Outlook has completed 10 years. That's good news of course, considering that its editor Vinod Mehta did not quit the race midway through, as he was always allegedly wont to. Outlook is also known for its oft-brought out collectors' issues. Its 10th anniversary could not have provided an exception. It is a collector's piece all right, together with a section on the media. Outlook, of course, is a journo's magazine, and the media section took all the potshots it takes at those who are dumbing down news.
Outlook always gave away its Speak Out awards at the Page 3 party. Quite befitting the occasion, really. Outlook is known to speak out. And what better a guest could it have been than the tacit Ms Sonia Gandhi. Considering the number of times the magazine has featured her on the cover implicitly or explicitly, it ought to have been a foregone conclusion – quite a faith accompli, in fact.
But then, did Outlook really have to invite Gandhi? If the President or the Prime Minister were not to be available, shouldn't the Leader of the Opposition been the next in the line of honour? Vinod Mehta is anything but pro-Hindutva, but then asking the Congress leader to grace his magazine's auspicious occasion does not really lend credence to his magazine's proclaimed apolitical/non-political stance.
