COVER STORY
Outlook Magazine - 6 June 2016
There is no quarrel that our first prime minister was a great man. But do we have to meet him at every turn in the capital?
Governmental India often has a Nehru-Gandhi tag. And the remedy doesn’t lie in aggressive renaming.
And why the BJP’s rival of choice for 2017 is Samajwadi rather than Bahujan
The beloved KBR park is under threat from flyovers—and Hyderabad is fighting back
Business in bitesizes
There is no quarrel that our first prime minister was a great man. But do we have to meet him at every turn in the capital?
The Sangh’s idol-making errs not just in ideology, but in basic geography
Governmental India often has a Nehru-Gandhi tag. And the remedy doesn’t lie in aggressive renaming.
And why the BJP’s rival of choice for 2017 is Samajwadi rather than Bahujan
Did the media and the police play into a cynically polarising game in Ayodhya?
Does the new Lucknow building of the Allahabad High Court sit on a pond?
The beloved KBR park is under threat from flyovers—and Hyderabad is fighting back
OTHER STORIES
Beside the tirade, do we have any good reason to?
Being in the limelight may have much to do with the flak Rajan is drawing
Never before has a kerfuffle been raised over a central banker. What makes Rajan different?
Let’s clean up the NPA mess, not play blame games
The Chamundi hill is a green haven in elegant Mysore. Now, the ogre of ‘development’ threatens the holy spot.
Assam’s first BJP chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on his roadmap to deal with illegal migrants from Bangladesh.
The former BSF director-general Prakash Singh who headed the inquiry on the violence that raged in Haryana in February talks about the matter
Canines are catching up on (and wolfing down) gourmet trends
A Berlin exhibition recalls Dhyan Chand’s 1936 Olympics exploits
All right-thinking citizens should cherish how the PMO is game-changing India, and that too with just watchful eyes and invisible hands
The BJP is wringing the most out of the Assam victory to put a coat of paint on the thinning Unstoppable Modi mystique
The tale of an old-world movie exhibitor, who refuses to let go of the past
There are many wonderful things to enjoy, and we concentrate on what is not going well.
Body weight is not an indicator of our fatness or fitness, but compliance to exercise indicates fitness.
A comic extravaganza, a contemporary retelling of the story of Christ in a series of reverse paintings on acrylic and Kalki Koechlin's live soliloquy
All of 24, Nikita Singh is a bestselling author and has nine novels to her credit. Her latest book, Like a Love Song, has just been released.
Trouble at the JLF Southbank London, more changes at HarperCollins and why there was no CALM this year
An unusual novel, written in an almost deadpan, somewhat distant style
A brilliant novel has a three-pronged approach to terrifying madness
The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
These Assam elections were the first one in 30 years when insurgency was not an issue.
A regular column on the essential buzz
For writing an epic fairy tale that would have been impossible to believe if it weren’t so true
Modi needs to remind himself—or needs to be reminded—that he is the nation’s prime minister, not some lowly rabble-rouser
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