As the Bollywood movie 83 releases on Friday, Kapil's Devils have become the talk of the town. Kapil, India's Cricketer of the Century, has his own take on the word 'hero'.
A stampede in a flood relief camp kills 42. Is this enough to wake up the babus? <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=13 target=_blank> Updates</a>
What do the sun signs hold for 2006? Saumya Roy asked stand-up comedians Sunil Pal, Raju Srivastava and Parag Kansara to look into their collective crystal ball. Their predictions.
Each new year brings with it triumphs and failures, hope and disappointments. <i>Outlook</i> correspondents gaze into the distant sunset and paint the India of tomorrow.
Just a personal Michelangelo won't do. Time to acquire that buzz around yourself.
Test your wits. Take part in the <i>Outlook</i> quiz. There is a laptop, three Apple iPod Nanos, and 200 tee-shirts up for grabs.
In a year of public spats and near-break-ups, cupid finally had to interfere and set things in order
While some succeeded in finding their feet, others simply danced into the limelight by dint of hard work and by controversy
It was a year in which Indian stars schmoozed with foreign ones, in movies, in endorsement deals, for charity concerts, for friendship or plain PR
A stampede in a flood relief camp kills 42. Is this enough to wake up the babus? <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=13 target=_blank> Updates</a>
What do the sun signs hold for 2006? Saumya Roy asked stand-up comedians Sunil Pal, Raju Srivastava and Parag Kansara to look into their collective crystal ball. Their predictions.
Each new year brings with it triumphs and failures, hope and disappointments. <i>Outlook</i> correspondents gaze into the distant sunset and paint the India of tomorrow.
Just a personal Michelangelo won't do. Time to acquire that buzz around yourself.
Test your wits. Take part in the <i>Outlook</i> quiz. There is a laptop, three Apple iPod Nanos, and 200 tee-shirts up for grabs.
In a year of public spats and near-break-ups, cupid finally had to interfere and set things in order
While some succeeded in finding their feet, others simply danced into the limelight by dint of hard work and by controversy
It was a year in which Indian stars schmoozed with foreign ones, in movies, in endorsement deals, for charity concerts, for friendship or plain PR
Kailash Kher is a powerhouse singer but looks like a tween. We asked the singer who belts out Mumbai's most power packed songs. He came out with this listing of his favourite songs of 2005.
One of India's best known DJs, Aqeel did the music album of hit TV show Nach Baliye, composed music for Shaadi No 1 and opened Bombay's hottest nightclub this year. His favourite songs this year.
When you were riveted, and when you didn't return after the commercial break
The multiplex space gave birth to both: good middle cinema and bad extremes
<b>Abu Salem</b> (<i>n</i>): a villain who becomes a hero. <b>Page 3</b> (<i>n</i>): what you read about Madhur Bhandarkar, and other such.
From new world records for highest wickets to highest runs to the fastest 100 metres, and the 5-m mark in Pole vault, and more...
India's got a new icon, while the master got to his 35th Test ton, Sania climbed up on WTA rankings and into Indian hearts. And then there was Dhoni.
Other notable news in the world of law, judiciary, crime, punishment, business, science and technology and achievements
"Cricket is not our game, wrestling is. In fact, cricket should not be played at all." And other such gems.
K.R. Narayanan, Sunil Dutt, O.V. Vijayan, Nirmal Verma, Parveen Babi, Amrita Pritam, Ismail Merchant, Arthur Miller...and many more who are no more with us
Ganguly vs Chappell wasn't the only one. All the rows and spats from the year gone by...
Our yearly Roll of Dishonour. Please tell us the ones we missed - make up your own awards and nominations.
Were there reasons to smile, laugh, make merry, have fun, revel, play, joke, rejoice, celebrate? Here are some.
From the tsunami after-effects through London 7/7, Katrina, the earthquake in PoK, to the continuing death, destruction and atrocities in Iraq and elsewhere in the world...
Relief supplies in PoK after the earthquake. Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus. July 18 Indo-US nuke deal. Vote against Iran at IAEA. Nepal. Volcker...
Was this a successful year, diplomatically speaking? From the bridge over troubled borders with Pakistan to walking in step with Bush. Plus all the movers and shakers on the global stage.
Tsunami, Ayodhya attack, Delhi blasts, earthquake in Kashmir...and the floods: it was as if the levee broke, roads turned to rivers, but life held on to the end of a rope. When not nature, man himself was the cause and bane. Sometimes he responded li
The oh-so-enlightened Argumentative Indian and the moral police, bomb blasts, abuse, threats, court injunctions, chappals, black paint and fatwas.
From storms in tea-cups to banal brouhahas and kerfuffles to deep outrage over shameful incidents that occupied the activists, the channels, the front pages
The virtual legitimising of sting operations, the fall of Laloo Yadav, the BJP in the throes of an ideological crisis. That's 2005 in a nutshell.
UPA had Volckergate. NDA's Bihar win was turned into shame by the candid camera revelations compounded by L.K. Advani's strange logic that the expulsion of MPs caught taking bribes was not commensurate with the offence - "like inflicting capital puni
2005 saw a combination of snorting bulls, but an equal number of scared as well as aggressive, fighting bears.
In faraway Delhi, the media often ignores the 'real' stories. <i>Outlook</i> asked 20 top regional editors to nominate one piece of news the rest of India should know.
Ganguly's exit from the team may have been unceremonious, but it marks a watershed
We import 70% of our oil. N-energy is dormant. Solar power elusive. Where do we go?
The Left-Congress alliance will endure the '09 polls but by '14 a paler red will stake claim
The setbacks — Volcker, Bihar — had the ironic effect of stabilising coalition politics in the UPA
India's democratic theatre is poorer for the lack of public politicians. Liberalism is the casualty.
The Congress was in its teen blues, the BJP in a hangover. 2006 will wake everyone up.
Manipur CM Ibobi Singh's dole to insurgents threatens to snowball with the Opposition out for his head
It had seemed fitting to commemorate him in something living, something he himself had rescued with such typical kindness...
India's favourite creator of heroes deconstructs heroes and the audiences that fete them and emulate them.
'Vijay', the identikit of the troubled Indian, has moved on
So says Bangalore-based neuroscientist Dr C.R. Mukundan, based on a variety of studies.
Why is a hero a hero? Is being a hero predestined, genetic? Or is it a reaction to a stimulus? A look at the recipe for extraordinariness.
For the urban 20somethings with intellectual pretentions, it's the new P3, the virtual world's own India International Centre.
The blogosphere is meritocratic, and readers are quick to sort out the wheat from the chaff. There's space for plenty more wheat.
Leveraging the advantages of the internet — reaching a wide audience, pooling valuable resources from concerned people regardless of their location.
In an era of danger and disaster, are bloggers the new angels, bravely rushing in where mainstream media can't, or won't? Yes, say the devout. Fat chance, says the inhouse sceptic.
Kranti, 24, legal rights activist: Hero for helping the simple locals realise their rights
Revathi Radhakrishnan, 28, filmmaker: Hero for helping an ignored and belittled community find its bearings
Lakshmi Narasimhan, doctor, and team: Heroes for spending days trawling the villages, picking up and burning scores of bodies
M.A. Zargar, 36, S.E. Haq, 26, R.A. Hajam, 19, volunteers: Heroes for helping those in distress, without exception
Shaukat Khaliq, 35, engineer & Muneed Ul Hasan Malik, 34, bureaucrat: Heroes who kept their wits at a time of chaos
Raja Karthikeya 25, sales executive: Hero for his empathy, enterprise, initiative; for leaving his safe environs for harsh reality
