The New Boom

Better Off Than Dad

Services Sector: Growth Engine

Faces: Adventure Capitalists

Adapters: Tradition Meets Technology

Industry: Being Indian

Careers: Techies Line Up For Jobs Online

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.

Gujarat: Shaky Regime
Confronted with a monumental disaster, the Gujarat Government is at the centre of relief operations. Was its reaction timely and efficient? Could more lives have been saved?

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.

Public Sector: Shotgun Exit
First large PSU where workers agreed to leave the company.

METRO FEATURE

Random Readings

TRI LOGUE: (from right) Mishra, Chaudhuri and Mehrotra in Calcutta

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". But like writers Amit Chaudhuri and Pankaj Mishra, he's embarking on "reimagining" ancients texts in English. While Chaudhuri's working with Indian epics and myths, Mishra is researching a book on Buddha. At Kolkata's Oxford Bookstore Gallery last week, the trio in a tete-a-tete read out teasers from their forthcoming books.

BOOK WORMS : (from left) Bedi, Sharma, Benegal, Moraes and (seated) da Cunha and Thakore in Mumbai

And in Mumbai it was another coming together of book buffs. When 72-year-old theatre actor-activist-ad man Gerson da Cunha launched So Far, his debut book of 96 poems on his travels to Uganda and Kenya, Mumbai and Goa at Crosswords, novelist Dom Moraes, theatre actor Dolly Thakore and novelist-actor Pratap Sharma also read from the book. And in between they chatted up like old friends-Shyam Benegal and Kabir Bedi joining in too. Later Moraes praised the poems for their technical dexterity, and Sharma wondered how da Cunha, who was always late for play rehearsals, had managed to do so much. The poet's already on to his second book of verse on Mumbai.

-Labonita Ghosh and Himanshi Dhawan

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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".
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Looking Glass

Kolkata: Restaurant

Bangalore:
Art Exhibition

New Delhi: Play

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.

"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.