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THE MAGAZINE SPECIAL ISSUE May 25, 2015

1965 India's Forgotten War

aap: media blackout

To Kick The Crutch

AAP cannot have its cake and eat it too when it comes to the media

May 25, 2015

| Saba Naqvi
health: fibromyalgia

The Invisible Grip Of Pain

Fibromyalgia—a disease that interferes with neural transmission—is a debilitating mystery

May 25, 2015

| Prachi Pinglay-Plumber
- Mysterious Wrecker
’65 the forgotten war

In Light Ink

Is ’65 forgotten because it was a damp squib of a war?

May 25, 2015

| Pranay Sharma
20 OUTSPOKEN, outstanding, outlier

Why I Love Outlook

It was more true, it smelled of authenticity. It was journalism that took news seriously.

May 25, 2015

| Shiv Visvanathan
Essay

The War We Forget

Posterity might have neglected the Indo-Pak war of 1965. But it was significant, and must be understood in the backdrop of 1962.

May 25, 2015

| Srinath Raghavan
tamil nadu: j. jayalalitha

Mother’s Day After-Math

Amma’s acquital raises many red flags

May 25, 2015

| S. Murari
- Nammage Yaake!
Mind your body

Summer Fruits To Bite Into

Cultivated by local farmers, these are the fruits we should be promoting to ward off everything from constipation to BP, anaemia to diabetes.

May 25, 2015

| Rujuta Diwekar
View from Pakistan

War Fare To Feed On

Pakistan would never admit it, but its glorious war achieved precisely nothing

May 25, 2015

| Farooq Bajwa
Par Avion

A random sample from the British newspapers

May 25, 2015

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Timeline

The Stalemate That Slipped Our Memory

Factoids from the 1965 Indo-Pak war.

May 25, 2015

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Interview

“Ayub Was A Pacifist And A Flop As A Soldier”

Former CM of Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh on his experiences in the 1965 Indo-Pak war and why we don’t remember it.

May 25, 2015

| Pranay Sharma
A Journalist Remembers

A Long Shadow

Lal Bahadur Shastri’s wartime leadership united the entire country

May 25, 2015

| Kuldip Nayar
Kashmir Valley

No More Exit Signs

Kashmir was incensed with India, but wasn’t up for an armed rebellion

May 25, 2015

| Showkat A. Motta
Battle of Khem Karan

Patton Wreckers’ Day

Pakistan had the better tanks, but not the skill to man them well

May 25, 2015

| Nitin A. Gokhale
Wartime Intelligence

To Win Before The War

After ’62 debacle, India’s intel agencies came of age in 1965 war

May 25, 2015

| M.K. Narayanan
Role of the USSR

Blowing Cold

Cold War priorities led the USSR into a peacable equidistance

May 25, 2015

| Andreas Hilger
Interview

“It Was A War Which Should Not Have Taken Place”

Gohar Ayub Khan, who was aide-de-camp to his father Ayub Khan, Pakistan’s first military ruler, talks about the 1965 war.

May 25, 2015

| Pranay Sharma
Western Faultlines

Out Of Business

The US-UK’s disinterest in ‘intervening’ upended Pak gameplan

May 25, 2015

| Rudra Chaudhuri
Legacy

Shastriyatva

LBS’s unique impress makes him tempting to appropriators

May 25, 2015

| Pragya Singh
Citizen Eyewitnesses

Eyes On The Gnats

Citizens from the border towns who lived through the 1965 war recount their experiences.

May 25, 2015

| Sakshi Virmani
Cinema

The Plough & The Gun

Not many films have focused on the 1965 war. Upkar has more than made up for that lapse.

May 25, 2015

| Namrata Joshi
Web Extra

No One Won

Even after 50 years, both India and Pakistan claim that they won the 1965 war.

May 25, 2015

| Mihir Srivastava
Web Extra

The Alliance Of The Crestfallen

Operation Gibraltar was nothing but an unprovoked external aggression by a professional army equipped with U.S. arms.

May 25, 2015

| Amit Das Gupta
profile

Patron Saint, Indiewood

Manish Mundra is the benefactor the film industry’s new talent so needs

May 25, 2015

| Namrata Joshi

Regulars

10 Questions

Siddhartha Gigoo

The writer on winning the Commonwealth Short Story Prize

May 25, 2015

| Aashmi Kumar
Web Extra

Biztro

Business in bitesizes

May 25, 2015

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Last Page

Delhi Diary

In no time, Kejriwal has shown that his party is cut from the same cloth of vengeance, doublespeak and skulduggery as the others.

May 25, 2015

| Krishna Prasad
Par Avion

A random sample from the British newspapers

May 25, 2015

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Rewind

Outlook in retrospect.

May 25, 2015

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the Secret Diary of

S.A.S.T. Laddoowala

The laddoo took to electoral politics like duck to water.

May 25, 2015

| V. Gangadhar
Happenings

Seven Days

The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt

May 25, 2015

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Movie Review

Piku

It’s about the chaos of relationships, yet about unruffled continuities.

May 25, 2015

| Namrata Joshi
Glitterati

The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news

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