Our basics are in place. But are we braced for handling uncertainty?

Before it became annus horribilis, 2010 was going along nicely. And then India morphed into the Republic of Scams

India Shining, a story of accidents, from policy to crony capitalism.

Education has to be an inclusive idea in India. It is not now.

Why few remember that it was Narasimha Rao who initiated reforms

What has the first decade of the 21st century been like?

A key member of India’s reform team—first from the mid-1980s to 1990 and, later, from 1993 till 2001—on the early years of reforms

In the year gone by, new releases jostled with books of recent vintage and old favourites on the reading lists of India’s prominent people.

Outlook gets experts across professions to gaze into the crystal ball

We’re better, despite a wrong-headed electorate and an enduring old order

The outspoken former state finance minister tells us why he was always “left”.

Technology purrs to life on that endless road to perfection. Last season’s hot wheels and cool screens.

One of India’s poorest districts, Beed can’t overcome an ’80s hangover

The months and days played along predictably, then jolted with the unexpected. A few defining shots of 2010.

From distant shores they swam right to their own sun-lit spots

Bollywood’s first-time filmmakers got a standing ovation. It was their year.

Visakhapatnam’s tryst with destiny has been too long in the making

The great leap created wealth for some. Public policy must spread it

The Big Fights, the wars of words, the sniping, the full frontal attacks

Straitjacketed at home, Indian business is looking out for succour

Our annual (dis)honour roll for some of the dubious distinctions during the year

A liberal trade wind laid rules, set benchmarks for today’s systemic looting

Some of the page 3 people, the chatterati and those who remained in news for being in the news

In the early ’90s, the ‘Bombay Club’ came together to stall liberalisation.

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Are our policies being dictated by the foreign privatisation lobby?

Wealth and pleasures have collapsed the traditional boundaries of the middle class

Liberalisation has challenged our ossified traditional identity

Affluence is no longer a sin and no one wants to be left behind.

“No one has addressed people at the bottom of the pyramid, whose hopes aren’t different....”

Beefcake in bubble-baths and other Manmohanomic reversals

Our ruthless pursuit of wealth at the cost of wisdom and equity bodes ill

Digital photography is still some years away, and the image is more a function of the photographer’s skill rather than his camera or lens. Outlook asked some of our top photographers to share their iconic picture of the pre-liberalisation era.

Economic reforms brought a new set of heroes and heroines. We pick some who were born and bloomed in the Bollywood of liberalised India.

On May 31 1991, an independent, quasi-judicial body took charge at India Inc. Which body?

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