COVER STORY
Scratch an Indian hard—scratch yourself hard!—and you will find that it’s still a tiny oyster we inhabit in our mind’s eye
Outlook Magazine - 2 January 2012
This special commemorative issue was brought out as a stand alone publication
“There is nothing, sir, too little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”
<i>Pierre, je suis ici</i>... India’s rising star has meant new respect for B’wood
The year as it was, within the lines, out of the box
The pretty, docile creature is passe. Princessing is good, hard work these days.
“There is nothing, sir, too little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”
The West’s top playboy thrives in his own world
Do Gandhi’s and Mandela’s lives tell us more than Stalin’s and Hitler’s?
It’s time to banish the belief that N-power is clean, green and safe
It would be grave folly to recoil from the N-option, our safest
OTHER STORIES
In an age in which multimedia drives change, the camera can still frame drama
The travails and travels of upperclassmen presidents
Expectations for democratic change, in the Arab world and elsewhere, run high. But there is no guarantee.
Will Radical Islam hijack what has been a democratic Spring?
The US and Europe have obfuscated market dealings, that’s why their economies are still faltering while emerging economies gain
Democracy’s inviolable tenets are useless in articulating our unfreedom
The West is down, the East is uncertain. Still, we have spring.
Shared history, not scare-mongering, should ground India-China relations
All physical, social and political coordinates assail capitalism in India
Democracy just got a bit more democratised. Thank the economy.
It’s a matter of time before the irate Indian takes its leaders to task
It’s too soon to know if our editors have picked the right turning points of 2011—it’s not always easy to see ‘history’ when living in the middle of it.
