Creating History
Aamir Khan steers away from mushy romance in lush locations in his first production, Lagaan. The formula-busting period film on colonial arrogance, backed by good acting, promises to give Indian cinema a classy makeover.

Governance On
The Hold
Absent ministers, coalition politics and an unwell prime minister paralyse all decision making at the Centre. With business sentiments diving and industrial growth rate receding, the alarm bells have begun to ring.

Super Clinic Inc.
Patients will be treated as customers with some companies hoping to revolutionise the Rs 60,000-crore private healthcare market. They are setting up a chain of neighbourhood health clinics that will provide quality medical care.

Fostering Ill-will
The arrest of Jayalalitha's foster son may be linked
to the sour relationship.

Crescent Classroom
An organisation has given madarsa education in the state a communal slant.

NEWSNOTES

Voices

"The ghazal's popularity on both sides of the border is proof that a life of peace and goodwill is the aspiration of our peoples."
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, prime minister, in a message to Pakistani ghazal singer Mehdi Hasan, who was hospitalised in Karachi

"The anti-defection law is ineffective not because it is defective but because the enforcing authority, the Speaker of the legislature, is oppressed by party politics."
M.S. Gill, former chief election commissioner

"By supporting a person who has been convicted to become chief minister of Tamil Nadu, the Congress and the communist parties have legitimised corruption."
M. Venkaiah Naidu, Union rural development minister

"You don't depend on just luck to win a Grand Slam event. You just do everything under your control to come up trumps."
Leander Paes, Indian tennis ace, after winning the French Open doubles in partnership with Mahesh Bhupathi for the second time

VIS-A-VIS

"I am not saying it is about to happen. But I am also not ruling out joining the National Democratic Alliance."
Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress chief

"The NDA should not be treated like a bus which one can board or alight from whenever one feels like."
Jana Krishnamurthy, President, BJP

MetroScape

Pak Unplugged
Fresh-faced youngsters were cheering through qawwalis, pop songs and poetry reading at India Habitat Centre, Delhi. The occasion? A week-long workshop, "Rehumanizing the Other", was all about promoting neighbourly feelings in a period of bad press.
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Looking Glass

Mumbai Exhibition:
"Potters in Peril"

Chennai Coffee Bar: Barista

Bangalore Resort: Angsana Oasis Spa and Resort

The Delhi Government's campaign to clean up the Yamuna was impressive but needs to backed up by measures that can weed out the root causes of the pollution. INDIA TODAY's Special Correspondent Sayantan Chakravarty reports in Long Drive