
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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