COVER STORY
Outlook Magazine - 31 December 2001
How Deep Is Your Glove? Stumped!!!
Five keepers in two years! India's search for Mr Safe Hands behind the stumps continues.
Drown Town
Tehri is sinking. The fledgling state of Uttaranchal faces its first major crisis as the 200-year-old hill town stares at total submergence. Progress, in the shape of one of the highest dams in the world, here means erasure.
Portrait Of A Suicide-Bomber
He's fidayeen, the youth who has martyrdom on his mind and indoctrination in his heart
Caveat Temptor
Warren Buffet's simple strategy—buy low, sell high—is applicable today, but with some caution
How Deep Is Your Glove? Stumped!!!
Five keepers in two years! India's search for Mr Safe Hands behind the stumps continues.
Trashes 2001
Vivan Bhatena goofs it up, Vikram Chandra's never-ending book, Sidhuisms and more...
Remo Fernandes
On his album <i>India</i> Beyond
Drown Town
Tehri is sinking. The fledgling state of Uttaranchal faces its first major crisis as the 200-year-old hill town stares at total submergence. Progress, in the shape of one of the highest dams in the world, here means erasure.
Learning To Die
The policeman as the official fidayeen
Portrait Of A Suicide-Bomber
He's fidayeen, the youth who has martyrdom on his mind and indoctrination in his heart
Kerbside Story
Are the good times back?
Caveat Temptor
Warren Buffet's simple strategy—buy low, sell high—is applicable today, but with some caution
OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES
Sex-Agenarians!
A tinge of fear, shame, prudish offspring... yet, Sex-After-60 is tumbling out of Indian family closets
Sheltered In Pakistan?
The porous Pakistan-Afghan border may have enabled Osama to escape to its tribal belt
Prime Pretenders
Wish one could pretend 2001 never happened!
A City Spaced-Out
This year, glitter truly met gastronomy. For the first time, Bombay seemed like New York's Greenwich Village.
Eternally Yours, PG 3
If Shobhaa De's the Queen of Page 3 in Mumbai, Satish Gujral's the dada of them all in Delhi...
Thine, Fair Lady
If Soniaji can woo Vajpayee, think of how she can impress the voters! Onward Italy, O brave parivar pracharaks...
Hypercarbon Prospects
India plans to create a single oil supermajor to face competition
The New Calling
Lower long-distance rates via cellphone leaves BSNL in some serious difficulty
Old-School Ties
Often the only access to education for pauperised Muslims, madrassas need to expand their scope
Through The Wringer
Money laundering introduces illegal money into the financial system with an eye to recover some or all of it as clean money later. A Bank of England committee on money laundering has reported a three-stage pattern, often overlapping.
Lockout At Dhobi Ghats
Britain gets tough with its money laundering laws
Lan Sakes!
Sensitive organisations prove easy meat for Pakistani hackers
Inland Wonders
The Globus megastore stands unashamedly for the good things in life
Final Take
The bigwigs warm up to year-end parties, Sham Lal's new book released and starlets line up to tie the knot.
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
Watch it; then decide if it
Pablo, The Works
<i>'Kuchh maja nahin aa raha hai'</i>, as the exhibition of the master's works opens to a low-key response.
Crossing The Line
Raja Menon outlines what could be done and what stands in the way
Hot Pursuit, Cold Turkey
Sooner or later we will have to go in. Today, we are not ready, a second chance will come. Diplomatic hot air won't prepare us. <br> <a href=http://www.outlookindia.com/submain1.asp?mode=25&refer=5138 target=_blank> Free Speech: What do you think? </
'WTC Could Have Been Repeated Here'
Al Qaeda is probably the source of even December 13 and IC - 814.
Tracing A Puppet Chain
Evidence gathered from the slain terrorists and their four accomplices point to Jaish in Pakistan
Give 'N' Take Games
Counter-strike threats apart, Pakistan wants Kashmir settled for tackling jehadis at home
Just Short Of War
Ruling out surgical strikes for the moment, the defence establishment considers the various war scenarios that could erupt along the LoC
Rivals In Hawkhood
Pre-poll, a hardline Rajnath has Mulayam for competition
Tempers Tempered
After the initial bout of war-mongering, a cooler consensus emerges politically
Defending Restraint
The initial sabre-rattling posture has given way to a more sober appraisal of the situation
It's War, Put Diplomatically
The US balances India and Pakistan, goading India in to recalling its envoy to Pakistan and snapping rail and bus links.
A Price-Tag On The Nation
The sheer number of irregularities reinforces the growing fear that kickbacks continue to be the rule in defence deals.
Patriotism, A Dirty Word?
Are you willing to die for your country? I would be very interested in a survey that would truthfully tell us how many of us would. <br> <a href=http://www.outlookindia.com/submain1.asp?mode=25&refer=5397 target=_blank> Free Speech: Let's Talk About
Books Gallery 01
Romila Thapar, Mukul Kesavan, Mani Shankar Aiyer, Gulzar, Shabana Azmi, Omar Abdullah, Manil Suri, Sushmita Sen, Shyam Benegal et al on what they read this year...
