COVER STORY
20 Things That Are No Fun At All
Outlook Magazine - 13 January 2003
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In John Osborne's celebrated play Look Back in Anger, the cynical and morally disengaged hero, Jimmy Porter, laments, "There are no good causes left." Happily, that is not true of India 2003.
For all the song and dance, the BJP has made zero headway on terrorism—save for rhetoric that yields electoral profits, like in Gujarat
Today's go-go cola girls have traversed a path well travelled. A look back on some of the, shall we say, landmarks.
Probably the funniest horror of the year. The terror of the small town,the monster of the mofussil. It's a bird, it's a beast, it's ...
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In John Osborne's celebrated play Look Back in Anger, the cynical and morally disengaged hero, Jimmy Porter, laments, "There are no good causes left." Happily, that is not true of India 2003.
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For all the song and dance, the BJP has made zero headway on terrorism—save for rhetoric that yields electoral profits, like in Gujarat
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Today's go-go cola girls have traversed a path well travelled. A look back on some of the, shall we say, landmarks.
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Probably the funniest horror of the year. The terror of the small town,the monster of the mofussil. It's a bird, it's a beast, it's ...
OTHER STORIES
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Belying the Sangh's claims, experts say Indian Muslims hold no jehadi sentiments
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In a land that can boast of a Bhimsen Joshi and a Lata Mangeshkar, why auditory hell blares out in almost every neighbourhood boggles the mind
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We're one but we're not the same. North, South, East or West, we cling to our identities and our cardinal directions like we cling to our vices. Party pieces from Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Bangalore.
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Apologies to the gent who sent us our Gujarat opinion poll cover. As for the rest, here they are, Sardarji jokes, Laloo jokes or whatever—this one time, we plead not guilty.
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The upwardly mobile
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Gainers and losers from the corporate world.
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The hits and flops from the world of entertainment
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The success stories of 2002
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Outlook invited Superchef Sanjeev Kapoor to plan...
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Have a ball on a shoestring budget
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How the glimmerati shim-sham-shimmied, beat the dhol and socialised with sharks
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Making babies is fun, having them is not. Of all of life's events, becoming parents is the most conservatising. Any pretensions to radicalness are the first casualty. But...
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His is rough and ready wit, and none of it mugged up from antiquated how-tos a la Sidhuisms. They are home-grown, rustic and fulsome as milk from a cow's udders.
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With the sights and sounds of the streets swamping our angrezi shows, we now live in the timepass times of a brand of livewire funnies modelled on 'the other Indian'
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The many lunar moodswings of the year personified as twelve studs in the buff
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Rahul is Sonia's choice, but the Indira halo is around sister Priyanka
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Will the Congress this new year refrain from cussedness and forge an alliance against a BJP high on Hindutva?
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If 2001 was defined by 911 and our own 12/13, February 27 would long be remembered as a date that changed India – the catastrophy and the cataclysms that followed vent their fury on a weary people, the vox populi expressed through trials, triumphs.
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Events of the year -- cataclysms that vent their fury on a weary people and the vox populi expressed through trials, triumphs.
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How the FM can woo small investors
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Issues he will need to resolve
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What he might do in Budget 2003
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Pulled by realeconomik and pushed by realpolitik, North Block may be forced to balance its act and opt for the middle path
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Celebrating the Bambaiyya gift to world culture: those heavy-breathing moments when the story pauses, the plot ceases to exist, only the pursuit of pure joy via <I>naach</I> matters.
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So the grinches stole Christmas and your faith in democracy. There's more to life. Isn't there? Cricket? Um.... The economy? Well, whatever. Just...
