Low pay, heavy workloads: Indian servants rebel against their lot
- COVER STORY
- There is something close, something new and someplace affordable, this summer - While some look back with nostalgia, others are lured back by their spiritual benediction - Couple leisure and lifestyle when planning your next time out with your partner, family or friends - Pass on the popcorn and open new windows of action, downloading now on a computer near you - Did bear operator First Global use its Tehelka links to indulge in insider trading? - The first woman to be elected to the BSE board, Deena Mehta feels SEBI's decision to suspend all broker-directors of the exchange will not stop insider trading. Excerpts from an interview to <i>Outlook</i>: - SEBI chairman Devendra R. Mehta, in an interview to <i>Outlook</i>, admits he's under pressure from all quarters and wants sweeping powers to prevent a recurrence of operator-driven volatility. Excerpts: 
- Police "wipe out" 16 innocents in their fight against Naxals 
- There is something close, something new and someplace affordable, this summer 
- While some look back with nostalgia, others are lured back by their spiritual benediction 
- Couple leisure and lifestyle when planning your next time out with your partner, family or friends 
- Pass on the popcorn and open new windows of action, downloading now on a computer near you 
- On surviving 25 years in Indian cinema and his film Bollywood Calling 
- Did bear operator First Global use its Tehelka links to indulge in insider trading? 
- The first woman to be elected to the BSE board, Deena Mehta feels SEBI's decision to suspend all broker-directors of the exchange will not stop insider trading. Excerpts from an interview to <i>Outlook</i>: 
- SEBI chairman Devendra R. Mehta, in an interview to <i>Outlook</i>, admits he's under pressure from all quarters and wants sweeping powers to prevent a recurrence of operator-driven volatility. Excerpts: 
OTHER STORIES
- Knee-jerk reactions won't do. What's needed is a systemic overhaul, including of the market regulator. 
- Bengal's book trade is hit where it hurts by transborder piracy 
- <em>Pullela Gopichand</em> spoke to Outlook in New Delhi on his arrival from England: 
- Destiny dribbled with him, but Gopi Chand has finally attained his euphoric high 
- Purnima Rao Dines K.B. Tilak At Nizam Club 
- Changing Chennai and Chandralekha; Balachander's water bubbles and Mohanlal's play, acting... 
- Legislators sans executive power and administration sans legislative powers: balancing the two gives us the administration we have today. 
- Vajpayee need not be defensive. Every political party has taken money hand over fist fromindustrialists, smugglers and other 'special interest groups'. 
- India's 'postmodern' art of resistance is,ironically, itself jostling for marketspace 
- A new book chronicles Indira Gandhi's loves and gets rave reviews in the UK 
- Madhu Jain Dines Anjolie Ela Menon At Ichiban 
- Amar Singh turns papa, Ram Gopal Verma has company and Rajnikanth seeks solitude 
- Of Azhar, Sangeeta and event management; British actors, French artists and all that Japanese Jazz... 
- When it comes to films, big's beautiful but digital's fast, every man's, less cumbersome, inexpensive and seems here to stay 
- The court orders, the state dithers, the citizen suffers 
- The Indian skipper gets a second chance, on field and off it 
- An elated V.V.S. Laxman speaks to <i>Outlook</i> about his setting India on the decisive course to victory. Excerpts: 
- Saurav's boys redeem themselves in the Eden cliffhanger, piggy-riding on three personal highs 
- Myanmarese rebels run guns, the LTTE smuggle drugs. Both counted on Fernandes' friendship. 
- The Nandas' links with the establishment helped them get around the ban on arms brokers 
- Faultlines within the Opposition get sharper as the 'anti-BJP, anti-Congress' corpse is exhumed 
- It's red faces in the saffron camp as the RSS decries those involved as 'failed swayamsevaks' 
- A crestfallen BJP turns to the man with no dirt on him - so far 
- While NDA allies tactically distance themselves from the government, the Sangh is shocked 
- A blow by blow account, almost, of how TIT (Tehelka Investigating Team) blew the horn on our graft-ridden officialdom and polity 
- The Prime Minister has three blind spots. and everybody seems to see them but he. 
- There is worldwide outrage over the demolition of the Bamiyan Buddha statues. But whatis the political fallout?First, tension between ... 
- A timely collection of two articles Milton Friedman wrote on India in 1955 and 1963 
- His deification wasn't as dramatic as the uses his name was put to 











