 POLITICS: BRAJESH MISHRA
BRAJESH MISHRA
Blast From A Far Past
Brajesh's note on Pokhran II is hard to dispute. That's what irks the BJP.
SABA NAQVI BHAUMIK
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 INTERVIEW
NORMAN ERNEST BORLAUG
'India Not To Blame For Food Crisis'
The Nobel Peace Prize winner agriculture scientist refutes Bush's assertion and says the increased focus on biofuels is the cause
OUTLOOK
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 INTERVIEW
RAM VILAS PASWAN
'Cap On Generic Drug Prices Needed'
The chemicals and fertiliser minister says the government is not penalising the pharma industry
LOLA NAYAR
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 OPINION
PREM SHANKAR JHA
Nuclear Winter Ahead
The Congress cover-up for the failure of the N-deal is a betrayal of trust
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 LAST PAGE
Los Angeles Diary
This is the American city that most resembles Delhi. Think Delhi. Think flyovers, car culture, traffic and people living in separate colonies, linked by highways...
DANIEL LAK
Week In Pictures
Burma cyclone took at least 22000 lives, President Bush turned economist and blamed -- or complimented? -- Indian middle class for soaring global food prices, Lok Sabha speaker and opposition resolved their stand-off, tentative talks about China-Tibet talks were revived and other pictures from the period April 29 - May 6
Web | May 06, 2008
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OPINION POLL
Starship Enterprise
What makes a star a star in Bollywood? Looks, talent, luck? Outlook asks the people...
NAMRATA JOSHI
Magazine | May 19, 2008 |
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 DHARMENDRA
No One Writes To The Prison Doc Anymore
A Jat playing bhadralok? Could it have been that he acted so well that we didn't even notice?
MUKUL KESAVAN
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 SOUTHERN STARS
The Systolic Tide
'Down' South, the star-fan bond is intense, super-real—and it's sealed with a blood transfusion
SADANAND MENON
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 OPINION
JERRY PINTO
A Bigger Yourself
Stars need not be actors. Actors play other people. Stars play themselves.
Magazine | May 19, 2008
SNIPPETS
Kolkata Korner
By deciding to get power supply to the Raj Bhavan switched off for a couple of hours every evening, the Governor eloquently and, like a true Gandhian, turned the spotlights on the sufferings (due to routine power cuts) of the common man in Bengal.
JAIDEEP MAZUMDAR
Web | May 09, 2008
VIEW FROM PAKISTAN
The Economic Crisis
It is clear that a strategy of economic growth premised largely on American military and economic aid has failed. Pakistan's 'demographic bomb' poses a bigger threat to regional security than its nuclear bomb.
AHMAD FARUQUI
Web | May 09, 2008
 VIEW FROM ISRAEL
"…Namely The State of Israel"
I am not worried about the existence of the State of Israel. It will exist as long as states exist. The question is: What kind of state will it be? A state of permanent war? Or a state that lives in peace with its neighbors...
URI AVNERY
Web | May 09, 2008
SNIPPETS
Chennai Corner
A part of the wall in Uthapuram village in Madurai district may have been finally demolished this week after nearly 20 years of dividing the upper castes from the Dalits, but untouchability is rampant in Tamil Nadu
PUSHPA IYENGAR
Web | May 08, 2008
 HOMAGE
PRABHUDEV SARDAR
The Joy Within
"You must pour your dil into your music," my guru Pandit Prabhudev Sardar was fond of saying. While firmly rooted in the tradition of the idiom of classical music, he was no follower of sterile conventions.
NEETA DESHPANDE
Web | May 08, 2008
 OPINION
MIRA KAMDAR
The Bread Basket Case
Like a star of exceptional talent pushed too hard, Punjab's agricultural miracle is on the verge of collapse. Multinationals are vying to bring large-scale industrial agriculture to India--precisely what the country doesn't need
Web | May 07, 2008
COUNTERVIEW
UMAIR AHMED MUHAJIR
The Bhaiyya's Revenge
'Bizarre, outlandish and a crashing bore; so over-smart, smug and self-indulgent...'? Was Tashan really all that bad? What accounts for severe panning from just about every reviewer?
Web | May 07, 2008
OPINION
C. PETER TIMMER
Running Out Of Food
Even President Bush has jumped in, offering his take on global food shortages, but one thing is sure: Hoarding by countries and speculative bidding on food exacerbate scarcity and cause prices to climb.
Web | May 06, 2008
 VIEW FROM BRITAIN
GEORGE MONBIOT
Travelling Light
Is the airship a viable alternative to jet travel? Or is it just a flight of fancy? But like most greens I'm prepared to try almost anything, as long as it works. Can the same be said of our opponents?
Web | May 06, 2008
 OPINION
RAJINDER PURI
Is A China-Tibet Accord Possible?
If the leaders in Beijing were a little less sensitive about saving face, and the Dalai Lama just a little more accommodating than he has already been, a settlement might be on the cards
Web | May 06, 2008
 IRAN
All That Gas
There are various dimensions to this castle-building in the air over the gas pipeline from Iran. And isn't Mr Ahmadinejad beginning to sound more and more like another West Asian leader in terms of rhetoric against the US?
B. RAMAN
Web | May 05, 2008
 BANGALORE BYTE
The Ghost Of Cricket
When it comes to cricket, every Indian is expected to have an opinion and when there is something as revolutionary as IPL touching the game, how could one be indifferent?
SUGATA SRINIVASARAJU
Web | May 05, 2008
IPL
The Silly Season
The IPL's bans are out. The wheels of justice grind on, grinding to dust players-- and officials-- who dare to flout the sanctity of the silly season. Meanwhile, a match referee and the IPL commissioner are out there, lustily cheering...
ROHIT MAHAJAN
Web | May 05, 2008
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 INTERVIEW
AMITABH BACHCHAN
'It's Unfair To Say Today's Stars Have A Lesser Aura'
Amitabh Bachchan emerged the winner in our Favourite Star of All Times poll. What does the icon himself think of stardom?
NAMRATA JOSHI
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 OPINION
BISHWADEEP MOITRA
Shadows On A Stream
The test of time felled most stars. What matters is strategised recall value.
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 STARDOM
Astronomical Figures
Bollywood stardom has always seemed head-swivellingly divine. Actually, such romantic personas are shaped by reality, chance and calculation.
PAROMITA VOHRA
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 LEADING LADIES
The Fallen Veil
Robbed of her enigma, the heroine has morphed into perfect plastic
BHAICHAND PATEL
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 OPINION
SHUBHRA GUPTA
Interstellar Space
The real stars can act—and they inhabit darker planets where there is no PR
Magazine | May 19, 2008
FAMILY OF STARS
Star-In-Law: A Study In Contrast
The once-next-to-god icon Rajesh Khanna and his rising son-in-law Akshay Kumar personify the quirks of superstardom
NAMAN RAMACHANDRAN
Magazine | May 19, 2008
MITHUN
Acidwash Adonis
Mithun's demotic pull vies with gravity. He's the real superstar.
ARNAB RAY
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 OPINION
C.P. SURENDRAN
Those Black Silk Curtains
Ok, you look young with your hair. But should you, after all? Ask Rajni
Magazine | May 19, 2008
DIRECTOR'S CUT
My Ming Vase
Is it texture or pliability? Filmmakers pick their own favourite clay.
Magazine | May 19, 2008
STAR OF STARS
Hall Of Mirrors
So who do our actors idolise? Pick up the echoes, the logic of eternal recurrences.
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 COLUMN
RAJINDER PURI
Bull's Eye
Good heavens! Is it corruption if a parent helps a son or daughter? Which parent in India doesn't--except Sonia Gandhi...?
Magazine | May 19, 2008
ARUNACHAL: COUNTER-INSURGENCY
Bullets On The Border
Strategically sensitive Arunachal mulls a unified command to fight rebels on its soil
WASBIR HUSSAIN
Magazine | May 19, 2008
TAMIL NADU: VIJAYKANTH
Dark Horse, Off Screen
He's keen to own all big political legacies in TN. Vijaykanth may take it to fruition too.
PUSHPA IYENGAR
Magazine | May 19, 2008
PERFORMANCE: ANBUMANI RAMADOSS
Someone Give Him A Light
A smokescreen separates Anbumani Ramadoss from the underperforming healthcare system
ANJALI PURI
Magazine | May 19, 2008
THE US: FOOD PRICES
In Its Own Maize
Blame your biofuel fixation, not India and China, Bush is told
ASHISH KUMAR SEN
Magazine | May 19, 2008
PHARMA: PRICE CONTROL
Hijack At Pill Point
The government is cracking down on drug firms to down medicine prices
PRAGYA SINGH
Magazine | May 19, 2008
REVIEW
An Old Haunting
The community emerges from the sidelines of
history to revisit, research and revel in its ancestry
Ruskin Bond on The Anglo-Indians by Irwin Allan Sealy/Photos by Dileep Prakash
RUSKIN BOND
Magazine | May 19, 2008
REVIEW
A Love of Maya
Not an "official" biography but the author, more than just a grudging admirer of Mayawati, takes us on a thrilling ride through her political career.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta on Behenji: A Political Biography of Mayawati by Ajoy Bose
PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 GOSSIP
Bibliofile
Who leads the sales figures among the Big Three -- Naipaul, Rushdie, Lahiri? Why is Shobhaa De the mai-baap of Penguin? Is Chetan Bhagat over-hyping by claiming 2,00,000 pre-orders?
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 GOSSIP
Polscape
Random notes, gossip, bitching, angles, conspiracy theories, spoofs, essential fundas that you've gotta know.
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 CINEMA
The Outlook Film Survey
It's all about you-- your favourite actors, stars, lead-pairs, comedians, the ones you find the biggest of hams of all time and those you find the most inexplicable stars.
 RANTS & RAVES
One-Way Ticket
Published letters from the magazine
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