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

METRO FEATURE

EYE THE WRIST: (from right) Chandra, Khanna, Emch, Shankar, Rathore and Khan; the Mumbai show

Watch The Ramp

It was high fashion and high time. At the India launch parties of Calvin Klein (CK) watches at Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai and The Park Royal in Delhi last week, the Swiss models-the watches-took centrestage, on the ramp and off it, in glistening glass cases. So even if models Nina Manuel, John Abraham and Rahul Dev walked the ramp in Mumbai in sequences of flamboyant red and conservative black and white, all eyes were pinned on their wrists. In Delhi, the fashion sequences over, Arlette E. Emch, president, CK Watch Co Ltd, called upon actors Rahul Khanna and Fardeen Khan, sitarist Anoushka Shankar, designers Raghavendra Rathore and Aparna Chandra on stage to be the first owners of the watches. Available in 50 variants the wrist accessories will be distributed in India by Delhi-based Sanjeev and Ajay Bijli of the PVR Group in the north east, and Aftab Patel of Watches of Switzerland in the south west.

-Methil Renuka and Himanshi Dhawan

Dashing You Were Marvellous: (left to right) Singh, Mansukhani and Shankar

Fab Four

It was a crafty concept that founder Geoffrey Faber would have approved off. To commemorate 75 years of Faber & Faber, Scene Stealers performed dramatised readings from contemporary Faber plays. With only five days of preparation, actors Dilip Shankar, Lopa Banerjee and Radhika Singh with director Vivek Mansukhani, were at the British Council Theatre juggling personas and accents across a two-chair set. The inclusion of a fine selection of music-jazz, Talvin Singh-meant that the foursome would have to make an absolute ham-fist of the acting for the evening to fizzle. They did not. "We had a ball," said Shankar. So did we.

-Sonia Faleiro

Attitude Singer

You can't ever beat a good qawaali soirée ... specially those with some thumping, furious sufiana kalaam. At the ICCR-sponsored evening at Delhi's Kamani Auditorium, Aslam Sabri (above, centre) and his party of pumped-up seconds gave the audience something to remember with Amir Khusrau numbers (Nathe pak and Aaj rang hai), Tahir Faraz's Hatho mein kashkool (in "qawaali andaaz") and the deliciously tacky Jan-e-Ghazal. Sabri, in the true tradition of a proactive qawaal, also flirted with the audience, throwing in opportune shers in his sharp, snappish pitch. The only problem with the concert-it ended too early.

-Anshul Avijit

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.