April 09, 2001
Issue


India Today, April 2, 2001

 

COVER
   

Victims Of The Crash Small investors like Girish Patel of Ahmedabad have lost much of their life's savings in the stock market crash. A profile of some middle-class investors who burnt their fingers.

Villains Of The Crash SEBI Chairman D.R. Mehta along with bankers, and brokers must share the responsibility for allowing yet another scam by their acts of commission, and omission.

What's Next For The Economy?
For the third time since 1997, a combination of sliding stock markets, political instability, and global slowdown threatens to turn the hopes of an economic take-off into despair.

 

 
THE NATION
   

Numbed By Disgrace
The BJP, still in shock, begins life after the Tehelka expose with a new president and a combination of hope and bluster. A swot analysis.

 

 
INTERVIEW
   

"I'd choose Musharraf"
Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto talks about her relations with her country's politicians, Indo-Pak relations and Kashmir in an interview to Aaj Tak.

 

 
BUSINESS
 

Official Obstacle
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi eggs on workers to go on a strike that is adversely affecting production, and profits.

 

 
DEFENCE
 

Fire Fighting
As the Tehelka controversy slows the defence deals, the Government takes steps to revamp the set-up and streamline the weapon procurement system.

 

 
OTHER STORIES
     
 



 
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BOOKS

Top 10 Bestsellers


Grisham in the Hot Spot
A monthly national list of bestselling books compiled for india today by org-marg based on data from 17 retail outlets in six cities.

Fiction
No.
Title
Author
Publisher
1. (5)* A Painted House John Grisham Arrow
2. (3) The Sky is Falling Sydney Sheldon HarperCollins
3. (2)
The Prometheus
Deception
Robert Ludlum Orion
4. (1)
The Interpreter
of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri HarperCollins
5. (7)
The Mammaries of
the Welfare State
Upamanyu Chatterjee Viking

Non-Fiction
No.
Title
Author
Publisher
1. (1) Who Moved
my Cheese
Spencer Johnson Vermillion
2. (2) You Can Win Shiv Khera
Macmillan
3. (-)

Malayalam
Manorama
Yearbook 2001

  Malayalam Manorama
4. (-) Mastermind India Siddharth Basu Penguin/BBC
5. (6) India Unbound
Gurcharan Das Viking


Other Indian Books In The Top 20: Fiction
7. (-) The Inscrutable
Americans
Anurag Mathur Rupa
9. (9) Death of Vishnu Manil Suri Bloomsbury
10. (4) The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh Ravi Dayal
16. (-)
Diamond Dust Anita Desai Vintage

Non-Fiction
6. (-)

Snacks Under 10 Minutes Tarla Dalal Sanjay & Co
7. (3) Vegetarian Cuisine of the World
Asha Khatau Zaika
8. (-)
Sholay: The Making of a Classic Anupama Chopra Penguin

* Last month’s rating in brackets
Participating bookshops: Delhi: Crossword, S Book Shop, Faqir Chand, The Bookshop, Times Book Gallery; Mumbai: Crossword, Shah Book Stall, Danai Book Shop; Bangalore: Gangarams, Fountainhead; Hyderabad: Walden Book Links, The Book Point; Kolkata: Oxford Books, Modern Book Depot, Family Book Shop; Chennai: Fountainhead


 

 
 
 
Care Today
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MetroScape

Collaborative Class
Italian designer and architect Tarshito Nicola Stripoli has been busy rearranging world geography.
more...

Looking Glass

Delhi Salon:
Jacques Dessange

Mumbai Theatre:
IMAX dome

Mumbai Restaurant:
Watering Hole

 

 
    Web Exclusives
DESPATCHES
 

The ambitious Anandgarh township proposal stirs another round of controversy as a high court order foils the Punjab Government's plans of acquiring land for the project. INDIA TODAY's Special Correspondent Ramesh Vinayak reports in
Despatches.

 

 
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