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THE MAGAZINE SPECIAL ISSUE November 01, 2010

Fabulous 15

Essays

Such A Short But Sweet Journey

From a strong contender in March 1995 for the ‘Editor Who Has Lost the Most Jobs’ category to the 15th Anniversary of Outlook...

Nov 01, 2010

| Vinod Mehta
The Outlook Journey

All The Things We Were

Beyond ready labels like ‘liberal’, ‘secular’ or ‘left-of-centre’ to the nuances and specifics

Nov 01, 2010

| Sugata Srinivasaraju
Introduction

The Pen Points To Us

Journalists who live in glass houses must throw stones at others

Nov 01, 2010

| Ajaz Ashraf
Reverse Gear

Editor’s Choice Of Best 15 Stories

Stories that broke new ground and strongly impacted public debate, discussion and, in cases, policy

Nov 01, 2010

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interview

“Media Subdues The Public. It’s So In India, Certainly”

The man NYT called “arguably the most important intellectual alive” finds the media in Pakistan more vibrant than it is in India

Nov 01, 2010

| Anuradha Raman Ajaz Ashraf
Reverse Gear

Boomed And Bombed

The verdict of the bazaar— our best and worst selling issues

Nov 01, 2010

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ESSAY

Why I Quit The Media

A mega sellout! Journalism outspaced, it was time to put my pen down.

Nov 01, 2010

| Sumir Lal
reverse gear

The Words, They Clashed On These Pages

They aren’t called men of letters for nothing: argument, counter-argument and everything in between

Nov 01, 2010

| Debarshi Dasgupta Arpita Basu
ESSAY

Cut-Rate Democracy

Pay and they will publish you. It’s a short stop to doomsday from here for our media.

Nov 01, 2010

| Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Reverse Gear

15 Best Covers

A great photo by itself does not make a great cover. Nor does a headline.

Nov 01, 2010

| Dayanita Singh
ESSAY

Reading The Reader

There will always be a market for analysis. But will marketers see that in the inkblot?

Nov 01, 2010

| Patrick French
essays

By Accident Or Design

Graphic experiment’s completely eluded Indian magazines

Nov 01, 2010

| Gautam Bhatia (Architect)
interview

“Our Paper Isn’t For Our Editors. It’s For People.”

The CEO of media colossus Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd (BCCL) on brand-building, media ethics, controversies and critics

Nov 01, 2010

| Anjali Puri
Best of Letters

In Letter And In Spirit...

We've done ‘the best letters’ several times over. An offbeat selection this time.

Nov 01, 2010

| Outlook
ESSAY

What The Hack!

The media would do well to heed political and world events than affaires d’amour

Nov 01, 2010

| Shashi Tharoor
Books

Those Dog-Eared Bookmarks

Outlook’s best reviewers have never been overawed by the heft of an author on the literary scales. Read and savour.

Nov 01, 2010

| Outlook
ESSAY

A Surname On The Pages

Family ownership of media has a big plus: big egos can be shamed into idealism

Nov 01, 2010

| Robin Jeffrey
- Riding Newspaper Tigers
Diaries

Last Stop Calling

If ‘last but not the least’ ever needed an exemplar, this would be it. A small sampling

Nov 01, 2010

| Outlook
ReVerse Gear

Photosynthesis

15 years, 22 photographers... At the old going rate of 1,000 words, the following would weigh in at 22,000 words...

Nov 01, 2010

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ESSAY

Pow! Thud! Diss!

You heard it on this channel first. On every channel actually.

Nov 01, 2010

| Mark Tully
ReVerse Gear

Back Then...

There are 19 of us here—led by editor-in-chief Vinod Mehta—who were part of Outlook’s original gang. A few stories from our early years....

Nov 01, 2010

| Outlook
ESSAY

Mainland Discourse

The media ignores basic facts about the Northeast, J&K in its insurgency chatter

Nov 01, 2010

| Sanjoy Hazarika
The Outlook Journey

Pieces In The Mosaic

15 landmark events, seen through Outlook’s eyes.

Nov 01, 2010

| Outlook
ESSAY

Shakha 2.0

The Sangh parivar, once a media pariah, is now a master at turning the tale on its head

Nov 01, 2010

| Christophe Jaffrelot
Reverse Gear

The Outlook Loyalists

15 of our oldest subscribers do a candid recap to give us their story

Nov 01, 2010

| Neha Bhatt
ESSAY

Just Bite, Don’t Chew

Reasoned, informed talk is out of place on the idiot box. TRPs set the agenda.

Nov 01, 2010

| Dipankar Gupta
Reverse Gear

Rajinder’s Tikka Khanate

Along the way, a dhaba that crossed our path has grown up

Nov 01, 2010

| Sheela Reddy
ESSAY

Slips, A Silly Point

India’s sports journalism is marred by TV jingoism, camp voices

Nov 01, 2010

| Peter Roebuck
REVERSE GEAR

The Star Ledger

They too have moved on...and how

Nov 01, 2010

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ESSAY

Editor Khush Hua

The screen now has a conscience and the media is its favourite new villain

Nov 01, 2010

| Amrita Shah
reverse gear

Etcetera

Moments of great cartooning, extreme positions, quotable headlines, wordplay etc etc etc

Nov 01, 2010

| Outlook
ESSAY

Grade? Give An ‘F’, But...

It’s primped up in the fluffy rouge of PR, but Indian news media is actually at its ruddiest

Nov 01, 2010

| Anil Dharker
appraisal

There’s Life After Next Monday

Fully loaded magazine? Not if it’s only short-range fire.

Nov 01, 2010

| Pratap Bhanu Mehta
ESSAY

Strip The Skin

Nothing hits home better than sharp wit. The comic strip is an illustrative example.

Nov 01, 2010

| Manjula Padmanabhan
appraisal

But The Eagle Flies On Friday

Pungent criticism, great reviews and diaries. Pays well, too!

Nov 01, 2010

| Khushwant Singh
ESSAY

Pre-Fab Reporting

Globalisation and its belief systems have streamed into reporting in, and from, Asia

Nov 01, 2010

| Pankaj Mishra
Reverse Gear

A Manifesto For Readers

You, as a citizen, also have a responsibility that goes beyond paying for what you buy

Nov 01, 2010

| Krishna Prasad
ESSAY

The News As Static

The ‘new’ in news is lost. Coverage, signifying lists, baulks at asking questions.

Nov 01, 2010

| Tim Sebastian
ESSAY

Press, The Neuralgic Nerve

The price of truth has gone up grievously, paid for with the lives of our reporters

Nov 01, 2010

| Harold Evans
ESSAY

This Way To The Egress

Not just a saviour of print, web journalism contains the future in its illimitable depths

Nov 01, 2010

| Roy Greenslade

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