Smruti Koppikar

Once a city of pulsing vigour and life, India’s showpiece city is in steep decline—physically, intellectually and in terms of its inclusive spirit

Will the NDA ship start sinking with Nitish’s refusal to accept Modi as captain?

Alarmed by its proactive role, the three ‘pillars’ of our democracy set out to weaken the fourth estate

The older Ambani bahu goes through an image makeover. Not only is she looking the part, she is also playing it to the hilt.

In Amravati, Rajendra Shekhawat’s writ runs on the strength of his mother’s exalted position

Pratibha Patil leaves no lasting impression on her office

The decline in one of the best universities in India has hastened in the last two years

Adarsh scam probe sees first arrests

Kripa Shankar Singh is finally called to account

Political guy or corporate czar, actor or activist? Outlook weighs a few names

Narendra Modi might like to ponder over what Archbishop Desmond Tutu had said two decades ago as an unimaginably racially divided South Africa debated the need for Truth and Reconciliation Commission

HC orders police to register an FIR against Congress's Mumbai chief, leading to his resignation, vindicating Outlook's expose...

The Municipal polls underline that Mumbai remains—or has returned to being—a saffron city, with Raj Thackeray emerging as the biggest gainer

As Gujarat – and the nation – marks ten years of the horrific violence in Godhra and later across the state, and Modi completes his carefully-calibrated Sadbhavna mission in a bid to erase the 2002 blot, he finds the courts closing in on him and his

Altogether, Mumbai has had too much politics; too little governance. The fight to have a political rally at Shivaji Park is another chapter in the continuing story

Competitive identity politics demanding monuments and statues for icons by forcibly "occupying" government land gets a lashing for Maharashtra government from the Bombay High Court. But is anyone listening?

Hazare's agitation was critical and timely. His basic demand to have the civil society suggestions in redrafting the Lokpal Bill was valid. But haven't we invested too little of ourselves in the battle and too much in one man?

Does the Shiv Sena (A) Desire a memorial irrespective of its cost? (B) Not want a memorial at such an exorbitant cost? (C) Rubbish the very idea itself? or D) Believe that if there is to be Shivaji Memorial then it should be the sole karta-dharta?

Two words the government should have paid heed to, but didn't. Instead, it farcically spent two full days figuring out the relevant law to shut down the city -- though it still hasn't been able to find one for the malls

In the middle of celebrations over the 5.6 kilometre new stretch of concrete road, over the sea linking Bandra and Worli, it is hard to sound rational, let alone sceptical. But it is difficult to miss some obvious questions...