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February 19, 2001 Issue


India Today, February 19

ECONOMY
   

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 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.

 

 
STATES
   

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.

 

 
BUSINESS
   

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

 

 
OTHER STORIES
  Viewpoint:
Tavleen Singh

 
  Caplooks
 
  Voices  
  Eyecatchers  
 



 
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THE NEW ECONOMY: OPINION POLL

The Colour Of Money

INDIA TODAY-ORG-MARG OPINION POLL

Overall a more prosperous generation, thanks to a consistently higher rate of economic growth in the 1990's. Top gainers were professionals and the self-employed while small traders gained the least. Household incomes boomed as the number of earning members increased, in some cases, to more than two. Erstwhile babu backyard Delhi emerged as a growth engine fuelled by the entry of multinationals and start-ups.

THE EARNINGS

% famililies with incomes from Rs1,000-7000

 

  % families with incomes more than Rs 7,000 p.m
   
 
The Saving
The Future




 

 
 
Care Today
     METRO TODAY
 
   

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

 

 
    Web Exclusives
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.

 

 

 

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