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India Today
June 1, 1998

Hawkish India
The Pokhran tests and their aftermath have radically redefined India's foreign policy, forcing other nuclear weapons states to re-evaluate their basic assumptions about the country being a benign democracy, slow to anger and action. A detailed analysis.

Jai Shri Bomb
The BJP is euphoric. The Opposition is still responding with stunned confusion.

Back to the Tightrope
Despite its thin majority, the Government has an ambitious business schedule for the Budget session. Its weapons? Nuclear euphoria and a confused Opposition.

Survival Tactics
With Sonia Gandhi giving him a free hand, the chief minister reshuffles his Cabinet and thinks up ways to revive the beleaguered Congress in the state.

Striking Posture
Advani takes a pro-active stand on militancy.

In The Shadow of The Bomb
The nuclear episode offers Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha the greatest opportunity since 1991 of pushing real reforms and boosting the economy. Will he take it?
Exclusive CEO Poll

Race Course Road by Prabhu Chawla
The Usual Suspects by Swapan Dasgupta
Mani Talk by Mani Shankar Aiyar
Fifth Column by Tavleen Singh
Flipside by Dilip Bobb
Cyberchatter by Arun Katiyar
Kautilya by Jairam Ramesh
Guest Column by Jagdish Bhagwati

Futuristic Farmers
In certain select pockets of rural Punjab a minor revolution is brewing. From lavish lifestyles to crop selection, farming has a new, exciting language.

Rustic Radiation
Canned Image
Business Quota
Home Truths
Taken Unawares
Ready for a Repeat
Looming Dissent
Counter Strategy
Roadblock

Marginal Costing Given India's minimum deterrent posture, estimates show that inducting nuclear warheads will have a negligible impact on defence spending.

A Glimpse into Artistic Infinity
Curiously unsettling, strangely sensual, the sculptor's work of this past decade creates waves in London.

Gaga Over Ghalib
The festival is a reminder that moralists didn't condone artistic licence 200 years ago -- and still don't.

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