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

TREMORS The Offshoots Of The Congress
	Trinamool: On a roll. Wooed by the Congress and BJP, Mamata Banerjee may upset the Left Front's applecart in West Bengal. Opinion polls predict a victory for the Trinamool.
	Nationalist Congress Party: The drama involving the Congress' dropping of a rebel partyman apart, the NCP-Congress alliance in Maharashtra is chugging along.
	Loktantrik Congress: For a small party in the ruling alliance in Uttar Pradesh, it exerts a lot of political leverage. But doesn't stand much of a chance on its own.
	Tamil Maanila Congress: The pact with the AIADMK goes against the express purpose for which the TMC came into being. P. Chidambaram's departure is an election-eve loss.

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.