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.

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

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

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.

Face Off
It's David Vs Goliath as India play an Australian demolition squad at home. What makes the Aussies tick and how can India take them on?

Cricketwatch:
Ashley Mallett

THE NATION: CONGRESS

IINNER CIRCLE

K. NATWAR SINGH
Moved closer to Soni.
Doesn't need
Arjun as a lever
any more.

AMBIKA SONI
Unquestionably No. 2;
holds key to all
party appointments.

KAMAL NATH
Resources man;
elevation linked
to forthcoming
assembly polls.

MUKUL WASNIK
Youngest CWC member;
upstages Maharashtra
veterans with
Soni's blessings.

MIDDLE CIRCLE

ARJUN SINGH
Loses Minorities
Department to
A.R. Antulay.
Yet has Sonia's ears.

SUNIL DUTT
Tireless poll
campaigner; has been
brought in to lead
Youth Congress.

GHULAM NABI AZAD
Survived every
shakeout in the AICC
with help from
Vincent George.

S. JAIPAL REDDY
Quintessential
opposition spokesman;
brought in to give
party a facelift.

MOTILAL VORA
Toothless AICC
treasurer; has
been steadily
gaining clout.

OUTER CIRCLE

VIJAYABHASKARA REDDY
Old warhorse
replaced in CWC
by an obscure leader,
Sarojini Pulla Reddy.

PRIYA RANJAN DASMUNSHI
The party's chief
whip in the
Lok Sabha did not
find a berth in
the CWC.

SUSHIL SHINDE
Dalit leader from
western Maharashtra
hopelessly loses out
to Soni and Wasnik.

MetroScape
Delhi On My Mind...
I'm very flattered to have this act of 'piracy' take place," laughs William Dalrymple, as extracts from his engrossing travelogue City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi were interpreted by photographer Agnes Montanari and art historian Nathalie Trouveroy in an exhibition.
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Looking Glass

Delhi: Restaurant

Delhi: Exhibition

Mumbai: Exhibition

"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.