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What is a possible peaceful solution to the Ayodhya crisis?

 CURRENT ISSUE MARCH 18, 2002
 
COVER STORY: GUJARAT
Guilty Inaction
This has been one of the blackest weeks in recent times. The fragile communal peace that held for nine years has been shattered. More than 600 people have been killed and in Ahmedabad alone, 20,000 are huddled into makeshift camps. The prime minister has called the Gujarat riots a "blot" on the image of India. It is also a blot on his government, which once boasted of its ability to ensure a riot-free environment in India. Is Chief Minister Narendra Modi the villain, a Hindutva hardliner who sat back and allowed the mobs to seek bloody revenge for the Godhra atrocity? A report.

 

 
 
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COVER STORY: GUJARAT

COVER STORY: GODHRA INVESTIGATION
Losing Faith Tracking the Plan
A look at the how and the why of the events that led to the worst riots in the state
since Partition.

Investigators begin to identify the many hands behind the Sabarmati Express fire. Most of the suspects have criminal records.
 
COVER STORY: MADARSAS THE NATION: AYODHYA
Latent Heat Divine Middleman

The burning of the train at Godhra may only have been the most provocative of a series of fundamentalist acts in Gujarat.

The Shankaracharya's peace moves are the Government's last attempt to keep the VHP in check. And probably preserve NDA unity.
     
     
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From The Editor In Chief
To The Editor

  Primal Fear
For the Indian middle class, religious frenzy is now the No. 1 cause of concern.
     
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An 80-year-old is helping preserve a little known martial art form in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu.

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 SPORTS: HOCKEY
Turfed Out

In vogue yet everlasting, subtle yet self-explanatory—diamonds are now a mandatory fashion accessory.

   

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THE ARTS: FILM MEMORABILIA
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An auction and an exhibition in Delhi attempt to cash in on the rising interest in motion picture paraphernalia.

     
 COLUMNS

FIFTH COLUMN: TAVLEEN SINGH
Pogrom Politics

 

KAUTILYA: JAIRAM RAMESH
The Enigma Of Gujarat

The Gujarat Government's incompetence suggests its complicity in the violence.

 

Is the Gujarati diaspora fuelling more than diasporadic communal tension?

 

POLITICALLY CORRECT
Getting It Wrong

The economy is in recession and the budget is set to dampen demand further.

 
 
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CENTRESTAGE By Ajit Ninan   QUOTE OF THE WEEK
  "Vajpayee's rule is worse than that of Ravana, the British, the Congress and Mulayam Singh."

Ramchandra Paramhans Das, Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas president

 CAPLOOKS
Peeved Presenter   Eager Beaver

Union HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi is not the most patient of men.

 

In India communism and protocol don't
go together.

Dilli Dally   Weighty Success
RJD supremo Laloo Yadav visits Shirdi with a divine vision.

  After victory in the polls, Amarinder Singh is flexing his muscles for another battle.
Confessional
The Securities and Exchange Board of India chairman on his plans
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 NRI DIARY
 
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