Outlook Magazine - 21 July 2003

A Third World man in the IMF's upper echelons? Raghuram Rajan, financial whiz, is part of the Fund's soul-searching.

BY Seema Sirohi 21 July 2003

The heady response to Maruti's high-octane BSE entry owes much to it being a one-of-its-kind fish in the stormy scrip sea.

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

Malegaon is not quite Ramgarh. Nor is it Champaner. But it hosts a gutsy bunch of spoofy auteurs living off-off-Bollywood.

BY Manu Joseph 21 July 2003

Doff your hat to this Bangalorean's crusade to put the helmet back where it rightfully belongs

BY B.r. Srikanth 21 July 2003

Chop! Smack! Swaha! A black belt monk's all set to take his martial wisdom to the Tirupati temple.

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

India, if it looks to its past, can't but say no to the Capo's demand on troops to Iraq

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

Musharraf's decided 'in principle' to send troops to Iraq. Now the backlash.

BY Mariana Baabar 21 July 2003

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

A restive Iraq gets violent and Indian troops, if they respond to the US call, may well walk into a minefield

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

The survey was conducted on July 8-9, 2003, in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Calcutta and Hyderabad by Marketing Development Research Associates (MDRA), one of India's leading polling agencies. In all, 316 respondents from sec A (Socio-Economic Class) hous

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

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Assessment done, India is yet to find compelling reasons to send its troops to Iraq <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=25>Updates</a>

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

A trial has never been moved out of a state in India. Will Best Bakery depart from the norm?

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

The key witness in the Best Bakery case who turned hostile in court, has now come out into the open saying she was threatened by BJP MLA Madhu Srivastava and his cousin, Congress corporator, Chandrakant Srivastava alias Bhattu.

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

The Best Bakery case raises dire questions about how fair the other riot trials will turn out to be <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=318>Updates</a>

BY Darshan Desai 21 July 2003

Aziz Ahmed Khan warms up to the party circuit and gossip from diplomatic quarters and Bollywood

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

The film does not offer any explanations. Instead, it intrigues more.

BY Namrata Joshi 21 July 2003

Rohini Iyer dines Lara Dutta

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Changed flavours in Connaught Place; Trigger-happy, point blank range; Filmbuff's food and Canning the classics

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

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The game of leisure is in a hurry: to wean an all-new fanhood on a mix of pop, carnival and near-cricket

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

Not just the parivar, hardliners on the Muslim side too are in the ascendant

BY Prem Shankar Jha 21 July 2003

Is the Ram temple issue really a life-and-death thing for our resilient republic?

BY Vinod Mehta 21 July 2003

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board executive committee has 41 members. And everyone has sharply differing views on the issue of a negotiated settlement.

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

The VHP gets another handle to paint the Muslims as the unrelenting side

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

Twice bitten, the Shankaracharya still believes he can play a role in Ayodhya

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

VHP president Ashok Singhal is still angry with Prime Minister A.B.Vajpayee. OutlookSaptahik spoke to him in Lucknow. Excerpts:

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

Is the failure of the Ayodhya talks good for the party and the parivar, and bad for Vajpayee? <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=37>Updates</a>

BY Saba Naqvi 21 July 2003

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The Shimla message: the Congress is willing to go beyond its one-horse cart, but with Sonia as charioteer <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=104>Updates</a>

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

To evaluate the PM's visit to China would be futile—breakthrough or sellout depends upon individual perception of India's global role. It would be more ...

BY Rajinder Puri 21 July 2003

CM Buddhadeb's budding friendship with the deputy PM has Calcutta wags in a spin

BY Ashis K. Biswas 21 July 2003

Ah, the Pakistani critics find Vikram Seth too <i>Indian</i>. Others who are <i>vulgar</i>? Well, read on...

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

Pande's odyssey traverses territories that remain inaccessible to most: in remote rural regions, urban slums, in the minds of women.

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

This new volume edited by a descendant of Hali has produced an admirable English translation.

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

Can you recall the editor of India's largest circulating daily? No. That's TOI's achievement.

BY Khushwant Singh 21 July 2003

BY Outlook Web Desk 21 July 2003

The industry's revving up: for global car makers, India's the 'most favoured nation'

BY Arindam Mukherjee 21 July 2003