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A Few Piloted Errors A flying school-DGCA-airlines nexus clouds safety in our skies 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | OUTLOOKGROUP MAGAZINES Apr 11, 2011 Cover Story WORLD CUP Rhythm For Our Blues Team India deserves the accolades, but crucial work awaits attention at the nation's cricketing vitals ROHIT MAHAJAN WORLD CUP The Power Play Overs The Indian PM's cricket diplomacy gambit has opened a window PRANAY SHARMA WORLD CUP Lost In Trancenation Black humour alleviates rage as Pakistan copes with heartbreak MARIANA BAABAR OPINION Ground Realities The pitch beat all in flight and turn. But India had greater self-belief. SANJAY MANJREKAR Featured GUJARAT: MUSLIMS One Side Of The Divide An Outlook investigation finds 'Vibrant Gujarat' has left the state's Muslims in an economic ghetto PRAGYA SINGH Peas Of A Pod CONTROVERSY: GANDHI BIOGRAPHY Picture Of Gandhian Grey There was more complexity to the Mahatma than a simple reading of his correspondence would suggest SHEELA REDDY AVIATION: FAKE PILOT SCAM A Few Piloted Errors A flying school-DGCA-airlines nexus clouds safety in our skies AMBA BATRA BAKSHI OPINION N.C. VIJ So That The Sky Won't Fall Our disaster preparedness is woeful. Japan is a warning. National INTEL AGENCIES: CORRUPTION The Bug's Musings The Centre plans a clean-up in tainted intel agency NTRO SAIKAT DATTA The Spies Come In From The Cold? ANDHRA: POLITICS Paper Knives Congress turns the I-T screws on rebel Jagan MADHAVI TATA POLITICS: KERALA Scam Advantage Old affairs haunt UDF, and LDF sees light RESHMI PADMA THE SECRET DIARY OF Arun Jaitley A senior Sangh pracharak rang me up: "We must release cables sent from Ashoka Road to Nagpur on a variety of issues" AJITH PILLAI Society PUNJAB: SOCIETY Spirited Resolve Panchayats are choosing to keep villages dry CHANDER SUTA DOGRA SOCIETY: GUJJARS Chopper Weddings And After Some leaders of the community speak out against ostentation and dowry MEGHA SINGH No Heart Here FOOD: TRENDS Cacao Goes The Cry Indians moisten to the exquisite and various seductions of the chocolate SMITA MITRA MIND YOUR BODY RUJUTA DIWEKAR The Sunshine Vitamin It's almost fashionable to talk about Vitamin D deficiency, a condition that afflicts the affluent. Books REVIEW Bile In The Billets-Doux Atiya Begum, aristocratic, cosmopolitan and educated, meant the world to a miserable Mohammed Iqbal SAEED NAQVI ON IQBAL ATIYA BEGUM  EDITED BY RAUF PAREKH REVIEW Acid On Mirror A new way of using text and pictures that makes commentary akin to a strain of virus that explodes in each individual brain in a unique way SANTOSH DESAI ON THE HARAPPA FILES BY SARNATH BANERJEE REVIEW A Million Kissas A stellar service to Punjabi literature—and to non-Punjabi readers—by bringing 40-odd Punjabi stories into the mainstream. NAVTEJ SARNA ON STORIES OF THE SOIL: CLASSIC PUNJABI STORIES

CURRENT ISSUE APR 11, 2011 FEATURES LAST PAGE Delhi Diary Am I for cricket diplomacy or against cricket diplomacy? How can any sane person be against it in the Mohali context? VINOD MEHTA CONTROVERSY: GANDHI BIOGRAPHY Picture Of Gandhian Grey There was more complexity to the Mahatma than a simple reading of his correspondence would suggest SHEELA REDDY OPINION Ground Realities The pitch beat all in flight and turn. But India had greater self-belief. SANJAY MANJREKAR PUNJAB: SOCIETY Spirited Resolve  Panchayats are choosing to keep villages dry CHANDER SUTA DOGRA SOCIETY: GUJJARS Chopper Weddings And After Some leaders of the community speak out against ostentation and dowry MEGHA SINGH MIND YOUR BODY The Sunshine Vitamin It's almost fashionable to talk about Vitamin D deficiency, a condition that afflicts the affluent. RUJUTA DIWEKAR REGULARS PEOPLE Glitterati The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news 10 QUESTIONS Om Puri The veteran actor talks about his three new films LATA KHUBCHANDANI MOVIE REVIEW Janala (Bengali) The problem is not in the story but in its telling NAMRATA JOSHI GOSSIP Polscape Random notes, gossip, bitching, angles, conspiracy theories, spoofs, essential fundas

PHOTOSWIRESBLOGSLATEST Hazare Continues Fast, Hits Out at Congress State Can't Arm People to Fight Naxals: SC  'Wounds of 26/11 Have Not Healed As Yet': Rao MEA Seeks Report from Ministry on Chinese Troops SC Notice to Rahul Gandhi, UP Govt on Ex-MLA's Plea Sachin Deserving Candidate for Bharat Ratna: Dhoni Japan: Toxic Water Leak Plugged at Crippled N-Plant Maruti to Recall 13,157 Diesel Cars WEB WEDNESDAY, APRIL 06, 2011 LOK PAL 'Exactly What Processes Are Underway?' The veteran activist and Gandhian takes the Prime Minister to task in his five-point letter, explaining once again why exactly he is on an indefinite fast at Jantar mantar. ANNA HAZARE FAQ The Lokpal Debate Why is well-known Gandhian activist Anna Hazare on fast? What is the controversy over the Lokpal Bill? Critique Of Lokpal Bill 2010 What Is Wrong With Our Anti-Corruption Systems? DEBATE Lokpal Bill V/s Jan Lok Pal Bill 17 reasons why the civil society version of the bill is better equipped to tackle corruption INDIA AGAINST CORRUPTION TUESDAY, APRIL 05, 2011 COUNTERPOINT Narendra Modi, Prime Minister? If the Gujarat Chief Minister wishes to have a realistic chance of becoming Prime Minister in 2014, he needs to ensure justice for the victims of the 2002 riots KARAN SHAH COMMENT Ignore Afridi Shahid Afridi's remarks against India and Indians are offensive, but we need not take umbrage at them. We need not even notice them. ROHIT MAHAJAN WORLD CUP CELEBRATIONS Coming Alive For millions of us, the 1983 win was — literally — a historic event. As a friend said, "I was getting sick of seeing those black and white pictures of Kapil Dev holding the Cup" MEGHNA MENON MONDAY, APRIL 04, 2011 INDIA-PAKISTAN Cricket Divides Is the real Afridi the one we are seeing now in Karachi and not the one we saw at Mohali? Is he recanting under pressure from the extremists? No matter what, it should not be allowed to vitiate the Mohali spirit B. RAMAN CORRUPTION 'Make A Reference To The Supreme Court' Letters to the President and Prime Minister of India asking them to make inquiries and initiate steps for removal of Justice Balakrishnan on multiple charges of serious misconduct from the post of chairmanship of the NHRC PRASHANT BHUSHAN, CAMPAIGN FOR JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND REFORMS ELECTION SPECIAL Chennai Corner From soap operas to sop operas, the Tamil Nadu elections have it all, with independents joining the fray to beat the Dravidian parties at their own game. PUSHPA IYENGAR SUNDAY, APRIL 03, 2011 WORLD CUP 2011 We Are All Team India Today Team India! You made us all Team India-- whatever be our religion, our language, our age. Team India did not have just 11 players. It had over a billion. B. RAMAN WORLD CUP 2011 Eternal Vigilance The intelligence and police of India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka deserve to be complimented for an incident-free world cup, but this is the time to remember that the octopus of jihadi extremism and terrorism is alive and kicking B. RAMAN SATURDAY, APRIL 02, 2011 FROM THE WIRES It's a World Cup Of Joy for India after 28 Years In the end Gautam Gambhir (97 and MS Dhoni (91*) made it look simple as they went about ensuring that India became the third team to win the World Cup twice WORLD CUP That's The Way...Mahi Way This was Dhoni's job and Dhoni's stage. He didn't hide. He wasn't coy or fearful. He went in and simply did the job. ROHIT MAHAJAN INDIA V/S SRI LANKA The World Cup Album Photographs for posterity, as a billion dreams came true in the triumph and the glory of the world cup win SAMJHAUTA BLAST Embarrassing Questions Assemanand's retraction of what of his 'confessional statement' raises fresh doubts about partisan political games B. RAMAN INDIA-PAKISTAN 'And As Things Have Been... "...things remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars." B. RAMAN FRIDAY, APRIL 01, 2011 INTERVENTION Lift The Ban That Joseph Lelyveld's biography of Gandhi makes no statements of the kind which are attributed to it is immaterial. No civilised, democratic society can ban a book, however blasphemous or salacious. TRIDIP SUHRUD BYLANES The Two Universals When it comes to the universal and the local, we can broadly distinguish between two categories of people: there are ones who learn to pan the world and there are others who decide to dig a place deep SUGATA SRINIVASARAJU STATE SNIPPETS Chennai Corner   Is meeting Rajnikanth just a good luck charm for the DMK? Or do the party candidates feel he can use his "superhuman power" as demonstrated in Robot to tell the AIADMK to "mind it"? PUSHPA IYENGAR THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2011 INDIA-PAKISTAN Re-Discovering Each Other What one saw at Mohali was a refreshingly different approach to impart a strategic new dimension to the bilateral relations between the two countries B. RAMAN GOVERNANCE 'Economic Reforms Will Continue' 'I am aware of the nervousness in some sections of the corporate sector arising out of some recent unfortunate developments. We stand committed to ensuring that our industry moves ahead with confidence and without fear or apprehension' MANMOHAN SINGH LIBYA Listen To The People In the volatile West Asia, successful intervention requires respect for Arab public opinion: being sensitive to local nuances and wary of attributing ideological coherence to a region in ongoing flux SHASHANK JOSHI VIEW FROM ISRAEL Who Is Annexing Whom? And now a law to punish any person or association publicly calling for a boycott of Israel – economic, academic or cultural URI AVNERY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2011 FROM THE WIRES Cricket Helps Indo-Pak Put 'Ancient Animosities Behind' "Talks were positive. We discussed all the core issues between the two countries," said the Pakistan PM. FROM THE WIRES India Beats Pakistan to Enter World Cup Final Four lives to Sachin, and yet only 260 runs for the team. But then Pakistan batting choked, taking India on to Mumbai to erase memories of 1996 and 2003... INDO-PAK NIRUPAMA RAO 'Mohali Spirit' 'It truly is cricket, to use that phrase. Sporting contacts epitomise in many senses the substance, the essence of people-to-people contact: it is about peace, it is about reconciliation, it is about healing wounds' MEDIA 'Cricket Has Been A Uniting Factor' 'Peace And Prosperity Are Both Indivisible' TWITTER 'Lots Of Humble Pie' While the Indian and Pak PMs were conferring as their respective national teams battled it out for a spot in the finals, the J&K CM was busy commenting on the match OMAR ABDULLAH IN PICTURES Smells Like Team Spirit Some of the photos of the Indo-Pak semi-finals and the post-win celebrations More... MOST VIEWEDMOST COMMENTED Narendra Modi, Prime Minister? Lost In Trancenation One Side Of The Divide Ignore Afridi Rhythm For Our Blues Cricket Divides Delhi Diary Ground Realities That's The Way...Mahi Way Picture Of Gandhian Grey Go to Complete List

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