COVER STORY
Giving traditional handlooms and handicrafts contemporary relevance
Outlook Magazine - 23 April 2007
New Delhi, 23 April 2011: Looking into the crystal ball to see what the shape of things might be as far as our cricket team selection is concerned.
Are hedge funds just hot money? Or do they help in spreading the risk in emerging markets?
It aspires to great heights but doesn't reach there. Though engaging, it's not entirely satiating.
UP is the graveyard of good intentions. As babus rake it in, the poor work for no pay.
New Delhi, 23 April 2011: Looking into the crystal ball to see what the shape of things might be as far as our cricket team selection is concerned.
Vocalist and doyen of the Mewati gharana launches the first Indian Music Academy
Are hedge funds just hot money? Or do they help in spreading the risk in emerging markets?
The power crisis in India is going from bad to worse
A woman minister's gesture raises the hackles of Pakistani clerics
It's clear -- somebody is passing counter-insurgency plans to ultras
It aspires to great heights but doesn't reach there. Though engaging, it's not entirely satiating.
UP is the graveyard of good intentions. As babus rake it in, the poor work for no pay.
OTHER STORIES
Foreign coaches won't work in India? Really?
The new manager's prescription: young legs and getting back the fun element
Our selectors are only Indian: still dithering on team selection
Has proved that pioneering scientific thinking and world-class research is still happening in India.
Empowering rural India through telecom and computer technology
Creating an internationally acclaimed and adopted model for drastically reducing child mortality in backward rural areas
A rare example of humility, ethical conduct and scholarship in public life
Creating a successful model for checking female foeticide, running a district that is a model of efficient governance
Ensuring that the UPA gives rural development high priority, and that NREGs makes history
Using his spiritual influence to engage rural folks in large-scale environmental, anti-pollution projects
Recruiting the best professional talent to work on a wide range of remarkably profitable rural livelihood promotion projects that have transformed the lives of nearly 70,000 families
Making films that successfully challenge the tired Bollywood box-office formula, yet captivate audiences.
Making the National Centre for Biological Sciences, which he set up, a world-class institution
Fearless crusader against communalism in Gujarat. Has paid a heavy price for his outspoken activism.
A quiet, low-key force in the bureaucracy
Forced Delhi's educational bureaucracy and private schools to recognise the rights of poor children
Leads a huge effort to improve the quality of primary education in government schools
Transforming disease-ridden hamlets into sparkling model villages
Leads a nationwide crusade to abolish the dehumanising practice of manual scavenging
Winning Pakistan's trust, and keeping communication channels open, even in difficult times
His survey of Indian Muslims has offered both a challenge and critique to policy, showing up its gross inadequacies and spurring it to more focused action
Runs a magazine that has set the agenda for intellectual debate, government policies for nearly 60 years
Fighting for the rights of the marginalised all over India, exposing state abuses
His incisive work on hunger, child malnutrition and other issues has brought the Other India into intellectual and policy focus
A leader among social scientists, cutting across disciplines. Uses history to counter communal propaganda, modern myths.
Among the New Generation of actors, his ability to set every role on a slow, crackling flame has set new standards of excellence
Putting rural India and the farmers' crisis firmly on the national and media agenda
Thinking change in India is a thankless task. A few who are sticking it out for the greater common good.
Publicity-seeking litigation motivated by lobbies is crowding the courts
So what did Jaya Bachchan see in Sonia's janam kundali? Osian sets up agency for authors, and the Maggi Formula...
Hussain's candour is commendable and, despite its warts, this book persuasively illuminates the dissonances inherent to Pakistan's current predicament.
Sharma's study of Golwalkar's worldview shows beyond a shadow of doubt that it is the very antithesis of what holds us Indians together.
A Pakistan-born Princeton graduate's journey from yuppiedom to fundamentalism
The 'outsider' analysis has value, but a wariness of messy democracy lurks in his prescriptions
Mumbai University is bitten by the market bug
Here's what the BJP's controversial CD 'Bharat Ki Pukar' has to say about Muslims
The bosses blame the anti-Muslim bites on the loony fringe. An ad follows, disproving it.<a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=50 target=_blank> Updates</a>
Bangladesh's war on terror begins in earnest with the execution of six top militants
We urgently need art that reflects injustices to which most Indians are tethered
