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

NEWSNOTES

Voices

"As far as I am aware, the Pattali Makkal Katchi is demanding a separate Eelam, not a separate Tamil Nadu."
J. Jayalalitha, AIADMK chief, on whether the PMK's pro-LTTE stance would create trouble for the AIADMK-PMK alliance

"If the Government can ban tobacco advertisements, why can't it put a stop to this imported festival?"
Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, asking the Government to ban the celebration of Valentine's Day in India

"I did not invite Sonia Gandhi or Uttar Pradesh Minister Om Prakash Singh to my birthday. They came uninvited and I could not push them out."
Mayawati, BSP leader, setting aside speculation of a tie-up with the Congress in Uttar Pradesh

"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

VIS-A-VIS

"The Congress wants to avoid politics at times of tragedy. But relief work should not discriminate between religions."
Sonia Gandhi, President, Congress

"No discrimination is being practised in the distribution of relief materials among earthquake victims."
L.K. Advani, Union Home Minister

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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.