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What should India's military objectives be if it goes to war with Pakistan?

 CURRENT ISSUE JANUARY 7, 2002
COVER STORY: NEWSMAKER OF THE YEAR
The Messiah of Terror
In recent days vanquished warrior Osama bin Laden's only appearance has been on a suspect videotape, possibly recorded on November 9, that was retrieved
by the CIA. He may have gone off our screens and those fanatical tones may not be heard on any
radio. But bin Laden is everywhere, dominating the media, the thoughts of people and the strategies
of military experts across the world. For good or
bad, that is an achievement that marks out the
Islamist terror monger as India Today's
Newsmaker of the Year.

  
 
 

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COVER STORY: NEWSMAKER OF THE YEAR

Evil's Advocate Winners and Sinners
Osama bin Laden: a man for our time, of our time and made by our time, about whom we know everything and nothing.

From a dictator who talks in many tongues and an actor who created Bollywood history. These are the other newsmakers.

WAR ON TERROR: PAKISTAN WAR ON TERROR: INDIA
In a Corner Raising the Stakes

As India and the US turn on the heat, the Pakistani President finds himself caught in a no-win situation.

India gets rough with Pakistan while it masses its troops on the border in its bid to force the general to act with urgency.

     
     
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  India is Not Negotiable
Musharraf's last chance to spare the subcontinent another war.
     
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INVESTIGATION: THE CONSPIRACY
Hot Pursuit

THE NATION: POLITICS OF WAR
Yes, No, Maybe

There's more proof of JeM's involvement
but none that directly nails the Pakistan establishment.

   

Political BJP wants war, government BJP doesn't quite. The Congress is somewhere in between.

BUSINESS: HOUSING FINANCE
Estate of Bliss

NEIGHBOURS: MAOIST MENACE
A world to Win

Flush with funds, financial institutions
and banks are bending over backwards
to attract borrowers.
   

Growing coordination among extremist
groups and drug cartels in South Asia
is another of India's security concerns.
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SPORTS: CRICKET
Desperately Seeking Sourav

  OFFTRACK: TIHAR, DELHI
Beautiful Idea

The Indian captain's Test match batting nosedived this year, making runs and respect very hard to come by.

   

A beauty parlour at Tihar jail in Delhi helps
inmates mask the ugly reality of
their lives.

HEALTH WATCH
Sugary Untruths

CINEMA: NEW WAVE DIRECTORS
Changing Direction
Natural insulin is better than the
more expensive synthetic one,
feel experts.
   

A new crop of filmmakers is trying to break free from Bollywood's feel-good formula of the 1990s.

     
 COLUMNS

FIFTH COLUMN: TAVLEEN SINGH
Ennui Horribilis

  KAUTILYA: JAIRAM RAMESH
Gladiator Economist

2001 showed Vajpayee lacks the vision to change the way the country is governed.

 

Hollywood unveils the troubled life of an economics Nobel genius.

 

POLITICALLY CORRECT: P. CHIDAMBARAM
Jobless Growth
Unemployment is rising but the Government is clueless on how to arrest it.
 
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 CAPLOOKS
Heart Has Its Reasons   Babu Thinks Divine

Chhattisgarh CM Ajit Jogi is discovering there's a flip side to famous victories.

   

The Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party poll plank gets shaky.

 

Hard Kaur Factionalism
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu is arming himself with a new health and security cover these days.
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