COVER STORY
New legislation and innovative policing bring crime rates down to their lowest level since 1989
Outlook Magazine - 20 December 1995
The conviction of four software pirates recently may well be just a flash in the pan
The demand for stricter laws intensifies, as it becomes clear that the sexual abuse of children is a widespread malaise
Yash Chopra defends the romantic formula and 25 years of the Yashraj banner.
TV’s new Indian woman replicates western stereotypes
The Opposition accuses Sukh Ram of favouring HFCL
The fall of Jaffna does not mean an end to ethnic strife
The conviction of four software pirates recently may well be just a flash in the pan
The demand for stricter laws intensifies, as it becomes clear that the sexual abuse of children is a widespread malaise
OTHER STORIES
Zeenat Naz’s win in the Deobandh municipal elections has wider ramifications for Muslim women
Rolling in millions, the RGF is attacked for keeping its account books under wraps
Hyderabadis innovate to acquire their daily peg
Close your eyes and night has fallen, Chavan's views on Kashmir
An Indian guitarist wins acclaim for an album he cut with his idol, the legendary Jerry Garcia, in his last days
India-watching becomes addictive for many foreign journalists
Companies enlist the help of specialists to channelise the ‘human’ side of management
New legislation and dissidence undermine the party’s support base at the zilla parishad and panchayat levels
Foreign law firms may be practising illegally in India
The CBI uncovers Babloo Srivastava’s links with an MP from the Himalayan Kingdom
THE last three-and-a-half years in the life of the wife of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N.T. Rama Rao, have been quite like the script of a Telugu melodrama...
To woo or to vilify. The Indian Government’s relations with the US go in conflicting directions
Alain Juppe’s radical economic reforms spark off a major row
Journalist Tavleen Singh recently sparked off a controversy when she wrote in her weekly column in the Indian Express that Indian feminism is not about the "bottom-slapping" of Rupan Deol Bajaj. Such a relatively trivial incident, she suggested, does
Not aware of the developing feminist consciousness in the West, grassroot-level women's movements have been taking place in India which modern feminists today claim as their precursors.
Coalescing concerns of high-profile urban feminism and grassroots activism result in a unified, indigenous vision
Debate rages on who initiated economic reforms in India
Is the Commonwealth an inadequate replica of the UN?
Mauritius makes for a heady mix of business and pleasure
Liberalisation suffers in the run-up to the general elections
A TV documentary accuses Labour MP Keith Vaz of racist remarks and coercion, embarrassing his party high command
A trying, consciously Indian effort
The best advice to budding millionaires-in-the-making about to embark on writing courses is to take them but always bear in mind Ben Johnson's couplet: "Fool," said my muse to me, "look into thy heart and write."
A fine introduction to the new Urdu poets of India and Pakistan
Y.S.R. Prasad, chairman of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India talks to Outlook on the problems faced by the nuclear power generation programme. Excerpts:
Starved of funds, the country’s atomic plants face critical times