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.

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.

"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.

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

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.

NEWSNOTES

Congress leader A.K. ANTONY does not believe infighting in his party will affect the UDF's chances in the Kerala polls.

Q. Increased groupism in your party appears to be affecting your chances in the coming assembly elections.
A. The people of the state want the LDF ousted from power and will not tolerate anyone coming in the way. Besides, groupism has always been there in the Congress.

Q. K. Karunakaran, the former chief minister, feels his group is being ignored.
A. He is one of the seniormost leaders in our state and he has been given due respect.

Q. Are you going to be the next chief minister?
A. It is for the party high command to decide.

Q. Most of the top leaders and former ministers of the previous UDF government face charges of corruption. One has even been sent to jail. Won't this affect the UDF's prospects?
A. Most of the cases were cooked up by the LDF and are politically motivated. People know this.

Q. The Congress in Kerala has been keeping a strange silence on the tehelka.com expose. So is there a deal with the BJP?
A. This is a usual shibboleth of the CPI(M). I can't care less.

-M.G. Radhakrishnan

MetroScape

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

Delhi Salon: Jacques Dessange

Mumbai Theatre:
IMAX dome

Mumbai Restaurant:
Watering Hole

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.