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Cover Story

BJP Set To Gain In Most States

Jan 26, 1998

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Cover Story

Methodology

Jan 26, 1998

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Cover Story

BJP 35 Short Of Magic Figure

A national opinion poll conducted for Outlook by the world's largest market research company, A. C. Nielsen, points to a hung Parliament

Jan 26, 1998

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The Untouched

The Untouched And The Wretched

Outlook revisits Raigada—still living proof of the poverty of Indian democracy

Jan 26, 1998

| Soutik Biswas
Television

Vote With Your Eyes

Private channels go all out to grab chunks of the election pie

Jan 26, 1998

| Saibal Chatterjee
Tamil Nadu

Partners In Amnesia

The six-party alliance in TN is riddled with contradictions

Jan 26, 1998

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Opinion

A Hundred Million Losers

The BJP doesn't seem to have anything to say about the economy that is different from others

Jan 26, 1998

| Rathin Roy
Madhya Pradesh

Massacre At Multai

As 17 farmers die in police firing, Digvijay fumbles for words

Jan 26, 1998

| Raajkumar Keswani
Campaign Trail

Selling Sonia

With a whirlwind successful tour of the South, Sonia revives Congress hopes

Jan 26, 1998

| Ajith Pillai Frederick Noronha Venu Menon Bhavdeep Kang M.S. Shanker A.S. Panneerselvan Y.P. Rajesh
Assam

More Season's Greetings

As militants pile up a body count of 45 in the year's first fortnight, Mahanta gets no respite

Jan 26, 1998

| Nitin A. Gokhale
- Cruel January
Andhra Pradesh

The Grim Reaper Strikes

Reeling under a pest attack, crop failure and heavy debts, 44 cotton farmers commit suicide

Jan 26, 1998

| M.S. Shanker
Agenda

Saffronomics '98

The Sangh parivar speaks in different tongues on economic policies, but the BJP treads the middle path on poll-eve

Jan 26, 1998

| Sanjay Suri Ashutosh Kumar Sinha A.S. Panneerselvan Shekhar Ghosh Ludwina A. Joseph Hanno Kautz
- "There's A Limit To Marketisation"

Summit

Tentative Agenda

Despite latent politics, the trio decide to trade more than insults

Jan 26, 1998

| Arshad Mahmud
Pakistan

The Sectarian Hydra

Violent and frequent Shia-Sunni clashes add to Nawaz Sharif's lengthening list of woes

Jan 26, 1998

| Amir Mir
France

Cosmetics, Mirages, Etc

With a caretaker regime in India, Chirac's Republic Day visit will focus on erasing past rancour

Jan 26, 1998

| Janaki Bahadur Kremmer
- "It Is A Visit Of Substance"
Britain

Affairs Of State

Robin Cook dumps his wife for his lover, to keep his job

Jan 26, 1998

| Sanjay Suri

Automobiles

A Dreamcar Named Desire

Ratan Tata has bet his largest company on the small car. Take a deep breath now.

Jan 26, 1998

| Arindam Mukherjee
- Will Small Be Big?
- "Imported Small Cars Can't Work"
Academia

One For The Master

In a quaint Trinity College ritual, Professor Amartya Sen gets one to cap it all

Jan 26, 1998

| Sanjay Suri

Health

Dying For Blood

The ban on professional donors causes a health crisis as a severe shortage grips blood banks

Jan 26, 1998

| Soma Wadhwa
- Window To AIDS
Controversy

Double Trouble

A physicist's decision to clone humans raises a moral outcry

Jan 26, 1998

| Rakesh Kalshian

Cricket

Back To The Future

The Indian XI readjusts to the new dispensation under Azhar

Jan 26, 1998

| Aniruddha Bahal

Spotlight

No Biz Like Chowbiz

Bollywood idols create Movie Magic, a chain of celeb restaurants

Jan 26, 1998

| Shameem Akhtar

10 Questions

Sabeer Bhatia

The president and CEO of Hotmail plans to change the way people communicate

Jan 26, 1998

| Ramananda Sengupta
Bombay Diary

Usual Suspects

Jan 26, 1998

| Rahul Singh
Review

Lighter Side Of Life

And death. All reflected in Mickey Patel's last offering for kids.

Jan 26, 1998

| Shobhita Punjia
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