With no easy answers to tackle power shortage, the Madhya
Pradesh Government cuts a sorry figure. Could the crisis have been avoided,
asks INDIA TODAY Special Correpondent Neeraj Mishra in Groping
In The Dark
With
the US prepared for a showdown with the Taliban militia in Afghanistan,
the first big war of the 21st century is set to become a clash of civilisations.
Pitted against the most modern superpower in the world is a country which
revels in and looks forward to its medieval past. Full Story... PAKISTAN Price Of A Deal Musharraf may have bent backwards in a bid to
make his country the standard bearer of the US in the region. Of course,
there are financial rewards for Pakistan, but the fear of a fundamentalist
backlash continues to keep the nation on tenterhooks. Full
Story...
INSIDE AFGHANISTAN Circle Of Death Violence fuelled by bigotry and foreign money
brought the Taliban to power. Now as things come full circle the Islamic
militia may meet an equally brutal end. Full
Story...
IMAGES Afghanistan 1978-2001 Its women once enjoyed social freedom,
and there was joy and peace. It is now a country perverted by the missionaries
of a grim utopia. A social history in pictures. Full
Story...
The angst-ridden anti-war lobby has nothing at stake
except its dubious cause.
OFFTRACK: DELHI Transfusing Hope A man's 25-year mission is
to spread awareness about blood donation. Full Story...
STATES: TAMIL
NADU Amma's Rabri Paneerselvam
is proving the perfect puppet for Jayalalitha. Full Story...
FIFTH COLUMN:
Tavleen Singh Victims
Of Proxy Don't let politicians and clerics trigger
our own clash of civilisations.
KAUTILYA:
Jairam Ramesh Civilising
Conflict Huntington's controversial "clash
of civilisations" theory is back.
VIEWPOINT:
POLITICALLY CORRECT
War Begins At Home India should not allow the opportunity to
liquidate terrorism slip by.
CENTRESTAGE By Ajit Ninan
QUOTE OF THE WEEK "America alone
can determine whether it will address the symptom of terrorism or
the system of terrorism." A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister. More...
October 1 in Srinagar was
not as dramatic as September 11 in the US. But the attack on the
J&K Assembly emphasises the reality that India continues to be a
permanent victim
of jehad, that the
author of the blast is the bin Laden of Kandahar vintage. This and
many more things in the
latest issue of the
INDIA TODAY.
METRO TODAY
MetroScape
Fort Of Arms In the 16th century, a Portuguese governor fortified
a strategically located house to defend ships in the harbour of an island
on the west coast of India acquired from the Sultan of Gujarat. Mumbai
grew first into a fort and then into a city from here. more...
With
the US prepared for a showdown with the Taliban militia in Afghanistan,
the first big war of the 21st century is set to become a clash of civilisations.
Pitted against the most modern superpower in the world is a country which
revels in and looks forward to its medieval past.
METRO TODAY
