COVER
STORY
Manufacturing Beauty
With a Miss Universe and three Miss Worlds since 1994, India appears to be
the new fountainhead of beauty. A veritable beauty industry has cropped up to take care of
every aspect of pulchritude. An inside look at the world of body sculptors, cosmetic
dentists and etiquette teachers who construct Indian beauties.
NATION
Fumbling Police
An overworked, poorly equipped, understaffed police force bungles its
way across the metros in investigating crime and prosecuting the guilty.
Judging
Judges
The judiciary announces a lofty self-regulatory code to cleanse
the system but questions remain on how it will be enforced.
In the Red
Against the Reds
Indian railways is broke and facing its worst financial crisis.
But it is still a useful weapon for Mamata Banerjee to score points against her left
rivals. Can she rise above politics and fix the mess?
The Ayodhya
Spark
The opposition party raises the demolition case issue
discomfiting the BJP in Parliament.
STATES
An Oriya Roulette
A desperate Congress tries to clear the mess in the state unit. But replacing the chief minister may not put an end to
factionalism in the party.
The Red
Degree
Qualified candidates get sidelined as Marxist supporters get all the plum academic posts. |
