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With Gujarat remaining in turmoil, should Narendra Modi be asked to step down as the chief minister?

 CURRENT ISSUE APRIL 15, 2002
 
COVER STORY: BJP
The Party is Over
Once the party with a difference, the BJP today
is caught in a morass of its own making. A
rout in the recent assembly elections, erosion of
its ideological base, the lack of a strong, decisive leadership and bickering within the Sangh Parivar
have left the party floundering.The party looks just
plain tired, adrift, confused and demoralised. Will
the Bharatiya Janata Party be able to reinvent itself
and weather this crisis? An EXCLUSIVE analysis
by India Today.

 

 
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THE NATION: RAJYA SABHA

Fatal Attrition House Barons

The Bharatiya Janata Party inherited the right moment in politics and took just four years to waste it.

Vijay Mallya and R. N. Dhoot are two notable entrants in the Upper House. What is that they now want to achieve ?
 

THE NATION: CONSTITUTION STATES: GUJARAT
An Artful Dodge End of Hope

The Constitution review panel tinkers with relatively unimportant matters in its anxiety to skirt the controversial.

Vajpayee found the riot-torn state so bruised that his visit may have failed to have a balming effect.

     
     
LETTERS   EDITORIAL

From The Editor In Chief
To The Editor

  Modi Apart
The challenge in Gujarat is to bring society back to a workable order.
     
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STATES: BIHAR
Cell Shock

STATES: KERALA
Class Dismissed

The death of six inmates in rioting raises questions about the state of lawlessness in
Bihar's prisons.

 

The decision to shut uneconomical
schools creates a furore in the state
of Kerala.

ECONOMY: EXPORTS
All For %

BUSINESS: NET TELEPHONY
C@ll of the Net

For 40 years India's share in global trade is stuck at 0.6 per cent. Maran plans to take it up to 1 per cent in five years.

   

The advent of Internet telephone service will set off another round of cuts in call rates, maybe deeper than before.

 

NEIGHBOURS: PAKISTAN
Eyeball to Hardball

OFFTRACK: LANGUDI, ORISSA
Red Alert

With Musharraf legitimising his presidency and Vajpayee pushing for polls in Kashmir, both sides harden their military positions.

   

Trade in soil jeopardises the unearthing of a historical Buddhist site in this remote corner of Orissa.

SPORTS: CRICKET
Opportunity Knocks

CRIME: BHARAT SHAH
Slow Motion
With the West Indies at their weakest India must grab the chance to prove that they can be tigers away from home too.
   

The bail may come as a breather for Mr Moneybags but he will not assume his old role in Bollywood in a hurry.

HEALTH WATCH
Doubts Clouds Test Tube

SOCIETY & TRENDS: EUTHANASIA
The Last Right

Babies conceived through IVF may
be at higher risk of illness,
feel experts.

   

Recent landmark judgements on euthanasia in Europe open up an Indian debate on the right to die.

SOCIETY & TRENDS: ONLINE LOTTERY
Lucky Chips

The stakes are high and so are hopes. The lucrative lottery market goes digital and is expected to make gambling fun-and even legal.

     
 COLUMNS

FIFTH COLUMN: TAVLEEN SINGH
Out of Tune

 

KAUTILYA: JAIRAM RAMESH
Hot Fudge in Beijing

Vajpayee should decide whether he wants to be a PM or a frustrated poet.

 

All of a sudden, China is accused of Enron-type manipulations.

       

POLITICALLY CORRECT: P. CHIDAMBARAM
Losing Mandate

 

CRICKET TALK: COLIN CROFT
For Pride's Sake

People are completely disillusioned with the BJP-led Government and its policies.

 

The West Indies should win against India to bring pleasure back to the Caribbean.

 
 
 NEWSNOTES
CENTRESTAGE By Ajit Ninan   QUOTE OF THE WEEK
 

"What is needed foremost is Sanskrit software. The language must become an integral part of the software wave."


Union human resource development minister Murli Manohar Joshi.

 CAPLOOKS
On the Defensive   Lobbying for Love

George Fernandes' efforts to ensure transparency in the Defence Ministry are vexing him.

 

A young Kuwaiti woman eloped with her father's chauffeur to India and was caught at the Chennai airport.

Voice Over   Relatively Speaking

Vajpayee's meeting with Modi when the Gujarat CM came to Delhi on March 27 was, according to Modi, a calm event.

  Akali leader Simranjit Singh Mann is facing a piquant situation ever since the Congress Government took over in Punjab.
Confessional
The BJP's minority cell convener Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on his stand post-Gujarat riots
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Sniffing Papa: Inderjit Badhwar   History of the Bengali Speaking People:
Nitish Sengupta
Nothing is incongruous in this overstuffed novel with lots of passion and ambition.  

A useful primer on the history of a
lost race.

 
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 NRI DIARY
 

NRIs in the US have set their sights on making India a front-runner in the race to cash in on the biotech boom.

Wake Up Call
Bonanza for the NRI

 

Continental Drift
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