COVER STORY
I’ve so far maintained my silence, but I now feel I must record what actually transpired for posterity...
Outlook Magazine - 22 February 2010
Indo-Pak talks threaten to resume, and then they let the LeT chief off the leash. What’s up?
The morning after announcing the moratorium on Bt brinjal, a visibly relaxed environment minister spoke to Outlook
How is it that the Maoists accumulate so much sympathy while the police are damned by the uniform they wear?
A daring, disturbing even if a trifle convoluted and meandering exploration of the ugly urban underbelly through three decades—’70s, ’80s, leading up to December 1992.
Indo-Pak talks threaten to resume, and then they let the LeT chief off the leash. What’s up?
An implacable Rajapaksa detains and sacks in a velvet-fisted purge
Toyota’s recalls have hit its brand value, but give them a...brake
The morning after announcing the moratorium on Bt brinjal, a visibly relaxed environment minister spoke to Outlook
The volte-face on Bt brinjal deepens the controversy over GM foods
How is it that the Maoists accumulate so much sympathy while the police are damned by the uniform they wear?
A film to bring that classic cliche—real versus reel—to boil
There’s more at stake in Maharashtra than a Rs 90-crore SRK film
A daring, disturbing even if a trifle convoluted and meandering exploration of the ugly urban underbelly through three decades—’70s, ’80s, leading up to December 1992.
OTHER STORIES
Bollywood villain Shakti Kapoor’s daughter makes her debut in <i>Teen Patti</i>
Remember the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize ceremony of 2002. The one when His Salmanness was not Sirji yet nor was Coetzee Nobel...?
Nothing else skewers corporate India’s assorted sillinesses so accurately. Or so funnily.
Tells the heart-warming tale of the triumph of the human spirit with a gentle, self-deprecating wit.
His foreign policy and strategic motives laid bare, Nehru surprisingly emerges as an out-and-out realist
Decent food, not superlative, and not inexpensive. And their coffee (Rs 25) is cheaper (and possibly better) than the other chains’
Whether it is Jaya Bachchan or Karan Johar or Sharad Pawar prostrating before Matoshree, the homage should be roundly condemned.
The interview with Maoist insurgents is a tad unreal, when it does materialise in the middle of the dense jungles of Dandakaranya...
Hindu right-wing groups find a ‘cause’ in the war’s orphans
The innocent tribal stands hapless in the crossfire between the State and the Maoists, losing life and livelihood in a war without end
Microcredit and SHGS change women’s lives
Amidst the wheat fields, the bound and pace and stride of greyhounds feeds a racing craze
With help from the Bhagavad Gita, an Indian composer tears down cross-cultural barriers
The new Striker is old news in Chennai’s slums, its carrom world champs will vouch
The Centre plans to manacle the RTI Act
On persuading the Church of England to divest its stake in the UK-based Vedanta Resources
Azhagiri semaphores his ‘CM’ intentions
A Neeli Sene to take on the swayamsevaks
