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Kicking up a Storm
Outlook
|August 11, 2024
Against the background of dusty rooms, against all odds, a tenacious news magazine proved that print is, after all, alive and well
NEWBORNS. 1995
IN the summer of 1995, I quit India Today to join the soon-to-be-launched weekly news magazine Outlook led by the unconventional and brilliant Vinod Mehta as editor. The magazine followed a radical policy of designating its editorial heads as Associate Editors instead of naming them separately by their departments. As head of the photo department, I was now one of the four Associate Editors along with Padmanand Jha, Sandipan Deb and Tarun Tejpal.
It was exciting working in a start-up, which is what 
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