COVER STORY
Flashbulbs held the indelible moments on screen and beyond
Outlook Magazine - 12 January 2009
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Our yearly Roll of Dishonour. Please tell us the ones we missed -- make up your own awards and send in your nominations.
*#$@! Bashi-Bazouks! Brutes! Ectoplasms! Nikamma! Mother****** from Shivaji Park! Disgusting! Nauseating! Dog!
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Our yearly Roll of Dishonour. Please tell us the ones we missed -- make up your own awards and send in your nominations.
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*#$@! Bashi-Bazouks! Brutes! Ectoplasms! Nikamma! Mother****** from Shivaji Park! Disgusting! Nauseating! Dog!
OTHER STORIES
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There were some small pockets of cheer and life-affirming stories too...
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We are like this only. It happens only in India.
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The algebra of infinite idiocy. Sandeep Adhwaryu puts his pen's nib on why we invented the zero.
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No, it was not a case of the best lacking all conviction... Er, yes, no... but then, well, isn't consistency the virtue of an ass?
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"Leezza, my darling Black African woman...."
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Namrata Joshi accompanies the Gilanis from Pakistan on their homecoming to Masanian
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"Calcutta, Delhi, and then Madhya Pradesh—but home will always be a place in India"
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The years in other cities have only strengthened my sense of belonging to my roots in Assam
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The city casts a spell so deep, the chronic attack of nostalgia transcends time and space
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Time touches a city after its own manner, often unaiding memory. Still, I remain a Chennai boy.
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"So deep-rooted in me is my birthplace, I take Rajasthan with me wherever I go"
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Everybody, it seemed, was entitled to his own, personalised, custom-made notion of victimhood
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I might not have gone back to my native place—Poona—but it has always stayed with me.
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." You can say that about most years. But 2008? Thank God, it's over...
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Arrivals, departures. A little bit of Seer and the Valley and the distance from the world.
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Three cities have shaped my life, knitting and weaving across each other in little strings
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Check out the reading list of Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, LK Advani and an eminent galaxy of persons from all spheres
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Kumaon and its people are forever a watercolour memory, much like its mild sunlight
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Young cinema? Reality TV? The IPL? Demand for education? Amplification of violence on TV? Environment consciousness?
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The Marxist leader tells Smita Gupta about growing up in Rangoon in the 1950s
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Indo-US Nuke deal as the defining trend? Bilateral educational exchange agreement? The long list of terrorist attacks? Global financial meltdown?
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'Back home' was always going to be a problematic place. And not just because it was not one place.
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Defining trend of the year? The global financial crisis? Singur?
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Was there a defining trend? The assembly polls, N-deal's passage, Right to Education Bill, youth in public life...
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In humans, as in plants, roots grow deeper if left to grow in one place, untransplanted
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In location and language, I was more an Agrawal from Delhi than an Iyengar from Mysore
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Was this the worst year experienced by India (and Indians) since the country was founded? Our annus horribilis?
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How can I conjure up a rainbow? We are looking for a sliver of hope... a sort of CMP of optimism.