The End of Laloo?
The JD(U)-BJP decimates the Congress and the
RJD strongman. The electorate’s faith in
Nitish translates into a three-fourth majority.
12 STEM CELLS Private Banking
14 IIT KANPUR Spate of Suicides
18 OPINION Shiv Visvanathan
20 KARNATAKA The Survival of a CM...
32 ANDHRA PRADESH ...The
Resignation of Another
50 An Ear to Suu Kyi
Freed from house arrest, the Burmese icon
expresses her disappointment with India and
spells out the road ahead
54 IRAN The Kashmir Manoeuvre
58 Ladies’ Coup
Why are women in India better than men in
track and field events?
62 MUMBAI Restored Synagogue
64 COLUMN Geeta Doctor
66 GANDU Will it Get Past the Censor?
68 BOOKS The Importance of Being
Khushwant Singh
F E AT U R E S
I N T E R N AT I O N A L

In the upcoming magazine issue, Outlook takes a deeper look into the ‘One Nation, One Election’ idea and analyses the constitutional and legal complications around it and whether the move is essential for the Indian democracy or merely an eyewash.

India reported the highest suicide rate in its history in 2021, with 12 suicides for every 1 lakh people. But people who choose to die by suicide are considered cowards and criminals. But we don’t pause to reflect that those whom we call perpetrators are, in fact, victims. They need our empathy not judgments, helping hands not cruel whips. If the right to live with dignity is essential, then so should be the right to die. This, too, is freedom.

Why can’t we give transgender people the dignity of visibility in 
cinema and other spaces? Does Taali perpetuate the stereotype 
that trans women are just men in drag? Or is acting free from 
the responsibility of representation of the third gender?

In the upcoming edition, Outlook looks at the issue of Islamophobia, how the Hindu-Muslim divide has been widened by the domination of the Hindutva far-right, and tackles questions about how the politics of polarisation continues to deeply influence Indian society.

More than 75 years after India gained Independence, has the Dalit community got freedom? This issue is for all of us. To act and to agitate. To stand together and demand answers and keep asking questions. This issue is for the sake of freedom for everyone. In the hope that we annihilate caste, we invoke memory to guide us through this.

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INDIA’S BEST UNIVERSITIES

How do you love without patronage and how do you stay angry without slipping into hatred? In this issue, we look at the role that emotions play in Indian politics. There are many questions that this issue puts forth. Exploring the underbelly of everydayness and how emotions fill the scaffolding of politics.

In a world that is faced with isolation, literature helps to connect, to empathise and to have compassion. It makes us know the other. It helps us know ourselves. It helps us see beauty in the ordinary. This issue is for all those who stand together against loneliness, a world order that is based on profits and what othering brings.

Fed on toxic masculinity and virulent patriarchy, young men are picking up guns and stalking women. It is time to regulate the sale of weapons and counsel youngsters

A REQUIEM FOR
VICTIMS
Photographs captured at the site of the recent
train accident in Odisha’s Balasore district tell
multiple tales of tragedy. A trigger warning.

Gender Journey
Feminists movements first welcomed the idea of a Uniform Civil Code.
But as right-wingers hijacked the proposal, they retracted
and called for reforms in personal laws instead

Lessons from Manipur
and Karnataka

A victory in Karnataka may aid the Congress party in its efforts to
form an Opposition front for the 2024 parliamentary elections

Cover Story
The days of the stodgy, Anglophile civil
servant are gone—aspirants from villages and
underprivileged backgrounds are making a mark
in the UPSC exams. We explore how they are
changing the prestigious civil services.

Like the rest of the world, racism
thrives in India in different violent
forms and colours. Cornel West
and Suraj Yengde try to understand
the ogre that stalks us all

COVER STORY
God Ram is headlining the current national
discourse—from prime time to WhatsApp. He and the
pantheon from Indian mythology have also been the
source of bestselling pulp fiction lately.

Cover Story
As J&K completes one year sans ‘special status’,
stakeholders look back at the August 5 decisions. Was
a ‘historic blunder’ corrected or another committed?

Cover Story
They are like the mythical Raktabija, the
demon that ressurects from a drop of his
blood. They are the gangsters of UP—one dies,
another appears. Gangster Vikas Dubey is
dead, but UP still has plenty like him to keep
the crime world running, police on toes.

COVER STORY

Offices are not functioning at full strength;

work from home is the new norm...as are

layoffs, pay cuts et al. Outlook-Toluna surveys

the post-Covid workplace and workers 

| CALL OFF THE DOGS

The controversy over dog meat—now banned

in Nagaland—spawns from mainland India’s

refusal to respect the NE’s unique food habits

 | PLAYING TO EMPTY GALLERIES

As stadia around the world echo in emptiness,

sportspersons try to cope with the new Covidspurred

reality of playing without fans.

 | BREATHING IN THE SHADOWS

Abhishek Bachchan still finds his work and

talent measured on a yardstick called Amitabh.

Will it change with his maiden web series?

Cover Story
Tourism comprises 10% of India’s GDP; 100 million
jobs depend on it. A dozen states can be bankrupt
if the sector doesn’t revive, or get a bailout. Also,
the economy cannot rebound without tourism.

COVER STORY
After the Chinese incursions in Indian territory,
India seems more cornered than ever in a hostile
neighbourhood. What next as China’s economic and
political influence in South Asia increases?

COVER STORY
After China killed 20 Indian soldiers at the LAC, Modi
says he will not “compromise on borders”. As the
prospect of disengagement looks bleak, what does
the future hold for the sparring neighbours?



COVID-19 has been around for at least six months
now, surging across the globe. After all this time, are
we any closer to containing the pandemic? Are there
multiple strains, with the less virulent ones responsible
for fewer deaths in India? Have lockdowns succeeded
in controlling the pandemic? Why have certain
countries managed to contain the virus where others
have failed? And most importantly, what must we do
next? We explore the treatments under consideration,
the latest research on the virus, the probability of a
vaccine’s development and the way forward.

COVER STORY
The pandemic has made countries wary of relying
solely on China, the ‘factory of the world’. As global
supply chains lie battered, can India be a viable
manufacturing alternative? We explore India’s
‘atmanirbharta’ aspirations against the backdrop
of the standoff with China at the Ladakh border

COVER STORY
Millions of bedraggled migrants marched their way
back from the cities to their villages. Outlook caught
up with some of them at their homes...to know their
stories, to know their plans for the future.

 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED PASSES
How will aggressive posturing and transgressions
along the Line of Actual Control impact
India-China relations?

 OPENCAST CANOPY
Coal India Limited has been mining in the
Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary since
2003. As it seeks further clearances,
opposition intensifies.


Can the Rs 2,000,000 crore Stimulus Package kickstart the economy?

A 50-year-old dream may go bust. Lakhs will return, without jobs, in India’s biggest reverse migration from a world scarred by Covid. The story from Ground Zero: Kerala and Dubai.

Covided: (verb) to be finished off, killed,
postponed, brought to life, revived,
hastened...i.e. to be fundamentally
affected or altered one way or the other

Pandemic or apocalypse, the cycle of life must go
on. All plans and goals can be deferred, but not the
inevitable. We explore how people are dealing with
birth and death during the lockdown.

There has been no letdown in COVID-19 cases in the
capital. Is Delhi in for a long lockdown?

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