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

SPORTS

3. No Respect

The chit-chat's been floating in from Australia, the main message being "we're coming to get you." It's better to pretend like no one's listening. There's a lesson for Ganguly's gang from Australia's 1998 tour, when they were depleted in the bowling but still had Warne. In their first tour match, Australia were beaten inside three days by Ranji champions Bombay. All that younger Bombaymen had heard in the run-up to the game from coach Balwinder Sandhu was this game's no big deal, Ranji games mean more. Queries about Warne were met with a
so-so shrug from seniors like Tendulkar and Manjrekar and quintessential Bambaiyya advice, "Woh theek hai, yaar-usko tum tadi dena (he's average, guys, get after him)." When Warne came on to bowl for the first time Manjrekar went over to opener Amit Pagnis and said, "Don't give him too much respect." Pagnis hit two boundaries in that over and Manjrekar remembers, "We chose not to play Warne to his reputation and that's what the Indians should do now. This is a better side than the one in 1998 but I don't think they will be as intimidating a team here as they are in Australia. It won't
be a cakewalk ."

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.