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India Today issue dated May 29, 2000
May 29, 2000

 

Surging South
 Much of India is still stuck in inertia. But the southern states of India are showing the way forward with their dynamism. Today, the most valuable Indian companies are based down South; tomorrow, the country's growth is set to be driven by Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. A look at this change.

NATION
Master Blaster 
Urban Affairs Minister Jagmohan's efforts to clean up Delhi invites flak but the determined minister says he will not give up.

Eelam Unease
With the ruling DMK doing a flip-flop and the Opposition AIADMK not taking the bait, the reaction to the Jaffna battle in Tamil Nadu remains muted for now.

Zzz Files
Tossed around by its political bosses, CBI finds its credibility on the wane as it struggles to cope up with a logjam of pending cases.

STATES
Pack-Up Time
The BJP leadership seems to have veered around to replacing Uttar Pradesh chief minister Ram Prakash Gupta, as a revolt brews up in the state putting it back to where it was six months ago.

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OTHER STORIES
ECONOMY
Stay Put?
Share prices go into a tailspin, wiping out much of the recent earnings and leaving investors in a dilemma.

LIFESTYLE
The Bored and the Beautiful
After five international beauty titles in a span of six years, Indians are beginning to get a bit blase about contests that glorify looks.

HEALTH
Widening Scope
Endoscopy allows surgeons to perform operations without having to cut open the body. But it is neither cheap nor widely available.

SPORTS
Carving Up Mumbai
As the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) hands over a revealing tape to CBI, the match-fixing inquiry hits Mumbai's mafia. But the city's bookie syndicates are already in the midst of a blood feud.

ARTS
Keeping Tune with Times
The younger breed of Chennai musicians also love pop, pool and playing cricket.

COLUMNS NEWSNOTES
Right Angle by Swapan Dasgupta
Separatists want to distort the bondage that existed in the past but we needn't acquiesce.

Fifth Column by Tavleen Singh
 Yet another committee comprising the elites will not solve the population problem that has already crossed the billionth mark.

Kautilya by Jairam Ramesh
Between 1996 and 1998, India surged ahead of Germany to become the world's fourth largest economy.

Cyber Chatter  by Samar Halarnkar
With the advent of the cyber babu, the Indian bureaucracy is largely an anachronism in the age of the internet.

Flip Side by Dilip Bobb
The definition of who qualifies as Anti-nationals changes with time and circumstance. 

 New Frame of Mind
The Union Home Ministry asks five state Governments to display photographs of non-Congress prime ministers.

Cover Story
Chief minister Chandrababu Naidu plans to release his book 'Plain Speaking' on May 28 coinciding with late N.T.Rama Rao's birthday.

What a Relief
Last week drought-hit Kundalia village in Gujarat was visited by none other than Gopalkrishna Gandhi, grandson of the Mahatma.

Alphabet Coup
Orissa chief minister, Naveen Patnaik takes Oriya tuitions.

Confessional
 A.K.Antony, the Mr Clean of the Congress, finds himself saddled with a Rs 14-lakh bill from the Defence Ministry.
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Editorials
Price of Power- Why a Congress-BJP detente on subsidies would work.
The Beauty Myth- Is beauty the saviour of womanhood? An anatomical adjective to women's empowerment.

Eyecatchers
Pooja Bedi, Manisha Koirala, Farhan Akhtar and more.
Voices

Books
Tamil Tigers
Trojan Horses 
Offtrack
 In Kizha Ambur, the spiritual passion of carving statues out of wood and stone revives the traditional art.

Bodyline
 by Ravi Shankar

Centrestage
 by Ajit Ninan

 

Game Theory 
Tales from the wide world of sport by Rohit Brijnath.

Beat Street 
Listen to the experiences on the job by INDIA TODAY correspondents

Tall Tales by S Kalidas

Friday Fundas  
Musings on trends, shams and life by Ravi Shankar

24 Frames Per Second  
Sensuous and mesmerising account of the Tinsel town by Anupama Chopra

Loose Change  
An incisive take on the business and economy by Sudeep Chakravarti

Au ContrAiyar  
A contrarian take on stock markets, policy and practice by V Shankar Aiyar

Dispatches
Exclusive stories for the web

Chat transcripts

Interviews

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