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<i>Outlook</i> in retrospect.

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15 Years Ago

Sheela Reddy on politician parents: Harpreet Kaur and Anusha Jogi were like most modern young women in India: they had decided views on who they should marry. Their parents had equally strong opinions on the matter, as parents generally do. But when those parents happen to be less parent and more politician, the only way out for these young women seems to have been premature death. http://bit.ly/1PTLocI

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10 Years Ago

Saumya Roy on a militant vegetarianism being a cloak for exclusion: These days, at the north end of Mumbai’s Marine Drive, strings of fairy lights form a narrow, uphill gateway to veggie land. This millionaires’ row features everything from sea-facing bun­galows to Jain Mexican food and other slight eccentricities of the rich. In South Mumbai, the posh new buildings are mostly ‘veggie only’. http://bit.ly/1EV4Ak1

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5 Years Ago

Mariana Baabar, on the tape of Hamid Mir’s chat with a Taliban man: Lollywood film directors searching for a script to produce a thriller are advised to read Let Us Build Pakistan (LUBP) on the website criticalppp.org. The website has all the ingredients for a racy film—the transcript of a conversation between renowned TV anchor Hamid Mir and his Taliban interlocutor, the murder of a former ISI official known for his links with militant Islamic groups, spies from foreign intelligence agencies, and the blackmail tactics of those in power. http://bit.ly/1GmoNEV

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