July 16, 2001
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COVER
   

Mission Kashmir Having consolidated his position at home, the President of Pakistan is clear that any diplomatic advance in Agra will be measured against India's willingness to review its position on Kashmir. Can Prime Minister Vajpayee oblige his guest?

 

 
STATES
   

Mother Fury
M. Karunanidhi and other leaders of the DMK may be out of jail, but retribution and rehabilitation will continue to define the
Jayalalitha Raj.

 

 
BUSINESS
 

Trust Betrayed
India's largest mutual fund scheme, US-64, takes a tumble for the second time in three years. As pressure mounts to stem the rot and chairman Subramanyam goes, the small investor is left in the lurch.

 

 
INVESTIGATION
 

The Gender Gestapo
A controversial sex-selection procedure widely available in India skirts the law and prevents the very conception of female babies.

 

 
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TOP 10 BESTSELLERS
Grisham Is Unmoved

A monthly national list of bestselling books compiled for INDIA TODAY by ORG-MARG based on data from 16 retail outlets in six cities.


FICTION
No
Title Author
Publisher
1. (3)*

Ghosh's Royal Return

Amitav Ghosh HarperCollins
2. (2) Chocolat Joanna Harris Black Swan
3. (1) A Painted House John Grisham Arrow
4. (4) The Alchemist Paulo Coelho HarperCollins
5. (7) The Prometheus Deception Robert Ludlum Orion
NON-FICTION
1. (1) Who Moved my Cheese Spencer Johnson Vermillion
2. (2) Indira Katherine Frank HarperCollins
3. (3) You Can Win Shiv Khera Macmillan
4. (-) How to Know God Deepak Chopra Rupa & Co
5. (4)
One Minute Manager K. Blanchard S. Johnson HarperCollins
OTHER INDIAN BOOKS IN THE TOP 20: FICTION
9. (-)

Mandala of Sherlock Holmes

Jamyang Norbu HarperCollins
13. (-)

Mammaries of the Welfare State

Upamanyu Chatterjee

Penguin
14. (-)

The Inscrutable Americans

Anurag Mathur Rupa & Co
18. (-)

The Last Jet Engine Laugh

Ruchir Joshi HarperCollins
NON-FICTION
8. (11)

24 Brand Mantras

Jagdeep Kapoor Response Books
10. (-)

Death by Fire

Mala Sen Weidenfeld & Nicolson
11. (-)

Regional Indian Food

Kishore Reddy Quest & Query
14. (-)

Managing Radical Change

S. Ghoshal, G. Piramal, C. Bartlet Viking
* 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

 
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Nina Shivdasani Rovshen Sugati's Conceptual Art Imageographs, on show at NCPA's Piramal Gallery till July 14, attempts to capture the "essence of people and situations" as she lets her subjects "reveal themselves" to her.
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