HEADLINES
SC quashes Calcutta HC order staying 27 pc quota in PG courses
Jaipur blasts;Udaipur hotelier claims to have seen suspect
Inflation soars to 7.83 pc; highest in nearly four years
45 per cent turnout till 1500 hrs in Karnataka
12 underground cadre killed in factional clash in Nagaland
Sehwag can't believe being stoned at home ground
Week In Pictures
Serial blasts in Jaipur, an earthquake in China, a political upheaval in Pakistan, the royal cold shoulder to Arjun Singh, elections in Karnataka and electoral violence in Nandigram, quashing of charges against MF Hussain, launch of Agni III and Vijay Mallya's public peevishness on IPL losses and other pictures from the period May 7 to 13
Web | May 13, 2008
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 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
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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 |
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 JAIPUR BLASTS
B. RAMAN
Terror Cycles
While the e-mail, purportedly received from "the Indian Mujahideen", needs investigation, it is pertinent to note that while the LET and the HUJI have been blamed by some, the Jaipur blasts do not carry any unique signature of any organisation
Web | May 15, 2008
 COUNTERPOINT
ASHLEY J. TELLIS
Weapons Of Words
Pakistan's new government's approach to counterterrorism -- which includes talking to anti-US and anti-Musharraf militants -- may have evoked misgivings in Washington. But it is necessary
Web | May 15, 2008
 OPINION
SEEMA SIROHI
A New Bhutan Calling
It is not a coincidence that the Indian prime minister is the first head of state to address a joint session of the new parliament in Bhutan, but there are legitimate worries that India is faced with an incredible shrinking sphere of influence
Web | May 14, 2008
 JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME
Now Tibet Is Not So Far
Chinese military will of course guard the border with machine guns, even Indian police will find an excuse to stop us. Whatever happens, we have deep commitment to non-violence; we will not retaliate. We may be beaten, jailed or even shot at, but we are not giving up....
TENZIN TSUNDUE
Web | May 14, 2008
SNIPPETS
Chennai Corner
Tamil Nadu is one state where a communal issue does not escalate. Even the BJP and the sangh parivar are more mature about issues that in most other states leads to violence...
PUSHPA IYENGAR
Web | May 14, 2008
CHINA
7.8 On The Richter Scale
While the death toll mounts -- and it is not known whether road and rail links to Tibet have been affected -- the quake in Sichuan has an immediate humanitarian dimension and as yet unpredictable strategic dimensions in the short and medium terms.
B. RAMAN
Web | May 13, 2008
 BANGALORE BYTE
How Dull A Democracy?
Should people be made to 'feel' elections and experience its 'fever'? Should it be celebrated as a 'festival of democracy' and cheered as a 'dance' of the will of people? Does a quiet election help democracy? Or does it deter the spirit?
SUGATA SRINIVASARAJU
Web | May 13, 2008
 VIEW FROM BRITAIN
How To Build A Human Bomb
When a former inmate of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay blew himself up in Iraq recently, the US said it proved that it was right to have detained him and that it is dangerous ever to release the camp's prisoners. On the contrary...
GEORGE MONBIOT
Web | May 13, 2008
 OPINION
RAJINDER PURI
Wake Up, Smell The Coffee
The UPA government's tenure has been struck by one major scandal after another, but this tattered, incoherent and ineffective apology of a government somehow manages to survive. Will it take a disaster to jolt India to the reality of the ignored wake-up calls?
Web | May 13, 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
MY SHANGHAI DIARY
B. RAMAN
Chinese Suspicions
Is Dawood Ibrahim--acting on behalf of Pakistan's ISI--responsible for the anonymous e-mail circulating in China in order to plant suspicions about India in the minds of the Chinese?
Web | May 12, 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
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 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
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
 INTERVIEW
'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
 OPINION
BISHWADEEP MOITRA
Shadows On A Stream
The test of time felled most stars. What matters is strategised recall value.
Magazine | May 19, 2008
 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
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
 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
 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
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
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
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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.
 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
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.
 RANTS & RAVES
One-Way Ticket
Published letters from the magazine
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