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issue was chosen by a programme of InterNIC, the Scout
Report for the premier weekly collection of useful
Internet sites. (Week of August 29, 1997)IMAGES
The
Nation
Moving and telling images
that define India--and that defines us.
INDIA
State of the
Nation
50 years of existence as an independent nation has
produced convictions, attitudes and fears which are real,
tangible and, more important, identifiable. An exhaustive
India Today-ORG-Marg Independence poll (covering a sample
of 12,651 respondents) sought to track and interpret some
of these. The outcome was both disturbing and reassuring.
| India Today
commissioned ORG-MARG to conduct an exhaustive
state-of-the-nation-poll. This was conducted
country-wide, for a month from May 25, in which
12,651 adult respondents were polled. The poll
universe cuts across age, income, education,
caste, religion, rural-urban barriers to reflect
real-time concerns. Ann Mathew and Jaya Deshmukh
of ORG-MARG analysed the poll findings. |
Bridging a
Great Divide
These are true-life tales of families
separated during Partition, building their separate lives
across the India-Pakistan border, and then finding each
other through determination and luck.
Journeys
in Time
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi loved to walk.
Ever since he stepped off a steam ship from South Africa
in 1915, the time he didn't spend in British jails, he
spent on the road.
India 2047
India Today invited the Centre for Policy Research, a
premier New Delhi-based think-tank, to conduct an
exclusive exercise at crystal ball-gazing, to map an
India of the future. And what is projected here is
plausible and is certainly within the realm of
possibility.
The
Centre for Policy Research team
Isher J. Ahluwalia: Prominent
economist. She is an active participant in policy
debates.
Pran Chopra: Columnist and
broadcast commentator; former editor, The
Statesman.
P.V. Indiresan: President,
Indian National Academy of Engineering;
past-president, Institute of Electronics and
Telecommunications Engineers; former director,
IIT, Chennai.
Subhash Kashyap: Former
secretary-general, Lok Sabha.
Ved Marwah: Former police
commissioner, Delhi; former director-general,
National Security Guard; former security adviser,
Jammu & Kashmir.
V.A. Pai Panandiker: Founder
director, CPR, since 1973; formerly with
Administrative Reforms Commission; a specialist
in population & banking; adviser, Ministry of
Finance; trustee, Population Foundation of India.
B.G. Verghese: Former editor,
The Hindustan Times, former editor, The Indian
Express; information adviser to prime minister.
Charan Wadhwa: Works on
international trade and regional co-operation;
former professor, IIM, Ahmedabad. |
Related Story
Shape of
Things to Come
Ideas and technologies that will shape India's future.
What it
means to be an Indian
After 50 years of Independence, this is
the voice of India, a reflection of who we are. It shows
how far we have come. And how far we need to go.
ESSAYS
A Fantasy
called India by Salman Rushdie
The Other
Perspective by Shahid Amin
Rambling at
Fifty by Upamanyu Chatterjee
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