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
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
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
Our forces uphold our freedoms, but the Naxal is more esteemed?
Nine states, 160 districts affected; average of 60 killings a month now.
The Maoists might derail the Centre’s hearts-and-minds track
Intelligence sources outline Maoist preparations for a long haul
Coming up, a new battle plan, a new brigade HQ...
OTHER STORIES
Internationally acclaimed Sanskrit scholar and author on her learned and rambunctious 780-page opus
A new alliance between Punjabi militant groups and Tehrik-e-Taliban has opened up many fronts
The GHQ attack shook up the Pak defence organisation. How will the game proceed?
The anthropologist presented a paper on pornography at the Kovalam lit fest last week
An enervating and tedious film that’s forgotten even as the end credits begin to roll
One nuclear lie puts our entire strategic decision-making at stake
The absence of transparency has hit the consumers hard
As more players enter the telecom sector, the jostle to grab consumers hots up
Beyond the forsaken ‘Bimaru’ states, there is a hidden map of deprivation in India
The director makes a case for the film and says “the mystical love story” will have a resonance in today’s world
An ambitious film will cast an eye over the affection between Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo
Awards are also about arbitrariness and opportunity
The ‘English medium’ mania goes against pedagogy, common sense
Gujarat’s Balmiki kids face daily humiliations in school and village
Maya’s self-obsession alienates old-timers
A diplomat’s wife traces the footsteps of Indian Jews in Israel
Founded in 1957, it was originally a ‘hospedaria’, or inn, in the old-word Portuguese quarter of Fontainhas
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...
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
All the props are present and correct. But the prose is too viscous for pace. Deserved a murder with less Mughal and more mystery
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.
Meenakshi Mukherjee’s last book celebrates the protean R.C. Dutt—administrator, historian, litterateur, beacon
