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  
 



 
True Horror
Business: Exit Scheme
 
Other Guy Blinks
  • First Voluntary Retirement Scheme (1991-94) brings down workforce from 2,700 to 1,765.
  • New 90-day separation scheme on Nov 10, 2000 warns that refusal may lead to sacking.
  • Workers hold out for 89 days but succumb at the end.
Land Labour Equation
HVOC is a land-rich company
Unit Land* No. of workers
Delhi 26.13 274
Amritsar 30 234
Kolkata 8.58 175
Mumbai 14 336
Kanpur 16 290
Bangalore 2 25
Chennai 2 31
* in acres (most plots are freehold)

 

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Care Today
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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

 

 
    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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