COVER STORY
Bull's Eye
I haven't read LK. Advani's autobiography yet. But when I think about his career, I think of Hollywood and Bollywood. He has acted in so many roles.
Outlook Magazine - 31 March 2008
Guilty Pleasures
Who hasn't heard of the wheeling-dealing Sant Singh Chatwal? And who hasn't heard of his Bombay Palace restaurants?
Thirty Days Of Night
Sarabjit's clock ticks on. But the case has highlighted the deep Indo-Pak mistrust.
Square Tunnel In A Jiffy
The 'magic box' underpasses can be completed in 30 days and costs a crore unlike normal underpasses that take over a year to build and cost upwards of Rs 25 crore
This Way Too Good Water
In drought-prone Bundelkhand an environmental scientist develops filters for contaminants.
Dotted Border
Growing trade ties with China force India to be cautious on the Tibetan issue
Tinderbox Hamlet
Young Tibetans want more than autonomy. Free Tibet, they say.
Bodhi, Second Awakening
An image-obsessed Beijing is taking no chances with dissent on Olympic eve
Armaan Ebrahim
The 18-year-old race car driver is gearing up for the 2008 GP2 Asia Series in April
Guilty Pleasures
Who hasn't heard of the wheeling-dealing Sant Singh Chatwal? And who hasn't heard of his Bombay Palace restaurants?
Hanging By A Thread
The Sarabjit Singh issue needs sane heads, on both sides. It may blow up.
Thirty Days Of Night
Sarabjit's clock ticks on. But the case has highlighted the deep Indo-Pak mistrust.
Square Tunnel In A Jiffy
The 'magic box' underpasses can be completed in 30 days and costs a crore unlike normal underpasses that take over a year to build and cost upwards of Rs 25 crore
This Way Too Good Water
In drought-prone Bundelkhand an environmental scientist develops filters for contaminants.
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
No Sunset On The Shores
Kerala government allots Rs 84.11 crores for for improving 20 beaches along the 560-km coastline.
'T' Will Be The Trump Card
Tamil Nadu becomes the first state to issue ration cards that recognise transsexuals
Hurdles Give Way To Hope
Health insurance scheme for those afflicted with autism, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and multiple disability
Good News Of The Week
The sort of news that we all would like to see more of -- compiled from across the states.
Goods Once Sold
A BMC plan, a Bombay heritage. Will Crawford Market go down easy?
27 Dresses
The kind of romcom which I would have liked in my teens but have no patience for now. It is way too dull and drab for enjoyment of any kind
Beehive Shift: Drone To Buzz
A Rs 15,000-crore public-private plan, 10 mn skilled labour a year. Can it work?
Top of the Pops
Khushboo's marathon show has TN glued, even her gaffes are a hit
Pulse Of A Nation
Health may get redefined for the Indian
'Nothing Will Move Beyond Midnight'
In northern Goa, the shacks take a hit in the tourist season. A wanton murder, and lights out early.
The Seraphim
Hippie days are over, Goa gets up close with tourism's dark side
'Contractors? That Means Pilferage'
The Planning Commission has strong reservations about offering "packaged fortified food" to poor children instead of hot cooked meals.
Biscuit Lunch
Rs 5,000 crore—that's a lot to snack on. Renuka's plan gets more flak.
Naipaul And His Three Women
'I knew Pat was dying and Margaret was finished.... It was not that I was trying to displace a dying woman and an old floozy': Nadira
Naipaul And India
How the area of darkness became a wounded civilisation where, eventually, were found a million mutinies
A Million Mutinies Within
No hagiography: 'He believed that a less than candid biography would be pointless, and his willingness to allow such a book to be published in his lifetime was at once an act of narcissism and humility.'
The Upper Birth
Laloo's proposed green toilet could become the foetus that slipped
Bibliofile
Advani, French on Naipaul, and now get ready for Jhumpa Lahiri's <i>Unaccustomed Earth</i>, followed by Salman Rushdie's <i>The Enchantress of Florence</i>, and Aravind Adiga's <i>The White Tiger</i>.
Parallel Lives
This overtly gentle story hides, as do the histories within it, a subterranean violence, and its denouement plays this out to the full.
Ladies Coop
A fascinating narrative -- "auto-ethnography", a hybrid genre where the author's fictionalised biography intimately mirrors the story of her community.
Square The Triangle
Here's looking at the crisis behaviour of two nuclear neighbours and the somewhat exaggerated role of US
Can Rajini RescueThis Book?
Capturing the phenomenon that's the Tamil superstar needs narrative and analytical skill. Here, it's myopia.
Ayodhya Dur Ast
The book is on his past, but its release is a gesture to the future. Advani, in Atal mode.
