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November 06, 2000
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Column
 


INDIA TODAY Deputy Editor Swapan Dasgupta voices the despair of a community that Jyoti Basu forcibly converted into a diaspora in his 23 years of zero-contribution rule. Day Dreams.

 
Despatches


With the NBA waging an out-of-court battle, the real test for the Gujarat Government lies in completing the task of rehabilitating all those displaced. It's daunting but not insurmountable, writes INDIA TODAY Special Correspondent Uday Mahurkar in Despatches.





Specials

100 people who shaped India in the 20th century
 

Going Steady: Lest We Forget

 


 
COVER STORY : GAME SHOWS
Enter the Clonepatis

The television industry is flooded with quiz and game shows which signal prime-time greed. Viewers see money, channels see TRP ratings and galloping revenues. The age of money-backed infotainment seems to have arrived.
Full Story...


THE NATION: CPI (M)
Left With No Choice

In a belated recognition of sweeping developments both at home and abroad, the CPI(M) grudgingly admits changes in its programme and distances itself from past ideological tenets
Full Story...


BUSINESS: MARUTI UDYOG
Killing the Golden Goose

A strike at India's biggest carmaker punctures its plans to retrieve the ground lost to competitors in recent times
Full Story...

THE NATION : R. JETHMALANI
New Ramayan
His book deflates the egos of his enemies and inflates his own
 

STATES : ANDHRA PRADESH
Long Shot
The state is the first to dispense justice electronically


STATES: UTTAR PRADESH
Tough Task for the Thakur

The real test for Singh is how he play's the BJP's game of social engineering

 

STATES : GOA
Saffron Surprise
Goa has yet another new government. This time its a BJP one


DEVELOPMENT: ORISSA
Castles In The Air
Post-cyclone the Government still falters on reconstruction

 

CINEMA: FILM MARKETING
Happy Endings
Hit or no hit it's profit all the way for film-makers



HEALTH
Easing Labour
In Small Doses
  PSUS: TEMPLES OF DOOM
Loss Spinner From The Raj
On the Wrong Foot


LIVING: BANITA PODH
Time's Bride
It took 15 years for her to formally marry her husband
  OBITUARY
End of the Gandhi Topi
Sitaram Kesri must have been the loneliest of Congressmen


SCIENCE: RICE GENOME
Staple Strains
Rice resistant to adverse climatic conditions could be the panacea for food shortage. But is it entirely risk-free?
 

BUSINESS: TAKEOVERS
Raid Terror

Declining stock prices embolden raiders as promoters seek changes in the Takeover Code



CINEMA: MISSION KASHMIR Seeking Paradise
A plea to restore peace and harmony in the valley
 

OFFTRACK: DELHI
Tour de Force
Differently-abled people go on journeys with a difference



MUSIC: MUSINGS
Of Strings and Songs
Screen Surf and more...
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Fifth Column - Tavleen Singh
Ghosts of Perception
Imaginary grievances drive a wedge between communities
  Kautilya - Jairam Ramesh
The Momentum of Drift
The economy is now suffering from the QSQT effect...
 

 
Right Angle - Swapan Dasgupta
Trident of Belligerence
The Sangh is the BJP's soul. It need not be its sole proprietor.
   

 
 
 
Bodyline by Ravi Shankar Centrestage by Ajit Ninan


VOICES

"Those who are trying to Indianise Indian Christians and Muslims should first try to Indianise the Union government."
V.P. Singh, former prime minister, on the NDA Government's decision to open key sectors to transnational corporations

More...

TREMORS
Congress Dissidents


CAPLOOKS
Cinderella Effect
Dutt, a TADA accused, cannot spend nights outside the city
  Angling for Power
High-Flying vacancies as IB, RAW and CBI heads retire
In Search of an Ism
Govindacharya, ex-BJP office-bearer, is studying isms
  On Cloud Nine
Naidu's publicity managers make him a star in-flight


Editorials

Postpone Party
In UP and elsewhere, the BJP is addicted to quick-fix solutions

Cracker of a Campaign
Thanking children for restoring Diwali's dignity


Books
Post-Colonial Prancing
A fable of loss and relocation in Lutyens' Delhi
New Releases- Parmesh Dangwal, Ramesh Gupta, Achala Moulik
Unusual Suspects
Motives for a new mind-set in corporate India
Gentle Victim

New beginning to an old trend
Rowling Reigns
A monthly national list of best-selling books


Letter
From the
Editor in Chief

  Eyecatchers
Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Benegal and Mrinal Sen; Neelam Kothari and Rishi Sethia; Meghna Gulzar & Juhi Chawla

Top
   
 
 
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MetroScape

Paintings for Perspiration
"Affordable art — Celebration of Life" was a unique showcasing of art goading fitness junkies.
more...

Looking Glass

Calcutta: Music


Delhi: Restaurant

Delhi: Play


SBI

Valuecom

 
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