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.

THE NEW ECONOMY: SERVICES SECTOR

TOOLS OF AGE
AGRARIAN AGE: Almost all employment and income generated from agriculture through history till the 1850s.
Beginning 4000 BC
Plough	All-iron plough
Treadmill	Cotton gin
Bullock-cart
Beginning 19th century
INDUSTRIAL AGE: Industrial revolution starts from the UK in the mid 19th century, spreads to the US, Japan and now China.
Blast furnace	Dynamite
Ball bearing	Electric motor
Steam engine	Assembly line
Cement	Laser
Combustion engine	Robots
Beginning 20th century
INFORMATION AGE: Services like trade, communications, finance and information technology boom.
Telescope	Computer
Camera	Satellite
Typewriter	Microprocessor
Telephone	Fax machine
Radio	Cellular phone
Television	Internet
Tape-recorder
SERVICES IN GDP Current share in national income
Trade, hotel & restaurants:	21.8
Community & public services:	13.1
Finance & real estate:	12.5
Construction:	5.00
TOTAL	52.4
All figures in percentage

THE SERVICES UNIVERSE A few examples of the services in the three broad categories
The Oldest
HOUSEHOLD SERVICES
Restaurants
Daycare
Bakers
Caterers
The Biggest
PERSONAL SERVICES
		Healthcare
		Transportation
		Entertainment
		Fashion
The Fanciest
INFORMATION SERVICES
Communications
Financial services
Legal services
Computing services
Retail and whlesale trade
Engineering services
EVOLVING TASTE Services get preference over food
	Food 1980-81 1996-97	53.4 46.0
	Hotel and restaurants 1980-81 1996-97	0.4 1.5
	Transport & communication 1980-81 1996-97	5.1 10.5
	Recreation and culture 1980-81 1996-97	3.0 4.5
Figures are % in consumption expenditure

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".
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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.