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September 18 Issue





Column
 


The Government should encash at least a part of its stake in LIC and GIC before its too late, suggests INDIA TODAY associate Editor V. Shankar Aiyar in Au Contraiyar.

 
Despatches


With the failure rate rising to a dismal 70 per cent, the Uttar Pradesh High School and Intermediate Board has some accounting to do. INDIA TODAY Special Correspondent Subhash Mishra reports on the gross irregularities in Despatches.





Specials

100 people who shaped India in the 20th century
 
 
   
COVER STORY : OLYMPICS
  Above Pain Beyond Glory
 

The Olympic Games return with their promise of larger-than-life athletes and superlative sporting performances. Our special Games package analyses the romance of the Olympics, reports on the mood in the host city Sydney, and selects the 10 must-see performers. Plus, a former Indian hockey coach writes an open letter to the boys in blue.
Full Story...


 
STATES : WEST BENGAL
  Battle For Bengal
 

As political violence engulfs the state, Jyoti Basu finds Mamata Banerjee's offensive and the threat of Central intervention serious enough to reconsider his decision to bow out as chief minister after 23 years.
Full Story...




 
STATES: TAMIL NADU
  Lodged In A Mess

Fresh charges are slapped against former chief minister J. Jayalalitha and close aide T.T.V. Dinakaran, linking them with the purchase of two luxury hotels worth Rs 280 crore in the English countryside.
Full Story...

 
     
 

Fifth Column - Tavleen Singh
Villages Of Woes
Can we become an economic superpower if the real India remains a cesspool of neglect?

  Right Angle - Swapan Dasgupta
Responding To A Gesture
A contrived sense of alienation sustains the Muslim ghettos.
 

Politically Correct-P. Chidambaram
Order In The House
Setting fixed terms for our leaders could get us out of the chaos of bad governance.
  Flipside - Dilip Bobb
Ill Timed
There's much hype surrounding the Millennium Summit in New York...

Kautilya - Jairam Ramesh
Pipedreams To Pipelines
Iran and Pakistan are keen on an Iran-India gas pipeline-but we are sceptical.

   
     
BUSINESS : FAST FOOD
Time To Say Cheese
A favourite among the teeming foodies, the pizza has grown into a Rs 150-crore business, doubling every two years.
 

THE NATION : CONGRESS
Feuding Eves
Penchant for power divides women leaders of a party that claims it is for the em- powerment of the fairer sex.



CRIME: VEERAPPAN
Dwindling Options
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are in a bind as the official emissary fails to effect Rajkumar's release.

  STATES: ORISSA
Robbing The Lord
Timber worth Rs 22 lakh meant for the rath yatra in Puri remains unaccounted for. Where did it go?


HEALTH
In The Doghouse
That's where India is - the country accounts for 70 per cent of rabies deaths in the world.

  CINEMA: ACTRESSES
Sassy Sirens
A new generation of feisty women is breaking free from straitjacket stereotypes and taking on substantial roles.



CYBER CHATTER
Speed Trip
Stardust Memories
Utility+
Value Add
  THE ARTS: NGMA
Clipped Wings
Officials pull out an 'offending' work from a show, triggering a boycott by all participating artists.


INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK: Syed Salahuddin
"Clouds of war are on the horizon"

  OFFTRACK:CHENNAI
Antidote To Poverty
Snake hunters learn to reconcile livelihood with respect for nature.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bodyline by Ravi Shankar

Centrestage by Ajit Ninan






VOICES

"Soren thinks he can stake claim to the CM's post just because he led the Jharkhand movement."
M. Venkaiah Naidu, BJP spokesman

"Compromising on this issue would mean betraying the cause of about three crore Jharkhandis."
Shibu Soren, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader

More...

TREMORS
Where People are Investing and Why
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CAPLOOKS
Ill Omens
Before Yashwant Sinha set off for the US for treatment, the priests were specially flown in from Patna to propitiate the gods for his good health.
  Victory Bid
S.S. Dhindsa was all set to leave for Sydney when the EC ordered by-polls for the Sunam assembly constituency in Punjab.

Like Shishya, Like Guru
Naveen Patnaik is taking lessons in Oriya but it's an English professor who's doing the teaching.

  In Common Parlance
One offshoot of the Rajkumar abduction drama is Karnataka Chief Minister S.M. Krishna's sudden love for Kannada.

Confessional
Muslims won't fall for the BJP's bait, feels MAULANA SHAFI MUNIS, vice-chairman of the Jamaait-e-Islami Hind.

 

 

 


Editorials

It's Show Time
The importance of Vajpayee in America is atmospherical.

State And Taste
Bureaucrats can't be the arbiters of aesthetics.


Books
Grandma's Tales
A family's history and its insights into the lives of the Gujarati Diaspora.

Travelling Light
Every woman's discovery of the world-and herself.

Gallic Veda
Hindu India dazzles a French journalist.

Author Speak- Savita Devi:Mother's Melody

New Releases


From the
Editor in Chief

  Eyecatchers
Karishma Kapoor and Hrithik Roshan; Feroz Varun Gandhi; Pierce Brosnan and Anaida.


   
 
 
     METRO TODAY
   
   


MetroScape

The Kitsch Queen
Anjolie Ela Menon seems happy enough to be caught by the high-riding kitsch wave sweeping the subcontinent.
more...


Looking Glass
Delhi: Film Festival

Mumbai: Restaurant

Munnar: Resort

Pune: Store


SBI: With you all the way

Saregama

LATEST HEADLINES
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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 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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