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Outlook (Indian magazine)

Indian news magazine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ1955600
Source-derived summary

Outlook is a weekly general interest English and Hindi news magazine published in India.

History and profile

Outlook was first issued in October 1995 with Vinod Mehta as the editor in chief. It is owned by the Rajan Raheja Group. The publisher is Outlook Publishing (India) Pvt. Ltd. It features contents from politics, sports, cinema, and stories of broad interests. By December 2018, Outlook magazine's Facebook following had grown to over 12 lakh (1.2 million).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Outlook (Indian magazine)” is indian news magazine. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Outlook, Indian and magazine, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-01-01. For this dossier, Outlook, Indian and magazine is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “indian news magazine” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1955600. VIAF identifies the subject as 156156118. The Library of Congress control number is n2006173937. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995 and 2018.

Critical limits

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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Outlook (Indian magazine) primary sources, Outlook (Indian magazine) archive and Outlook research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Outlook (Indian magazine)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.