COVER STORY
Outlook Magazine - 20 February 2006
Electronic Wasteland
Clemenceau is in the news, but India pays no heed to the influx of tons of toxic e-waste. Lax laws don't help.
Shaukat Kaifi
Her autobiography <i>Yaad Ki Rahguzar</i> is an exploration of love for theatre and her husband Kaifi Azmi
Many Happy Returns
10K breached, what next for the markets? There's still steam, but caution pays.<a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=31 target=_blank> Updates</a>
Electronic Wasteland
Clemenceau is in the news, but India pays no heed to the influx of tons of toxic e-waste. Lax laws don't help.
Shaukat Kaifi
Her autobiography <i>Yaad Ki Rahguzar</i> is an exploration of love for theatre and her husband Kaifi Azmi
Many Happy Returns
10K breached, what next for the markets? There's still steam, but caution pays.<a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=31 target=_blank> Updates</a>
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Newsbag
When in Bengal...; Poorer by the day? Reds see a green sign; Are you flyin' my way? When the bank's full, don't drive
A Star Is Torn
Raj Babbar's vitriol against Amar Singh is a bit churlish. But the issues are serious.
Gained In Translation
Regional avatars, especially Hindi ones, of English bestsellers are doing brisk business thanks to the 'globalised' appetite of non-English readers
Up The Rapids
Pakistan's girls take to competitive swimming like fish to water
Dr Life's Day At The Hospice
Just this side of Ayodhya, an old Muslim gives himself over to the creed of man
Aksar
The film calls for a severe suspension of disbelief from whosoever dares to watch it.
A Message Takes Flight
RDB drives home the point of deceased MiG pilot's mother
'The Film Will Encourage Cynicism'
With a scary political prescription, its message is: Don't think too much, just get on with it
The Band Of Boys, And Those Two Girls
Karan Singhania, Aslam, Sukhi, Laxman Pandey, Flt Lt Ajay Rathod, Sonia, Sue...
My Yellow Icon
There's a buzz about this tale that rocks to the beat of the urban youth and has all the trappings of a successful film
Dash The Dart
The state wants to keep a bulk of the courier business. Private players are panicking.
'Third Alternative Maybe'
CPI(M) general secretary on how his party plans to counter government policies it disagrees with and what objections it has to issues such as Iran and privatisation of airports.
Sharp Bend: Keep Left
With hardened postures all around, the UPA is on the verge of a crisis. Who'll blink?<a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=330 target=_blank> Updates</a>
Not This Way To Valhalla
The Danish cartoons reflect Europe's crisis of confidence turned anti-Islamic
'The Cartoons Betray The Racism Of The West'
The anger and hurt among Indian Muslims is very real, but its expression is sporadic and muted. Community figures see the Danish newspaper's 'blasphemy' as a function of Europe's Islamophobia.
Man Bites God
The Prophet cartoons were a dangerous stab at satire. But Europe's freedom of speech may have legal limits.<a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=300 target=_blank> Updates</a>
Bull's Eye
All of the PM's letters to his cabinet colleagues ordering them not to take major policy decisions without consulting him were ignored. But strong men don't give up easily...
Bibliofile
Who would be the first III (IWE Indian Idol)? Hutch Crossword Book Award (the desi Booker) this year has separate short-lists for fiction and non-fiction plus a Popular Award for which readers can vote via SMS.
Living Epic
The prose cries out for editorial rescue. There are no epiphanies. Realism is perhaps the most difficult fiction to attempt—unless you've been there, done that. Umrigar hasn't.
History, To Wit
. The cartoons are a perceptive history of independent India from earliest times to now such as no one has done before, not even Nehru.
Not Quite Correct, Jo
Stiglitz starts from the economy of imperfection but ends up with a formula that's utopian
Inside The Hot Gas Balloon
With the supply date drawing near, Anil's strategy for his pet gas project seems unclear
My Share In Dad's Cherry Pie
The demerger of RIL was a complex task in a minefield threatening to erupt at each step
A Versus A, Round B
The Ambani brothers were at each other's throats again last week. But this wasn't the last skirmish. There are many more to come yet.<a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=249 target=_blank> Updates</a>
