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- COVER STORY
- "I often pick up my tennis racquet in office and enjoy playing with my colleagues" Kwang Ro Kim MD, LG India - Women in the world's oldest profession get financial security with a bank of their own in Bengal - Local experience helps contain plague in a Himachal village, before it could turn epidemic - Next time round, don't write off that wandering instrument as just another writing stick. Pens are big business now and pen-pushing a whole new art. Liberalisation and literacy are only helping the cause. - The Wall Street Journals scribe's brutal murder has increased President Musharraf's headaches 
- On being accused of "selling" the Mahatma 
- "I often pick up my tennis racquet in office and enjoy playing with my colleagues" Kwang Ro Kim MD, LG India 
- A page of work and leisure news from India Inc 
- Women in the world's oldest profession get financial security with a bank of their own in Bengal 
- Local experience helps contain plague in a Himachal village, before it could turn epidemic 
- Next time round, don't write off that wandering instrument as just another writing stick. Pens are big business now and pen-pushing a whole new art. Liberalisation and literacy are only helping the cause. 
- The Wall Street Journals scribe's brutal murder has increased President Musharraf's headaches 
OTHER STORIES
- Another Maoist massacre stuns Kathmandu but some feel the rebels want to return to negotiations 
- Sheela Reddy and photographer Madhu Kapparath witness animus and amiability at Neemrana 
- India has reasons to celebrate the Global Competitiveness Report, but for China's steady march 
- Musharraf hopes to remain head of state and chief of staff 
- Tit-for-tat politics takes its toll as the nation vacillates between different versions of its freedom movement 
- Food counters set up by an Andhra industrialist sell lunch that costs less than a cup of tea 
- A lesson in how to make a bad film -- an effort is so trite and predictable that you wonder at the incredible gall of the makers. 
- What to do with 'surplus' food? Don't give it to the poor, pay through the nose to store it. 
- Ballooning debt will eat up disinvestment proceeds, at the cost of crucial infrastructure spending 
- With no clear front-runner, it looks like yet another hung assembly, yet another round of 'jod-tod' politics in the state 
- Despite the reverses, the BJP-led government at the Centre looks safe for now 
- With a hung assembly in Uttar Pradesh, the focus is now on governor Vishnu Kant Shastri. Sutapa Mukherjee spoke to him. Excerpts: 
- The BJP is down, SP up, Congress both. The UP is blurred but not so Uttaranchal, Punjab. 
- If the strike is broken, expect more reforms 
- His burdens are many: a broke treasury, an obdurate trade union bloc, detractors within and without his party…. Will popular support help the Kerala CM pull off his toughest act? 
- The failure to equip the forces well in time has seen government scrambling when war-like situations developed. 
- "The gay scene has truly arrived. It's open and it's all over. Now husbands run off with other women's husbands." 
- What will happen after the assembly polls? This column is being written before the election results. It will be read after the results. Forecasts therefore ... 
- She dances like the Pope and refuses the swimsuit because she can't swim. But the Force is with her. 
- The APM dismantling may see 'somewhat' lower prices but it will be awhile before the whole mechanism is in place 
- California may not be Maihar, but sarod great Ali Akbar Khan has made it his exiled gharana 
























