ESSAY
A math question: How many soldiers will it take to contain the mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people?
ARUNDHATI ROY MAGAZINE | NOV 09, 2009
FOR THE RECORD
Full text of the Sixth Nani A. Palkhivala memorial lecture delivered by the home minister on October 5, 2009 at Mumbai in which he also spoke, inter alia, on Naxalism and terrorism
P. CHIDAMBARAM WEB | OCT 15, 2009
TELEVISION
That epic moment when we spotted ourselves on TV
SANTOSH DESAI MAGAZINE | OCT 19, 2009
ESSAY
When India was closest to being a non-functioning anarchy
RAMACHANDRA GUHA MAGAZINE | OCT 19, 2009
PUNJAB
Operation Bluestar was a bloody, avoidable desecration
MARK TULLY MAGAZINE | OCT 19, 2009
BHOPA GAS TRAGEDY
There’s no justice, Bhopal’s survivors wage a lonely battle
INDRA SINHA MAGAZINE | OCT 19, 2009
CONTROVERSY
Jaswant Singh's controversial book on Jinnah has nothing new to offer, except some rare photographs. It is significant only because it rudely and perhaps unexpectedly exposed the tussles within the top ranks of the BJP leadership.
C.M. NAIM WEB | SEP 11, 2009
BOOKS EXCERPT
Gurcharan Das pans an ancient epic to retrieve lessons for today
GURCHARAN DAS MAGAZINE | AUG 31, 2009
NATIONHOOD
India under Nehru was a land of abiding hope. Sixty-two years on, should we still celebrate?
GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI MAGAZINE | AUG 24, 2009
INDIA DIARY
Echoes of Faiz and Faraz, a traipse through Delhi, an encounter with an Abida fan and a Mumbai Muslim...much the same, yet subtly different
ALI SETHI MAGAZINE | AUG 24, 2009
YOUTHANASIA
She may not wear her patriotism on her sleeve, nor drown in religious ecstasy, but the young Indian still hugs the festive spirit, in other ways
PALASH KRISHNA MEHROTRA MAGAZINE | AUG 24, 2009
SOCIETY
The Big Fat Indian Wedding is nothing new. It’s been a fact of life since Sita wed Ram. We all aspire to be royalty, even if for a day.
ANUJA CHAUHAN MAGAZINE | AUG 24, 2009
BEING INDIAN
Or how I determinedly sized up the careworn Indian system, ran into a brick wall, yet still managed to secure a PIO card for myself
SAM MILLER MAGAZINE | AUG 24, 2009
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
India has sparked off socio-economic progress, but a large base of inequity has still to be eroded
DANIEL LAK MAGAZINE | AUG 24, 2009
BEING INDIAN
An Indian of American origin wages several battles to acquire his cherished citizenship
JUSTIN MCCARTHY MAGAZINE | AUG 24, 2009
THE NRI EXPERIENCE
Those ‘backward’ days are over. The emancipation of the Indian emigrant is complete. For New India is now a Big Deal.
TUNKU VARADARAJAN MAGAZINE | AUG 24, 2009
AN INDIAN PLATTER
Indian cuisine in totality can come together only on a menu. But a quest for convergence on a national dish can result in mouthwatering debate.
SHOBA NARAYAN MAGAZINE | AUG 24, 2009
SPECTACLE & CEREMONY
Isn’t it better to paint the sky with kites than to watch marchpasts and listen to boring speeches?
SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA MAGAZINE | AUG 24, 2009
SOCIETY
The weight of our collective inaction against corruption is bearing down. I can’t celebrate.
SONIA FALEIRO MAGAZINE | AUG 24, 2009
TECHNOLOGY
Indians celebrate technology... but after refracting it through ancient social lenses so that the light on the other side reflects old mindsets
AJIT BALAKRISHNAN MAGAZINE | AUG 24, 2009
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MY INDIA STORY
That encounter with Mother Teresa changed my whole life and worldview
DOMINIQUE LAPIERRE MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
It was my best time, the summer I spent chasing the Monsoon
STEVE MCCURRY MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
Often, it all ends up as a strange, involuntary, one-man circus act by a bald white man
JASON OVERDORF MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
Big Brother helped in the democracy battle. But I can't read more.
MANJUSHREE THAPA MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
Being "married to India" means one is already defined by the experience
EDWARD LUCE MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
There was something about KRN: a child of Nehru, deep, smiling
CATHERINE CLEMENT MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
A young man's painful death in a Manipur village; an indelible taint on the Indian dream
NANDITA HAKSAR MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
Partition, we didn't relate to, except as event in the family chronicle. Till, we went back.
M.G. VASSANJI MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
The 'chalne do' precept has a lot going for it. Or does it? A Pune trip offers few conclusions.
MARK TULLY MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
That final leap of faith: dropping out, tuning in with India
RAMESH RAMANATHAN MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
NOBEL PEACE LECTURE
How climate change will affect peace is for others to determine, but we have provided scientific assessment of what could become a basis for conflict.
R.K. PACHAURI WEB | DEC 10, 2007
OPINION
Come winter, and Indians will genuflect before the visiting hordes of NRIs
RAMACHANDRA GUHA MAGAZINE | DEC 17, 2007
OPINION
The great compromises that chip away at the great cause that is India
GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI MAGAZINE | DEC 17, 2007
NOBEL LECTURE
How will the internet inanities -- "blogging and blugging" -- change us and our minds? "Very recently, anyone even mildly educated would respect learning, education, and owe respect to our great store of literature..."
DORIS LESSING WEB | DEC 07, 2007
REVIEW ESSAY
An excellent and truly comprehensive book constructed around the rare photographs of Lucknow in the extraordinary collection by Ebrahim Alkazi, marred only by some serious editorial errors.
C.M. NAIM WEB | OCT 16, 2007
EXCLUSIVE JUDICIARY JUSTICE Y.K. SABHARWAL
Judges in India are divine beings. And if you're an ex-CJI, your sins are above mortal reproach.
ARUNDHATI ROY MAGAZINE | OCT 01, 2007
REVIEW
Naipaul's new book traverses old ground, his journey unto himself is but an ego trip, the sharp edge of his writing has turned bitter. Where's VS as we knew him?
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE MAGAZINE | SEP 24, 2007
BRITISH EXHIBITION: INDIAN ART
The British Museum celebrates India at 60 in a show of Indian art patronised by Brits before the Raj
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE MAGAZINE | SEP 17, 2007
REVIEW ESSAY
A subtle rebuke to those who like to see the relationship between the Christian and Islamic world exclusively and simplistically in terms of jihads and crusades, clashes, violence and destruction.
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE WEB | SEP 06, 2007
ICT IN INDIA
How Information and communications technology can be a tool for wide ranging reform and innovation in the future, and transform the everyday lives of Indians
NANDAN NILEKANI MAGAZINE | DEC 01, 2008
BHARAT RATNA
The State wants to be the grand jury, playing patron like the old nawabs and rajas. But art is a sovereign nation... and just how do you summon a king to the court?
SUNIL MENON WEB | NOV 12, 2008
INTERVENTION
'Let us not forget that Gandhiji was killed because he was perceived to be a friend of the Muslims, and an enemy of the Hindus while he strived against the violent actions of both Hindus and Muslims, and fasted to make his own disciples in power to give to Pakistan what was its due, legally.'
U.R. ANANTHA MURTHY WEB | NOV 03, 2008
ESSAY
In its 13 years, Outlook has honed a peculiarly Indian take on secular fair play that opens its pages to diversity and dissent
MUKUL KESAVAN MAGAZINE | OCT 20, 2008
RANKINGS
India needs managers. An Outlook GfK-Mode survey evaluates the schools that make them.
SUNIT ARORA MAGAZINE | SEP 29, 2008
ESSAY
Among the biggest political delusions we have laboured for long is the 'foreign hand'
RAMACHANDRA GUHA MAGAZINE | AUG 18, 2008
KERALA: SYNCRETISM
In this pocket of Kerala, local myth fuses Goddess Bhagavati and Mother Mary into family
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE MAGAZINE | AUG 11, 2008
EXCLUSIVE ESSAY
The leading historian offers seven reasons why it will not. And then, to this objective judgement, he adds the subjective desires of a citizen—that it should not evenattempt to become one.
RAMACHANDRA GUHA MAGAZINE | JUN 30, 2008
ESSAY
Indian students never had it so good. Outlook -Synovate map the nation's best campuses.
SUNIT ARORA MAGAZINE | JUN 30, 2008
FOR THE RECORD
...and the Importance of Imagination: text of the Harvard University Commencement Address by the author of the Harry Potter novels delivered on June 5, 2008.
J.K. ROWLING WEB | JUN 12, 2008
STARDOM
Bollywood stardom has always seemed head-swivellingly divine. Actually, such romantic personas are shaped by reality, chance and calculation.
PAROMITA VOHRA MAGAZINE | MAY 19, 2008
PARTNERSHIP PARADIGM
Play regulator, let PPPs flourish. The state must master a balance.
LOLA NAYAR , SUNIT ARORA MAGAZINE | APR 07, 2008
EXCERPTS
Even as an unlikely debate rages around the Ram Setu, right-wing student activists in a pocket of Delhi university took exception to a celebrated essay by an eminent scholar...
A.K. RAMANUJAN MAGAZINE | MAR 17, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
So we were married, followed by laddoos and the instruction: You may now cross-feed
PATRICK FRENCH MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
What have I done that I can neither cross my own threshold nor enjoy human company?
TASLIMA NASREEN MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
Encountering Gandhi's Dandi, rare Raj relics, a pickpocket, a wanderer and a cool cabbie
JAN MORRIS MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
Refugees from the streets, killers from next door, the terrible violence inside us
MUKUL KESAVAN MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
A steadily accreting generosity amid the bedlam that wraps one in a lasting warmth
IAN JACK MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
I once chanced upon my hero, the PM. But it was two deaths that showed me the real India.
LORD MEGHNAD DESAI MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
MY INDIA STORY
The badland backdrop lingered. Until both sides got to know the face behind the image.
LAILA TYABJI MAGAZINE | JAN 14, 2008
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ESSAY
Kumaon and its people are forever a watercolour memory, much like its mild sunlight
PRASOON JOSHI MAGAZINE | JAN 12, 2009
ESSAY
Three cities have shaped my life, knitting and weaving across each other in little strings
LEELA SAMSON MAGAZINE | JAN 12, 2009
ESSAY
Arrivals, departures. A little bit of Seer and the Valley and the distance from the world.
BASHARAT PEER MAGAZINE | JAN 12, 2009
ESSAY
I might not have gone back to my native place—Poona—but it has always stayed with me.
EBRAHIM ALKAZI MAGAZINE | JAN 12, 2009
ESSAY
"So deep-rooted in me is my birthplace, I take Rajasthan with me wherever I go"
JASWANT SINGH MAGAZINE | JAN 12, 2009
ESSAY
Time touches a city after its own manner, often unaiding memory. Still, I remain a Chennai boy.
VISWANATHAN ANAND MAGAZINE | JAN 12, 2009
ESSAY
The city casts a spell so deep, the chronic attack of nostalgia transcends time and space
JUG SURAIYA MAGAZINE | JAN 12, 2009
ESSAY
The years in other cities have only strengthened my sense of belonging to my roots in Assam
ARNAB GOSWAMI MAGAZINE | JAN 12, 2009
ESSAY
"Calcutta, Delhi, and then Madhya Pradesh—but home will always be a place in India"
BELINDA WRIGHT MAGAZINE | JAN 12, 2009
A REVIEW ESSAY
Lashkar's jihad is claimed to be almost exclusively on behalf of Kashmiri mothers and daughters. For they know they must have the mothers in Punjab and Sindh on their side in order to succeed in their recruiting efforts, as we learn from these propaganda books
C.M. NAIM WEB | DEC 15, 2008
OUTLOOK EXCLUSIVE
Next to my own country, India, there is no place in the world that has been more important to my development as a writer than Egypt...
AMITAV GHOSH MAGAZINE | DEC 22, 2008
OUTLOOK EXCLUSIVE
How literature, legends and folklore have influenced our responses to nature and wildlife -- sometimes with happy results, as in the Sunderbans, and at other times with disastrous consequences, as with Project Tiger
AMITAV GHOSH MAGAZINE | DEC 22, 2008
ESSAY: TERROR IN MUMBAI
(And November isn't September)
ARUNDHATI ROY MAGAZINE | DEC 22, 2008
NOBEL LECTURE
Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings. There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore those who have power and influence can also stop them.
MARTTI AHTISAARI WEB | DEC 11, 2008
NOBEL LECTURE
Why do we write? I imagine that each of us has his or her own response to this simple question. One has predispositions, a milieu, circumstances. Shortcomings, too. If we are writing, it means that we are not acting....
JEAN-MARIE GUSTAVE LE CLÉZIO WEB | DEC 07, 2008
DIARY
In Berlin for a year on an academic exchange programme, the author of God's Little Soldier recounts how he felt seeing his city defiled
KIRAN NAGARKAR MAGAZINE | DEC 15, 2008
COMMENT
New York is another city. Can Mumbai, hostage to a murky substrata of underworld and petty political interests, respond in its own way?
GAUTAM BHATIA MAGAZINE | DEC 15, 2008
THINKING THROUGH
There can be nothing more dangerous at present than a deadly combination of injured innocence and glib macho loose talk. About bombing Pakistan and Islamophobia...Or 'Mossad-CIA' involvement, for that matter.
SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA WEB | DEC 03, 2008
BHARAT RATNA
Art is a sovereign nation. Just how do you summon a king to court?
SUNIL MENON MAGAZINE | DEC 08, 2008
OUTLOOK EXCLUSIVE
Our huge population is not an economic albatross. Today, India's growth story is increasingly the story of its young population.
NANDAN NILEKANI MAGAZINE | DEC 01, 2008
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ENVIRONMENT
Our biodiversity, thriving so far despite the depredations, is a fragile gift we hold in trust
MAHESH RANGARAJAN MAGAZINE | AUG 24, 2009
ESSAY
Is democracy a hit with humans because it mirrors our myopia?
ARUNDHATI ROY MAGAZINE | JUL 13, 2009
THE LOVE STORY
Romance without the baggage? Indian movies are still grappling with the idea.
SANTOSH DESAI MAGAZINE | JUL 13, 2009
DEVDAS
As long as we claim Paro's wounds as our own, Devdas's sacrifice shall hold its allure
SUDHIR MISHRA MAGAZINE | JUL 13, 2009
WORDS + MUSIC
Down the years, the spectrum of film song has reflected how India looks at love & longing
PRASOON JOSHI MAGAZINE | JUL 13, 2009
TAMIL LOVERS
You can't keep the Tamil macho hero down for long. But lover boys bloom in between.
SUDHA G. TILAK MAGAZINE | JUL 13, 2009
IN BENGAL
Uttam-Suchitra's incandescence lit up Bengali cinema. It endures still.
MITA CHATTERJEE MAGAZINE | JUL 13, 2009
LOVE GAME
On screen, as in life, the many-splendoured thing makes us want to identify with the other
PAROMITA VOHRA MAGAZINE | JUL 13, 2009
A TYPICAL ROMANCE
Bollywood isn't shy when it comes to exploring taboo love
NAMAN RAMACHANDRAN MAGAZINE | JUL 13, 2009
LONE LOVES
What film romances don't talk about when they talk about love
DIBAKAR BANERJEE MAGAZINE | JUL 13, 2009
BOOK EXCERPTS
Having miraculously survived a serious illness and at an impasse in her career, an American magazine editor spontaneously decides to spend a year learning Hindi in Udaipur. She later interviews top linguistics experts to understand what learning a second language does to the brain...
KATHERINE RUSSELL RICH WEB | JUN 25, 2009
ESSAY
In these stormy times, Outlook 's annual ranking of India's top professional colleges—in its fourth edition, this time with GfK-Mode—is an island of reassuring calm.
SUNIT ARORA MAGAZINE | JUN 22, 2009
ESSAY
It forces the author to impose his own reading of his work on the reader, depriving him of the aura of mystery around its origins
SALMAN RUSHDIE MAGAZINE | MAY 25, 2009
EXCLUSIVE: BOOK EXTRACT
The virtues of compassionate capitalism can go a long way in solving problems that have plagued India
N.R. NARAYANA MURTHY MAGAZINE | APR 20, 2009
ESSAY
How the polity got fractured and how we can aid the healing process
RAMACHANDRA GUHA MAGAZINE | APR 20, 2009
ESSAY
Stephen Alter recounts the horror of being brutally attacked in his own home
STEPHEN ALTER MAGAZINE | MAR 02, 2009
ESSAY
Was this the worst year experienced by India (and Indians) since the country was founded? Our annus horribilis?
RAMACHANDRA GUHA MAGAZINE | JAN 12, 2009
ESSAY
In location and language, I was more an Agrawal from Delhi than an Iyengar from Mysore
MUKUL KESAVAN MAGAZINE | JAN 12, 2009
ESSAY
In humans, as in plants, roots grow deeper if left to grow in one place, untransplanted
MARK TULLY MAGAZINE | JAN 12, 2009
ESSAY
'Back home' was always going to be a problematic place. And not just because it was not one place.
RAMA BIJAPURKAR MAGAZINE | JAN 12, 2009
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