Letters Movie Review Restaurant Review Secret Diary Seven Days SECTIONS National A Dummy's Guide To Despotism The fanfare over Teachers' Day underlines how a Modi Raj is now steadily replacing the Congress... The Inquisitor Of Maladies A forest service officer faces trouble for taking his job as vigilance chief at AIIMS seriously To Plant A Flag The new Andhra state is still vexed over the capital issue Click And Administer Forget a new capital city, Naidu should think virtual, go to the villages International No Full Stops The foreign minister's first media briefing after assuming office causes a flutter with remarks... External Affairs And The Armchair Modi is set on being the sole articulator of foreign policy. Sushma must bear with him. Shinzo Abe What is true of Godhra, should be true for India and also for Japan, 'Narubhai', as I like... The Cherry Is Abloom As PMs Modi and Abe come close, India must be wary of the shadow that stalks Japan Business Mezzanine Floor, Please Lease in limbo, will the Taj Mahal hotel in Delhi change hands from the Tatas? 'Arbitrary And Illegal' 'The entire allocation of coal block as per recommendations made by the Screening Committee... Storm Over Steel A stuck Jindal project in Bengal doesn't go down well with Mamata The Deserted Village The PM would do well to incorporate the Lok Nayak's convictions and what he stood for and not... Society The Spellbinder The controversy notwithstanding, the Baba continues to keep his following 'Sai Baba Was Not A God Or A Saint, He Should Not Be Worshipped' Shankaracharya of the Dwaraka Peeth in Gujarat, recently set tempers aflare... The Sai Fidelity His tradition is open to all, no particular group can claim it Beware, I'll Turn Hindu An open letter to the RSS chief, Muslim bashing ain't working Sports Sachin Tendulkar I shall return to the House, sign my name and hope my arrears will be paid with retrospective... The Swing Thing Is Bhuvi that long-lost seaming all-rounder? Shaping Our Football Story For many years now, football in India has suffered from the apathy of the state and corporates.... Stuart Binny Am I a seaming all-rounder? Ian Chappell wondered what I was doing in a Test match. Arts & Entertainment Coming Into Their Own How the new breed of writers and filmmakers are ushering in stronger roles for heroines Mary Kom Plays out as a simple, unpretentious tale that picks up and dramatises important incidents... Divya Bhatia The director of Rajasthan International Folk Festival on why the fest is all about rare sounds... Lolita, Oh My Darlingg! Eena? Meena? Teeka? The name's one key in a thicket of codes Books The First Republic Will Stand More hackwork than scholarly investigation and analysis, Kingshuk Nag's book gets its reading... 'I Am Optimistic About Both Poetry And Humanity' The 2013 Jnanpith award winner on his evolution as a poet, the changing Indian village, his... 'Spirituality United Gandhi And Ambedkar' Possibly the last interview with the Jnanpith award-winning Kannada novelist, educationist... 'A Personal Journey With URA' The eminent Kannada film director spoke to Outlook earlier this year on the subject of his... RANTS & RAVES