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The Truth About Ourselves
The human genome sequence has been completed
and shows some surprising findings. Despite having one-third less genes
than estimated, human beings are still very complex. With access to disease
genes, medicine and diagnostics will be revolutionised. However, this
will also raise ethical questions on cloning and genetic privacy.
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STATES
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Hope
In Hell
Four weeks after the earthquake, Gujarat is still
coming to terms with the devastation. True grit is emerging from the rubble
but it will be some time before lives are rebuilt. INDIA TODAY's teams
went out across these death zones, capturing stories which record this
renewal.
Simmer
Time
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BUSINESS
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Profitable Loss
36 With over 90,000 employees opting for the
VRS scheme, PSU banks are set to get over their problem of overstaffing.
But is it going to make banks more competitive in this age of automation?
Besides, it is also going to cost more than Rs 7,500 crore and will deprive
the banks of skilled workers.
Paper Money
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NEIGHBOURS
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Spreading Terror
The attacks on Delhi's Red Fort,
the Srinagar airport and the city's police control room show the Lashkar-e-Toiba
is increasingly catching the Indian security forces unawares-and emerging
as the most daring terrorist group from Pakistan.
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BOOKS:
AUTHORSPEAK
Lager
Lady
Kiran
Mazumdar-Shaw
If
your earliest memories of growing up in the pub-city of Bangalore are of
rounds of beer-and-barbecue brunches, who could blame you for your life-long
romance with the foaming amber liquid that Julius Caesar is said to have
described as "a high and mighty liquor"? And Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw,
47, second generation brew-master with an enviable track-record (including
a Padma Shri for industrial biotechnology) convincingly contributes to the
recollection with her description of cool lager cellars in summer and warm
brewhouse evenings in winter.
 Having
idolised her father, Rasendra Mazumdar, a former general manager of United
Breweries, Mazumdar-Shaw's natural inclination to follow in his footsteps
received a jolt when potential employers ignored her qualifications. "I
realised that I was not going to be given a fair chance in this terribly
chauvinistic field, so I simply set up my own company, Biocon," she
recounts.
Having broken
bastions as India's first woman brew-master and as an entrepreneur, Mazumdar-Shaw
throws up another first. Her thoroughly researched and colourfully illustrated
Ale and Arty (Penguin) aims to make the story of beer everyone's cup of
tea. From ancient Egypt to medieval Europe, home of the first industrial
breweries of the Teutonic heartland (and beer-world biggies like Heineken
and Carlsberg), the book gives an interesting, though never academic,
overview of the lager route.
Anecdotal
histories of bestsellers like Guinness, Budweiser, Castle and Foster's
and a compact account of brewing are interspersed with lively paintings,
quotes (Shakespeare to Queen Victoria and old advertisements) and vignettes
(did you know that "mind your Ps and Qs" is an old English bartender's
warning to unruly customers to mind their "pints" and "quarts"?).
All in all, this tale of ale tempers a frothy approach with enough depth
to satiate the average beerdrinker with a swig out of the keg of knowledge.
-Shuchi Sinha
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Re-emergence of rivers,
sweet water springs' there has been much geological speculation after the
earthquake in the Rann of Kutch. INDIA TODAY'S Special Correspondent
Uday Mahurkar weighs the possibilities and concludes it's early
days yet in
Despatches.
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INTERVIEWS
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"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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