I turn 17 myself next week, so your anniversary edition came just at the right time. I actually started comparing my thoughts to those of extraordinary people when they were 17, and realised that people with ordinary thoughts too can become extraordinary. All it needs is transforming thoughts into actions to become the change.
Vansh Saluja, on e-mail
Reading a grandiloquent magazine is akin to sipping on a big mug of highly flavoured coffee. Outlook has all the flavouring ingredients. So tasty.
Seetharam B., Warangal
What a wonderful idea, Sirji. Over the years of ‘Outlooking’, I had never come across an article like ‘We the staffers @ 17’. Many happy returns.
Soli Canteenwala, Mumbai
Really wonderful to see what I am sure are rare photos of our famous people.
Mahesh Kapasi, Delhi
A few more thoughts on the number 17. In Italy, it’s considered an ill omen just like 13 is elsewhere in the western world. India, although it’s teeming with many myriad languages, only 17 are recognised. The tongue has 17 muscles, Gandhiji was assassinated at 17:17 hours, and as you said, Shakespeare wrote 17 comedies.
G.S. Rao, Bangalore
