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August 28 Issue





Talking Point


India should take a stand, impose sanctions on Fiji says Mahendra Chaudhry in an exclusive interview to INDIA TODAY's Deputy Editor Raj Chengappa.

 





Column
 


Not just Nayla, all villages can be easily e-connected, says INDIA TODAY Associate Editor V. Shankar Aiyar in AU CONTRAIYAR.

 

 
Reality Bytes


The Government should target inflation and leave the exchange rate to the market, says P. Chidambaram in Politically Correct.





Despatches


They are greying but their lives are anything but grey. INDIA TODAY Special Correspondent Sheela Raval meets some of Mumbai's 60-80 somethings who are raring to go in Despatches.





Specials

100 people who shaped India in the 20th century
 
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COVER STORY : BJP
Sulking Saffron

As the BJP wakes up to the problems of dissidence and ideological confusion, what will the crisis add up to? And will the RSS worsen the situation?
Full Story...




BUSINESS : TELECOM
 

Monopoly, So Long!
The Government's vice-like grip over telecom gets a jolt with the opening up of the national long-distance sector without a limit on the number of entrants
Full Story...


 
DIPLOMACY: JAPAN

Kiss and Make Up?
With a perceptible softening in Japan's attitude, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's visit holds promise of a return to normalcy and opens new doors for economic investment
Full Story...

 
     
 

Fifth Column by Tavleen Singh
Truth Omissions -Will we ever have a leader who will have the courage to admit the mistakes of the past?

  Right Angle by Swapan Dasgupta
Paying For Leftist Junk-
Are the unproductive research institutes above accountability?
 


Kautilya by Jairam Ramesh
Is The New All That Hot?-
A new research paper in the US questions the hype over the 'new economy'

  Flip Side by Dilip Bobb
National Symbols -
Another day of independence is behind us, reminding us of what lies ahead...
     

THE NATION
: NCM
Breaking Faith
Inter-denomination rivalry leads to Christian groups boycotting the National Commission for Minorities.
 
STATES: WEST BENGAL
Press Clipping Stung by the rising popularity of the Trinamool Congress and the media attention on Mamata, Left Front workers vent their ire on journalists.


ECONOMY: EXCHANGE RATE
Illusory Fall
The rupee is not the only currency falling against the US dollar. Most global currencies are. India only has to take follow-up action without panicking.

  DEFENCE: RECRUITMENT
Fighting Unfit
Despite Kargil whipping up a fervour, army vacancies are on the rise. Alarmed, the generals are banking on a slick advertisement campaign to rope in recruits.


SPORTS : OLYMPIC SPECIAL
It's The Culture Stupid
India Today's Games coverage begins by looking at a reluctant sporting nation.
Class Reunion:
Eight
months after parting ways Bhupathi and Paes patch up.

  ESSAY
Protocol Breeches Jawaharlal Nehru imposed his own style as the national dress. Society didn't accept it. Should we abandon this elusive search for uniformity?

ENTERTAINMENT
Music
Julio Iglesias, Screen Surf, Hot Track and Off Beat

  OFFTRACK:KUTCH
Women's Word
They are barely literate--but they bring out an awareness magazine.


ADVERTISEMENT
Jest Does It
The war for marketshares takes a funny turn as a growing number of advertisers embrace humour in an effort to broaden the appeal of products and tickle their sales graphs up

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bodyline by Ravi Shankar

Centrestage by Ajit Ninan


VOICES

"Criminals are being glamourised by the media and are treated as if they are the new heroes of our society."
K.R. Narayanan, President, in his Independence Day address to the nation

"If the situation in the Valley is allowed to continue in the same manner, there is no point in the Government ruling the country."
Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, demanding martial law in Jammu and Kashmir
More...


CAP LOOKS
Sartorial Licence
Richard Celeste is an avid party goer...
  How the Mighty Fall
Till about two years ago, 7 Purana Qila Road was a powerful address in Delhi...
Soni Days Are Here Again
AICC General Secretary Ambika Soni is pleased as punch...

  Dial N for Success
An overdose of Naidu on Independence Day...

Confessional
Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav toes the RSS line of "hot pursuit" on the Kashmir issue.

 

 

 


Editorials

Divesting Diversion
India wants action, Shourie wants commission
Get the Principle Straight
India's support to democratic Fijians-not ethnic Indians

Books
Left to Itself
From hardboiled Marxists to teenybopper pinkos, India's left is ever holier than thou
Threads From The Past
A beautifully produced book on Indian textiles-but without an updated text
Law's Flaws
Many rules, no justice: a compendium of the Indian obsession with loony laws
Authorspeak
Nayantara Sahgal


From the
Editor in Chief

  Eyecatchers
MGR lives on, Aamir Khan dissociates himself from father, the Garware fight
and Neha Dhupia's
big-screen debut.


   
 
 
     METRO TODAY
   


MetroScape

Home Base
Baseball, America's bludgeony substitute for the rectangular willow, couldn't have found a better mouthpiece than Taylor Miller...
more...


Looking Glass
Delhi:
Children's centre

Calcutta: Restaurant, newspaper





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EXTRAS

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»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 Sri Lankan 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

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

 
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