COVER STORY
Outlook Magazine - 19 August 2002
Nobody really knows how he manages to be so quick off the pitch. Adding to the deception that his diminutive figure offers, his run up too is slow. But mysteriously the ball goes like a bullet.
The political sensitivity of the Shivani murder case may help IG R.K. Sharma escape conviction
The former high court judge on the pressures faced by the board.
The "party with a difference" isn't one apparently. The petrol pump scam strips off the last veneer of respectability of the BJP.
Nobody really knows how he manages to be so quick off the pitch. Adding to the deception that his diminutive figure offers, his run up too is slow. But mysteriously the ball goes like a bullet.
The current history of the Haryana IPS cadre is a history of infamy
The political sensitivity of the Shivani murder case may help IG R.K. Sharma escape conviction
The former high court judge on the pressures faced by the board.
His credibility down, Naik's IPO plan for BPCL looks a lost cause
The "party with a difference" isn't one apparently. The petrol pump scam strips off the last veneer of respectability of the BJP.
Modi jettisons one minister he lost faith in but how many more can he sacrifice?
OTHER STORIES
Extracts from an interview with a senior economist from IMF headquarters in Washington:
Long a poor second, India, it turns out, is not so badly off in the FDI sweepstakes vis-a-vis China
The week belonged to the Spice Girls of fashion—young, experimental, ready to take on the world
They were the stars who exploded before they could transform themselves into supernovae.
Who's Gandhi? Was Muslim League a football tournament? Ask Gen Y, and you'll draw a blank.
Having been ruled so long by outsiders, we, the people, refuse to accept responsibility
India faces a one-year ban from weightlifting after two positive tests
Fighting matters off the turf, the women hockey players turn in a sterling display.
A string of sterling performances at Manchester make for a heady summer. But is it reason enough to be euphoric? Over to Busan.
We bemoan that we no longer live in a heroic age. But where are the heroes?
News: Mamata Banerjee has alleged that the government was not being run by A.B. Vajpayee but by L.K. Advani. "Is it true the PM does not run the ...
Always provocative and irreverent, Souza was the enfant terrible of Indian art and his colourful career was interesting to the bitter end...
"M.S. does not just sing; she makes divinity manifest"
No wedding in India, or any auspicious occasion, is complete without his mellifluous, rich music.
I would say Ustad Allaudin Khan ... despite the fact that Baba, as all musicians fondly know him, taught music in the earlier part of the century ...
Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Sachin Tendulkar come to my mind as contenders for the greatest sportsmen of independent India...
The British left an India saddled with huge problems, economic and social. Many of these are still with us, so I don't need to pretend that anything Bhabha did helped to solve them...
Leaders raise the aspirations of their people to achieve what was previously thought impossible. In this, JRD was a true leader.
