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August 21 Issue



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Behind Pakistan's Defeat
A secret inquiry into Pakistan's debacle in the 1971 war held army atrocities, widespread corruption, cowardice and the moral laxity of its generals as prime reasons for the defeat in East Pakistan. The explosive Hamoodur report has never been disclosed-until now.

 
The Nation
 

Peace Takes a Knock
The Hizb has resumed battle, the killings continue and the Hurriyat is in a quandary but the Government feels these are temporary roadblocks to peace.

 
Economy
 

AS Good As It Gets?
The economy has been chugging along well this year. Will it pick up speed or lose steam in the coming months? Right now there is more optimism than unease about the future.

 
Columns
 

Fifth Column
by Tavleen Singh
Pendulum Politics

 
  Kautilya
by Jairam Ramesh
Pandora's Box Is Open

 
 

Right Angle
by Swapan Dasgupta
Good Boys Don't Win

 
 

Flip side
by Dilip Bobb

Ransom Notes

 
Other stories
  The Nation  
  Music  
  Neighbours  
  Cinema  
  Entertainment  
  Essay  
NewsNotes
 

On the Descendants
Former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao drove across to 10 Janpath to meet Sonia Gandhi...

 
  Demote and Flourish
It takes a Bal Thackeray to find opportunity for wit even at the gravest crisis...


 
  Ghosts of the past
The Baba of Bhondsi is at it again.

 
 


More...

 

CENTRESTAGE
AJIT NINAN

 
 
     METRO TODAY
   

MetroScape
Fooled for fun...
Who is the real Bakra on MTV Bakra?
more...


Looking Glass
Delhi, Restaurant
Bangalore, Play


 
    Web Exclusives

COLUMN  



Don't ask for more funds, demand the right to collect, INDIA TODAY Associate Editor V. Shankar Aiyar writes to Chandrababu Naidu in Au ContrAiyar.

 
CHAT  



Read the transcript of
Wednesday's live chat with Vasudevan Bhaskaran, Chief Coach of Indian hockey.

 

BEAT STREET  



The Mercenary Journalist
Pressures of meeting deadlines have always been nerve-wracking in Kashmir. But never before has there been such desperation to be the first to break news, writes India Today Special Correspondent Ramesh Vinayak who has covered militancy for over a decade.


 
TALKING POINT  


"May be Veerappan should be given a chance to reform," Karnataka CM S.M. Krishna tells INDIA TODAY Principal Correspondent Stephen David as one of the options being considered to secure the release of superstar Rajkumar.

 
DESPATCHES  

In the eerie world of superstition that still exists in Andhra Pradesh's Telengana region, four women and a man are brutally burned to death allegedly for practising black magic. INDIA TODAY Associate Editor Amarnath K. Menon says in Despatches

 
EXTRAS

Full coverages
with columns, infographics, audio reports.

»1971: The Untold Story
This is a story not told in Pakistan. A secret inquiry into the splintering of Pakistan in 1971 held army atrocities, widespread corruption, cowardice, even loose morals, among its generals in East Pakistan as prime reasons in losing the war. The explosive Hamoodur Rahman report, obtained exclusively by NEWS TODAY's Samar Halarnkar, has never seen the light of day—until now.


» 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 SriLankan crisis
Exclusive interviews, columns and infographics that track the battle for Jaffna.

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

 
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