COVER STORY
Former reporter, author, Indophile on his latest book <i>Is New York Burning</i> co-authored with Larry Collins.
Outlook Magazine - 7 June 2004
The man famously called the 'firefighter' of the Vajpayee regime speaks about his eventful six-year tenure
The CMP is more about 'what to' rather than 'how to', its ideas noble but impractical <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=330 target=_blank> Updates</a>
Few models of poverty upliftment have transformed lives. Here is one which is near-perfect.
India's new minister for external affairs brushes aside those who see him as a relic from the Cold War era. As for being a hawk--or a dove--he says we're running a foreign policy, not a bird sanctuary.
Mani wants to tell a story he is experientially not connected to. Calcutta is not his terrain, yet the story is set there. So the Howrah bridge is nothing but a prop.
Fifty farmers have committed suicide in the last two weeks. Is new CM YSR up to handling the situation?
The man famously called the 'firefighter' of the Vajpayee regime speaks about his eventful six-year tenure
An American warship is 'caught' spying in the Indian waters under the pretext of research
The CMP is more about 'what to' rather than 'how to', its ideas noble but impractical <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=330 target=_blank> Updates</a>
Few models of poverty upliftment have transformed lives. Here is one which is near-perfect.
India's new minister for external affairs brushes aside those who see him as a relic from the Cold War era. As for being a hawk--or a dove--he says we're running a foreign policy, not a bird sanctuary.
Mani wants to tell a story he is experientially not connected to. Calcutta is not his terrain, yet the story is set there. So the Howrah bridge is nothing but a prop.
Fifty farmers have committed suicide in the last two weeks. Is new CM YSR up to handling the situation?
OTHER STORIES
The Diva, Culture Vulture,Michael Moore and Baroque
Have things really changed in Bollywood, or are we believing our own hype and hoodwinking ourselves?
A new promiscuousness swamps our screens as Bollywood goes on testosterone mode. A sign of our evolved times, or is it just to get cash registers ringing?
Each decade of Indian cinema has thrown up its own notion of beauty—from the likeness of a goddess, the shift is towards blonde streaks and gym-toned bodies
Digital editing is a post-modern, table-top tornado
Global beats, local sounds, onscreen musicmakers are turning up the volume again
Cinema business has evolved. Can investors be far behind?
Actors now want to look their role. Strong scripts and accepting audiences have reduced the pressure to be glamorous. Style is here and here to stay.
When will Bollywood be accepted for being Bollywood abroad?
Fresh, young and with some mean street cred, the new screenwriters are marking space again in filmdom
A New Ripple, yes. A Wave, no. Mostly, it is a tweak here, a pinch there of The Formula.
Brash, bold and maybe not so beautiful—a new crop of young actors makes a career out of defying convention and flirting with danger
A cinema where, in the grand and gentle tradition of India, heritage and modernity, the East and the West, the seer and the upstart converge and collude.
On why, while she refused to shave her head, she decided to emulate Sonia's act of renunciation, declining a cabinet berth.
Alas, gerontocracy continues. Young MPs wait to acquire some gray.
It has always liked to go it alone. Can it hunt with a pack of motley partners?
Not Sonia-Manmohan, but the populism of UPA constituents is cause for worry
Shourie erred on the divestment route. We 'sold the family silver to pay the butler'.
He presented the 'dream budget' in '97 but never really got the kudos. Is it encore time for P. Chidambaram?
Why should the President have held back? Is it because Sonia Gandhi could have been a security risk? And hence could not be given access to India's nuclear secrets—making her thereby untenable as PM?
Move over guns and gals, serial killers are the new stuff of popular fiction
HRD ministry pussyfoots on 'tainted' NCERT books <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=90 target=_blank> Updates</a>
