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.

NEWSNOTES

Voices

"Mr Vajpayee, show statesmanship, come forward in solving Kashmir. I assure you that I and Pakistanis will come halfway to meet you."
Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's chief executive, at a meeting held to mark Kashmir Solidarity Day, a national holiday in Pakistan

"India and Pakistan too can try this earthquake diplomacy."
Konstantinos Simitis, Greek prime minister, relating how Greek aid to Turkey during a similar emergency helped normalise relations between the two countries

"I have a proper plan and can put 40 years of my political life at stake to save the people of Delhi from being uprooted."
Madan Lal Khurana, Bharatiya Janata Party vice-president, on his determination to fight for the cause of people dislocated by the closure of polluting industries in Delhi

"I meet a lot of feminist men, mostly academics and intellectuals. But the man on the street is still virulently a chauvinist."
Shabana Azmi, actress, speaking at a conference in Kolkata

VIS-A-VIS

"Big brother Karunanidhi sought to destroy the PMK. That explains why we switched sides."
S. Ramadoss, President, PMK

"I'm amazed that Dr Ramadoss is now stacking up all kinds of excuses to justify leaving the NDA."
K. Karunanidhi, President, DMK

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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".
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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.