Tilting
at Sleaze
Taunted as a leader without a mass base, the PM
launches an assault on corruption to seize the
initiative.
A
Captive Legacy
Mayawati has rewritten Uttar Pradesh's
political script and will try to ensure that
Kalyan Singh pursues her policies if he becomes
chief minister next month.
Interview--Kanshiram:
"Mayawati is my obsession"
A
Royal Ruckus
The demand for an apology for the
Jallianwalla Bagh massacre kicks up a row.
Star-Crossed
The government
asks the high-profile chief of Murdoch's India
operations to resign and threatens action against
bureaucrats working with private channels.
Eyecatchers
MTV scalps some talent in the Great VJ Hunt, Simi
Garewal also moves to the small screen, Sheetal
Jain climbs for freedom and Atal Bihari
Vajpayee's prose is set to song.Newsnotes
New Delhi: Train to
Power || A Full
House ||
Tiger's Stripes
Bangalore: Nailing a Loyalist
Lucknow: A Vote for Rabri || Double Rebuff
Patna: Cabinet Capers
Bhopal: Flagged Down
|| Stickler for Rules
Chandigarh: Nosy Neighbour
|| Goodwill Drive
Guwahati: Shot in the Dark
Columns
Race
Course Road by Prabhu
Chawla
The
Usual Suspects by
Swapan Das Gupta
Mani
Talk by Mani Shankar
Aiyar
Fifth
Column by Tavleen Singh
Flip
Side by Dilip Bobb
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 BUSINESS
Wow, A-ha...
Ouch!
Chidambaram's budget,
drummed up as a panacea, has so far failed to
perk up the languishing economy.
MUSIC
A Song For
India
Two words from the past.
And three men transformed them into a magical
anthem that has stirred the patriotic spirit of a
cynical nation.
CINEMA
Great
Timepass
Daud is a fun film with little
consistency and no logic.
BOOKS
A
Mirror to Bollywood
Identity Crisis
Authorspeak:
Ardeshir Vakil
New
Releases
BODYLINE by Ravi Shankar
C E N T R E S T A G E
Ajit
Ninan
The
Long Danda March: Prime Minsiter I K Gujral's plan
to weed out corruption may be noble. But
politicians are not going to make it an
easy affair. Congress
chief Sitaram Kesri has already scuttled
his choice of upright officers to head
the proposed anti-corruption cell.
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