COVER STORY
Captain Crony Capital
The IPL commissioner’s friends and family got it all—no questions asked
Outlook Magazine - 3 May 2010
A Fox On A Fishing Expedition
A new off-the-air GSM device tracks phone calls, e-mail and SMSes, helping the state spy on its own folk
We, The Eavesdropped
The government has been tapping the cellphone conversations of these prominent political leaders
Twelfth Man In The Dark
A first-person sighting of off-duty stars one IPL night, amid the glam ’n kitsch
Sugar And Cane And A Big Brother Too
It’s been a long time coming. The IPL fiasco has given enough ammo for the Congress to turn the screws on feisty partner NCP.
IPL’s Mr Quickfix
With nine Blackberrys to match my aliases and a comb in my backpocket, I’ve been raking it in big time in the IPL.
Who’ll Monitor The Monitor?
A CAG audit, inquiry by a high-powered committee spell disaster for NTRO
A Fox On A Fishing Expedition
A new off-the-air GSM device tracks phone calls, e-mail and SMSes, helping the state spy on its own folk
We, The Eavesdropped
The government has been tapping the cellphone conversations of these prominent political leaders
Twelfth Man In The Dark
A first-person sighting of off-duty stars one IPL night, amid the glam ’n kitsch
Take Guard Anew
IPL is a fantasy free-for-all. But the villains must be run out this time.
Sugar And Cane And A Big Brother Too
It’s been a long time coming. The IPL fiasco has given enough ammo for the Congress to turn the screws on feisty partner NCP.
Kamaal Catch...
All guns are trained on IPL and Modi. Can Pawar, BCCI escape collateral flak?
Shock Detector Test
Cricket’s newest fall noted, the IPL row will limp off sated TV screens
IPL’s Mr Quickfix
With nine Blackberrys to match my aliases and a comb in my backpocket, I’ve been raking it in big time in the IPL.
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Paathshaala
Painfully boring, dull, lifeless and bland
Phoonk 2
A horror film in which the chills are a little too hard to come by
Sajid Khan
On his much-awaited rom-com, Housefull
Rolling The Joint
The taste and prices are still the same—a friend described it as “Best of the life”.
Delhi Diary
Lalit Modi is now toast. As he twists and turns, I hope he sings like a canary. For once in this country, let us catch the real crooks.
Bibliofile
So who gained from the volcano with the unpronounceable name? Who lost? Who got a consolation prize?
A Gay Gong
A novel both subtle and arresting, a rare book about the new India that manages to be deeply curious without ever slipping into hyperbole.
And Then There Was Ma
A 30-year survey of the urban Indian charts our ‘progress’ from the days of Chitrahaar to the present
Daylight At The Thousand-Star Hotel
Roy’s distorted Maoist idyll aside, tribals are non-development’s casualties
Bottled Krishna
Guntur farmers fume at AP’s allotment of drinking water to Coke
The Dog Matrix
Obscure, ingrained rituals cast a dark spell around Tamil Nadu’s cult of reason
The Karma Kosher
Far from their drugged-out image, Goan Israelis are the new entrepreneurs
Among The Followers
Twitter is fickle and fun. But don’t confuse it with the real world.
A Dear Old Isotope
Sidelined in Af-Pak, India warms to Iran, rehearses an old role
The Radio Signal Gets Louder
Was the Mayapuri radiation incident deliberate? Even if not, monitoring systems are vague now.
Mortal Melting Pots
India is fast becoming the waste dump of the world. The hazardous stuff is only the start of it.
