Outlook Magazine - November 04, 2013

In this issue

Anniversary
Special
Issue Editor: SATISH PADMANABHAN
Cover Design: Bishwadep Moitra
Photograph: Narendra Bisht
Models: Priyanka Bakya, Nishit Bhardwaj
6 An 18-pt Manifest o for magazines Where does the print media
stand in the era of TV and the Internet. Opening essay
by Pratap Bhanu Mehta . Also Outlook@18 exclusive artwork
by Anjolie Ela Menon
14 India in 1818? Flashback by renowned historian and author John Keay
22 The Anglo-Maratha war Historian Anirudh Deshpande gives a
blow-by-blow account of the most important event of 1818.
Also, The Maratha war map, a collage of peoples, places.
28 What ’s all the fuss about? Why this cut-off point to growing up,
asks Ruchir Joshi. Plus, designer David Abraham’s Exclusive Dress
for the 18th anniversary.
32 18-year-olds from 18 places What can we do we with a number
like this? Travel around, for one, and talk. To teenagers from places that
have been in the headlines on India, politics, religion, their dreams.
60 along NH-18 Outlook takes a drive between Chittoor and Kurnool
through Andhra Pradesh’s volatile Rayalaseema region
63 pincode 180018? Where on Earth?
66 into the forbiden kingdom Shefalee Vas udev looks at the
once-in-a-lifetime moment that gets deeply inked in a private memoir
80 legal to wed How does it work out for girls who do get married
at 18?
88 leavin g home Mapping the journey from smaller town to bigger cities
or from the metros to beyond the seas
92 riples in the fish Bowl Graphic Edge
96 roundtab le 18 Shiv Sena’s Aditya Thackeray, actor and model
Nimrat Kaur, fashion designer Nishka Lulla and adman Agnello Diaz
106 split wide open Is the generation gap the widest now?
112 18 authors on 18 What image does the age evoke for them?