COVER STORY
The Congress barbs backfired because of cut-and-paste images. But refocus the lens beyond its glittering roads, and ‘Shining Gujarat’ doesn’t stand up all too well against national averages.
Outlook Magazine - 10 December 2012
-
The Gujarat model dispossessed and polarised millions, and scotched debate. Would India take it to heart?
The presumption is modi faces no rivals...hence just a simple majority means a setback.
He’s here, there, everywhere. Modi is omnipresent, victory is certain. Can anything stop the juggernaut?
A scheme to credit kerosene subsidies to beneficiaries’ accounts flopped real big in Rajasthan
Its ploy of Aadhar-hinged cash transfer may have won the Congress political points, but will it really be a game-changer?
-
The Gujarat model dispossessed and polarised millions, and scotched debate. Would India take it to heart?
-
The presumption is modi faces no rivals...hence just a simple majority means a setback.
-
The Congress fumbles; the BJP poll machine carpetbombs Gujarat
-
He’s here, there, everywhere. Modi is omnipresent, victory is certain. Can anything stop the juggernaut?
-
New IB chief is said to be good at psy-ops
-
The cap on subsidised LPG has the UPA regime worried
-
Whatever the cons, cash transfers will help the UPA stand up again
-
A scheme to credit kerosene subsidies to beneficiaries’ accounts flopped real big in Rajasthan
-
Its ploy of Aadhar-hinged cash transfer may have won the Congress political points, but will it really be a game-changer?
OTHER STORIES
-
Twenty years ago, the tumultuous days of the Ramjanmabhoomi agitation, and a curious cast of characters in Ayodhya
-
A Babri reporter on the cycle of history and how Muslims can break it
-
India’s zoos are in a shambles, conservation needs new ideas
-
Posing is passe. Candid’s where wedding photos are going.
-
As filmmakers recreate Pakistan in India, I&B ministry tries to make shoots easier
-
Two Kashmiri men lurch from case to case
-
Guha is wrong, ‘Hindu fundamentalist’ is an oxymoron
-
Bengali films explore sexuality in all its purple hues, played by uninhibited actors
-
The former Bengal finance minister on why he still sees a glimmer of light from the most unexpected corner of the world
-
Warning: Order moderately, else you will end up as stuffed as the Paneer Corn Capsicum Paratha.
-
As Random House and Harper battle over Yuvi, a gawky Vikram Seth stars in the Absolut vodka ad.
-
D'Souza tries to understand why a man trained in medicine would spend his life with people who have fallen off the collective conscience of a nation.
-
Real and evanescent, the Northeast in <i>Boats on Land</i> is a melange of past influences and present concerns; <i>The Gurkha’s Daughter</i> is a delicate exploration of the Nepali diaspora
-
Comes across too pat and doesn’t cut deep enough. For many feeling abandoned, it may prove cathartic.
-
Docu filmmaker Gargi Sen, on producing <i>Gora</i>, a tele-series based on Tagore’s novel
-
The only sound that wakes me up from my sleepwalking is the popping flashes of the paparazzi.
-
Where you can pick up hands of Fatima, stars of David and crucifixes for the same secular price of 2 shekels each.