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THE MAGAZINE SPECIAL ISSUE January 10, 2011

Reforms Vicenary: 1991-2011

Essay

The Blurred Horizon

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Sunil Khilnani
Opening Note

September Involution

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Vinod Mehta
The Journey

It Worked For Us

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

Jan 10, 2011

| R. Jagannathan
Essay

Chalk And Cheese

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Mushirul Hasan
Dramatis Personae

The Genie In The Shadows

Why few remember that it was Narasimha Rao who initiated reforms

Jan 10, 2011

| Kalyani Shankar
Essay

Flight Gone By

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Sashi Kumar
Interview

‘Rao Was The Political Base’

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Lola Nayar
Books

Well-Thumbed & Well-Marked

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.

Jan 10, 2011

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10/11

20 Questions For 2011

Outlook gets experts across professions to gaze into the crystal ball

Jan 10, 2011

| Outlook
Society

Tiers In Heaven

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Aakar Patel
Interview

‘A Surrender To Predators’

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Dola Mitra
10/11

Gadgezilla Growls

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Arindam Mukherjee
Poorest districts

We Only Grow Humans

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Smruti Koppikar
Still life

Camera Bifida

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

Jan 10, 2011

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10/11

That’s Who

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

Jan 10, 2011

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10/11

365 Steps To The Arclights

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

Jan 10, 2011

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Boomtown Limbo

Harbour Of Good Hope

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Sheela Reddy
Opinion

Freedom At High Noon

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Rohini Nilekani
2010 The Year That Was

He Said, She Said, They Said

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

Jan 10, 2011

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Flight of Business

Stall-Warts Of Reform

Straitjacketed at home, Indian business is looking out for succour

Jan 10, 2011

| Manjeet Kripalani
10/11

And The Award Goes To...

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Sandeep Adhwaryu
Corruption

The Mutant Superbug

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Sucheta Dalal
10/11

Glitterati

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

Jan 10, 2011

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The Naysayers

The Home Alone Boys

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Pragya Singh
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New Year Diary

Contest time: Now that Niira Radia’s ringtone has been cruelly outed, let's help her choose a new signature tune. 10 free annual subscriptions to Outlook on offer

Jan 10, 2011

| Krishna Prasad
Neo-institutions

The Agenda Agents

Are our policies being dictated by the foreign privatisation lobby?

Jan 10, 2011

| Lola Nayar
Society

Epicure Shrugged

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Santosh Desai
Identity

Future: Under Construction

Liberalisation has challenged our ossified traditional identity

Jan 10, 2011

| Sudhir Kakar
Opinion

The Changing Matrix

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Sudhir Mishra
Interview

‘The Maximum Bang’

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Sunit Arora
Advertising

Invert That Storyboard

Beefcake in bubble-baths and other Manmohanomic reversals

Jan 10, 2011

| Anuja Chauhan
Opinion

Whither Saraswati

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Devdutt Pattanaik
Fotos on the Cusp

Before The Pixels

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.

Jan 10, 2011

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Web Extra

Liberalisation's Children

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Namrata Joshi
Rewind

1991 Quiz

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

Jan 10, 2011

| Devangshu Datta
- Answers

Diary

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New Year Diary

Contest time: Now that Niira Radia’s ringtone has been cruelly outed, let's help her choose a new signature tune. 10 free annual subscriptions to Outlook on offer

Jan 10, 2011

| Krishna Prasad

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