Where Have All The Jobs Gone
Old jobs are being slashed and new ones have slowed down to a trickle. With corporate India shedding staff faster than ever before, the worst sufferers are freshers and middle-level managers.

Preparing For Musharraf
Administrators, securitymen and hospitality merchants gear up to ensure that it's not just the Taj that will impress the visiting
Pakistani President.

Adviser Raj
Bureaucrats don't retire. Their terms are extended or they are reappointed to counsel political mentors.

Out Of Luck Now
It will take more than voter-friendly symbolism to ensure victory in UP.

Hard Cover Up
The Government is perturbed by a cop's unreleased book on Rajkumar's kidnapping.

Connecting Bharat
It's a project to bridge the digital divide. But sources of funding are not known.

NEWSNOTES

Voices

"Foreigners had separated us brothers, so what is wrong if they also bring us together."
Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party chief and former defence minister, on third-party intervention between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue

"Painters are blue-collar workers, not ninnies."
Anjolie Ela Menon, painter, on the manual work she did on the Atelier Fresque scaffoldings, in The Telegraph

"It would not have been wrong for the Burmese to say they are not Indians. The Naga situation is comparable."
B.K. Roy Burman, anthropologist, who has been invited by apex Naga body to mediate for them, in the Indian Express

"If you are advertising a condom you have to make it clear whether it is for blowing balloons or for having sex."
Alyque Padamsee, advertising guru, on the controversy surrounding the recent advertisements for Durex condoms

VIS-A-VIS

"Atal Bihari Vajpayee is a man with vision ... General Musharraf is a rare combination of will and power."
Abdul Ghani Bhat, Chairman, Hurriyat Conference

"Those who criticised me for talking are today making humble requests to the PM for an appointment."
Shabir Shah, Kashmiri separatist leader

MetroScape

Mumbai Tribal Art: Murias

Pune Multiplex:
City Pride

Long considered politically naive, the Gujarat chief minister is a wiser man now. But the shrewdness would prove worthier if employed in matters of state, writes INDIA TODAY's Special Correspondent Uday Mahurkar in
Misplaced Guile