Breakfast-Time Bliss
Mom's cooking or not, the crepes at this cheerful cafe in Khan Market's potholed but popular food alley are feathery light
Outlook Magazine - 20 April 2009
The Secret Diary OfAmar Singh
This Sanju baba has a great future. If not as a politician, then as a sting reporter. Look at the tehelka he created...
Bull's Eye
President Obama's Af-Pak policy has been criticised. The criticism could be premature. Policy should be judged by deeds, not words
Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution
Plays on the familiar cliches and paranoia of the West against the Communist world
8x10 Tasveer
If there were an award for non-thrilling thrillers, this would have been a strong contender.
This CD Is Not Reading
The Varun Gandhi controversy isn't working, parties aren't willing to give the BJP a handle
The Secret Diary OfAmar Singh
This Sanju baba has a great future. If not as a politician, then as a sting reporter. Look at the tehelka he created...
Bull's Eye
President Obama's Af-Pak policy has been criticised. The criticism could be premature. Policy should be judged by deeds, not words
Free Frontier Skies
An air force station, too, caught on to what the navy started
Radioactive Rebels?
Signalsmen of the Jabalpur mutiny of 1946 wonder why they aren't heroes
Imran Khan
On his role in <i>Vagina Monologues</i> and his campaign to encourage the youth to vote
Swat The System
The Chand Bibi flogging brings out the outrage, Islamabad cries conspiracy
Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution
Plays on the familiar cliches and paranoia of the West against the Communist world
8x10 Tasveer
If there were an award for non-thrilling thrillers, this would have been a strong contender.
This CD Is Not Reading
The Varun Gandhi controversy isn't working, parties aren't willing to give the BJP a handle
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
The Statuesque State
Mayawati's BSP still looks the best horse in UP, but the Brahmin support looks a little mute
800 Miles High
Maruti 800 deserves a technology makeover
Rock 'N Role
Stone pelting — the Valley debates its uses
Same Ol' Gruel
Rival parties 'unite' on food security
Nehru On My Sleeve
Campaign wear is serious business. Netas want to impress both the aam admi and TV cameras.
Ground Rice
Condoleezza returned to her old professorship at Stanford. But she remains somewhat isolated. <i>The Golden Spike</i>, one of the campus newspapers run by students, recently had a lead story with the headline: 'Condoleezza Rice Bullshits Way Through
Antipodean Antithesis
A win in New Zealand is laudable. But plain tracks, plainer opposition call for temperance.
The Past And Future Of Indian Elections
How the polity got fractured and how we can aid the healing process
Sweet Dreams
The party already sees itself in government
Bibliofile
Random House loses Aatish Taseer to Picador and Mark Tully to Penguin and what happens when you invite Shatrughan Sinha and Amar Singh to a book-launch
Above Nalanda
It is a pity that a book careful on detail has made debatable assumptions
Looted Filigree
It isn't every day that one comes across a book that one can commend so unreservedly: a swift, elegant tale set in the badlands of Rohillakhand
Thinning Of The Ballast
Seeds of the Railways success were sown 20 years ago. Laloo just harvested it—a fact this book suppresses.
'Only Natural Corporate Chiefs Have A Voice On What Should Happen In India'
Infosys chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy speaks on elections 2009, inclusive growth, hate speeches and more in an interview with Sunit Arora in Bangalore
The Gospel Of Saintly Capital
The virtues of compassionate capitalism can go a long way in solving problems that have plagued India
Should Advani, Manmohan Singh Debate On TV?
Blockers of Parliament debates, BJP hasn't the right to call for a TV show
Should Advani, Manmohan Singh Debate On TV?
Politicians, happily evading hard-nosed queries till now, will have to open up
Double Duty?
A reporter's notebook isn't for painting with bile and spleen
Mud From That Shoe
Why a hurled Reebok is no more than a pinprick to a pachyderm
Gangai Flavours
Homesick students have started dhabas for their home food
Konjam Hindi
Tamil cinema builds bridges across the north- south divide
