COVER STORY
The Day Hope Died
As a maximum force cyclone with 260 kmph winds hit
coastal Orissa, thousands were killed, homes destroyed and epidemics became imminent.
Power lines went down, phones were dead, and relief took days to arrive. As despairing
people waylaid passing vehicles to search for food, it was clear that the state had
collapsed.
NATION
Heartland Headaches
No longer preoccupied with the
survival of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government, the BJP gets down to tackling the
problems in Uttar Pradesh and is planning for victory in Bihar.
Tutoring Sonia
The leader of the Opposition Sonia Gandhi readies
herself for the new job.
STATES
Day of the Avenger
Having got his revenge on the Shiv Sena. Chhagan
Bhujbal has his work cut out as deputy chief minister.
Millennium
Exercise
ChandraBabu Naidu sends his ministers back to the classroom -- to learn policy
making and hone their minds and bodies for better governance.
What A
Mess
On the brink of financial anarchy, the Government has no choice but to go on a or
a series of drastic -- and unpopular reforms.
Badal
at Bay
Growing dissidence, a demanding BJP and lack of governance in Punjab make Chief
Minister Prakash Singh Badal's position increasingly vulnerable. |
