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February 19, 2001
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India Today, February 19


Despatches
  Who says Indian theatre is dying? Playwrights--both veteran and budding--in the country had a chance to interact with those from the Royal Court Theatre, London, at its first residency workshop
in Bangalore recently.
It was a fortnight of enrichment, concludes Principal Correspondent Stephen David in
Despatches.

 

 
Interviews
 

"I was very much against the idea of India," says William Dalrymple, author, The City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi. In conversation with INDIA TODAY's Sonia Faleiro, he talks about his old girlfriend, Delhi and his "enormously exciting" next book, The White Moghuls in Interviews.

 





Specials


100 people who shaped India in the 20th century
 
 
COVER STORY: THE ECONOMY
The New Bloom

The pulse of the Indian economy can no longer be felt in the factories or fields. It has shifted to businesses in the services sector, which now has the country's best-paying jobs, the boldest entrepreneurs, and the most aware consumers. INDIA TODAY profiles India's new engine of growth in a sector where intellectual capital counts more than physical capital.
Full Story...


Better Off Than Dad
Today, villages in India offer long-distance dialling and Uncle Chipps with equal nonchalance; salaries of the working class have gone through the roof; and consumers are spoilt for choice. To discover these changing trends in the middle class, INDIA TODAY-ORG-MARG conducted a poll in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. Read what it reveals.
Full Story...

Faces: Adventure Capitalists
 
Careers: Techies Line Up For Jobs Online
 
Adapters: Tradition Meets Technology
 
Industry: Being Indian
   
Flip Side: Forty & Frantic
 
GUEST COLUMNS  
 
Jairam Ramesh: New Hype, Old Hope
 

Rajat Gupta: Creating Enterprise
   
P.Chidambaram: Overhaul Overdue
   
Anand Mahindra: Redefining India Inc.
 
Jeffrey Sachs & Nirupam Bajpai: Miles To Go Full Story...
 
Arvind Panagariya: A Vision For 2010 Full Story...
     

THE NATION: THE SCINDIAS  
Will Power  

The contentious will of Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia virtually disinherits her only son, Madhavrao Scindia. This controversy threatens to mar the reputation and respectability of one of India's best known and highly regarded royal families.
Full Story...


  STATES: GUJARAT  
Shaky Regime  
  Confronted by a monumental disaster, the Gujarat Government is at the centre of the relief operations. Was its reaction timely and efficient? Could more lives have been saved?
Full Story...
And Greed Hits Home  
  More than anything, it was corruption that killed people in Gujarat as buildings constructed by getting around norms came crashing down.
Full Story...

 

STATES: TAMIL NADU
From Anna To Amma
The PMK rebellion marks a total political realignment in the state.
Full Story...

  BUSINESS: HVOC
Shotgun Exit
All except a dozen of the 1,357-workforce call it a day.
Full Story...

CARE TODAY: REBUILDING GUJARAT
New Foundations
Care Today appeals to readers to help earthquake victims.
Full Story...

 
  Fifth Column: Tavleen Singh
Sham On You
It is the right time to sack the slothful babus who derail relief at times of calamities
 
   
BODYLINE By Ravi Shankar

VOICES
"Mr Vajpayee, show statesmanship, come forward in solving Kashmir. I assure you that I and Pakistanis will come half-way to meet you."
Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's chief executive, at a meeting held to mark Kashmir Solidarity Day, a national holiday in Pakistan
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CAPLOOKS
Post Paralysis
Congressmen become superstitious.
  Immobilised
O.P. Chautala arranges computer classes for MLAs.
Deferred Donations
Politicians respond with alacrity to help earthquake victims.
  Jumbo Trouble
Renuka Chaudhary wants to ride a horse.

TREMORS
Sponsoring Indian Sports
CONFESSIONAL
Raghunath Jha's reinstatement as Samata's Bihar unit chief is being seen as a climbdown by Nitish Kumar.

 


Editorials
Beyond Dialogue
Counter-insurgency cannot be ignored in any diplomatic initiative on Kashmir.
Competitive Chaos
There's enough help in Gujarat. It only needs right channelling.


Letter
From the Editor in Chief

 

Eyecatchers
Abhinav Bindra
Ahlam Khan

Celina Jaitly


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MetroScape
Random Readings
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra would rather be "accurate" in his latest undertaking, a book of Kabir's poetry in English, even if he says "Kabir's greatest hits may not have been written by
him at all".

more...

Looking Glass

Kolkata: Restaurant

Bangalore:
Art Exhibition

New Delhi: Play

 


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