COVER STORY
To describe 2007 as a boring year would not be entirely inaccurate. May 2008 be a Modi-free year for you. Season’s greetings!
Outlook Magazine - 14 January 2008
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India Inc picks up some people skills as it realises that skillful handling of people post mergers proves crucial. People-issues become more and more complex with mergers and acquisitions happening so frequently.
The year saw some big-ticket mergers in the aviation and telecom sectors. The battle for spectrum continued unabated and the stock-market boomed
Rupee appreciation brought good and bad tidings, ultra power projects got approved, farm policies went haywire, and SEZ projects led to violent protests...
The 'chalne do' precept has a lot going for it. Or does it? A Pune trip offers few conclusions.
Partition, we didn't relate to, except as event in the family chronicle. Till, we went back.
A young man's painful death in a Manipur village; an indelible taint on the Indian dream
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India Inc picks up some people skills as it realises that skillful handling of people post mergers proves crucial. People-issues become more and more complex with mergers and acquisitions happening so frequently.
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The year saw some big-ticket mergers in the aviation and telecom sectors. The battle for spectrum continued unabated and the stock-market boomed
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Rupee appreciation brought good and bad tidings, ultra power projects got approved, farm policies went haywire, and SEZ projects led to violent protests...
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That final leap of faith: dropping out, tuning in with India
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The 'chalne do' precept has a lot going for it. Or does it? A Pune trip offers few conclusions.
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Partition, we didn't relate to, except as event in the family chronicle. Till, we went back.
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A young man's painful death in a Manipur village; an indelible taint on the Indian dream
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A typical Gemini, she had distinct public and private personas
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Benazir dreamed of an elusive democracy. It took bullets to stop her.
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A striking, courageous woman, she lent herself to being a symbol. In reality, she belied the promise.
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Her exchange of e-mails with a confidant shows Benazir was on the verge of exposing an ISI operation to rig the January 8 election
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Neena Gopal talks to Benazir's political secretary, with her then
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Benazir is dead. The question now on everyone's mind is: Will Pakistan survive?
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There was something about KRN: a child of Nehru, deep, smiling
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Being "married to India" means one is already defined by the experience
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Big Brother helped in the democracy battle. But I can't read more.
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Often, it all ends up as a strange, involuntary, one-man circus act by a bald white man
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It was my best time, the summer I spent chasing the Monsoon
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Some trips just fail to deliver. Here, a cab ride one moonlit night ends up as the sole solace.
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Metaphor, analogy, circumlocution,we tried it all
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The first world in our ancient history, it can't be painted out
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That encounter with Mother Teresa changed my whole life and worldview
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Trace the paths of the asteroids that blazed the 2007 horizon
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Outlook picks those that, well, left us cold...
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Five Filmmakers pick their best films from the year gone by
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What went so horribly wrong, the party can't stop asking itself
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The Modi avalanche crushes everything in sight—even rivals in the saffron camp. Will his wagon roll into Delhi
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Now a footnote to the more famed passages of Kumaon, it's a little sacred text in itself
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The badland backdrop lingered. Until both sides got to know the face behind the image.
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It was a Chak De India year for Chess, Hockey, Archery, while Sania and Lee-Hesh remained in limelight and Baichung Bhutia got some competition from Bob Houghton...
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From the lows of the World Cup to the highs of the Twenty20, from the mother of all comebacks to the most inexplicable crumbling of the Wall, from the adrenalin of youth and Yuvraj's six sixes to the two new captain cools...
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I once chanced upon my hero, the PM. But it was two deaths that showed me the real India.
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Pakistan's woes were compounded with Benazir assassination; while the rest of the neighbourhood and beyond tried to come to grips with the ups and downs of democracy and, of course, the spectre of terror
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The country got its first Dalit CJI, while the previous CJI came under murky allegations, and in many long-pending cases, it was finally a case of justice delayed, if not all together denied...
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Some of the events that shocked, stunned, shamed, hurt, terrorised and caused national grief...But we coped. Somehow. Sometimes callous, sometimes vocal in our outrage. We truly are like this only, warts and all.
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Modi and Mayawati dominated the year. The Left paralysed the UPA on the nuke deal. BJP won Gujarat, Himachal and --with allies, the Akalis -- Punjab. The Marans fought, and the Gowdas dashed the BJP hopes in the south.
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No map mentions the place. You need to visit it to believe it exists.
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But the critics got some books right too. As some did turn out to be "by turns vain, ingenuous, peevish, pompous, ranting, vengeful, smug, and prone to delivering long homilies..."
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Those panned as below-average, or "pleasantly anodyne", turned out to be, well above average, when it came to sales...
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'Lazy, mean-minded and frequently offensive nonsense...' from Sir Vidia and of course, there was the earnest publisher too...
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Watch out for the Big Boom in 2008. With at least seven major publishing houses desperately trying to snatch away a piece of the publishing cake from giant <i>Penguin</i>
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Books That Created A Buzz This Year
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Where animals and the wind run free, and comfort is not on tap
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A steadily accreting generosity amid the bedlam that wraps one in a lasting warmth
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Not much exercised by le mot juste, Indians fell back on these ever and anon
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Jaunpur was once the eastern flank of the Delhi Sultanate
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Refugees from the streets, killers from next door, the terrible violence inside us
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Twenty20 World Cup, odd exploits of a Sania Mirza or even a hockey triumph... but the great Indian elephant of sport, like Kumbhakarna, goes on sleeping
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Human warmth amid a harsh landscape, the contrast lingers...
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Encountering Gandhi's Dandi, rare Raj relics, a pickpocket, a wanderer and a cool cabbie
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What have I done that I can neither cross my own threshold nor enjoy human company?
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The party may still be swinging... but it's not for everybody. The widening economic and social disparities could fuel serious social strife...
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It might not be seventh heaven, but at 6,000 ft above sea level, Arunachal offers a taste of it
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No one you know has ever been there, and it barely gets a mention in tourist brochures and guidebooks...
