COVER STORY
What We Learnt Circa 2011
The words, the places, the people, the events...
Outlook Magazine - 9 January 2012
Hark, To Battle Stations
The wars of words, the pointed fingers, the salvos, the diatribes, the potshots...
The Shaken Newsreel
It won't make for a pretty desktop calendar, perhaps. But history will certainly find a pattern in this collage...
Glitterati
The dazzlers, the page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news
In Between Harder Covers
Movers, shakers and the shaken of 2011 tell <i>Outlook</i> about the books that helped them tide over a turbulent year
The Departed...
An illustrious pantheon left 2011 poorer with their demise
Tune In To...
Dhanush's favourites
Five Gadgets Worth Waiting For
Les desirables in the world of technology
Hark, To Battle Stations
The wars of words, the pointed fingers, the salvos, the diatribes, the potshots...
The Shaken Newsreel
It won't make for a pretty desktop calendar, perhaps. But history will certainly find a pattern in this collage...
Glitterati
The dazzlers, the page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news
In Between Harder Covers
Movers, shakers and the shaken of 2011 tell <i>Outlook</i> about the books that helped them tide over a turbulent year
Development Dominoes
How a handful moved for (or against) their pet projects
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
And The Award Goes To...
...the following for dubious achievements
Sweat Of Shiva’s Back
A cuisine hearthed of necessity and ingenuity
The State Highway To Aoshi
A grey homogenisation has not yet eclipsed our rainbow palates
Mirpakaya Mango Moghuls
Hyderabad to Vijayawada, it’s a trip from tangy to the fiery-hot
Those Mean Papas
The sea, the fresh catch, the Kerala fish curry, from Kochi to Kozhikode
Kling Canoes At Tamralipta
Savoury chakulis; subtle, moreish rasogollas. And Orissa blends into Bengal.
New Year Diary
Vidya Balan turned up towards the end to claim credit, of course, but the truth is Indians watched the making of <i>The Dirty Picture</i> all year, this year...
Food Ready-Recknoner
From breakfast to dinner: where to eat, and what
Recipes
Chulao by Nawab Jafar Mir Abdullah, Maash (Urad) Ki Dal from academician Sabiha Anwar, Ghughri from singer-musician Ragini Mishra
Storm In A Chipped Cup
The various guises that tea takes in India
Cooked In Steam
Civil society raged in hope; industry despaired. The rulers watched.
On Anger Street
Anarchy has a grammar and a purpose, freedom is self-propagating
The Companion Grain
The Meghalayan menu. It’s like the white on rice.
Does Ash Like It Sukka?
Illi baaru, boss. Swinging between button idlis and pandi curries.
More’s The Mess
Madurai veerans on one side, Chettiars on the other. Koothu parotta or your life?
Between Korma And Karma
Much fuss attends food in Lucknow; Benares couldn’t care less
Running The Rann On Bhakri
Contrast rules in culinary Gujarat—along the highway, or in a single bite
Konkan Da Costa!
From the Malvan beaches down to Goa, fruits of the sea change their accent
Raja Bhojanalaya
Whether Bhopal’s nawabi fare, Indore’s ghee-saturated vegetarianism, or spartan tribal cuisine, a food trek through the heartland is gustatory bliss
20 Questions For 2012
<i>Outlook</i> asks experts for their take on India’s niggling doubts