Megsaysay Award winner Rajendra Singh is determined
to take on the authorities who he says are out to hamper his water harvesting
efforts in Rajasthan. INDIA TODAY's Principal Correspondent Rohit Parihar
reports in Troubled
Waters
Milkha
Singh's refusal to accept the Arjuna Award has sparked off a heated debate
over the country's highest sporting honour. This year's controversial
list is being seen as the straw that broke the camel's back. Leading sports
people believe the award has been devalued and compromised by political
lobbying. Full Story...
THE NATION: TEHELKA EXPOSE
More Sleaze
Tehelka lands itself in a soup after
it was revealed that its journalists had used sex workers to lure three
army officers and then recorded their meetings in explicit detail as part
of a probe into arms deals. Full Story...
STATES: KERALA
A Leader Reformed
A.K. Antony, a one-time Nehruvian socialist,
is winning the support of industry as well as Central funds in his new
avatar as the harbinger of reforms in the economically beleaguered state. Full Story...
ECONOMIC
GRAFITTI: Kaushik Basu Saigon Socialism Vietnam may be poorer than India, but
it is not as impoverished.
CENTRESTAGE By Ajit Ninan
BODYLINE By Ravi Shankar
VOICES "They did not
publicise the sacrifice of four RSS activists
killed in the North-east. Had the news been about Christian missionaries,
it would have been widely covered." Atal Bihari Vajpayee,
prime minister, on the media's attitude towards the Sangh. More...
CAPLOOKS
Delhi
Men Friday Retired navy chiefs have become more
equal to former prime ministers.
BOOKS: V. S. NAIPAUL About Lives Half
Lived The master chronicler
of half-made societies returns to India of his ancestral memory. This
time for a novel.
Ground
Beneath The Fort The ASI has, for a few months now, been
digging trial pits in Delhi's Red Fort. And not for relaying the lawn.
They are searching for original buildings particularly those opposite
the Rang Mahal and the Diwan-e-Khas. more...
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