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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



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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Web | Nov 02, 2007



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
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
The Mysterious Email
Why Terrorists Attack Soft Targets?
Pink Turns Red


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
A Seething Fury


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
The Chinese Claims
The Chinese Anger
The Chinese Sorrow


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



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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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.



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