COVER STORY
The Tai Of Fizzle
Pratibha Patil leaves no lasting impression on her office
Outlook Magazine - 30 April 2012
Bibliofile
The next big book to make news? Kuldip Nayar’s memoirs. Or A a biography of liquor baron and aviation pauper, Vijay Mallya?
Flighty Wings
A storyteller with keen imagination and startling turns of phrase, a nuanced grasp of human bondage and knifelike measure of love
Life And Its Suburbs
In Chughtai’s memoirs words come pell-mell, out of her consciousness. Her demanding prose is translated well.
The Wide Gulf Of Dissimilitude
The Supreme Court judgement notwithstanding, issues persist on the EWS reservation
Opium And Taliban Are Forever!
A few eternal verities pock-mark all the flux in Afghanistan. Policy has to navigate around them.
Room For Words
His working day—his surroundings, his routine, the conditions that allow him to write
Bibliofile
The next big book to make news? Kuldip Nayar’s memoirs. Or A a biography of liquor baron and aviation pauper, Vijay Mallya?
Mixed Grain
A gentle insight into village life, interspersed with ragi recipes
Flighty Wings
A storyteller with keen imagination and startling turns of phrase, a nuanced grasp of human bondage and knifelike measure of love
Life And Its Suburbs
In Chughtai’s memoirs words come pell-mell, out of her consciousness. Her demanding prose is translated well.
Classic Dodge
Is the govt ducking its responsibility with RTE?
The Wide Gulf Of Dissimilitude
The Supreme Court judgement notwithstanding, issues persist on the EWS reservation
Drops Of Jupiter
Tatra spares is just one of Rishi’s ‘businesses’
Opium And Taliban Are Forever!
A few eternal verities pock-mark all the flux in Afghanistan. Policy has to navigate around them.
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The Giani’s Riot Act
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The August Question
The First Citizen race hots up. Parties get their pawns in place.
Poisoned Plate
There's more to those bottles and jars filling our larders and refrigerators than what their labels say
The Path Of The Rikishi
She’s an oddity. Her craft, a mystery. What is it about her that feels ‘real’ somehow?
The Dangling Carats
They fill the void between bank and shark, but can NBFCs survive a contrarian RBI?
The Ghost’s In The Details, Ma’am
Arundhati has got it all wrong—the facts speak out against her romantic notions of the tribals’ fight
A Cowed-Down Nation
Why kill over a people’s dietary preference for beef?
Fortress Of Unreason
Mamata once believed in democracy. Time she rediscovered it.
Random Numbers
Our counters get the industrial index wrong
Lip-Smacking Legacy
Not as fancy as some of Mumbai’s other Chinese joints, but it’s a place that many serious foodies swear by.
Racha
Like a spicy mirchi bajji. It sticks to the time-tested Telugu formula of a mass entertainer
Bittoo Boss
Interesting social observations don’t necessarily a good film make
Gautam Chadha
The India representative of Royal Caribbean Cruises on luxury liners and Indian vacationers
Teesta Setalvad
I outshouted, outscreamed and temporarily silenced Rajdeep Sardesai on the CNN-IBN channel...
Delhi Diary
When mischief-makers, coups and middlemen are all the buzz, let me take you back to a time when I was also misled