Through the Up and Down Road

Outlook remains the same magazine. Quirky, brave, fun

- Indranil Roy

IN the last 30 years, I have never got a call from any headhunter. There could be two reasons for this: one, I am bad at my work, or they know I will never leave Outlook. I would like to believe it’s the second. After working for 14 years in Mumbai, I got an opportunity to shift to our Delhi office in 2012. I was offered the cubicle closest to the exit door. The buzz was—this guy will not survive for too long.

Well, I survived. It has been over a decade and I have navigated through the worst days of Outlook, and gradually won everyone’s trust to move up to the first floor of AB-10, to the corner room. Outlook’s first floor was otherwise always meant for the ‘privileged’ few.

When I shifted to Delhi I was grappling with multiple responsibilities. Vinod Mehta, founding editor of