COVER STORY
Spurred by the failure of formula films, the Hindi film industry catches a new-found obsession
Outlook Magazine - 11 September 2017
How much can rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim singh's followers pay for 'blessed' items? Aroma in the name of RSS leader Indresh Kumar? Cath all the juicy tidbits...
The old Liberal Order is under great stress from global economic convulsions. Desai runs through the past century to provide its socio-political context.
English fiction makes a rare rendezvous with the eastern front in WWII. This journey through a corner of occupied Ukraine is a harrowing one.
Cruelly barred from joining cricket’s mainstream for long, Northeastern states have decided on a final fling of the ball
Short accounts of the four cinemas of the South discuss threadbare the caste and political realities underpinning them. Only, a colossus is missed.
Ashwani Lohani, the new railway chairman, is a turnaround specialist with a proven track record. Here is an opportunity for him to turn his own home department around.
Shanbag has perfected the use of music and drama in his productions over time. The show is also accompanied by interesting graphics.
The rains again expose factors plaguing India’s healthcare in rural and urban spaces
Dominic Asquith, British High Commissioner to India, shares his 'Valley of Flowers' experience...
How much can rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim singh's followers pay for 'blessed' items? Aroma in the name of RSS leader Indresh Kumar? Cath all the juicy tidbits...
The old Liberal Order is under great stress from global economic convulsions. Desai runs through the past century to provide its socio-political context.
English fiction makes a rare rendezvous with the eastern front in WWII. This journey through a corner of occupied Ukraine is a harrowing one.
Cruelly barred from joining cricket’s mainstream for long, Northeastern states have decided on a final fling of the ball
Short accounts of the four cinemas of the South discuss threadbare the caste and political realities underpinning them. Only, a colossus is missed.
Ashwani Lohani, the new railway chairman, is a turnaround specialist with a proven track record. Here is an opportunity for him to turn his own home department around.
Shanbag has perfected the use of music and drama in his productions over time. The show is also accompanied by interesting graphics.
The rains again expose factors plaguing India’s healthcare in rural and urban spaces
Dominic Asquith, British High Commissioner to India, shares his 'Valley of Flowers' experience...
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A regular column on the essential buzz
A proposed US anti-immigrant bill puts in impossibly high barriers. Indians might be hit, but it isn’t law yet.
Prudence saved the day, but Doklam will cast a long shadow
The magic of diplomacy lies in the trick of mutual concession. Doklam was riven with mistakes on both sides, but its resolution was managed admirably.
Muslims can fight foes, but who will save them from friends?
Grandiose, customised and, at times, havens from mainstream religion
Kashmiris refuse to forgive a ‘peer’ accused of rape. Even the high court upholding his acquittal failed to get him out of jail.
People largely err in finding their spiritual master. The guru shouldn’t be a rockstar with fans willing to obey anything. The case isn’t different outside India too.
The story of a PIL against Sanatan Sanstha
Her dressed-up ways are signs of not just luxury. From running a sex racket to embezzling money to threatening witnesses, the allegations against Radhe Maa are many.
The Ananda Margis’ ‘path of love’ was strewn with a frightening trail of blood and crime
Mystery still looms over the June 1993 deaths in Puttaparthi (AP). Was it an assassination attempt on Sathya Sai Baba? Or a rivalry between ashram inmates?
Girl leaves her ‘rapist’ swami bobbitised, a devotee in another math found murdered
Chandraswami-- the 'Godman' after whom the word assumed disreputable connotations.
A boy from a pilgrim town went on to become a master in making his followers sex objects
He is the man with all the answers, who has the masses and the ‘classes’ eating out of his hands. He pushes the envelope of profit and power that piety and fealty draw like nothing else. But this heady combo of cult and clout also makes the godman’s fall as a common criminal just as spectacular.
