New magazine

A LINE-UP of reputed Indian journalists, including Rajinder Puri, Inder Malhotra and Karan Thapar, an editorial team headed by Inderjit Badhwar and a big publishing house have all got together to launch this monthly political magazine. The first issue has opinion pieces by these journalists as well as other articles by Bhikhu Parekh, Dilip Awasthi, J. N. Dixit and Himmat Singh Gill. The editorial comments have the magazine holding forth on the betrayal of America: "The fear is that America, stung by betrayals and ingratitude, will simply turn inwards and isolationist." Relations between India and Pakistan, the Women’s Reservation Bill and saying no to dowry also come in for comment, as does the Press; the International Film Festival of India; the Indian male and worse — and the WTO meet at Cancun. Through it is well-illustrated and well-presented; it is too early to decide whether National Review will be "closer to the Economist, with a dash of the New Republic, and perhaps, a likeness to Irving Kristol’s Public Opinion, as its Editor-in-Chief envisages it to be. — RS

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