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Outlook is one of India's four top-selling English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 weekly newsmagazine
Newsmagazine

A newsmagazine, also spelled news magazine, is usually a weekly magazine featuring articles or segments on current events. News magazines generally go more in-depth into stories than newspapers or television news, trying to give the reader an understanding of the context surrounding important events, rather than just the facts....
s. Like many other Indian magazines it is reluctant to reveal its circulation, but the 2007 National Readership Survey suggested 1.5 million copies. Outlook's competitors are India Today
India Today

India Today is an Indian weekly newsmagazine published by Living Media, in publication since 1975. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi....
, The Week, and Tehelka
Tehelka

Tehelka is an Indian weekly magazine under the editorship of Tarun Tejpal . The publication began in 2000 as a news website, Tehelka.com....
.

Outlook has been published in New Delhi
New Delhi

New Delhi is the capital city of India. With a total area of 42.7 km2, New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi and serves as the seat of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi ....
 continuously since October of 1995 by the Outlook Group, whose founding editor
Editing

Editing is the process of preparing language, s, sound, video, or film through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media....
-in-chief is Vinod Mehta
Vinod Mehta

Vinod Mehta is the editor-in-chief of Outlook Group, Outlook Hindi, Outlook Money, Outlook Traveller, Outlook Business, Outlook Profit). The group is owned by Mumbai-based Rajan Raheja....
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Outlook is one of India's four top-selling English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 weekly newsmagazine
Newsmagazine

A newsmagazine, also spelled news magazine, is usually a weekly magazine featuring articles or segments on current events. News magazines generally go more in-depth into stories than newspapers or television news, trying to give the reader an understanding of the context surrounding important events, rather than just the facts....
s. Like many other Indian magazines it is reluctant to reveal its circulation, but the 2007 National Readership Survey suggested 1.5 million copies. Outlook's competitors are India Today
India Today

India Today is an Indian weekly newsmagazine published by Living Media, in publication since 1975. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi....
, The Week, and Tehelka
Tehelka

Tehelka is an Indian weekly magazine under the editorship of Tarun Tejpal . The publication began in 2000 as a news website, Tehelka.com....
.

Outlook has been published in New Delhi
New Delhi

New Delhi is the capital city of India. With a total area of 42.7 km2, New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi and serves as the seat of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi ....
 continuously since October of 1995 by the Outlook Group, whose founding editor
Editing

Editing is the process of preparing language, s, sound, video, or film through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media....
-in-chief is Vinod Mehta
Vinod Mehta

Vinod Mehta is the editor-in-chief of Outlook Group, Outlook Hindi, Outlook Money, Outlook Traveller, Outlook Business, Outlook Profit). The group is owned by Mumbai-based Rajan Raheja....
. In October of 2008 Mehta appointed Krishna Prasad as Outlooks editor. Earlier, Prasad had edited the magazine's special issues. Prasad also publishes the popular blog Churumuri.

Sandipan Deb and Tarun Tejpal are past editors of the magazine.

Outlook has a slight communist tilt, which places it at odds with the nationalistic ideology of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and with the character-building claims of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS
RSS

RSS is a three-letter abbreviation that can stand for a wide variety of terms....
). Outlook made news for its investigative reports of the "Kargil bungle" and the cricket "match-fixing controversy." In early 2007 Outlook reported the arrest in Argentina of Ottavio Quattrocchi
Ottavio Quattrocchi

Ottavio Quattrocchi is an Italian businessman who is being sought in India for criminal charges for acting as a conduit for bribes in the Bofors scandal....
, a friend of Indian National Congress President Sonia Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi is the Italian People-born Congress President of the Indian National Congress and the widow of former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi....
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Writers for Outlook include Bhaichand Patel, Uri Avnery, George Monbiot, Daniel Lak, Ashok K. Mehta, B. Raman, Anil Dharker, Saeed Naqvi, Ramachandra Guha, Prabhu Ghate and Andrew Whitehead.

As a matter of style Outlook refers to Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai by their colonial names "Bombay," "Calcutta," and "Madras" respectively.

The Outlook Group also publishes Outlook Traveller, Outlook Money and the Hindi
Hindi

Standard Hindi, also known as High Hindi, Nagari Hindi or Literary Hindi is a Standard language register of Hindi. It is one of the 22 official languages of India, and is used, along with English language, for administration of the central government....
 Outlook Saptahik.

Launched by Hathway Investments Private Limited, the Outlook Group is currently owned by the Rajan Raheja Group.

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