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India Today issue dated July 03, 2000
July 03, 2000

Moon Mission
In a bid to emerge as a global space power India plans an ambitious lunar launch that will boost its technological capability and ignite popular imagination. But there are still many naysayers.

NATION
A House Divided
Jagmohan pursues his demolition drive despite drawing flak from the BJP and the Government.
Gauging modernity
The new enumeration exercise has begun with a house survey which counts, for the first time, television sets, cars and other such indicators of affluence.
Warring comrades
Erosion of vote base sees long-time partners CPI and CPI (M) increasingly on a collision course.

STATES
Repeating history
The debate on autonomy has helped Farooq hit back at the Centre for its offer of talks with the Hurriyat and divert attention from his misrule.

 
OTHER STORIES
BUSINESS
A Bigger Band
By widening the daily variation limit of share prices to 16 per cent, SEBI has given the market more liquidity.

CINEMA
Home and Dry?
Having returned to India, the filmmaker admits he is "damaged and hurt"-but willing to give it another go

VIEWPOINT
Dictator's Defence
Exactly 25 years ago Indira Gandhi put democracy on hold with the Emergency. Evidence suggests she never thought she erred.

HEALTH
The Polio pipe dream
A controversy over the choice of vaccines threatens to derail India's polio eradication programme

 

RELIGION
Royalty Ruckus
A bitter battle erupts in the commune over who owns the copyright to the godman's works and techniques

SPORTS
Banjo's Tunes
Hamid Cassim tells the King inquiry how Azhar gave him a special memento and Kapil became a close friend and business associate

NEIGHBOURS
Corridor of Doubt
The porous Indo-Nepal border is the new hotbed of criminal and ISI-related activities. India needs to tackle the problem before it burgeons out of control.

COLUMNS NEWSNOTES
Fifth Column by Tavleen Singh
Double Trouble: India is as much a victim of communalism as of secularism

Kautilya by Jairam Ramesh
The State of States: A new analysis of the performance of states in the 1990s has fresh insights 

Flipside: by Dilip Bobb
Catching Practice 

Auto Pilot
Posters appearing after Rajesh Pilot's death have upset the Congress high command. Why? Because they carry the signatures of Sonia Gandhi and Ahmed Patel. The message reads "We salute our departed leader."

Lacking Power
At Chandrababu Naidu's weekly Q&A on Hyderabad Doordarshan he promised action on all incidents such as Power thefts hereafter. 

Decor Dilemmas
The ministerial chambers are in renovation. Quite a few of their occupants are not happy with mere pictures of august personalities on the walls.

On the House
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 'the messiah', is very kind to all who have no roof over their heads.

Confessional
 AICC General Secretary Mohsina Kidwai agrees something is rotten with the Rabri Devi regime but says Congress will not back out.
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From the
Editor in Chief

Editorials
Money for Nothing-Keep governors out of the game of competitive populism.
Lip Service to Morality-That Gujarat is rethinking its prohibition laws is welcome news.

Eyecatchers
Jennifer Murray, Amrita Zhaveri, Kundan Shah, Mamta Kulkarni
Voices

Books
Kool School
Babu Culture
California Dreaming

Offtrack
 Survivor's Tale-A former cancer patient brings hope to others afflicted with the disease

Centre stage
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

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