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What is your opinion about the way Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee handled the Ayodhya crisis?

 CURRENT ISSUE APRIL 1, 2002
 
COVER STORY: HIGH SOCIETY
The Life and Death of Natasha Singh
When socialite-photographer Natasha Singh was
found dead on the terrace of a five-star hotel, it was more than a case of a young life cut short. Despite
the growing consensus that she may have taken her own life, unexplained questions remain about her
death. Linked by marriage and later divorce to a
powerful political family, Singh's death was shrouded
in mystery. Beyond murder or suicide, it threw up questions about the ugly secrets of the capital's beautiful people.

 

 
 
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WEB ONLY FEATURES
With violence continuing in Gujarat, read a first-person account by India Today's
Uday Mahurkar on how the commom man lives in the shadow of insecurity.
Living In Fear
 
 
COVER STORY: LAW

THE NATION: BJP
Crime Sans Punishment Shaken By the Parivar
What does it take to commit a crime in front of a roomful of witnesses and then walk away, unpunished?

The BJP is forced to soft-pedal Hindutva issues to hold the NDA together, but its own house is crumbling.
 
THE NATION: CONGRESS THE NATION: CPI(M)
No Shortcuts Left in the Middle

The Left is for an alternative government, but the Congress seems disinclined to take the chance it took in 1999.

BJP is still Enemy No.1 but the CPI(M)
has not yet reached a consensus on
the Congress.
     
     
LETTERS   EDITORIAL

From The Editor In Chief
To The Editor

  The Party Pooper
The so-called coalition dharma seems to have become BJP's bad karma.
     
 OTHER STORIES
 
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INDIA TODAY CONCLAVE
The Conclave concludes on a high note. Al Gore, Stanley Fischer and other world leaders listen and our heard. Catch up on the highlights.
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STATES: BIHAR
The E-Biz Boom

DEFENCE: IAF
Wings of Shame

Extortion and hijacking of development projects have almost become an industry in the state.
   The controversy surrounding the air force brass is affecting India's readiness against Pakistan.

NEIGHBOURS: PAKISTAN
Wait and Watch

SUPPLEMENT: PERSONAL FINANCE
Money Today

With jehad a bad word, Pakistan keeps a subdued profile on Kashmir but India remains wary.

    Expert advice on investment options for small investors. Also, pension funds and the tax exemptions that Sinha's budget left.
 

TOURISM: HOTEL CONTROVERSY
Hall of Dispute

 OFFTRACK: MATHURA, UTTAR PRADESH
Men From Venus

The Himachal Pradesh Government and the Oberoi Group are locked in a battle for ownership of a luxury resort.

    

Men in Barsana, the birthplace of Radha
in Uttrar Pradesh, claim to be women
at heart.

RELIGION: ISKCON
Capital Consciousness

 WILDLIFE: LEOPARDS
Spot Of Trouble

A bitter power struggle threatens to reduce ISKCON to a group of temples selling the same spiritual formula.

    

There is neither a government initiative
nor the public will to save leopards
from extinction.

SPORTS: GOLF
Royal Decline

 EDUCATION: COMPUTER LITERACY
Digital Delight

Wrong choices and neglect combine to reduce the RCGC to a course that professionals shy away from.

   

NIIT's drive against the digital divide in
India is an experiment in social
entrepreneurship.

CINEMA: FILM MUSIC
Going For a Song

 LIFESTYLE: FASHION
Maid of Honour

Faced with a measly 8 per cent growth in the film music industry, Bollywood goes for a rightsizing of music rights price tags.

    

Ritu Beri wins acclaim by being appointed designer to a Parisian couture house but her first show evokes lukewarm response.
     
 COLUMNS

FIFTH COLUMN: TAVLEEN SINGH
Cause Macabre

  

KAUTILYA: JAIRAM RAMESH
Eco-Lights of India

The Hindutva brigade is wrecking its own agenda as also India's financial future.

 

The memoirs of two of India's greatest names in economics are out.

 

POLITICALLY CORRECT: P. CHIDAMBARAM
Law and Disorder

The Government's handling of Ayodhya and Gujarat issues has been brazenly inept.

 
 
 NEWSNOTES
CENTRESTAGE By Ajit Ninan   QUOTE OF THE WEEK
 

"We won't become great by just shouting 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' slogans."


Union Defence Minister George Fernandes, on China's economic growth being far ahead of India's.

 CAPLOOKS
Live Talkin'   Fast Thinking

L.K. Advani's staff can't get much work done when Sonia speaks in the House.

 

The Sangh Parivar has a poor track record of keeping promises.

Easy Escape   Shadow Games
What Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala doesn't know about wriggling out of situations doesn't merit mention.
  Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik thought he had covered all bases while ordering detectives to shadow Dilip Ray.
Confessional
The sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan on his music company, Bangash Music
DESPATCH  SIGNPOSTS GOLDEN PUMPKIN   SPOTLIGHT OBITUARY CONSUMER FORUM
WORLD WATCH BINDING TERROR FUN QUIZ FESTVAL FUN MUSIC REVIEW
 
 
 
 REGULARS
BOOKS
The Long Recessional: David Gilmour   The Cooking Of Music: Sheila Dhar
When historian Pandey dons the mantle of a political activist the victim is history.  

A delicious treat from a drawing room raconteur.

 
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A number of young Indian-Americans are returning to the land of their origin to train in classical dance and music.
In Top Form
  

Ominous Signs
Dharmsala's Cultural Milieu
Q&A: Ram Gopal Varma
V Also Means Vegetarianism
India Calling