Outlook is thirteen

ESSAY

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In its 13 years, Outlook has honed a peculiarly Indian take on secular fair play that opens its pages to diversity and dissent

MUKUL KESAVAN

Outlook is now 13 years old. For a Jewish boy, his thirteenth birthday is the time he comes of age; an English-speaking Indian child is likely to be told that she (or he) is now a teenager, an otherwise alien time of life for most Indian children. What 13 means in the life-cycle of a magazine is less obvious because the average life expectancy of an English magazine in India is hard to reckon.  more