September 10, 2001
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COVER
   

Coke Tales
The arrest and interrogation of a peddler in Delhi reveal that at glitzy parties in faraway farmhouses, money and power go on high with the kick of cocaine. It's the haute drug for the stylish people in black. A peep into the world of the cocaine-users.

 

 
THE NATION
   

Invisible Dialogue
Vajpayee has promised a solution by March next year. But who is he talking to? Nobody knows.


 
THE NATION
 

Gunning For Arun
Jaswant Singh's special adviser is again at the centre of a controversy. This one though is not of his own making.

 

 
SOCIETY
 

New Metro Hotspots
Establishments combining a rash of activities have taken over from the one-dimensional discos in urban India.

 

 
OTHER STORIES
     
 



 
 
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BOOKS

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. (-)*

Line of Control

Tom Clancy Berkley
2. (-) Artemis Fowl Coir Colfer Viking
3. (1) Bridget Jones' Diary Helen Fielding Picador
4. (-) Chocolat Joanne Harris Black Swan
5. (-) The Constant Gardner John le Carre Coronet
NON-FICTION
1. (1) Who Moved my Cheese Spencer Johnson Vermillion
2. (-) Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen Covey Pocket Books
3. (3) The One Minute Manager Kenneth Blanchard HarperCollins
4. (-) Tuesday With Morrie Mitch Albom Doubleday
5. (7)
World Class In India Sumantra Ghosal Penguin
OTHER INDIAN BOOKS IN THE TOP 20: FICTION
7. (3)

The Glass Palace

Amitav Ghosh HarperCollins
9. (7)

The Inscrutable Americans

Anurag Mathur

Rupa
14. (2)

Mandala of Sherlock Holmes

Jamyang Norbu HarperCollins
NON-FICTION
8. (-)

Feng Shui-80 Golden Ways To Good Luck

Nitin Parekh Navneet
9. (8)

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

Deepak Chopra Excell Books
11. (6)

The Picador Book of Cricket

Ed by Ramachandra Guha Picador
12. (-)

Managing Radical Change

Sumantra Ghosal 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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Building Boy
At a recent show of drawings at Delhi's India Habitat Centre Gautam Bhatia's objective was more wholesome: to explore the extent of architectural possibilities, both real and imagined.
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Looking Glass

Delhi Restaurant:
Kootub Restaurant

Delhi Dance Festival: Abhinaya Sudha

Delhi Restro-bar:
Buzz, Get It Here

Bangalore Exhibitions: Cinnamon

 

 
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DESPATCHES
  By providing quotas within quotas, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister hopes to divide the backwards and wean away a sizeable section of the opposition votes. INDIA TODAY's Special Correspondent Subhash Mishra reports in
Split Game

 

 
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