The Australian pace machine on his fitness and his designs on the touring Indian cricketers
- COVER STORY
- A bloodthirsty pilgrimage; Justice thunderclap; Borderline nationalism; A booby-trap city; Electronic safety catch; Intifada for a divided comity - Heritage conservation in India is a noisy Babel, and history and its many signposts are the worst victims - This office for the mentally disabled strives to give them a sense of self-worth and achievement 
- A bloodthirsty pilgrimage; Justice thunderclap; Borderline nationalism; A booby-trap city; Electronic safety catch; Intifada for a divided comity 
- Heritage conservation in India is a noisy Babel, and history and its many signposts are the worst victims 
- This office for the mentally disabled strives to give them a sense of self-worth and achievement 
OTHER STORIES
- More than ever, the two countries need lasting peace. The world stage beckons. 
- Pak signals peace right after it spurns India. Why? <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=9 target=_blank> Updates</a> 
- The BJP poll strategy is changing course. Hindutva is only a garnishing on development issues now. 
- One of the cleverest love triangles in Hindi cinema 
- The 'working girls' of TN's temples earn a platonic honeymoon in the hills, courtesy a mercurial CM 
- The Mashelkar committee recommends an overhaul of India's drug policy. It's a bitter pill for many. 
- The number of dysfunctional children is on the rise, no thanks to the world's rapidly transient value systems 
- In three separate conversations with Haresh Pandya last week, Abhijit Kale expressed his bewilderment: 
- Something about the Abhijit Kale affair doesn't make sense. Is he a victim? <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=64 target=_blank> Updates</a> 
- From Borneo to Georgia, from Kabul to Minsk. The empire of dreams expands. 
- Sprituality sells. It is one brand which India never needed to market. 
- A fifth of Microsoft engineers are Indians. Now, to work on the cows, elephants and snakes. 
- There are no full stops here. All we are looking for are quote marks to define us. 
- For Afghan women, freedom's costlier than the $68 mn spent on the constitution 
- The Aussies want to give Waugh a prize retirement gift. Bad news for the Indians. 
- Beyond leaked papers, the HRD ministry plans its own subversion on the IIMs <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=90 target=_blank> Updates</a> 
- The day this issue appears, four states will vote. People ask: "Who will win?" Does it matter? "Yes, these polls will affect the parliamentary polls ... 
- What happens if you are the mother of a suitable boy? Why, excerpting rights from your forthcoming book witness a mother of all bidding battles. 
- One has to be a die-hard Beckham fan to shell out over £12 for the book. 
- There are few sensations worse than reading a book with anticipation and realising that the package should have been marked Dead on Arrival. 
- Sham Lal's India is at the end of its tethers. His pungent humour hides frustrated hopes. 
- So acute is the crisis that the overqualified covet low-end jobs 
- Behind the recent anti-Bihari 'wave' is a wider question of how to manage too many people and too little jobs <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=51 target=_blank> Updates</a> 
- Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah was a close associate of legendary Tajik fighter Ahmad Shah Masood. A qualified doctor, the soft-spoken Abdullah carries a strong message. He spoke to Outlook in Washington. Excerpts: 
- Pakistan is replicating its bleed-thy-neighbour policy in Afghanistan. For now, the US is turning a blind eye. 
























