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manmohan singh

Act II, The Fall Of Man

An embattled Manmohan Singh fails to give a convincing defence of his government’s actions

Feb 28, 2011

| Saba Naqvi
Cover Story: the PM

Why Everyone Loves To Needle Manmohan

Rule of Four: The opposition, the party, the corporate sector, the middle class/aam aadmi

Feb 28, 2011

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the pm

Iron Man Cometh Back

BJP elder L.K. Advani gets a second wind politically

Feb 28, 2011

| Prarthna Gahilote
antrix-devas deal

Story Of A Deal Before Its Time

A deal is cancelled to keep the PM in the clear. The why of it.

Feb 28, 2011

| Lola Nayar Arindam Mukherjee
opinion

No PM Is An Island

To call a TV meet and mumble zeros, as Dr Singh did, is suicidal

Feb 28, 2011

| Rajdeep Sardesai
pm’s image

He Wore White

Manmohan’s ‘clean image’ is soiled. No hope for redemption?

Feb 28, 2011

| Debarshi Dasgupta

mining: platinum

Gondpipri [Live]

Its platinum-gold finds could deepen state-Maoist conflict

Feb 28, 2011

| Debarshi Dasgupta
politics: ap

Peace Offensive

Telangana stir to take the Mahatma’s path

Feb 28, 2011

| Madhavi Tata
intel agencies: reform

Ghosts Who Walk

Long overdue, a taskforce report on how to reform our intel agencies

Feb 28, 2011

| Saikat Datta
EXCLUSIVE
red belt flagship schemes

Short On The Delivery

Ill-managed, UPA development schemes have brought no relief in Maoist-hit areas

Feb 28, 2011

| Chandrani Banerjee
rss: investigation

Caught In Its Own Knots

A desperate RSS writes to the PM

Feb 28, 2011

| Prarthna Gahilote

foreign policy: strategy

Due Southeast

On the 20th year of its Look East policy, India gears up to woo ASEAN

Feb 28, 2011

| Pranay Sharma
pakistan: debate

A Scratched Record

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan’s detention ignites Pakistan, reopens old wounds

Feb 28, 2011

| Amir Mir

business: taxation

Nineteen For Him

Indian taxmen home in on foreign deals involving Indian companies

Feb 28, 2011

| Arindam Mukherjee

health: tobacco

Image Therapy

An SC directive stubs out industry resistance

Feb 28, 2011

| Amba Batra Bakshi
gender: jobs

Wheeling Into New Frontiers

The roads are reverberating with a tough, reliable and new crossover: women chauffeurs

Feb 28, 2011

| Neha Bhatt
mercy killing: aruna Shanbaug

Comma, Period?

Is it too much to ask for deliverance for Aruna?

Feb 28, 2011

| Anuradha Raman

cricket: world cup

Put Jaldi Into It

Powerplay, slow tracks, dew...survival techniques for Cup contenders

Feb 28, 2011

| Rohit Mahajan

tribute

Raag Kishori

Different gharanas came together at Sahela Re, Pune’s tribute to Kishori Amonkar

Feb 28, 2011

| Gouri Dange

Questions

Amir Mir

Pakistani journalist Amir Mir on his book, The Bhutto Murder Trail: From Waziristan to GHQ

Feb 28, 2011

| Outlook
gossip

Bibliofile

David Davidar finally emerged from self-imposed exile after last June’s sexual harassment scandal in Canada...

Feb 28, 2011

| Outlook
Last Page

Mussoorie Diary

It did not snow last winter. I have spent forty winters in Mussoorie, and I can recall only one when it did not snow.

Feb 28, 2011

| Ruskin Bond
review

Learning Curve

A rather cutesy tale about how two cats foil greedy Chinese hoping to sell tainted pet food for huge profits.

Feb 28, 2011

| Karen Ma
review

Model Studies

Scholarly but very readable book that documents how corruption, ignorance, social disparities afflict conservation efforts

Feb 28, 2011

| K. Ullas Karanth
review

The Light From The Centre

Pamuk’s poetics of the novel is informed by his craft and a ‘non-western’ specificity

Feb 28, 2011

| Alok Rai
review

Striking A Flint Near Heaped Combustibles

M.J. Akbar brings new insight to Pakistan’s past, but fails to fully plumb its maddening present and possible future

Feb 28, 2011

| Sunil Khilnani
the Secret Diary of

Dr Trance Scribe

Some of the latest data from our most recent VIP wire-taps (which I will later leak to Outlook magazine)

Feb 28, 2011

| Ajith Pillai
movie review

Patiala House

The emotional tenor of the film works, the characters and their concerns ring a bell. But it gets chicken-hearted in the end

Feb 28, 2011

| Namrata Joshi
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