COVER STORY
Outlook Magazine - 3 May 2004
The Daily Noose
The surge in programmes portraying the lighter side of news claims a large viewership, but are they a temporary phenomenon?
Shoaib Akhtar
The Rawalpindi Express on why he spluttered to a halt at home and on his differences with the skipper
The Daily Noose
The surge in programmes portraying the lighter side of news claims a large viewership, but are they a temporary phenomenon?
Shoaib Akhtar
The Rawalpindi Express on why he spluttered to a halt at home and on his differences with the skipper
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State Gazette
They hit the bottle; Tilting at the windmills; Bold symbolism; The flakes of pain; To strike supersonic friendships
'Nicest Girl Of Orbassano'
The new generation can't even place Sonia's name in her hometown. But old friends remember her fondly and don't exactly credit the Mainos with unlimited wealth.
Digi Tally
The smallest, the largest, the biggest, the stats, the zeroes, the evens, the odds...
"I Can Understand The Pulse Of The People"
Opinion and exit polls show him with his back to the wall in Karnataka. The chief minister spells out his plans to Sugata Srinivasaraju.
Poll Mantra'04
Election bytes you won't find anywhere else
It's The Time To ... Disco
Kal Ho Na Ho, Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy bring a new-age zing to filmi music
My Pind On The Footpath
Pakistani artists have brought back bits of old Wazirabad to rebuild ties with the Partition generation
'Good Money, But It's Not All Hunky Dory'
Colonel T. Kapoor, the first of the retired officers to serve in Iraq, returned after he was wounded in a guerrilla ambush. Excerpts of his interview to Outlook:
Our Hitmen In Iraq
Good money prompts retired Indian servicemen to sign up as coalition 'irregulars'
Mystic River
Not just a well-plotted police drama; it is also a serious examination of troubled relationships between friends and families.
Finger On The Button
TV blues? No worry. The big boys are beaming down every which way.
Wither Report
They aren't even calling it drought. But a large belt of India is drying to dust.
Two's A Crowd
His marriages give the actor's campaign a rude jolt
Details
Musicians as Music Directors in Films, Culture Vulture, Quentin Tarantino, and Stridulation
Stacked In Spades
John Wright has moulded a team of famous men uncomplicated by the ways of fame. Now it's a problem of plenty.
Yes...No...er...Yes...Hmm ... OK ...No...
A blow-by-blow account of why Jethmalani is acting the way he is
Mind Of A Worried Man
Vajpayee has been making some unsure moves. What's eating him? <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=82 target=_blank> Updates</a>
Comic, Dead Serious
A novel twist to the world of images. Now in India, as a genre-blurring trend.
Light Unto Darkness
In objecting to 'Meenaxi', the Islamists have denied Husain interpretive latitude
Fear Has Its Uses
Bush's run-up to a Rambo-style presidency leaves West Asia in permanent flux
Rent-An-Imam Policy
Is the BJP so naive as to assume that its current wordsmithery will woo the Muslims?
Bull's Eye
Are Indian leaders afflicted by plain mid-summer madness or is there a method to it? Consider the following sequence of events. Ram Jethmalani, the ...
Bibliofile
Wonder what Sonia carries in her campaign bag. Norman Vincent Peale's classic, <i>Think Positive</i>, perhaps? And Atalji? How about <i>My Best Friend Moved Away</i>?
Ole! Ole!
The wit is there. So it is all the more surprising to learn that the author was once on the national executive of the BJP, a party not renowned for its sense of humour.
The Iron Curtain
A useful collection that could not have come at a more opportune time, for while the battle on the veil may have been joined most recently in France, the question continues to be an important one the world over.
Memory On Wheels
The banal is touched by the lyrical in this snapshot album of homecoming
The Measure Of Lead
Shahabuddin's criminal panache still overwhelms Bihari politics
The Pee Tee Master
Rip-roaring Bhojpuri humour accompanies Laloo's EVM course, as his 'communal' rivals break into a cold sweat
