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THE MAGAZINE October 16, 2006
  • Fission And No Fizz
    nuclear bomb
    Fission And No Fizz
    N-power status put India back a notch on all counts. What saved us from the hole: the economy.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Kanti Bajpai
  • Top Of The Shelf
    1995-2006: anniversary special
    Top Of The Shelf
    Eleven years can be a life-changing affair in anyone's existence. Outlook recaps all that's changed us. First, here's what we gained.
    Oct 16, 2006
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  • Wonderland's Warts
    anniversary special
    Wonderland's Warts
    Eleven is a lonely number. Especially if you-know-who is celebrating thirty. Our eleventh anniversary special looks at the tectonic and the trivial...
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Vinod Mehta
  • The Quiet Italian
    profile
    The Quiet Italian
    From a non-entity to a skilful manager of power and responsibility, the Gandhi bahu has come into her own
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Vir Sanghvi
  • India, In A Minute
    24x7 channels
    India, In A Minute
    Television tells stories in real time. In telling them, it changes their course.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Barkha Dutt
  • Living Statues Of Liberty
    New Middle Class
    Living Statues Of Liberty
    Liberalisation has made the middle class assertive. Now shed cynicism, and it can produce model citizens.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Pavan K. Varma
  • It's Cold In Cyberia
    internet
    It's Cold In Cyberia
    The pen became an abstract blade. And as it slashed through the undergrowth, the vegetation kept changing.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Nilanjana S. Roy
  • The Trouble With Being Reborn
    profile
    The Trouble With Being Reborn
    Oh, to return thus! As the papa of the nation.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Jerry Pinto
  • The Sea, The Surf
    books
    The Sea, The Surf
    My A-List: What stood out from a blur of stories
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Khushwant Singh
  • Enter McKhana
    fast food
    Enter McKhana
    McDonald's is a rage. But the Udupis, the Kamats snap at its heels.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Dileep Padgaonkar
  • High Priest, Heretic
    profile
    High Priest, Heretic
    A forced mid-career recess, ironically, did the trick... ...it only made Buddhadeb wiser as a chief minister
    Oct 16, 2006
    | M.J. Akbar
  • And The Winner Is...
    books
    And The Winner Is...
    ...non-fiction. In this crossover decade, the fig leaf of fiction dropped off facts, and elevated the genre to bestselling heights.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Sheela Reddy
  • Swim In A Bubble
    page 3
    Swim In A Bubble
    P3 doors have opened wider to allow the reapers of the new economy. And the media ensures it occupies our interest.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Madhu Jain
  • Friend Or Freud
    Gurus
    Friend Or Freud
    In the globalised world, the Guru needs no miracles......s/he allows for the lateral thinking our society needs
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Shiv Visvanathan
  • Our Pie In The Sky
    india UPBEAT
    Our Pie In The Sky
    Change isn't the city's property; the country owns it too. Outlook 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
    Oct 16, 2006
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  • Poles Attract
    Indo-US Amity
    Poles Attract
    Post-Pokhran, Kargil led America to warm up towards India. The bonhomie is still on, though, ironically, Pakistan is one glitch.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Radha Kumar
  • Ploughman's Blue Farm
    profile
    Ploughman's Blue Farm
    You could say he brought the sky down to earth... ...but in fact he'd like everyone to fly, economy class
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Shuchi Srivastava
  • The Big Sellout
    mall culture
    The Big Sellout
    The mall does not make us modern. The middle-class covets the 'big box' as it insulates them.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Naresh Fernandes
  • Daughter Of The Dust
    profile
    Daughter Of The Dust
    It was her agitation for minimum wages in the '80s that's become the RTI campaign as we know it today
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Urvashi Butalia
  • Song Of The Road
    expressways
    Song Of The Road
    It's almost a runway, wide enough for an airbus—no longer a tale of burnt clutches, overheated engines, or traffic jams
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Hormazd Sorabjee
  • Hands On The Button
    Hands On The Button
    He made our phones step out of our houses......now his gaze is upon old economy—agriculture
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Alam Srinivas
  • The Night-Errant
    call centres
    The Night-Errant
    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?
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Prayaag Akbar
  • The Spiral Of Reason
    profile
    The Spiral Of Reason
    What's fascinating is how his oeuvre has developed......but without ever losing sight of its main concerns
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Tabish Khair
  • Sound Is An Image
    mobile phones
    Sound Is An Image
    This gadget has gone from select luxury to mass necessity in no time. Only to get charged with ever newer paradoxes.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Shuddhabrata Sengupta
  • Can't Skirt The Issue
    Fashion Fraternity
    Can't Skirt The Issue
    They didn't know the hemlines from necklines then......now it's all hip and businesslike. Even in the newsroom.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Sunil Mehra
  • The Lens With Bite
    sting journalism
    The Lens With Bite
    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.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Aniruddha Bahal
  • Nothing Furtive About It
    The Go-Betweens
    Nothing Furtive About It
    From opaque to obscure to very obvious, it's been a great trip......the fixer has come of age. And outlived his ambitions.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Smita Gupta
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  • Karan Singh
    10 Questions
    Karan Singh
    Chairman of the ICCR, on the upcoming Festival of India in Brussels
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Raghu Karnad
  • Nayi Neralu
    movie review
    Nayi Neralu
    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.
    Oct 16, 2006
    | Sugata Srinivasaraju
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