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A Flood Of Dry Taps!

It’s official: the worst water crisis in our national history is upon us now. But we also see signs of a fight to save us from a dry future.

Bite The Trencher, Eat The Curd

Environment friendly, tasty and modish, edible crockery and cutlery are going down the gullet

The Sun God's Own Country

Ravaged by floods last year, the state now faces a freakishly hot summer

Bitter-sweet Harvest

Higher Production and Stagnant Demand Leave Farmers With Rising Unpaid Dues Once Again

Lessons Without A Leash

A new national-level ‘augmentation course’ has been introduced to make our canine soldiers smarter and teach them to listen and guard us better

Playing It Again With Sam

India should retain its good relations with the US in the Trump era, but expand its options with other key players.

ISIS Whispers In God's Own Country

Young converts to Islam leaving their families behind stoke fears of extremist recruitment.

No Vaccine Against All This Apathy

In Rural Uttar Pradesh, The Central Government’s Immunisation Programme Needs A Reality Check

Red Bumps On The Highway

Delay in laying roads along a Maoist territory shows the maladies that continue to torpedo development 

A State Of Two And A Half CMs

The scramble to the top in post-Jayalalitha Tamil Nadu gets curiouser, throwing up possibilities such as a mid-term change of chief minister.

A Food Strike, Not Hunger

Post-UP loan waiver, Maharashtra farmers demand their due, and are refusing to budge until they get it

A Deal On The Flip Side

Snapdeal, a sinking ship, will soon be bought over by Flipkart, but only for the sake of investors, not assets

Abandoned In Lotus Time

The coalition finally gives way, removing the semblance of federal order in Kashmir. Now, in direct line of Centre.

GST OR GSTN'T?

What hath GST wrought? Weighing up the tax reform’s impact one year later, we find a maze of issues to be navigated.

NH 101

Has the One Hundred and First Amendment to the Constitution smoothed the passage of goods on our highways? Outlook’s correspondents clamber on to trucks across India to gauge.

A People's Final Draft

Who is a citizen? Assam will unveil its verdict on June 30.

Click G For Media Monopoly

With many teeth in the information dissemination pie, Google has popped up as the new Big Media—without really creating any ‘content’

Bloody Scrum, Glorious Victory

In an age of a secular system of mercenary soldiery, Koregaon was an inconclusive clash. Heroism was read into it first by the British, then by Ambedkar.

Black Stash Of Secret Money

Money laundering haunts governments as they struggle to adapt to crypto-currencies

Two ­Heroes, Twin Roles

Kamalahaasan launches his party, Rajnikanth another movie

The Blues Beckon

Their parents played cricket for India. Years later, their sons and daughters take guard and aim to break into the elitest of XIs.

Survival Lessons From Grassroots

Post-results drama brings former PM Deve Gowda back into national reckoning ahead of the 2019 polls

Unity's Field Test

The battle against BJP brings Jats, Dalits and Muslims together in western UP

Malhar For Nerves

An immersion into classical music helps a vocalist face up to the most obdurate of modern maladies

Scalpels In Air And Other Long Stays

A cashless healthcare scheme for the poor in Rajasthan is unconscionably milked by private hospitals

Guzzle Grain, Go Hungry

The move to let damaged crops be used for fossil fuel production may hurt food availability, price

The Elephant In The Alley

As man-animal conflict worsens across states, a trip to ground zero: Dhenkanal in Odisha

‘Nobody In Rome Will Mind A Videshi Translating Aeneid'

Sheldon Pollock, one of the world’s most eminent Sanskritists and founder-editor, Murty Classical Library, was in the eye of a storm a few seasons ago. In India for a talk at Ashoka University, he reprises the themes in an interview with Sunil Menon.

‘Sikh Extremists In Canada, The UK And Italy Are ­Working With ISI Or Independently'

‘Sikh Extremists In Canada, The UK And Italy Are ­Working With ISI Or Independently’

Big Brother And A Little Black Goat

Perumal Murugan re-enters the world of letters with a novel that depicts an outlier's struggle to ­live and love in a society where privacy is history