COVER STORY
The People Legislate
Lokpal Bill discussions are sure to see standoffs
Outlook Magazine - 25 April 2011
Make Sure The Cure Isn’t Worse Than The Disease
Itself the outcome of a bottom-up movement, the Jan Lokpal bill ironically proposes a centralised framework against graft. Without checks and balances.
Bad Debt? Call Now
Do banks really benefit from easing corporate debt, or is it just a bailout by another name?
Rahul Gandhi
I see no reason why I should skip breakfast, lunch and dinner. Perhaps I’m happy being an Amul Baby.
The Joy Of Eating
Fasting is powerful (Anna Hazare just proved that) but as a means of weight loss, it’s disastrous.
Make Sure The Cure Isn’t Worse Than The Disease
Itself the outcome of a bottom-up movement, the Jan Lokpal bill ironically proposes a centralised framework against graft. Without checks and balances.
Idli, Gossip Aur Dosa
When hunger strikes after a hunger-strike...
Blind Men Of Hindostan
Do we, the Indian middle class, see the corruption within us?
Waiting For A Miracle
As devotees pray for Sathya Sai Baba, questions hang over his rich trust
If The Dooars Open
In politically calmer north Bengal, Mamata blows the Trinamool trumpet
Lascars In Manama
As Pakistanis police the Arab street, it must shun the sectarian whirlpool
Bad Debt? Call Now
Do banks really benefit from easing corporate debt, or is it just a bailout by another name?
Rahul Gandhi
I see no reason why I should skip breakfast, lunch and dinner. Perhaps I’m happy being an Amul Baby.
The Joy Of Eating
Fasting is powerful (Anna Hazare just proved that) but as a means of weight loss, it’s disastrous.
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Ravi Singh quits Penguin. Can't think of a sweeter revenge for Davidar for last year's humiliation than luring away Penguin's key man.
Down The Hill
At one level Roy's prose is a dirge for the Kumaon hills. At another, a Pickwickian humour infuses it with robust charm.
Stony Rivers
Daughters at work: Ira Pande's fluent translation, and her sister Mrinal Pande's afterword, bring the book alive
Me And My Couch
The versatile Sudhir Kakar’s autobiography is without conceit, and dissects the self with professionalism
Hyderabad Diary
When I came to live in Hyderabad a decade ago, a wise man, visibly drunk, told me that the three things that mattered in Hyderabad were politics, astrology and cinema.
Shraddha Kapoor
The actress talks about <i>Luv Ka The End</i>, produced by Y films
Teen Thay Bhai
In the league of the recent gross out Hollywood comedies. The tone is loud, jokes are bawdy and scatological humour is in full flow
Unto The Darkness
We have the power capacity, but not the fuel to generate it
The Big Budget Flop
Successive regimes have reduced a prudent state to a big borrower
A Walk-On Part In History
Things in books take on a new spatial dimension as India warms up to city walks
Art Paper Boats
Glossy magazines help fill the void for desis looking to belong
Tharoor’s Is A Simplistic View Of Superpower Diplomacy
If the US was committed to Ban Ki-moon, why did Tharoor run for S-G?
A Load Of Bull
Brazil eyes Ongole bulls in biopiracy bid
The Parts And The Whole
Bad films, luck, dispassionate acting, what jinx tugs at Abhishek Bachchan’s career?
