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THE MAGAZINE SPECIAL ISSUE October 19, 2009

14th Anniversary Special Issue

Big B

The Actor’s Studio

Is Amitabh the mould for the modern neta’s many masks?

Oct 19, 2009

| Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Mountaineering

The Inner Himalayas

Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to climb Everest

Oct 19, 2009

| Sheela Reddy
Television

Reflections On A Box

That epic moment when we spotted ourselves on TV

Oct 19, 2009

| Santosh Desai
- The Way We Were
The Metro Rail

Subcutaneous City

Calcutta’s Metro, a totem, followed years of disembowelled sorrow

Oct 19, 2009

| Rimli Sengupta
Telecom Revolution

“They Felt If Rajiv Lost The Polls, We Should Lose Too”

Now they call him a telecom pioneer. Back then he was among a very few predicting a PCO revolution or teledensity surge

Oct 19, 2009

| Pragya Singh
The Azhar Effect

Like Something Calm And Azure

Those backfoot cover drives are worth a lot more. Azhar did much to revitalise Muslims.

Oct 19, 2009

| Rohit Mahajan
Space Travel

Feet On The Ground

Rakesh Sharma, our first cosmonaut, isn’t nostalgic about space

Oct 19, 2009

| Sugata Srinivasaraju
First person

Ice Station Taurus

One armyman was the rock India built its Siachen castle on

Oct 19, 2009

| Saikat Datta
Bhopal Gas Tragedy

Graveyard Bullies

There’s no justice, Bhopal’s survivors wage a lonely battle

Oct 19, 2009

| Indra Sinha
Endnotes

Whale Watching

It was a good year to be out of India

Oct 19, 2009

| Kai Friese
Birth of BSP

A Noun, Not A Verb

Could Kanshi Ram in ’84 have imagined the BSP of ’09?

Oct 19, 2009

| Oliver Mendelsohn
Sikh riots

Many Small Trees Grow

When justice is slow, try conquering hate with love

Oct 19, 2009

| H.S. Phoolka
- ‘Their Demeanour Was Frighteningly Casual’
Bhopal

The Dead Line

People falling all around, but Bhopal was also a story of a lifetime

Oct 19, 2009

| Sreekant Khandekar
Conflict

Freeze It There

Siachen, irreversible line in the snow

Oct 19, 2009

| V.R. Raghavan
Humour

AD 1984

Oct 19, 2009

| Sandeep Adhwaryu
essay

The Axis Year

When India was closest to being a non-functioning anarchy

Oct 19, 2009

| Ramachandra Guha
Punjab

Into The Temple, With Boots On

Operation Bluestar was a bloody, avoidable desecration

Oct 19, 2009

| Mark Tully
Punjab

‘We Were Clubbed With The Terrorists’

A young major commanding a squadron of tanks recollects his memories of Operation Bluestar...

Oct 19, 2009

| Chander Suta Dogra
1984 Survivors

The Raven Hovers

For the survivors of the '84 carnage, the past is something permanent. Life carries on, but the shadow behind you never goes away.

Oct 19, 2009

| Gauri Gill
Bhindranwale Legacy

The Sant’s Son

Bhindranwale never threatened, just replied to it, says his son

Oct 19, 2009

| Chaitanya Kalbag
Indira Gandhi

Steel Touched By Porcelain

Her doom: her politics of manipulation

Oct 19, 2009

| Zareer Masani
Indira Gandhi

Mother Fixation

‘India = Indira’. That famous equation helped manufacture a modern deity.

Oct 19, 2009

| Smita Gupta
Rajiv Gandhi

Prince Gets Spoilt

He started sincere, but finally gave in to old party methods

Oct 19, 2009

| Swapan Dasgupta
Political Eyewitness

‘Rajiv Was Willing To Listen’

Rajiv Gandhi’s close friend, and between 1980-85 his political aide, recalls the heady days of his political ascendancy

Oct 19, 2009

| Vijay Dhar
Campaign Memoirs

Advance Trailers

How an ad campaign foretold a time of unparalleled strife

Oct 19, 2009

| Ajit Balakrishnan