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Revel Without A Pause Starting past midnight and continuing till dawn, the after-party has become serious business Oranges For Lemons No leadership, no gameplan and hurtling from crisis to crisis, the BJP is in a right royal soup It Makes A Racket Will his junior home minister's doings be Narendra Modi's undoing? Something Is Rotten The poor stare vacantly as a food-surplus nation lets its stock spoil in the open Cut Till Further Notice With WikiLeaks nailing Pakistan's lies, talks aren't a priority for India Spider At The Centre A flood on WikiLeaks reveals Pakistan's worst-kept secret: the ISI-Taliban affair 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | OutlookGroup Magazines Aug 09, 2010 Cover Story the after-party Revel Without A Pause Starting past midnight and continuing till dawn, the after-party has become serious business Amba Batra Bakshi, Pushpa Iyengar, Madhavi Tata, Dola Mitra, Chander Suta Dogra A.D. Singh : The Eat Is On, On The Streets Kartikeya Rao : One Knight's Campaign National politics: bjp Oranges For Lemons No leadership, no gameplan and hurtling from crisis to crisis, the BJP is in a right royal soup Saba Naqvi Iron, Ore And Rust gujarat: amit shah case It Makes A Racket Will his junior home minister's doings be Narendra Modi's undoing? A Special Correspondent policy: food Something Is Rotten The poor stare vacantly as a food-surplus nation lets its stock spoil in the open Anuradha Raman International diplomacy: india-pakistan Cut Till Further Notice With WikiLeaks nailing Pakistan's lies, talks aren't a priority for India Pranay Sharma afghanistan Spider At The Centre A flood on WikiLeaks reveals Pakistan's worst-kept secret: the ISI-Taliban affair Ashish Kumar Sen Business business: csr Remote Control Goodness The government considers giving corporates more than a nudge towards social initiatives Pragya Singh Business: Real Estate The Ochre Mountain Residential prices in NCR, Mumbai soar Arti Sharma, Lola Nayar Features film: Peepli [Live] Great Expectations [Live] At Peepli's ground zero, hope floats. Will the film better the lives of the villagers? Namrata Joshi His Life Was The Method Food: vegans Sylph O' The Green Veganism is the new food mantra for the hip and happening Neha Bhatt karnataka: government Meet The Gloggers Karnataka's babus, netas are talking shop online Sugata Srinivasaraju society: prodigy Where Dilton Goes To IIT A 14-year-old home-schooled Delhi boy makes it to IIT. How different can life get? Arpita Basu healthcare: report How We Are Dying India does dismally in a report on end-of-life care. What's to be done? Nishtha Chugh arts: prithvi Golden Rectangle Science and art stitch an intricate pattern of beauty at Prithvi Smruti Koppikar poll Sutra The Secret Diary Of Amitabh Bachchan The metamorphosis from actor to kisan came courtesy Mayawati and not Mulayam Singh Yadav. Ajith Pillai Books review On The Half-Tones Of Truth C.G. Somiah's memoirs, in both form and content, reflect his famed qualities: uprightness and modesty R. Gopalakrishnan on The Honest Always Stand Alone By C.G. Somiah rview Up The Ulna Easily mistaken for the juvenile effusion of a distinctly un-precocious schoolchild. Kalpish Ratna on Tiger Hills: A Novel By Sarita Mandanna current issue Aug 09, 2010 Features Last Page Bollywood Diary Naseeruddin Shah on the one actor he looks up to: "Shammi Kapoor! Yes, Shammi saab, such fun; I grew up watching Shammi Kapoor movies." Saeed Naqvi film: Peepli [Live] Great Expectations [Live] At Peepli's ground zero, hope floats. Will the film better the lives of the villagers? Namrata Joshi society: prodigy Where Dilton Goes To IIT A 14-year-old home-schooled Delhi boy makes it to IIT. How different can life get? Arpita Basu Food: vegans Sylph O' The Green Veganism is the new food mantra for the hip and happening Neha Bhatt karnataka: government Meet The Gloggers Karnataka's babus, netas are talking shop online Sugata Srinivasaraju arts: prithvi Golden Rectangle Science and art stitch an intricate pattern of beauty at Prithvi Smruti Koppikar Regulars People Glitterati The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news Showtime Khatta Meetha Ample doses of over-the-top buffoonery and liberal sprinkling of double entendre. One of the most cringe-worthy films from Priyadarshan... Namrata Joshi 10 Questions Ruth Padel The great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin was at the Bombay Natural History Society for a talk on nature poetry and writing Snigdha Hasan Gossip Polscape Random notes, gossip, bitching, angles, conspiracy theories, spoofs, essential fundas PhotosWiresBlogsLatest Omar Calls for Political Package for J&K CBI for Stringent Charge Against Bhopal Accused Deadlock in Parliament Over Price Rise Ends Did Not Seek Transfer of Sohrabuddin Case: CBI Kasab's Death Verdict: HC Defers Case to Aug 12 Army to Consider Permanent Commission for Women Cameron Not to Apologise for Pak Terror Remarks Kayani Conspiring to Control Afghanistan: Former Envoy The Ugly Indians Remembering Rafi What Pakistanis Think J&K: Recent FAQ Congress Games: Behind Aiyar V/s Kalmadi Arundhati Roy: 'An Outright Reactionary' Ravi Baswani, RIP Wikileaks: The 2008 Attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul Zardari in Paris, to Discuss Afghan War Eight Naxals Arrested from Bhatpal Jungles Nepal Set to Vote for New PM Amid Uncertainty Witnesses for Rathore Not Trustworthy: Counsel 'Pak Army Moving Closer to Induct Predator Drones' CWG Scam: Randhir for OC Executive Board Meeting Congress Can Revive Itself in Bihar: Sonia Malinga Still Uncertain for Third Test: Sangakkara Web Sunday, August 01, 2010 From The Blogs The Ugly Indians The other side: What the cops have to deal with Sundeep Dougal Saturday, July 31, 2010 From The Blogs Remembering Rafi Mohammed Rafi (December 24, 1924 – July 31, 1980): 30th death anniversary Sundeep Dougal From The Blogs What Pakistanis Think Latest Pew survey: India biggest threat. Majority wants improved relations. Kashmir biggest issue. Only 35% think negatively of LeT... Sundeep Dougal Friday, July 30, 2010 The US on Pak 'No Plans To Send US Combat Forces To Pakistan' The US says there is "nothing new" in the Wikileaks revelations. So if the US knew all this, it is interesting to see how the department of state spins its responses when questioned whether this had been shared with India View From Israel Rosemary's Baby In Roman Polanski's movie, based on Ira Levin's book, a nice young woman gives birth to a nice baby, which turns out to be the son of Satan. The attractive leftist vision of the one-state solution may grow up into a rightist monster. Uri Avnery Thursday, July 29, 2010 View From UK Redefining A Relationship David Cameron has made all the right noises in India. Despite causing a diplomatic row with Pakistan and David Miliband calling him "loudmouth", Cameron has stuck to his comments.... Harsh V. Pant 'An Enhanced Partnership For The Future' State Snippets Chennai Corner Ever heard of a ruling party planning to organise state-wide agitations against an opposition leader? And what is it about the current leading from the South not being able to compete in Bollywood? Pushpa Iyengar Wednesday, July 28, 2010 From The Blogs J&K: Recent FAQ Does the majority want 'Azadi'? Is it viable? Does the conflict have a direct link with Afghanistan? Sundeep Dougal Sohrabuddin Fake Encounter Case The CBI Chargesheet 'Shri Amit Shah had accepted... that Sohrabuddin was killed because Sohrabuddin himself had foreclosed the alternative of keeping himself alive and there are political compulsions which an ordinary person like him would not understand' UK PM Visits India 'Natural Partners' The visiting PM was frank about his main focus on economics, but he had done his homework well: his plainspeaking in warning Pakistan on "export of terror" perhaps helping his hosts get over the Miliband-Brown mindset David Cameron 'Enchanced Partnership' View From The USA The Deportation Dilemma The bottom line in the illegal immigration debate currently raging in the USA will interest many in India: whether or not to deport those unlawfully resident within a country. Joseph Chamie Tuesday, July 27, 2010 From The Blogs Arundhati Roy: 'An Outright Reactionary' "Instead of allowing her reporting to shape her story, she has allowed her preconceived notions to shape every last drop of her analysis" Buzz From The Blogs Congress Games: Behind Aiyar V/s Kalmadi Mani Shankar Aiyar's ire at the CWG has never been a state-secret. Why is he suddenly publicly speaking out once again? Buzz From The Wires Is Aiyar 'Anti-National' for Wishing CWG to Fail? "Just imagine if we would have spent the Rs. 35,000 crore in providing training to the children, we would have won medals in every international sporting event." Implications Wiki Warning Bells There are lessons for intelligence and security agencies of all countries of the world, including India. It shows how insecure the so-called secure data-bases are and how one could break into them. B. Raman 'These Documents Don't Reveal Any Issues...' Monday, July 26, 2010 From The Blogs Wikileaks: The 2008 Attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul 'In July 2008, the CIA's deputy director confronted Pakistani officials with evidence that the ISI helped plan the deadly suicide bombing of India's Embassy in Kabul' Sundeep Dougal Wikileaks Soft At The Top The ISI did have some fears when Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and Narasimha Rao were Prime Ministers, but because of a succession of soft Prime Ministers we have had, there seems to be no pressure on it B. Raman PAKISTAN Conjuring 'Victories' Operation Orakzai is yet another instance of Pakistan army declaring victory over 'terrorism' which is easily rebuffed by various local and official sources Tushar Ranjan Mohanty