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
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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?
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The man famously called the 'firefighter' of the Vajpayee regime speaks about his eventful six-year tenure
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An American warship is 'caught' spying in the Indian waters under the pretext of research
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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>
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Few models of poverty upliftment have transformed lives. Here is one which is near-perfect.
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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.
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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.
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Fifty farmers have committed suicide in the last two weeks. Is new CM YSR up to handling the situation?
OTHER STORIES
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The Diva, Culture Vulture,Michael Moore and Baroque
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Have things really changed in Bollywood, or are we believing our own hype and hoodwinking ourselves?
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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?
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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
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Digital editing is a post-modern, table-top tornado
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Global beats, local sounds, onscreen musicmakers are turning up the volume again
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Cinema business has evolved. Can investors be far behind?
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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.
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When will Bollywood be accepted for being Bollywood abroad?
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Fresh, young and with some mean street cred, the new screenwriters are marking space again in filmdom
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A New Ripple, yes. A Wave, no. Mostly, it is a tweak here, a pinch there of The Formula.
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Brash, bold and maybe not so beautiful—a new crop of young actors makes a career out of defying convention and flirting with danger
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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.
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On why, while she refused to shave her head, she decided to emulate Sonia's act of renunciation, declining a cabinet berth.
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Alas, gerontocracy continues. Young MPs wait to acquire some gray.
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It has always liked to go it alone. Can it hunt with a pack of motley partners?
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Not Sonia-Manmohan, but the populism of UPA constituents is cause for worry
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Shourie erred on the divestment route. We 'sold the family silver to pay the butler'.
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He presented the 'dream budget' in '97 but never really got the kudos. Is it encore time for P. Chidambaram?
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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?
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Move over guns and gals, serial killers are the new stuff of popular fiction
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HRD ministry pussyfoots on 'tainted' NCERT books <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=90 target=_blank> Updates</a>
