COVER STORY
Some of the latest data from our most recent VIP wire-taps (which I will later leak to <i>Outlook</i> magazine)
Outlook Magazine - 28 February 2011
Rule of Four: The opposition, the party, the corporate sector, the middle class/aam aadmi
Long overdue, a taskforce report on how to reform our intel agencies
Is it too much to ask for deliverance for Aruna?
Indian taxmen home in on foreign deals involving Indian companies
Powerplay, slow tracks, dew...survival techniques for Cup contenders
Manmohan’s ‘clean image’ is soiled. No hope for redemption?
To call a TV meet and mumble zeros, as Dr Singh did, is suicidal
A deal is cancelled to keep the PM in the clear. The why of it.
BJP elder L.K. Advani gets a second wind politically
Rule of Four: The opposition, the party, the corporate sector, the middle class/aam aadmi
OTHER STORIES
An embattled Manmohan Singh fails to give a convincing defence of his government’s actions
The roads are reverberating with a tough, reliable and new crossover: women chauffeurs
Telangana stir to take the Mahatma’s path
A desperate RSS writes to the PM
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan’s detention ignites Pakistan, reopens old wounds
On the 20th year of its Look East policy, India gears up to woo ASEAN
Different gharanas came together at Sahela Re, Pune’s tribute to Kishori Amonkar
Ill-managed, UPA development schemes have brought no relief in Maoist-hit areas
An SC directive stubs out industry resistance
Its platinum-gold finds could deepen state-Maoist conflict
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David Davidar finally emerged from self-imposed exile after last June’s sexual harassment scandal in Canada...
A rather cutesy tale about how two cats foil greedy Chinese hoping to sell tainted pet food for huge profits.
Scholarly but very readable book that documents how corruption, ignorance, social disparities afflict conservation efforts
Pamuk’s poetics of the novel is informed by his craft and a ‘non-western’ specificity
M.J. Akbar brings new insight to Pakistan’s past, but fails to fully plumb its maddening present and possible future
Pakistani journalist Amir Mir on his book, <i>The Bhutto Murder Trail: From Waziristan to GHQ</i>
The emotional tenor of the film works, the characters and their concerns ring a bell. But it gets chicken-hearted in the end
It did not snow last winter. I have spent forty winters in Mussoorie, and I can recall only one when it did not snow.