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?