Alvida, Outlook

My eight-year long association with Outlook has just ended. As I say goodbye, here are the two chronicles/appraisals/histories of the magazine that I wrote when it turned ten, in 2005, and fifteen, in 2010. Until someone writes 'Mr. Mehta's Outlook', like Ved Mehta wrote 'Mr. Shawn's New Yorker', these two pieces may capture a small slice of the big story.

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This was published when Outlook turned 15

ALL THINGS WE WERE 

Beyond ready labels like ‘liberal’, ‘secular’ or ‘left-of-centre’ to the nuances and specifics

First Published: Outlook | 01 November 2010
Link: https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/all-the-things-we-were/267584

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This was published when Outlook turned 10

DECA LOG

1995-2005. A history in ten-and-a-half chapters

First Published: Outlook | 17 October 2005
Link: https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/deca-log/228920