COVER STORY
As 83 opens to the public on Friday, Kapil Dev will grab the spotlight as much as the Bollywood hero, Ranveer Singh. Scripted in 2012, here's an imaginary story of what Kapil could have been apart from playing and talking cricket.
Outlook Magazine - 6 February 2012
Our representatives have failed us dismally, so it’s time to bring people directly into the process of legislation. In the IT age, this should be easy.
Is the slowdown behind us, has India really turned the corner? Not everyone’s convinced.
The crumby details of Indian life around ’80 went with an ardent hope for progress. It’s replaced by the new prosperity’s handmaidens: apathy, intolerance.
A perfect rendezvous for seduction by chocolate.
Rajasthan is making a Ranji win an annual calendar event
Vodafone verdict opens up the tax havens debate
Our representatives have failed us dismally, so it’s time to bring people directly into the process of legislation. In the IT age, this should be easy.
Centrally funded state schemes may plateau out this year
Is the slowdown behind us, has India really turned the corner? Not everyone’s convinced.
The crumby details of Indian life around ’80 went with an ardent hope for progress. It’s replaced by the new prosperity’s handmaidens: apathy, intolerance.
In the face of censorship, an insurgency of the written word is afoot
OTHER STORIES
The Jaipur litfest’s flowchart of cravenness and commerce
Many a writerly brow stood furrowed over the Jaipur litfest turning Rushdie-centric
That the nation persists is what has lent the India story such gravitas: an idea that’s taken strong root. But will the march of history leave us behind?
Even many lifetimes out of India can’t take the India out of the PIO. So hoping, the government woos eminent PIOs for brand ambassadorships.
Of the many local outfits, some like Peace Party may make a dent
Having jettisoned Sasikala and her coterie, Jayalalitha is set on a national presence
It won’t be such a bad thing—smaller states. Language-based units have run their course. It’s time to factor in economic, social, cultural realities.
This is the map one is likely to get should a second reorganisation of Indian states were to be effected. It won’t depend only on language.
Picasso, Dali, Yoko Ono.... the India Art Fair is bigger than ever
Writers at the Jaipur litfest don’t say it aloud but they’re a bit peeved at this litfest becoming all about Rushdie vs the Weirdos
A fascinating examination of what it means to be a man in modern India.
Historian, statistician, Indologist, polyglot—there is a datedness to his political verities, but the scholar lives
News, quotes, bytes, gossip, buzz, oddities, the grapevine from the poll-bound states
A slice of any and every person’s life, how we face the everyday matters as also the unexpected, life-altering ones.
The Evam Entertainment co-founder, actor and director on his production <i>The Long Way Home</i>, the first Chennai play to feature at the NCPA’s theatre festival Writer’s Bloc 3 in Mumbai
I yield to no one in my support for Salman’s right to be at Jaipur or his right to publish freely, but his manipulation and stoking of the protests ensured he would remain the principal topic at the festival on all five days
