COVER STORY
Basher Al-Assad, Indo-Chinese cross-border study, Indian PoWs, Bamboo Shoots, Expedia & Gross Well-being Index
Outlook Magazine - 11 June 2007
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Does the Constitution insist that presidents and governors be mindless dummies? Is it why so many hopefuls aspire for the job?
The author of <i>Reflections in the Sacred Pond</i>, which sets about to answer eighty questions on religious history in India.
A frontrunner, three new contenders. Who will be First Citizen?<a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=207 target=_blank> Updates</a>
A dark, menacing brood from afar. But a trip to Jamia Hafsa gives our Islamabad correspondent a human, yet troubling close-up.
They look after the kids, and more. Indian au pairs are the new flavour in American homes.
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Does the Constitution insist that presidents and governors be mindless dummies? Is it why so many hopefuls aspire for the job?
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A survey on how the elite surf TV throws up some interesting facts
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The author of <i>Reflections in the Sacred Pond</i>, which sets about to answer eighty questions on religious history in India.
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TB rears its ugly head again, afflicting urban middle class youth
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With virtually no quarantine laws, India can be an easy target for bio-terrorism
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A frontrunner, three new contenders. Who will be First Citizen?<a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=207 target=_blank> Updates</a>
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A dark, menacing brood from afar. But a trip to Jamia Hafsa gives our Islamabad correspondent a human, yet troubling close-up.
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They look after the kids, and more. Indian au pairs are the new flavour in American homes.
OTHER STORIES
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The one and only thing that works in Cheeni Kum is the relationship between the 34-year-old heroine and the 64-year-old hero.
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Shows no engagement with the politics of encounter killing, which is its core idea, but glorifies violence and machismo.
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A homespun environmentalist defies craggy terrain to create an oasis of greenery
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Haryanvi lads end their search with Payyannur's girls
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The BJP is in a fix as the Gujjars turn violent on the ST issue<a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=90 target=_blank> Updates</a>
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Nehru's idea of economic socialism went as far back as 1936
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The middle class, now way beyond old borders, has always sworn by education
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Higher education must harness the private sector's energies wisely
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Even in agricultural education, management rather than research is the area of interest for youngsters
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A comet wiped the dinosaurs out 65 million years ago. Is one coming our way?
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Why do top results-- in boards, JEE or UPSC-- matter to us so much?
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Europe & Co talk weather, and mean business. Is it all for real?
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What did we dismiss here which has been creating a huge buzz of gossip and speculation? Guess which new book has hit the bestseller lists? And what is Random House's lure?
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These stories do not burst upon you with an eclat, for there's nothing to flaunt there, rather they sort of steal upon you, leaving you with a faint, almost elusive, shock of recognition.
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This collection brings the best of a rare poetic sensibility to the issues that concern us. If there are poems that don't work or falter, the ones that do compensate well enough.
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Witty, sarcastic, despairing, ecstatic, Kesavan looks at the genteel sport with a warm, old-world flair
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An ancient temple with India's largest Shiva linga gets a facelift
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Many top-scoring students are now opting for professional courses like healthcare, hotel management, fashion technology and mass communication.
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Students now plump for courses that meet the industry's needs
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This survey gives the highest weightage, 60 per cent, to objective parameters, and only 40 per cent for the perceptual ones.
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A few private colleges are catching up but there is still a huge gap between the good, bad, and inevitably, the ugly.
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Among engineering colleges, IIT Kharagpur represents one end of the spectrum.
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India has world-class institutes like AIIMS, with a permanent faculty strength of 543, which published 1,220 research papers last year.
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The clinical exposure in AIIMS is unmatched, as its adjoining 1,803-bed hospital treats 3.5 million patients every year.
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Engineering and medicine still rule. But many top-scorers are looking at areas like hotel management, media, fashion, healthcare. The definitive annual <i>Outlook</i>-C<i>fore</i> college survey.
