Outlook - April 25, 2016

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12 Another Summer of Discontent?
In a city where crackdowns on protesters as are common as the azadi chant, and lives can be lost routinely, what exactly is different about the police action at NIT, Srinagar?
32 Camera Obscura
The NDA government’s Pakistan policy suffers a lack of clarity
54 Thought(-less) Bubbles
Has the spirit and the sizzle gone out of advertising? Ad gurus, creatives and account executives are all unanimous—it has.
82 Armed, Adorned, Not to be Scorned
Body-builder, trainer, biker and belly-dancer all at once, Yashmeen Manak is redefining the world of competitive fitness for women
3 LEADERS 6 LETTERS 16 SEVEN DAYS 52 BIZTRO 64 THE SKED 84 BOOKS
86 THE REVIEWS 88 TRENDING 90 DIARY

POLITICS
Headwinds against ‘Poriborton’: The “balanced” appeasement of neominorities
by the Congress- Left alliance in Bengal
by SANDIP GHOSE

POLITICS
Analysing Assam: Predicting the poll outcome, only the basis of the turnout has
its perils, especially in lower Assam INTERNATIONAL America’s unpaid crusaders:
volunteers are the backbone of the current US presidential election campaign
by ABHIJIT MAZUMDAR

EDUCATION
An open letter to Smriti Irani on the HRD ministry’s ranking (and non-ranking) of B-schools