COVER STORY
Was the free India envisaged in 1947 a delusion? How is 1997, in form and essence, a different set of realities? The icons speak...
Outlook Magazine - 18 August 1997
Jallianwala Bagh, Chauri Chaura and Sabarmati revisited
Jallianwala Bagh, Chauri Chaura and Sabarmati revisited
Remember Papa's big talk of milk and honey and 10 paisa biriyani? He was bang on...
OTHER STORIES
The light did shine at midnight, but there's been enough darkness at high noon.
A photo profile of Indian cities before Independence
A long love affair with his camera and trains led champion dilettante GARNEY NYSS to travel all over India the '40s and photograph Indian cities. result—a dusty black-and-white portfolio of the Indian metropolises, meticulously preserved. "I never th
The older generation is tired, the new does not connect. Freedom is a given.
Frittered into sundry insular herds, many of us have nothing to celebrate
Trips down memory lane become the predicament of a nation entering puberty
In the Great Indian Tea Ceremony, you might see something very strange going on under the ghoonghat across the table, but must never say anything in public
If we have one shared turf of experience, it's Hindi cinema. And since all the radio ga-ga over Pataudi's swishing blade, cricket's been our unofficial adhesive
Consumerism and the TV revolution go hand in hand with Hindu revivalism
Sectarian ambitions and the AK-47 create an era of insecurity
MIDNIGHT'S Child came of age in India in a strange world
Shastri and Gulzarilal Nanda, the men who wouldn't be 'king'
FOR a nation learning to walk, Nehru was guide, philosopher and king
Gandhi visits Srinagar and insists the people, not the ruler, should decide the future; Nehru submits the list of the first Cabinet of free India to Mountbatten