COVER STORY
A nationwide opinion poll by Nielsen maps how people perceive the human and social conditions in the states they live in...
Outlook Magazine - 26 October 2009
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While Kerala and Goa have walked away with the top honours yet again, there are many unforeseen winners in the 10 categories.
I sincerely believe that Lok Sabha debates can be livened up, made more entertaining and can even end up generating advertising revenue
Two of every three respondents in Maoist-affected states believe the war against Maoism will eventually be won. But is the battle without end?
After a long tyranny of neglect, the State speaks in wartime euphemisms
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While Kerala and Goa have walked away with the top honours yet again, there are many unforeseen winners in the 10 categories.
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I sincerely believe that Lok Sabha debates can be livened up, made more entertaining and can even end up generating advertising revenue
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Two of every three respondents in Maoist-affected states believe the war against Maoism will eventually be won. But is the battle without end?
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After a long tyranny of neglect, the State speaks in wartime euphemisms
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Our forces uphold our freedoms, but the Naxal is more esteemed?
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Nine states, 160 districts affected; average of 60 killings a month now.
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The Maoists might derail the Centre’s hearts-and-minds track
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Intelligence sources outline Maoist preparations for a long haul
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Coming up, a new battle plan, a new brigade HQ...
OTHER STORIES
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Internationally acclaimed Sanskrit scholar and author on her learned and rambunctious 780-page opus
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A new alliance between Punjabi militant groups and Tehrik-e-Taliban has opened up many fronts
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The GHQ attack shook up the Pak defence organisation. How will the game proceed?
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The anthropologist presented a paper on pornography at the Kovalam lit fest last week
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An enervating and tedious film that’s forgotten even as the end credits begin to roll
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One nuclear lie puts our entire strategic decision-making at stake
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The absence of transparency has hit the consumers hard
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As more players enter the telecom sector, the jostle to grab consumers hots up
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Beyond the forsaken ‘Bimaru’ states, there is a hidden map of deprivation in India
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The director makes a case for the film and says “the mystical love story” will have a resonance in today’s world
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An ambitious film will cast an eye over the affection between Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo
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Awards are also about arbitrariness and opportunity
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The ‘English medium’ mania goes against pedagogy, common sense
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Gujarat’s Balmiki kids face daily humiliations in school and village
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Maya’s self-obsession alienates old-timers
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A diplomat’s wife traces the footsteps of Indian Jews in Israel
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Founded in 1957, it was originally a ‘hospedaria’, or inn, in the old-word Portuguese quarter of Fontainhas
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Tigers may be on the way out, but leopards are still very much with us, as I know from my own sightings and the experiences of others...
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A socialite who ditched the litfest twice in a row, a writer who begs for anonymity and why having your biography written by your wife is hardly enviable
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All the props are present and correct. But the prose is too viscous for pace. Deserved a murder with less Mughal and more mystery
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Bagchi tries not to preach in a book that’s aimed at a younger audience. But I can think of many “captains of industry” who would benefit from a quick reading.
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Meenakshi Mukherjee’s last book celebrates the protean R.C. Dutt—administrator, historian, litterateur, beacon
