Must reads from Outlook's latest issue

ESSAR TAPES The Tapes No One Wants To Hear The complaint to the PM makes explosive allegations about tapping and about how things are 'managed' by corporates, but the government seems to be going slow on investigating them MEETU JAIN

FIRST PERSON Inner Languages The life and times of the 'scholar' PM who carved his own era VINAY SITAPATI

ESSAY Changing By Degrees A common medical test looms large, engineering needs numbers. And in Outlook's esteemed list, a raft of new names. See what is the buzz. ARINDAM MUKHERJEE

LIFE LESSONS Success Is A Many-Splendoured Thing Entrepreneurship, medicine, law, journalism, you name the field...there are as manys ways to success as there are examples. But what unites them all is the passion to get there. PRAGYA SINGH, AJAY SUKUMARAN, USHINOR MAJUMDAR, ABHINAV SRIVASTAVA, STUTI AGARWAL, ARUSHI BEDI

INTERVIEW 'The Metro Alone Cannot Solve All Traffic Problems Of Indian cities' DMRC managing director Mangu Singh on the nitty-gritty of managing an engineering-led enterprise. PRAGYA SINGH INTERVIEWS MANGU SINGH

BIZTRO The Rajan Aftermath In India, June typically heralds stultifying heat and plenty symptoms of what is dubbed "the silly season".