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February 26, 2001
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India Today, February 26


Despatches
  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.

 

 
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.

 





Specials


100 people who shaped India in the 20th century
 
 
COVER STORY: THE HUMAN GENOME
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.
Full Story...

STATES: GUJARAT  
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 to capture stories that record this renewal.
Full Story...


  BUSINESS: BANK VRS  
Profitable Loss  
  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?
Full Story...
 
 
  LETTER  
From The Editor In Chief  
 
  EDITORIALS
  A Matter Of Policy
In the absence of transparent guidelines, disinvestment continues
to be in a shambles
.
Red Roses & Red Alert
Who's afraid of Saint Valentine? Certainly not India.
 
NEIGHBOURS:PAKISTAN
Spreading Terror
The Lashkar-e-Toiba is catching the Indian security forces unawares.
Full Story...
  SPORTS: CRICKET
Face Off
The Aussies are on a winning streak, but can India stop them?
Full Story...
 

CARE TODAY:
REBUILDING GUJARAT

Mending Lives
The medical team sponsored by Care Today injects hope in Gujarat.
Full Story...
  OFFTRACK:
BANGALORE

Healing Grounds
A mother's tribute to her spastic daughter is a unique garden.
Full Story...
 

NATION: CONGRESS
Changing Orbits
The new CWC shows
S. Gandhi's compulsions to keep everyone happy.
Full Story...
  STATES: WEST BENGAL
Simmer Time
S.Ghising, troubled at home, is indispensable to state's politics.
Full Story...
 

BUSINESS: MID-DAY
Paper Money
The confusion over foreign investment in print media comes to the forth.
Full Story...

  DIPLOMACY: MYANMAR
General Partners
After 40 years, India and its eastern neighbour are rediscovering each other.
Full Story...
 

HEALTH WATCH
Mind Your Feet
Custom-made shoes that
can save diabetics' feet
from amputation.

Full Story...
  THE ARTS: JATIN DAS
Colours Of Water
A recorder of people around him, Das puts on view his works on paper.
Full Story...

MUSIC: MUSINGS
Binding Traditions
Medley Melody
Hot Track
Arrivals

 
FIFTH COLUMN:
Tavleen Singh
Of The VIP,
For The VIP

The government must start working for the people, not for itself.
  KAUTILYA:
Jairam Ramesh

Rice Of The
Future

Exciting times for rice research, but new varieties are still away.
 
CENTRESTAGE By Ajit Ninan
BODYLINE By Ravi Shankar
 

VOICES
"I don't read what Steve Waugh says. I let my bat do the talking."
Saurav Ganguly, Indian cricket captain, on the Australian skipper's comments about poor Indian pitches and Australia's winning streak.
More...

CAPLOOKS
Cross Connection
Pramod Mahajan likes the ring in the words "beauty" and "IT."
  Putting On Airs
George Fernandes earns the wrath of Karnataka CM S.M.Krishna.
Dramatic Persona
Critics see a gimmick in everything that Rajnath Singh does these days.
  Protectionist Policy Chandrababu Naidu refuses NSG security for the masses.

TREMORS
Countering militancy in various parts of India.
CONFESSIONAL
After the PMK-AIADMK tie-up, the Congress has decided to bond with the TMC, says the party's Ghulam Nabi Azad.

 


BOOKS
The Great Yesterday
When history is such an entertainer
The Thin Green Line

Eccentric and English, this adventure story
Animal House
A fable apes Delhi's tribalism

Authorspeak
New Releases


EYECATCHERS
Seema Biswas
Suchindra Bali
Ambika & Radha
Anupama Varma


Top
 
 
     METRO TODAY
   
   

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 are interpreted by photographer Agnes Montanari and art historian Nathalie Trouveroy in an exhibition.
more...

Looking Glass

Delhi: Restaurant

Delhi: Exhibition

Mumbai: Exhibition

 


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