COVER STORY
‘Robert Murdabad!’
Vadra’s ties with the brass city don’t run very deep
Outlook Magazine - 22 October 2012
1962 THE CHINA DISASTER
Makkhi
Take the age-old reincarnation theme, add a dash of fantasy and sci-fi, with an implicit moral and you get a winsome film
'The Music Had To Be Pathos-Laden'
'And yet despite the air of despondency, it needed to celebrate the contribution of those that laid down their lives'
‘The Sino-Indian Rivalry Will Probably Intensify’
The award-winning historian on what the simultaneous rise of the two Asian giants means
Makkhi
Take the age-old reincarnation theme, add a dash of fantasy and sci-fi, with an implicit moral and you get a winsome film
'The Music Had To Be Pathos-Laden'
'And yet despite the air of despondency, it needed to celebrate the contribution of those that laid down their lives'
Se La Vie
On the road of the martyrs, people live to die everyday
Dialectical Schism
The China war deepened the divide between India’s Communists
A Death Foretold
<i>Haqeeqat</i> was to be a salve, a reminder of China’s betrayal
‘The Sino-Indian Rivalry Will Probably Intensify’
The award-winning historian on what the simultaneous rise of the two Asian giants means
At Act’s End
In the theatre of war, State neglect threatens to rub salt into sore wounds
In The Dragon’s Eye
If not for Delhi’s meddling, the army may have withstood 1962
Without Apologies
The state cares little about the lost years of our ethnic Chinese
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
Country-Made Howitzer
Another Bofors moment for the Congress? You could well say so.
The High Rise High Roller
DLF is the single player who’s ‘overwhelmed the entire state apparatus in Haryana’
Bob The Builder, Yes We Can
Real estate major DLF doles out crores to Robert Vadra’s fanciful companies. You have to ask why.
His Royal Son-In-Lawlessness
Will Robert Vadra’s acts besmirch the illustrious family name that may have earned him undue favours?
“China Was The Aggrieved; India, Aggressor In ‘62”
The British author of <i>India’s China War</i> surprised his interlocutor with the force of his conviction, undimmed 50 years after the events
Beyond Victimology
Nehru and Menon’s assessment of China was not quite the ‘Himalayan blunder’ it was made out to be
At Two Removes
1962: A lingering smart of a debacle in India; aloofness in China
Our Trampled Days
A contented life. Then, years of humiliation ringed by barbed wire.
Through A Pair Of Binocs, Darkly
Accounts of intelligence cops who scouted the frontline
H.H. The Dilemma?
The Tibet struggle remains the Simla Accord’s most enduring legacy
‘You Wave A Gun, And I’ll Wave A Gun’: Mao
The dramatis personae and some of the major developments in Sino-Indian relations leading up to the 1962 war
1962, Once More?
The scenarios in which China may choose to go for war again
Frontiers Of The Imagination
The story of the war lies buried with its dead, the debate lives on
To Uncle, From L’il Pappoo
A personal glimpse into the lives of Amitabh Bachchan and Yash Raj Chopra
Bibliofile
After the staid but trusted Wisden Cricketer’s Almanac, Bloomsbury's India launch will have big books from William Dalrymple and later Manil Suri
Tobermory And His Friends
As much a modern fable as it is a floor-level point of view of cosmopolis, largely through the eyes of cats
Pocket To Heart Highway
A handbook for businesses coveting the middle-class markets of India and China ignores the costs of ‘growth’
Chittagong
Instead of portraying the chapters of history we’re all familiar with, it foregrounds a sadly lost slice
Seema Hingorrany
The clinical psychologist on life, depression, and ways to beat the blues
Sridevi
Fifteen years no films, no diary. Now one film, so diary.
Saigon Diary
It can truly be said of Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City as it is now called, that the city never sleeps