23 October 2000 Issue




COVER
  Sold On Sale
Discounts, freebies, lotteries and loans. Riding on the festival season, companies are using every conceivable marketing trick to lure consumers

 
THE NATION
 

Brothers In Arms
Though the CBI chargesheet against the Hindujas is silent on where the kickbacks ended up, it is still an important landmark in the 13-year chase

 
MUSIC
 

Hounds Of Music
With Visvabharati’s copyright on Tagore ending next year and the Centre refusing to throw in its weight, the poet’s music may be finally unshackled

 
Columns
 

Fifth Column
by Tavleen Singh
And Justice For All

 
 

Kautilya
by Jairam Ramesh
New Light On Power

 
Other stories
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  Education  
  The Arts  
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NewsNotes
 

Beating Retreat

 
 

Buffer Zone

More...

 
   

Care Today:
Fight the Drought
 
 



 
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VOICES

"Efforts are being made to minimise the inconvenience to my fellow patients, their relatives as well as residents in the neighbourhood ... I regret any inconvenience."
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, prime minister, in a message to the people on being admitted to Breach Candy hospital for knee surgery

"What hat-trick? To pull off a hat-trick, you need a head. How can Munde perform a hat-trick when he has no head?"
Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, on Gopinath Munde's claim that the bjp had scored a hat-trick in local elections in Maharashtra

"I never thought India's young cricketers would be so aggressive. We tried to play on Yuvraj's nerves, but he didn't seem to care."
Steve Waugh, Australian cricket captain, on Yuvraj Singh after his team lost to India in the icc Knock-out Tournament

Vis-a-vis

"Why are foreign churches being allowed to carry on their
activities on Indian soil?"
K.S. SUDERSHAN, RSS chief

"The church is a universal entity. It cannot belong to any particular nation."
SISTER NIRMALA, Missionaries of Charity

Top

 
 
 
     METRO TODAY
  MetroScape  
   


A Fancy For Words
"I don't think I could be called a poet," insists Feroze Gandhi with a shy smile.
more...

Looking Glass

Chennai: Mall


Calcutta: Home Library

Pune: Hotel

Delhi: Restaurant

Delhi: Play

 
    Web Exclusives
COLUMNS  



Relics of old empires exist everywhere. Why can't the Mani Shankar Aiyars of India let them be? asks INDIA TODAY Senior Editor Ravi Shankar in Friday Fundas.

 
DESPATCHES  


The fate of the Kannur project in power-strapped Kerala is in a state of limbo as the Government contends it is too expensive. But is it? INDIA TODAY Principal Correspondent M.G. Radhakrishnan investigates in
Despatches.

 
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