August 14 Issue



Column

Sudeep ChakravartyCan Bangaru Laxman do for the BJP what Lieberman has done for Al Gore, questions S. Prasannarajan in LOCOMOTIF


Sudeep ChakravartiIndia should learn the kung-fu of business or get hammered by China after it joins the WTO, says Sudeep Chakravarti in Loose Change.


 
Talking point


"It is a frustration that India and Pakistan have not grown up enough to pull their heads out of the sand." Read an exclusive interview with Humphrey Hawksley, author of Dragon Fire, by INDIA TODAY's Ashok Malik.

 
Despatches

INDIA TODAY's Sonia Faleiro was in Pakistan recently. This is the first in an exclusive series in which she writes about watching Jinnah in the Qaid-e Azam's adopted city. Next week, she goes on a journey to Mohenjodaro. Read about this and more in DESPATCHES, exclusive stories for the web.
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Specials

 

100 people who shaped India in the 20th century
 
 
COVER STORY
Bloody Mess

With Pakistan insistent on exporting terror, peace in Kashmir is an uphill task. But the government has staked its reputation on the talks with the Hizbul. Is there a definite gameplan that could lead to peace?
Full Story...


Case for defence
Soli Sorabjee
The country's highest law officer comes under a cloud as the Congress joins issue with Jethmalani in accusing him of "gross impropriety"
Full Story...



The PM's Pointman
Bangaru Laxman By picking Bangaru Laxman, Vajpayee has tightened his grip on the BJP but the new party chief has the daunting task of enforcing discipline
Full Story...

 

 


Marx to Mamta
The Sochpur massacre gave Mamata the moral high ground
The first real challenge to the CPI(M) in it's rural bastion leads to a bloodbath, with Trinamool supporters and Marxists fighting virtually bullet for bullet Full Story...


Breaking Even
There was euphoria in the Uttaranchal, Vananchal and Chattisgarh regions when Parliament passed the bills for their statehood. INDIA TODAY examines how justified the celebrations were...
Full Story...


 
 

Fifth Column by Tavleen Singh
Commons' Problem-The police is too busy protecting VIP's to look at the safety of ordinary people

  Right Angle by Swapan Dasgupta
India Can't Endure The Pain- What the ISI operative told his superior about the enemy's mind
 


Kautilya by Jairam Ramesh
Beyond The Mumbo Jumbo-
A simple demand-supply framework for making sense of the Rupee's movements

  Flip Side by Dilip Bobb
Heroic Events -
A simple demand-supply framework for making sense of the Rupee's movements

BUSINESS

And Now The Bad News
Projects on hold, irate clients and frayed nerves. For India's IT firms, the flight of talent to foreign shores is proving to be an unusually bumpy ride on the infobahn.
 
CRIME
Bandit King
With the daring abduction of a film superstar the ageing criminal holds the ace in his amnesty gambit


LAW
Great Escape
Was the Maharashtra Government's bid to tame the Tiger a fiasco? INDIA TODAY offers a primer on the legal and political questions around it.

  CRICKET
Blind Alley
During it's darkest days, the BCCI produces a document which only placates the government but holds out no hope for the game itself.


LIFESTYLE
A first for fashion
Indian couturiers congregate for an extravaganza aimed at highlighting the state of the Industry.
  LIVING
Work Hard Play Harder
They are successful, single, sexy and savvy. Women in the metros' upper echelon are living life queen size.



MUSIC
Entertainment
Evergreen Vintage, Screen Surf, Offbeat, Arrivals and Maiden Venture

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bodyline by Ravi Shankar

Centrestage by Ajit Ninan

Voices

"The Government has had working relations with other Pakistani dictators, so why make an exception with Musharraf?"
Harkishan Singh Surjeet, CPI(M) general secretary, demanding that the Government talk to General Pervez Musharraf
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Battle On the sidelines
While the battle continues in the Rajya Sabha on the Jethmalani resignation issue, no-one missed the intra-Congress battle between Pranab Mukherjee and Arjun Singh

  Kingsize Woes
O. Rajgopal, the Union minister is effectively without a job after Arun Jaitely replaced R Jethmalani as the Law Minister with independent charge.
From Zzz...to Grr...
Andhra Pradesh CM is giving his colleagues a hard time by cutting out their "Lunch and Rest" appointments.

  Landing Blues
Thanks to NABARD soft loan, Rajasthan CM has warmed up to developmental work that includes building new airstrips in seven districts.
Confessional
Union Minister of State for Sport Shahnawaz Hussain feels there should be government control over BCCI.

 

 

 


Editorials

Free the Fall
The RBI should stop acting the Rupee's overprotective mama
Triple Whammy
It may be time for another State Reorganisation Commission

Books
Apocalypse 2007
A western journalist's new novel envisages a nuclear war in the subcontinent. Just how realistic is it?
Tomorrow's Time
Essaying India's journey into the millenarian future


From the
Editor in Chief


  Eyecatchers
Cover Girl, Miss Me, Forever Young, More of Her


Offtrack
In Indore,
Market Forces State police battalions turns profit savvy in a big way.


   
 
 
     METRO TODAY


MetroScape

The wokhorse is back The celebrated China Garden reopens in Mumbai
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Looking Glass
Film Festival
Music Fest
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EXTRAS

Full coverages
with columns, infographics, audio reports.
» Veerappan Strikes Again
Kannada filmdom's top star Dr Rajkumar at his rural farmhouse was rudely interrupted when one of India's deadliest killers, Koose Muniswamy Veerappan,50, burst in a half hour before midnight. .

» The Tiger Catastrophe
India's national animal is in crisis in the hands of its keepers. The death toll at Nandan Kanan Zoo in Orissa is now 12, nine of these rare white tigers.

» The Sri Lankan Crisis
Exclusive interviews, columns and infographics that track the battle for Jaffna.

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The Kashmir Jigsaw
With both the governments and militants taking strong positions, talks on autonomy could be heading for a major showdown.

» The Nepal Gameplan
A 'secret' new report obtained by INDIA TODAY lays bare the ISI's infiltration in Nepal

 
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