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India Today, January, 1999
Jan 4, 1999

Heroes, Villains and Zeros
of 1998
It was a year that threw up many heroes, some known but mostly everyday Indians going about their job. The villains too were not in short supply. INDIA TODAY chronicles the rollercoaster journey through the tumultous year that was.

HEROES
Amartya Sen: The Nobel Indian
Nuclear Tests: What a Blast
Digvijay Singh: Winner Takes it All
Gallantry: Knight Service
Neemuch eye donors: A People with Vision
N Chandrababu Naidu: Hard Drive
Tata Indica: Swadeshi on Wheels
Development: Independent Action
NRI Bonds: Unlikely Harvest
Avelin Mary: Mission Possible
Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai: Picture Perfect
Sachin Tendulkar: Stroke of Genius
Asian Games: Runaway Winners
Daler Mehndi: Just Dalerious

VILLAINS Bal Thackeray: No.1 Yet Again Jayalalitha: Tantrum Amma Romesh Sharma: Fixer's Fixer Yashwant Sinha: Rolling Back Romesh Bhandari: Teed Off Onion: Pungent Reminder Sports: Politics at Play UTI: Unfaithfully Yours Dropsy: Death by Default Salman Khan: Misplaced Machismo	ZEROES Jain Commission: Who Done It? L K Advani: Me Two Kushabhau Thakre: Who? Sitaram Kesri: Creature the World Forgot Talbott-Jaswant Talks: It's the Weather, Stupid P V Narasimha Rao's The Insider: Pen-ful Debut Indo-Pak Dialogue: Dumb Charade Amitabh Bachchan's Major Saab: Sunshine Boulevard Sushma Swaraj: Calamity Behen Laloo-Mulayam Entente: Thud Front Sharad Pawar: Zero Power I K Gujral: Bus to Pakistan
SIGNPOSTS
Ajit (1922-1998) Protima Bedi (1948-1998) Om Prakash (1919-1998) Pradeep (1915-1998) P N Haksar (1913-1998) E M S Namboodiripad (1909-1998)	Lalita Pawar (1916-1998) Vinod Mishra (1947-1998) Raman Lamba (1960-1998) Gulzarilal Nanda (1898-1998) Persis Khambatta (1948-1998) Laxmikant Kudalkar (1937-1998)

Alone Together
The floor coordination in Parliament by the BJP and the Congress gave both parties time to rein in the opposition within and outside

Race Course by Prabhu Chawla
Usual Suspects by Swapan Dasgupta
Fifth Column by Tavleen Singh
Kautilya by Jairam Ramesh

Testing Conditions
Windy Wellington is better suited for the Indians to display their wares.

Old Friends Calling
The visits by Russian PM Primakov and Sri Lankan President Kumaratunga reaffirm India's strategic alliances with the two countries.

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