COVER STORY
A quick rewind of the events that made 2000 the year it was !
Outlook Magazine - 8 January 2001
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The PM's statement on Ayodhya was a psychological necessity; an effort to come out of his political loneliness.
The rope on which our government walks is a very tight one. Censure them by all means, but have some pity too.
'Wisden' on Packer: <i>The most importantconsequence was that players realised they were saleablecommodities.</i>
It's ironic that the myth of Vajpayee as the peacemaker, and the betrayed dove, has found so many gullible takers.
Thackeray began his political career by assaulting poornarialpaniwallas from Malabar. Look where he is today.
Its 'electile dysfunction' came at the right time. The US needed a check as it had gotten way ahead of reality.
In the ultimate analysis, only those in the Net economy who manage to rule the content scene would be in control.
Hope, hype and hoopla vanished soon enough inYear 2000. Thiswas the year of thegrim reality check.
The clumsy framing of charges against the Italian and his easy bail point to a deepening controversy
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The PM's statement on Ayodhya was a psychological necessity; an effort to come out of his political loneliness.
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The rope on which our government walks is a very tight one. Censure them by all means, but have some pity too.
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'Wisden' on Packer: <i>The most importantconsequence was that players realised they were saleablecommodities.</i>
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It's ironic that the myth of Vajpayee as the peacemaker, and the betrayed dove, has found so many gullible takers.
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Thackeray began his political career by assaulting poornarialpaniwallas from Malabar. Look where he is today.
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Its 'electile dysfunction' came at the right time. The US needed a check as it had gotten way ahead of reality.
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In the ultimate analysis, only those in the Net economy who manage to rule the content scene would be in control.
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Hope, hype and hoopla vanished soon enough inYear 2000. Thiswas the year of thegrim reality check.
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The clumsy framing of charges against the Italian and his easy bail point to a deepening controversy
OTHER STORIES
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Debate rages over whether the PM's statements furthered the BJP at the cost of his image
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Miss World evokes an odd reaction: a ban on beauty shows
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Certain of its eventual role, Pakistan is, for once, matching India's peace moves all the way
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As New Delhi and the Hurriyat seem to soften a bit, the latter now needs to convince the militants—and Pakistan
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At 86, Jyoti Basu still spearheads the political battle against the ruling NDA. After he relinquished chief ministership, he has emerged as the undisputed leader of the still nascent Third Front. Basu spoke to Outlook. Excerpts:
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The front dream is revived again, as the NDA boat rocks
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The ultimate irony: women and children trekking long distances to fetch drinking water...
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Despite apparent affluence, Sindhis believe they are exploited.
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"Udupi's" likely genesis: the temple lunch for visiting pilgrims.
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Only serendipity or design can reveal Rampur's true colours.
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History here survives in stray museum pieces, the rest is kitsch.
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"The battlefield is nothing. The sugar mill is more interesting."
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Even Pokhran, the name the world knows it by, is not its own.
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"They thought they'd wipe out the man's philosophy by breaking his statue."
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A town disjointed in time, it's a junction where many ages lay suspended side by side.
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The only time a train stopped here for over two minutes was for Gandhi, in 1937.
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"We have nothing to do with the dance. We want a bus stop."
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There's only one way you can leave the place. Happy.
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In a weird retake on 'Quit India', Dandi's denizens just mark time till they can go abroad.
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Time in this holy town is like the stagnant Mandakini river.
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Despatches from towns and villages we have all heard of but (probably) never been to
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There's abundant historical sense in building both a mandir and a masjid at the site. Tradition provides justification, as does the spirit everyone lived by.
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It was a fool's dawn—premature millennium and all that. But the dullspeak called 2000 had some saving spaces, sorry graces.
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For now the NDA allies sit uneasily with the BJP line, but TDP-led rumblings within do not portend well for the government