COVER STORY
Chairman of the ICCR, on the upcoming Festival of India in Brussels
Outlook Magazine - 16 October 2006
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The Mumbai police have a case. But will it clinch the charge of state patronage?
Just because it deals with the Hindu idea of rebirth, it need not be damned as another bid for honours or just more Indian exotica for foreign film festivals.
From opaque to obscure to very obvious, it's been a great trip......the fixer has come of age. And outlived his ambitions.
Some 36 crore news stories a year, but how many are really news? You need new weaponry to put the sting back in the tale.
They didn't know the hemlines from necklines then......now it's all hip and businesslike. Even in the newsroom.
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Tharoor went out with a show of petulance
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Islamabad parries signs of its guilt with a mixture of denial and bravado
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The Mumbai police have a case. But will it clinch the charge of state patronage?
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Just because it deals with the Hindu idea of rebirth, it need not be damned as another bid for honours or just more Indian exotica for foreign film festivals.
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From opaque to obscure to very obvious, it's been a great trip......the fixer has come of age. And outlived his ambitions.
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Some 36 crore news stories a year, but how many are really news? You need new weaponry to put the sting back in the tale.
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They didn't know the hemlines from necklines then......now it's all hip and businesslike. Even in the newsroom.
OTHER STORIES
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This gadget has gone from select luxury to mass necessity in no time. Only to get charged with ever newer paradoxes.
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What's fascinating is how his oeuvre has developed......but without ever losing sight of its main concerns
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He made our phones step out of our houses......now his gaze is upon old economy—agriculture
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BPOs... Despite the screeching Qualises, fake accents and all, this sunrise industry gave us a bustling netherworld. The worry, though: what when it shifts house?
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It was her agitation for minimum wages in the '80s that's become the RTI campaign as we know it today
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It's almost a runway, wide enough for an airbus—no longer a tale of burnt clutches, overheated engines, or traffic jams
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The mall does not make us modern. The middle-class covets the 'big box' as it insulates them.
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You could say he brought the sky down to earth... ...but in fact he'd like everyone to fly, economy class
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Post-Pokhran, Kargil led America to warm up towards India. The bonhomie is still on, though, ironically, Pakistan is one glitch.
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In the globalised world, the Guru needs no miracles......s/he allows for the lateral thinking our society needs
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P3 doors have opened wider to allow the reapers of the new economy. And the media ensures it occupies our interest.
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A forced mid-career recess, ironically, did the trick... ...it only made Buddhadeb wiser as a chief minister
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Oh, to return thus! As the papa of the nation.
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Change isn't the city's property; the country owns it too. <i>Outlook</i> photographers went looking for images that dispel the rural stereotype. And found it in unlikely places. What binds these images is openness, enterprise: the spirit of 11 yea
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McDonald's is a rage. But the Udupis, the Kamats snap at its heels.
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Liberalisation has made the middle class assertive. Now shed cynicism, and it can produce model citizens.
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The pen became an abstract blade. And as it slashed through the undergrowth, the vegetation kept changing.
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...non-fiction. In this crossover decade, the fig leaf of fiction dropped off facts, and elevated the genre to bestselling heights.
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From a non-entity to a skilful manager of power and responsibility, the Gandhi bahu has come into her own
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My A-List: What stood out from a blur of stories
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Television tells stories in real time. In telling them, it changes their course.
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Eleven is a lonely number. Especially if you-know-who is celebrating thirty. Our eleventh anniversary special looks at the tectonic and the trivial...
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Those fickle '90s...but there are some things we still can't do without
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VCRs, audio/video tapes, floppies, aluminium antennae, Bajaj scooters, Amby, the bakelite telephone, the Remingtons...
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Eleven years can be a life-changing affair in anyone's existence. <i>Outlook</i> recaps all that's changed us. First, here's what we gained.
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N-power status put India back a notch on all counts. What saved us from the hole: the economy.
