COVER STORY
Operation Bluestar was a bloody, avoidable desecration
Outlook Magazine - 19 October 2009
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For the survivors of the '84 carnage, the past is something permanent. Life carries on, but the shadow behind you never goes away.
Rajiv Gandhi’s close friend, and between 1980-85 his political aide, recalls the heady days of his political ascendancy
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For the survivors of the '84 carnage, the past is something permanent. Life carries on, but the shadow behind you never goes away.
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Siachen, irreversible line in the snow
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People falling all around, but Bhopal was also a story of a lifetime
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Rajiv Gandhi’s close friend, and between 1980-85 his political aide, recalls the heady days of his political ascendancy
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He started sincere, but finally gave in to old party methods
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When justice is slow, try conquering hate with love
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How an ad campaign foretold a time of unparalleled strife
OTHER STORIES
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Could Kanshi Ram in ’84 have imagined the BSP of ’09?
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It was a good year to be out of India
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There’s no justice, Bhopal’s survivors wage a lonely battle
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Her doom: her politics of manipulation
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One armyman was the rock India built its Siachen castle on
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Rakesh Sharma, our first cosmonaut, isn’t nostalgic about space
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‘India = Indira’. That famous equation helped manufacture a modern deity.
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Bhindranwale never threatened, just replied to it, says his son
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Those backfoot cover drives are worth a lot more. Azhar did much to revitalise Muslims.
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Now they call him a telecom pioneer. Back then he was among a very few predicting a PCO revolution or teledensity surge
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When India was closest to being a non-functioning anarchy
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Calcutta’s Metro, a totem, followed years of disembowelled sorrow
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Vinod Nagpal, the Basesar Ram of <i>Hum Log</i>, recalls his days on the set
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That epic moment when we spotted ourselves on TV
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A young major commanding a squadron of tanks recollects his memories of Operation Bluestar...
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Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to climb Everest
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Is Amitabh the mould for the modern neta’s many masks?
