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Oct 15, 2024 | 
outlookindia.com | Satish Padmanabhan
NationalThe Election Commission (EC) has been flagging the issue of low voter turnout urban centers including Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra. On Tuesday, expressing concern over the impact of urban apathy on voter turnout, CEC Rajiv Kumar said that polling days in Maharashtra and Jharkhand have been kept mid-week so that more people vote.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
outlookindia.com | Chinki Sinha |Satish Padmanabhan
A Fulfilling Career: Outlook is not just a workplace; it’s a second home Photo: Animikh Chakrabarty A Fulfilling Career: Outlook is not just a workplace; it’s a second home Photo: Animikh Chakrabarty My first day at Outlook was nothing short of terrifying. The year was 1996, and a relative had mentioned this job opening to me. It was my first real job, and I had just arrived from my village in Uttarakhand at bustling, overwhelming Delhi.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
outlookindia.com | Chinki Sinha |Satish Padmanabhan
Panic Room: left foreground: Bishwadeep Moitra checks out Namrata Joshi’s DVD cache at the main desk, while Vinod Mehta reads the Riot Act; from the archive by Sandeep Adhwaryu Panic Room: left foreground: Bishwadeep Moitra checks out Namrata Joshi’s DVD cache at the main desk, while Vinod Mehta reads the Riot Act; from the archive by Sandeep Adhwaryu Fifteen-odd journalists were slowly brought together over nearly three months in the summer of 1995 to bring out the “most exciting news...
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
outlookindia.com | Jerry Pinto |Satish Padmanabhan
Artwork by Anupriya Artwork by Anupriya “The night of the sword and the bullet was followed by the morning of the chalk and the blackboard.” Few sentences capture the ironic but inevitable sequence of the different stages of colonialism—the military violence of the battlefield followed by the psychological violence of the classroom. Hard and soft power in perfect symbiosis for Europe to control Africa.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
outlookindia.com | Satish Padmanabhan
Ode to Ganga Photo: Artwork by Sidharth Ode to Ganga Photo: Artwork by Sidharth Anyone who argues that an artist’s life is relevant to the appreciation of their art, has a mountain to climb because in most fields of work, the morals and life choices of the worker have no obvious connection to the quality of their work.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
outlookindia.com | Satish Padmanabhan |Jerry Pinto
Untitled: Artwork by Sunil Padwal Untitled: Artwork by Sunil Padwal About two decades ago, my late-teenager-self encountered a major heartbreak: I learnt that the Chilean Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda—whose passionate poetry and sensual language were an integral part of my life—was a rapist. It was not someone’s allegation; he confessed to it in his memoirs. How could such a powerful writer of love poems rape someone?
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
outlookindia.com | Satish Padmanabhan |Jerry Pinto
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Untitled: Artwork by Sunil Padwal Untitled: Artwork by Sunil Padwal About two decades ago, my late-teenager-self encountered a major heartbreak: I learnt that the Chilean Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda—whose passionate poetry and sensual language were an integral part of my life—was a rapist. It was not someone’s allegation; he confessed to it in his memoirs.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
outlookindia.com | Satish Padmanabhan |Rakhi Bose
National Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the excise policy case. The Supreme Court granted him interim bail in the ED's case. However, he is still in jail because of the CBI's case.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
outlookindia.com | Satish Padmanabhan
National The roadmap for the 2029 Lok Sabha election should focus on equal access to resources, economic and political, while ensuring dignity and self-respect Updated on: 13 June 2024 7:49 am Common Cause: ASHA health workers during a protest demanding higher wages in Patna on March 11, 2022 Photo: PTI Common Cause: ASHA health workers during a protest demanding higher wages in Patna on March 11, 2022 Photo: PTI The past decade in Indian politics had witnessed the submersion of all other...
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
outlookindia.com | Satish Padmanabhan |Anisha Reddy
National The robust wins of regional parties in Tamil Nadu, Andhra and of a national party-led regional coalition in Kerala play a crucial rule in shaping the Indian Parliament Joining Hands: Large cutouts of DMK and Congress leaders loom over a campaign rally venue at the outskirts of Chennai ahead of the Lok Sabha elections Photo: AP Joining Hands: Large cutouts of DMK and Congress leaders loom over a campaign rally venue at the outskirts of Chennai ahead of the Lok Sabha elections Photo:...
