, but also Tibetan, and an anointed reincarnation.
Sans Frontiers
Headlines from around the world last week
In The Boots Of A War Hero
Siddharth Malhotra, who plays Captain Vikram Batra in 'Shershaah' which is to be released on Amazon Prime soon, talks to Outlook’s Lachmi Deb Roy on its being the first Bollywood film to be shot in Kargil. Excerpts:
Rough Cut: One Man’s Battle Against Diamond Mining In Madhya Pradesh Forest
“To a man living around these forests, 34 million carats of diamonds have no meaning, all he’ll understand are the many zeroes…that is what his bank balance is most of the time.”
Punjab Govt Launches Job Scheme For Kin Of Fallen Security Personnel
State government ensures kin of armed personnel killed in the line of duty land good jobs
370-Degree View: Two Years After Losing Statehood, J&K Still Looking For Gains
Two years after J&K lost autonomy and statehood, there’s no noise louder than the quiet on Kashmir’s streets
Mixed Shots
Passing through: A chuckle here, a teardrop there
Why KCR Has Turned Into A Dalit Bandhu
A Rs 2,000-crore aid package for Dalits? No one in Telangana can really oppose that, except to ask ‘why only in Huzurabad?’ Good question. Bypolls, what else.
Defence Is The Best Offence: How Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik Scripted India’s Hockey Revival
Naveen Patnaik may not quite be up there with Sreejesh, but the former Doon goalkeeper is the one who saved India from hockey oblivion and took us to the Olympic podium at Tokyo.
Covid Resurge Exposes Loopholes In Kerala Model
What’s behind the Covid spike in Kerala? Delta coming to the least seropositive state. Targeted, strategic testing that uncovers cases the best. And the least under-reporting.
The NEWS
In case you missed it: News and newsmakers from India over the past week
