Welcome to India Today, February 15, 1999

India Today, February 15, 1999
Feb 15, 1999

A New Love Story
With a shelf life shorter than that of french fries, love for the millennial generation is a hard sell. Like the fast food they devour, courtship isn't about lingering and savouring. It's about packaging and picking. Tommy Hilfiger, Motorola, Coke and MacLove are all brands in the great marketplace of life. Love is no longer an all-or-nothing thing in the age of the threesome: I, me and myself.
Marketing Love: Grist for the Dil

At Daggers Drawn
An activist NCM takes on the Vajpayee regime over Gujarat and seeks a wider role for itself on minority issues.

Containing the RSS
Khurana's outburst embarrasses the BJP and spurs the allies into demanding that the party rein in the Sangh hardliners.

Fettered by Dogma
With fatwas and punishments, a clutch of radical Muslim leaders holds the entire community to ransom.

Conversion Politics
Protesting against caste abuse, Dalits in Gujarat embrace Christianity putting the Sangh Parivar on the backfoot even as the state Government gropes for answers.

Senapati Says So
By ousting Joshi, Thackeray has reiterated that his is the final word in the state.

Master Stroke
Harikrishna plays father NTR's pro-poor card to upstage Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party.

Race Course by Prabhu Chawla
Usual Suspects by Swapan Dasgupta
Fifth Column by Tavleen Singh
Kautilya by Jairam Ramesh
Viewpoint by Salman Rushdie
Flip Side by Dilip Bobb
Biz Column by Amit Mitra

Vortex of Debt
The Government's profligacy has caused the fiscal deficit to balloon. Unless some hard decisions are taken now, the crisis may deepen further.

No Reasons for Regret
Don't groan over the hike in administered prices. The alternative may have been a self-propelled spiralling of prices, rising interest rates or higher taxes.

Slaughter Rites
The death toll rises horrifically as preservation laws fail.

Fine Example
Blind Faith
Bathing Beauty
Unending Demands
Car Seva Party

Signs of a Thaw
Resumption of foreign financial flows for infrastructure projects in exchange for India's signature on the CTBT is just one aspect of the post-Pokhran deal-in-making.
Interview: Strobe Talbott

The Fine Art of Winning
Choking when chasing small targets is becoming a distrubing habit with the Indian team. They will have to learn that they cannot always depend on one man for success.
Interview: Wasim Akram

Matriarch of Music
D K Pattammal's music is marked by three Ds--dignity, discipline and depth.