Welcome Outlook India, join the Slimes of India Club of the Elite! I was surprised (well, not so surprised in retrospection) to see this crap as the cover story for this week’s edition. Precious paper wasted on some goddamn survey about the best eating joints across the cities in India.
I mentioned I wasn’t so surprised in retrospect because I later realized that Outlook is notorious for planting such crap earlier: the (in)famous What Indian Women Want survey (sorry, no url for this one, too lazy to search the site), for one.
And Outlook India proudly claims itself to be a sensational/different… whatever magazine.
Thanks to Jivha for popularizing Slimes of India, a name so well suited to the TOI and for carrying on a relentless crusade against it 
Will the readers think up something interesting for Outlook India?
Hi Sandeep,
Well, I think that it is grossly unfair accusation of Outlook. I have been an Outlook reader for the past 10 years and always found their articles investigative and incisive. The articles that you mention may sound frivolous, but in the context of all that Outlook comes out with, they are a relief.
There are a number of exposes ( cricket betting scam, arms deal, hotel disinvestment scam), analysis into deals (the crux of Reliance problems), different point of views (read Arundhati Roy’s endless essays, why India expediated the aid process to its neighbours) that I hardly get to read from any other magazine of repute.
Vinod Mehta certainly takes reams of print to put his POV and hogs the diary section so many times, but he is ready to take blame (read the letters to editor) when due. Also, he has the courage not to make outlook like any other commodity and hence, the WHOLE magazine is available on the net free (unlike India today).