Outlook Magazine - 8 April 2002
E-Group Behaviour: Ethnic Stickies
Immigrant Indians and Chinese use their own LANs and back-up systems to get ahead
Bollywood Boy
Harnesses the purple prose and heated imaginations of our "filmi" press into more pucca prose
Homecoming For The Queen Bee?
Jayalalitha plays the Hindu card to realign the state BJP with her. Meanwhile, a weakened DMK treads gingerly in the waters.
A Comfed Zone In Lalooland
In a blighted state, this cooperative stands out for two good reasons: it makes money, and gives much of it to ruralfolk
Afterhours
"Travelling gives me a tremendous sense of freedom. New places, new life." Pankaj H. ShahCEO, DuPont South Asia
Act II: Hawks Have Landed
POTA is now law, thanks to a rarely-used strategem by the BJP. But it's still up to the states whether to use it or not.
'A Referendum Would Be Pre-Poll Rigging'
Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad, who was released recently from prison, talks to Amir Mir about Pervez Musharraf and democracy. Excerpts:
E-Group Behaviour: Ethnic Stickies
Immigrant Indians and Chinese use their own LANs and back-up systems to get ahead
Bollywood Boy
Harnesses the purple prose and heated imaginations of our "filmi" press into more pucca prose
Chris Mcdonald
CEO, Ten Sports
Homecoming For The Queen Bee?
Jayalalitha plays the Hindu card to realign the state BJP with her. Meanwhile, a weakened DMK treads gingerly in the waters.
A Comfed Zone In Lalooland
In a blighted state, this cooperative stands out for two good reasons: it makes money, and gives much of it to ruralfolk
Afterhours
"Travelling gives me a tremendous sense of freedom. New places, new life." Pankaj H. ShahCEO, DuPont South Asia
Shoptalk
A page of work and leisure news from India Inc.
Act II: Hawks Have Landed
POTA is now law, thanks to a rarely-used strategem by the BJP. But it's still up to the states whether to use it or not.
'A Referendum Would Be Pre-Poll Rigging'
Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad, who was released recently from prison, talks to Amir Mir about Pervez Musharraf and democracy. Excerpts:
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
A Question Of Legitimacy
Past referendums have been nothing but a farce. Will Musharraf be enacting yet another?
Billboard Bluster
NTR's grandson hopes to be the late screen icon's true 'successor'
Crime And Management
A cynical Modi government appals the NHRC chief and he rejects its first 'all's-well' report, forcing it to issue a second
Morbidity Junction
Its killer precision makes the Calcutta metro a lure for suicides
Ole McDonald Had A Cow
Wannabe swami Harish Bharti takes on the food giant and wins one for the cowbelt expats in the US of A
Spring Cleaned
The BJP has few takers, even within, in the Delhi municipal polls
Srinagar Conspiracy
POTO finds a scalp in the ailing JKLF chief in a tense poll run-up
In Residence
New Delhi's Nizamuddin.
No Fullstops for Pills
A page on the latest in medical science
Karmayogis
The police officers who did their jobs and were "rewarded" with punishment postings.
Unkindest Cut
The police establishment is in the midst of a storm over the transfer of some dutiful IPS officers
First Take
Soli Sorabjee's Parsi jokes and other titbits from around town.
Black Hawk Down
An actual story told in the actual, possible way -- no fussing over story/plot conventions.
Eating Out
Pankaj Pachauri Dines Mark Tully
The Delhi Mumbai Gazette
Art aficionados and gallery-hoppers, Gurinder Chadha's latest, Bowrings's auctions, Nalini Malani's unique video art, Milind Soman and cafedreams.
Software Soft Targets
Health hazards follow recession in Indian IT
Faster, Lower, Frailer
Young urban Indians are paying a heavy price for their obsession with upward mobility—their bodies are becoming unwitting homes to crippling and fatal lifestyle diseases
Remote-Button Intimacy
Many of us in the media have forgotten the power we wield. A casual statement, retracted later, can devastate someone's life.
Dossiers Of Genocide
The colluding administrators should have the fear of an international, public trial. Genocide can't hide behind sovereignty.
Monopoly On Malice?
Malik is at most guilty of violating FEMA, so why's he in jail? Because Farooq wants Hurriyat out of the polls. So does Pakistan.
Swearing By Intangibles
It was Advani's new concept, to bring religion into politics. Confusion has since reigned on what the Hindu religion has become.
Brokering Innocence
Rapacious dalals and a drying farm economy force Bihar's Rat-Eaters, the lowest of the low, to sell off their children
Bull's Eye
Hooray! POTO has become POTA! Now the government can fight terrorism. And worry not. Law minister Jaitley says POTO is not draconian like TADA.But ...
Bibliofile
Waffle of the toffs? Who <i>is</i> M. Prabha? Does she exist? Where does she live?
The Methodist
Tells you all you need to know about the actor without being idolatrous or malicious.
Art Of Living, Together
A compelling case for intercommunal associations as a guarantor of peace
Gene-Clad Aura
The new power centre is—no surprise—the PM's son
