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The Same Old Track

Mumbai’s suburban rail network is still essentially what the British built

If Wishes Were Houses

Home buyers who paid through the nose seem as distant from their dream homes as ever

The Hand Beckons A Grass Root

The Congress needs Mamata to counter BJP. But its Bengal cadre loathes the TMC. Is an alliance feasible?

Fresh Trickle Of Teertham

Kerala’s Dalit pujari is a first in the south since Sangam era

Pluck Egos, Not Just Tea

Lingering misogyny prompts Kerala women to keep fighting for basic rights.

Snooping In A Salwar

Braving both danger and tedium, women are carving out a niche in the world of private investigation

Incentivise With Tools

Clean India campaign is yet to address casteism

Spousal Strategy Fee

A ‘commission’ is the crux of the investigation into the ICICI-Videocon affair

Just Pass The Wine, Comrades

The Left made a law that grossly undermined Bengal’s state election commission. As Trinamool unleashes prepoll violence, an old tool comes in handy.

The Old Sport Of Goodwill Hunting

The darkest shadow has passed. Nepal’s PM is in Delhi to take Modi’s hand and dispel the Chinese bogey.

An Atrocity On The Law

Behind the street rage lies the Atrocity Act’s dilution after its weak execution

At The Fire Ceremonies

Worshipping the ballot box, the BJP aims for a Hindu awakening in Bengal; the TMC plays along, then hits out

Spooling The Tangles

There has been a spurt of new drugs for diabetes and cancer treatment in ­recent years. Those with neuropsychiatric diseases, however, have been left behind as advances in psychiatric pharmacology have not kept pace.

If The Brain Withers

Four million Indians have dementia, the disease with no cure. And, not more than 10 percent of them are diagnosed.

Soldiers are dying on the border, but the Centre is after AAP

About the arrest of MLAs, it hurts because one among is is caught on charges of misconduct. But we have proved we have zero tolerance for such cases.

Victimhood Turned Upside Down

The brutal rape of a Maratha girl by Dalit men has become a rallying point to reassert Maratha pride.

'No' Means Murder

Four cases of women attacked by stalkers in just one week in Delhi have put the spotlight on a crime that has long been ignored. A look at its scary dynamics.

Formidable But Tricky

A cow-belt alliance to cover all bases

Xi Stoops To Conquer

China privileges its converging interests with Pakistan over benefits of warm ties with India.

Truck Between the Two Camps

The chairman isn’t exiting. Taking a pacifist line, R. Seshasayee has reached out to NR.

Bloodied Quill In The Badlands

The pen is proving to be not much of a match for the mafia’s guns, at least in Bihar.

Demonetisation: A War With No Plan

The surgery on 85 per cent of india’s cash can’t stanch the flow of common misery. even those who agree with the idea bemoan the absence of wise, steady hands.

Shero Aboard The Second Mystery

After a break of sorts, Vidya Balan is back in Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani 2.

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 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.