COVER STORY
The words, the places, the people, the events...
Outlook Magazine - 9 January 2012
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The wars of words, the pointed fingers, the salvos, the diatribes, the potshots...
It won't make for a pretty desktop calendar, perhaps. But history will certainly find a pattern in this collage...
The dazzlers, the page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news
Movers, shakers and the shaken of 2011 tell <i>Outlook</i> about the books that helped them tide over a turbulent year
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An illustrious pantheon left 2011 poorer with their demise
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Dhanush's favourites
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Les desirables in the world of technology
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The wars of words, the pointed fingers, the salvos, the diatribes, the potshots...
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It won't make for a pretty desktop calendar, perhaps. But history will certainly find a pattern in this collage...
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The dazzlers, the page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news
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Movers, shakers and the shaken of 2011 tell <i>Outlook</i> about the books that helped them tide over a turbulent year
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How a handful moved for (or against) their pet projects
OTHER STORIES
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...the following for dubious achievements
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A cuisine hearthed of necessity and ingenuity
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A grey homogenisation has not yet eclipsed our rainbow palates
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Hyderabad to Vijayawada, it’s a trip from tangy to the fiery-hot
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The sea, the fresh catch, the Kerala fish curry, from Kochi to Kozhikode
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Savoury chakulis; subtle, moreish rasogollas. And Orissa blends into Bengal.
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Vidya Balan turned up towards the end to claim credit, of course, but the truth is Indians watched the making of <i>The Dirty Picture</i> all year, this year...
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From breakfast to dinner: where to eat, and what
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Chulao by Nawab Jafar Mir Abdullah, Maash (Urad) Ki Dal from academician Sabiha Anwar, Ghughri from singer-musician Ragini Mishra
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The various guises that tea takes in India
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Civil society raged in hope; industry despaired. The rulers watched.
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Anarchy has a grammar and a purpose, freedom is self-propagating
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The Meghalayan menu. It’s like the white on rice.
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Illi baaru, boss. Swinging between button idlis and pandi curries.
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Madurai veerans on one side, Chettiars on the other. Koothu parotta or your life?
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Much fuss attends food in Lucknow; Benares couldn’t care less
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Contrast rules in culinary Gujarat—along the highway, or in a single bite
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From the Malvan beaches down to Goa, fruits of the sea change their accent
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Whether Bhopal’s nawabi fare, Indore’s ghee-saturated vegetarianism, or spartan tribal cuisine, a food trek through the heartland is gustatory bliss
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<i>Outlook</i> asks experts for their take on India’s niggling doubts