25 January, 2021
25 Years of Outlook
modi's trump card
Cover Story

For Ideas To Have Currency

Demonetisation is a dramatic Modistroke. And well-timed too, ahead of crucial polls.

Bhavna Vij-Aurora
Cover Story
A Gambit Against Black
Stability will return, but not too soon: that’s the economists’ prognosis
Arindam Mukherjee
Cover Story
Cause Over Convenience
How urban India is coping with the sudden cashless break
Anoo Bhuyan, Ajay Sukumaran
Cover Story
Clueless In Cash Country
Outside urban India, it is largely hard cash that has currency
Pragya Singh, Minu Ittyipe
Opinion
“You Are Reducing Black Money Without Stopping Its Sources”
Economist Abhijit Sen on how Modi is planning a greater tax intake buying into the idea of a transition to a cash-less economy.
Lola Nayar INTERVIEWS Abhijit Sen
NATIONAL
Pollution
Breathless
What’s with the air in Delhi that a festival of lights plunged it into darkness? Can we read the signal in the smog?
Anoo Bhuyan
Pollution
Enter The Clean Air Machine
When the smog gets into killer mode, purifier manufacturers make a killing
Arushi Bedi
Pollution
The Earth Scorched, A Capital Clogged
Hardscrabble economic reasons lit the ring of farm fires that partly choked Delhi
Pragya Singh
Congress
The Last Lap Of A Slow Ascension
Rahul would be taking over as Congress chief. But the question remains the same: when?
Bula Devi
Karnataka
‘BJP Is A Party Representing The Upper Castes... Against Social Justice’
Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on the controversies that have plagued his fourth years in office and how his government has delivered on its promises
Ajay Sukumaran INTERVIEWS K. Siddaramaiah
Opinion
The Witness May Shut Up
The I&B ministry can’t be accuser, prosecutor and judge
Anup J. Bhambhani
THE LATEST ISSUE
International
US Elections
Trump’s World
US’s European and Asian allies have solid concerns, but for India, a Trump presidency can hold many benefits
Pranay Sharma
US Elections
Concerto For Trumpet And Hot Air
A fractious polity produced the vitriol Democrats and Republicans hurled at each other. In the end, Hillary’s shaky credibility gave way under the assault of a White rage.
Saif Shahin
Opinion
Watching Over Our Pond
Trump may embolden China, but India-US ties are on firm ground
Kanwal Sibal
US Elections
The Sturm Und Drang Evening
As poll predictions go awry and blue goes red, our Los Angeles correspondent catches the mood
Priyadarshini Sen
US Elections
Red House On The Yonder
It took no time for the swing in votes to shift the tide from Blue to Red
Opinion
A Flame-Top With A Torch
America’s struggling masses have made this a trickster’s finest hour
Nandini Lal
Leader Comment
Memsaab And The Maid
If the poor, the und­erprivileged and the jobless have abandoned the liberals then it is not bec­ause the poor have become conservative but it is because the libe­rals have become something else.
REGULAR
LAST PAGE
Tokyo Diary
It’s an elaborate ritual of politeness, this bowing, and meant to convey much more than people from other countries can imagine.
Jagdish Raja
Books
Canada
The PM In The Comicbook Has Gone Viral
A pioneer among Indians in Canadian politics recounts his eventful march to high office
Anirudh Bhattacharyya
Review
Steelworks In A Foreign Cabinet
Welcome to Trudeaupia-2, where image is everything. Yet, the proof of the pop appeal is still in the policy pudding.
Anirudh Bhattacharyya
Review
Angst Of An Azaadi Seeker
Kanhaiya’s trajectory, from village to JNU and activism, is underpinned by a firm stand against injustice
Vandana R. Singh
Review
Tin Pan Alley Guitar Epics
Manwani’s biography of a film-maker as unapologetically commercial as Nasir Husain is a pointer to the growing acceptability of books on popular Hindi cinema
Giridhar Jha
gossip
Bibliofile
A glimpse into Bangalore's soul and Dara Singh's biography, a chatty retelling of the story of a farmer’s son who goes on to tame international wrestlers
Web Extra
Life’s Wisdom As A Fine Art
In a novel about Tagore and his female relatives and companions, the poet emerges as a fallible man
NILANJAN MUKHOPADHYAY
The Insider
Deep Throat
A regular column on the essential buzz
 
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
Cinema
The Meteor’s Arc
They too are part of that night sky. A brief history of one-hit wonders.
Prachi Pinglay-Plumber
Theatre
This Arcadian Adventure Isn’t A Literary Lapse
Welcome to Trudeaupia-2, where image is everything. Yet, the proof of the pop appeal is still in the policy pudding.
Prachi Pinglay-Plumber
10 QUESTIONS
Sumeet Vyas
The actor and writer on bagging his first lead role opposite Kalki Koechlin in Robbin, and making it in Bollywood as an outsider
Stuti Agarwal INTERVIEWS Sumeet Vyas
 
OUTLOOK ARCHIVE
ISSUE DATED | JUNE 03, 2013
REVIEW
Father And Sons, Or The Lie Of The Land
An honourable Svengali and his Mujib-speaking protege ply their trade in liberated Bangladesh. Imam weaves a hyper-realistic tale of tragedy, farce, idealism and power.
20 YEARS OF OUTLOOK
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Outlook in Rewind
10 Years Ago
Even in the still and serene surroundings of his 2,000-acre estate on the Sahayadri slopes in Chikmagalur in the Western Ghats, Ashok Kuriyan can feel the hustle-and-bustle and the pace of the Indian economy. At Balanoor Plantations, the "feelgood" factor has gripped every worker, including its MD Kuriyan. After all, despite a huge rise in input costs, it netted a cool profit of Rs 30 lakh this season, compared to a "no-profit, no-loss situation" in the previous one. "If we had not got the Rs 25 lakh subsidy last year, we would've been in serious trouble," says Kuriyan.