COVER STORY
Outlook Magazine - 11 February 2002
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Having scored zero on performance, political parties are relying on nautanki and tamasha to lure voters to polling booths.
This soft yet blunt-spoken bureaucrat is out to widen the tax net "The hole in revenue collection will certainly impact the fiscal deficit." S. Narayan Revenue secretary
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Having scored zero on performance, political parties are relying on nautanki and tamasha to lure voters to polling booths.
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The Kathak diva on her refusal to accept the Padma Bhushan
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The party president is forced into being the solo campaigner
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This soft yet blunt-spoken bureaucrat is out to widen the tax net "The hole in revenue collection will certainly impact the fiscal deficit." S. Narayan Revenue secretary
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A page on the quirks in public administration
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Stirrings of a scam can be read in Prabhat Kumar's forced exit
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OTHER STORIES
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Snail mail apart, post offices soup up their functional repertoire
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Royalty jostles with dons, eunuchs with sophisticated socialites, godmen with gangsters, big businessmen with small traders, wives with mistresses.
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Mumbai: in Juhu at Iris Park.
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The controversial transcript of a phone conversation between former Enron India chief, Rebecca Mark and a Maharashtra politico being circulated in the Kolkata underground.
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This time, the PWG's offer of talks seems 'quite reasonable'
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Politicians keep the campaign low-key fearing the people's ire. And it looks like a hung assembly.
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The absence of opposition to Musharraf's madrassa reorientation programme, it's feared, is merely a lull before the mujahideen storm
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A Right to Information Bill is out there, in some states at least. But the babus are still masters.
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Sleepy Guwahati turns boomtown, with money to burn and a 'with it' attitude
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On why the no fuss, no fizz badminton star turned down a soft drink giant even though it meant kissing a lucrative contract goodbye.
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Who's in and who's out at the Neemrana litterati, oops, literati fest, and where the best corn pops.
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Any pretensions that Meghna carries forward the Gulzar tradition are dispelled in the first half hour.
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Shalini Sharma Dines Vijay Mallya
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Page three baba and baby log -- and other such.
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The DPC leaves in its wake a land destroyed permanently. Everyone has lost something for ever.
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Team Bush is split over granting PoW status to Al Qaeda men
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These boys will be men soon. And if their illustrious fathers are on course, India may well have an incredible playing eleven.
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Khushwant Singh's 87 but feisty and forthright as ever in this freewheeling interview
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After six years of legal wrangling with Maneka Gandhi over his infringement of her right to privacy (the case has now moved from the Delhi high court to the Supreme Court), Singh's <i>Truth, Love & A Little Malice </i> finally triumphs: an exclusive
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Where we lack is in inducting a laser-designated counter-terrorist strike along with a dozen other capabilities.
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Unlike the West, New Delhi suspects doublespeak in virtually everything President Musharraf says and does. <br> <a href=submain1.asp?mode=25&refer=5729 target=_ blank> Free Speech: Your take </a>
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While we are busy talking of second generation reforms and <a href=pti_coverage?gid=26 target=_blank> disinvestments </a> isn't it time to truly take ownership of our own country? <br> <a href=submain1.asp?mode=25&refer=6286 target=_blank> Free Speec
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Free India's mantris and santris have lived amid abundant greenery. But they haven't ever planted a single tree.
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Her grandmom eloped, so did her mom, but it was dance Sukanya inherited
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Eminent lawyer and Rajya Sabha MP on the VHP's latest move.
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Goaded by a restive sant brigade, the VHP turns strident—but Vajpayee is only half listening
