COVER STORY
Rajas & Rakes
I'm looking to offer you some humour. Alas, there's none to offer.
Outlook Magazine - 18 August 2008
The Visions We Hear
Who wouldn't like to give his/her own I-Day speech? Share your vision with the nation from the Red Fort's ramparts...it shouldn't just be for the country's top CEOs (read PMs). Give us the mike, mate.
The New And Uplifting History Of An Indian PI
Debunking anachronisms, fallacies and plain fudged facts harnessed to bolster our national worth
You've Got Mail, & It's Fictional
Scores of chain e-mails try to present India's past, present and future in golden light. Most of them lie or stretch the truth.
But Then Kashmir Is Not Yet Free
Manacled and left to rot for 35 years, freedom's lofty rhetoric is just words for Kashmir Singh
Republic Of Kishkinda
If we do well, the country is doing well. Any bets on who's inherited the nationalist mantle?
The Visions We Hear
Who wouldn't like to give his/her own I-Day speech? Share your vision with the nation from the Red Fort's ramparts...it shouldn't just be for the country's top CEOs (read PMs). Give us the mike, mate.
61 Candles
Time is only a pattern on the verities equated with India
Stinging Retort
Sting regulation should include netas now
Red Bubbledom
Maybe this one will taste okay? It was Indian wine...and it did.
The New And Uplifting History Of An Indian PI
Debunking anachronisms, fallacies and plain fudged facts harnessed to bolster our national worth
You've Got Mail, & It's Fictional
Scores of chain e-mails try to present India's past, present and future in golden light. Most of them lie or stretch the truth.
Teen Deewarein
The three reasons why India is sinking into that murky cesspool
But Then Kashmir Is Not Yet Free
Manacled and left to rot for 35 years, freedom's lofty rhetoric is just words for Kashmir Singh
Republic Of Kishkinda
If we do well, the country is doing well. Any bets on who's inherited the nationalist mantle?
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
Don'ts And Can'ts: Taboo Nation
A roster of recent attacks on anything that displeases some group or the other
The State As Strangler
Laws to fight Maoist terror are increasingly being used against peaceful dissenters
The Froth Is Dead
No more seaside mojitos, the Grill is 'illegal'. Wallow, Bombay.
Our Adult Kids
A frenzied focus on 'growth' will only cripple the 'Young Republic'
Explode In Our Faces
Progress is visible. Only, politics still manages to blur priorities.
Rabbits, Run
In herd-obsessed India, individualism rests in an area of darkness
Choking Their Own Artery
The highway is virtually closed. Bids to open it have only made the government look prejudiced.
One Speech That Lit The Match
An impassioned talk in Parliament inspires folks in faraway Jammu the wrong way. Unrest erupts.
Echoes In Hell
The agitation is beyond Amarnath, it's about Valley hegemony
No Aliens Under Our Beds
Among the biggest political delusions we have laboured for long is the 'foreign hand'
1857: The Company Memos
Empire? No, that was just a typo in the terms of the contract
The Good War
Unbeknownst to us, the NRI has taken on the battle for Bharat. A fight for souls is on.
What's Your Number?
Wherein the Guruji's words work in mysterious ways
We, The Acquired
SEZs are the battlefield where democracy fights market economics
Class Struggles
Education abroad, the first form of secession, begun decades ago, still continues
And I Am Her Daughter
Bringing up a differently-abled child is a master lesson in life
Life Beyond The Writ
The abortion law should have the provision for cases outside legal limits
Keep Off The Grass
With exclusion as the latest mantra, the nation is eroding away its vital soul space
The Life Of Pupa
To keep the 'other India' out of our lives is to keep out joie de vivre
'I Am Fed Up Of This Community'
The winner of the TOI's Lead India contest on Palm Meadows, Bangalore's most exclusive gated community that he is a resident of
Let's Just Say, Extreme Ambivalence
<i>Outlook</i> visits Aamby Valley, and comes back 'home' to the mess of Mumbai
An Idiot's Guide To Gated Communities
What? Where? Who lives this way? What do they have? The full monty.
Free From India?
Gated communities are zones immunised to the mess around. Secession?
