COVER
STORY
Rebuilding Orissa
A nation rushes aid to desolate Orissa. Yet the miseries of its people
worsen. Setting things right will be a test of of India's character. The task is daunting
-- one crore destitute, 13 lakh homes to be rebuilt, seven lakh people needing medical
help, 30,000 industries to be restarted, 10,000 km of road to be reconstructed.
Land's
End
Villagers are the core of the relief effort. But little trickles down to the
needy.
Silence of the
Grave
Destitute and desolate survivors roam corpseladen Ersama. Special
Correspondent Ruben Banerjee and Senior Photographer Sharad Saxena spent two days of
horror in this wasteland.
Bottle Neck
Far from being the nerve centre of relief operations, Principal
Correspondent Sayantan Chakravarty find's Bhubaneswar's Kalinga stadium mired in
confusion and red tape.
Adopting a
Ploy
The Congress and its rivals have made a battlefield of the relief measures.
Associate Editor Farzand Ahmed assesses the politicking.
NATION
Rule By Committee
Sonia sets up another high powered committee to refurbish the party. But as in the
past, it is the implementation of its suggestions that remains the moot question.
STATES
Medieval Madness
An act of desperation by a distraught widow in the backward Bundelkhand region becomes
a cause for a grand religious celebration by the people.
The Age Bar
The sacking of a minister on charges of being under-age pits the governor against the RJD
Government. |
