COVER STORY
Prakash & Mandakini Amte
The son and daughter-in-law of Baba Amte on their work in Hemalkasa, Maharashtra, and the Magsaysay award
Outlook Magazine - 25 August 2008
Silver-Plated Feast
Pitched as chef Hemant Oberoi's reinvention of Indian fine dining, with classic dishes presented in a stylish new way
Solace In The Autumn
It's glitches galore. But at least there's now a roadmap charted to streamline pensions.
India's Best Kept Secret
The Official Secrets Act, the state's regressive omerta code, was never notified. It isn't actually a law!
Silver-Plated Feast
Pitched as chef Hemant Oberoi's reinvention of Indian fine dining, with classic dishes presented in a stylish new way
What Price Caution?
A panel report on oil prices prescribes drastic reforms
Chemical Alley
Doctors will soon get a template for treatment
Those 40 Secs
The time I signed my life away to a parajump...and survived
Wanted: Providence Too
Bids on to revamp a moribund EPFO—and it will be no easy task
Solace In The Autumn
It's glitches galore. But at least there's now a roadmap charted to streamline pensions.
India's Best Kept Secret
The Official Secrets Act, the state's regressive omerta code, was never notified. It isn't actually a law!
Is That What Really Counts?
Both corporates & politicians are opposed to a pioneering survey
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
Bull's Eye
Musharraf has played all his cards. He has painted himself into a corner. In the ultimate analysis, he was never reconciled to India.
The Exit Sign
The numbers don't look good. First Pak president to be impeached?
Kuselan
The mistake lies in trying to turn a non-Rajni film into a Rajni epic. But there are no trademark dialogues delivered with panache and punch
India's Phantom Limb Is Paining Again
The trouble is that this time it wasn't separatists who sparked the fire
A Natural Calamity
In J&K, a blundering Union home minister has made the worst of a bad situation
Fritter Away The Hard-Won Fruit
Quibbling J&K netas end up realising Pakistan's prolonged pursuit: a bitter separation of minds
The Funeral Season
One decision gone awry and differences between Jammu and the Valley start a fire
The First Martyr
A sepoy rebelled in 1824. But was it India's first anti-Brit mutiny?
Home On The Range
Having an affluent background helped where the system didn't
'I Wasn't Thinking Of Making History'
Abhinav Bindra talks to <i>Outlook</i> on his golden achievement
Know Your Abhinav Bindra
The men and woman behind the gold finger, the family, the career, the personality...
Now, Midas...Shooting For Gold
So, Abhinav Bindra displays no emotion. Isn't that why he could tap into his real mettle and get home a gold?
Bibliofile
Is daughter Upinder as dull and dreary a speaker as Papa Manmohan? Should authors drink or not during their book event?
The Sepia River
Impossible longing, <i>viraha</i>, is the tenebrous core of Indian imagination. This book gives us the innocuous sepia version, lovely and painless
Hymn: An Aural History
A scholar-gypsy's guided tour through Vedic country
And So The Qawwali Meets The Meera Bhajan
Don't be distracted by his novelist reputation; Amit Chaudhuri proves to be an incisive cultural critic
Insect Thieves
Scientists and traders are plundering our forests for rare insects that can be smuggled
'Simple. He Connects'
The script-writer of <i>Chandni Chowk to China</i> on Akshay Kumar: 'Like the best of performers, he isn't just cool, he has created the new definition of cool...'
'Our Industry Has Had Only One King: Mr Bachchan'
'It's been 40 years and he is still ruling,' says the man everyone is calling the new King.
Crown Prince Akki
Akshay has conquered the Bollywood throne. His latest film has grossed a net of Rs 29 crore in the first weekend. Move over, OSO.
