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A Buzz About Sachin

Apr 06, 1998

| Jeff Thomson
Cover Story

Sachin Kayos Sunny, Lara

Apr 06, 1998

| Krishna Prasad Anant Gaundalkar
Cover Story

Mellow Fruitfulness

Apr 06, 1998

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Trident Missile

India has the batting armoury to pulverise any bowling attack in the coming decade

Apr 06, 1998

| Aniruddha Bahal Krishna Prasad Saira Menezes

United Front

Time To Regroup

As the TDP, AGP and National Conference walk out of the front, there is introspection over the third force's strident anti-BJPism

Apr 06, 1998

| Bhavdeep Kang
- Farooq's Volte Face
Spotlight

Sisters In Savagery

In a brutal punishment, a group of female furies batter a woman and her lover in their village

Apr 06, 1998

| Sunil Mehra
Rss

Cosmetic Change

The Sangh's media-friendly avatar and overtures to Muslims are mere political compulsions, not a dilution of Hindutva

Apr 06, 1998

| Rajesh Joshi
Profile

By George, He's Still An Activist

Defence Minister George Fernandes' home is a hub for the Cause

Apr 06, 1998

| Ajith Pillai
Prasar Bharti

Sushma's Swaraj?

If the new I&B minister has her way, it's 'spring-cleaning' time

Apr 06, 1998

| Saibal Chatterjee
Pakistan

Man Of Too Many Parts

Enemy, scream right-wingers. Man of peace, say Dilip Kumar fans. Pasha of Peshawar, say...

Apr 06, 1998

| Mariana Baabar Azhar Abbas
Opinion

India's Crisis Of Change

If the BJP abjures its communal leanings, we can move towards a two-party system, ideal for a democratic polity. But the leadership's RSS tilt belies such expectations.

Apr 06, 1998

| Kuldip Nayar
Media

God, Godse & The PR War

The use of unkind phraseology lands the foreign media up against the BJP's global info-warriors

Apr 06, 1998

| Sanjay Suri Janaki Bahadur Kremmer
Maharashtra

Sena Versus Sena

All's not well in Senadom—Thackeray's outburst against Joshi opens up a can of worms

Apr 06, 1998

| Lekha Rattanani
Investigation

Vanishing Clues

The Bofors saga is likely to drag on due to political compulsions

Apr 06, 1998

| Ranjit Bhushan
- "The Bofors Papers All Point To The Gandhi Family"
Debate

Softer Laws, Harder Wars

Human and gender rights get entangled as the courts stay a woman's date with the gallows

Apr 06, 1998

| Soma Wadhwa
Calamity

A Twister Spins Out Of Control

70 dead, 15,000 homeless, untimely relief: the misery is endless

Apr 06, 1998

| Soutik Biswas Ashis K. Biswas
Andhra Pradesh

Naxalites? It's A Stick-Up

Rankled by a PWG unit's harassment, tribal women give Naxals a taste of their own medicine

Apr 06, 1998

| M.S. Shanker
Air Force

Superior Defence

By showcasing the agile SU-30, the air force makes its point

Apr 06, 1998

| Sunil Narula

Pakistan

Let's Talk Business

Sharif strives for Indo-Pak talks—and trade—to save the economy

Apr 06, 1998

| Mariana Baabar
Britain

A Question Of Faith

Will England take kindly to its Prime Minister's Catholic turn?

Apr 06, 1998

| Sanjay Suri

Petroleum

Fuel For Thought

World oil prices have slumped but not in India, thanks to a faulty pricing mechanism

Apr 06, 1998

| Arindam Mukherjee
Itc

King-Size Ambitions

Now, ITC launches two premium BAT brands—both made in India

Apr 06, 1998

| Nikhil Mookerjee
Foreign Investment

Saffron Begets No Moody Blues

US investors suspend scepticism about a BJP government

Apr 06, 1998

| Narayan D. Keshavan
- 'The Us Isn't Hostile To Bjp'
Focus

Sail Or Sink, It's A Titanic Job

A callous government has left India's largest steelmaker gasping for breath. And so, a radical plan unfolds.

Apr 06, 1998

| Arindam Mukherjee
- "We Can't Be Seen In Isolation"
Corporate

The Urge To Merge

Big is beautiful, companies are cheap, the hype is deafening, but is India ready for a wave of takeovers?

Apr 06, 1998

| Neerja Pahwa Jetley

Profile

Cut Out For Big Things

Larger than life—it's a simple motto in Tamil Nadu's image factory. For J.P. Krishna, it's hard work.

Apr 06, 1998

| A.S. Panneerselvan

Controversy

Not Since Rushdie

The author of a banned 'expose' on the '84 riots puts up a fight

Apr 06, 1998

| Ajith Pillai
Review

Drowned By Trivia

Reliving the summer of 1857

Apr 06, 1998

| Sucheta Mahajan
Review

Exhausted Highness

A sanitised biography of a colourful, yet despicable ruler

Apr 06, 1998

| Khushwant Singh

Delhi Diary

Nobel For Sharif

Apr 06, 1998

| Vinod Mehta

Glitterati

The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news

Letters

Published feedback from our readers: rants, raves, bouquets, brickbats

10 Questions

Thomas Kochery

The crusader for the rights of Indian fisherfolk talks about his recent awards

Apr 06, 1998

| Venu Menon